THE FAILURE TO CONSIDER THE ANGLOSPHERE AS A COHERENT WHOLE...:

More people claiming to be Conservatives (Evening Standard, 26.01.10)

For the first time in 20 years, more people now identify themselves as Conservative rather than Labour supporters, a study today revealed.

In a pre-election boost for the Tories, the British Social Attitudes report said 32% of Britons now saw themselves as Conservative supporters compared with 27% for Labour.

This is the first general switch in allegiance since 1989, the report stated.

The study also revealed a general political lurch to the right with attitudes hardening towards attempts to reduce inequality.

...means that people radically misunderstood the Obama win, coming, as it did, at a time when Canada, New Zealand and Israel had all just moved right, Britain was preparing to, and Australia had elected its own Clinton/Blair. Rather than signaling an American shift to the Left--which would have made it more liberal than the rest of the English-Speaking world for the first time ever--it represented the success of the Obama campaign in presenting the candidate as a conservative.

Posted by Orrin Judd at January 26, 2010 6:53 AM