In der heutigen Ausgabe der Financial Post kommentiere ich Labours grünen Selbstmord vor dem Hintergrund des allgemeinen Niedergangs der europäischen Sozialdemokratie:

A series of disastrous election defeats have plunged Britain’s Labour government into disarray. As Prime Minister Gordon Brown fights for survival, a political drama with momentous consequences is unfolding before our eyes. One of the last centre-left governments in Europe looks set to fall. Protecting the interests of poor and disadvantaged members of society was essential to the popular appeal of left and labour parties. Those parties have substituted these ideals with an environmental program in which saving the planet for the generations of the future has taken priority over the principle of liberating the underprivileged and disadvantaged from poverty and restitution today. In effect, the Labour Party is gradually pricing the working and lower-middle classes out of their comfort zone. With these core voters counting the rising cost of green taxes, tariffs and restrictions, the Labour Party’s chances of re-election are dwindling. Britain’s Labour government may believe that its climate policies are saving the planet. But in the process they are destroying the foundations of the party.