To A Meaningful Degree

Progressive Britain is Keir Starmer’s outrider, and it has not published this as a joke. It concludes:

Come 1997 millions of former childhood and teenage Neighbours fans would enter the franchise for the first time, and 10% more women would vote for Blair than had backed Kinnock in 1992. They had many reasons to vote for New Labour – a charismatic leader, a skilful campaign, its association with a largely successful Clinton administration in the US, and the unpopularity of an incumbent, sleazy government.

But having had a vision of an alternative world of community and fundamental niceness drummed into them for years should be part of this story, too. Good Neighbours, to a meaningful degree, helped the British electorate and New Labour become good friends. It would be a crying shame to see it go off air.