People power is back. Just not in Britain. Any thoughts?

Throughout Europe, in Germany, Hungary, Poland, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and France we have seen the rise of parties which listen to voters' concerns about immigration, taxes and health care provision. The discontent with the establishment has spread to Justin Trudeau's Canada.

Ontario, the country's most populous province, has just elected Doug Ford, brother of the late and controversial former premier Rob Ford. Doug won a majority government in a show of strength for what the Guardian bitterly describes as 'the divisive wedge politics that have rattled much of the world'.

Doug Ford has long been a controversial figure in Canada, and does little to hide his opinions. During his one term as a Toronto city councillor he refused to attend the city's Pride parade - describing it as 'middle-aged men, with pot bellies, running down the street buck naked'.

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You mean right wing nationalist dooshbags that started WWII?

It's so sad that people don't learn much in history class. Throughout history, any time there's a wave of immigration, it invokes fear in people-- of change, of being displaced, of losing privilege. It happened in the US in the mid 1800s when the Irish fled the potato famine, and signs went up in New York and Boston saying "Irish need not apply" for jobs and housing. It happened in the llate 1800s, when people were worried about the "yellow peril" and legislation was passed to block immigration from Asia. It happened again with the waves of immigration from Europe after WWI and WWII, Eastern Europeans were called "bohunks" and Polish jokes abounded. Italians experienced the same kind of discrimination that the Irish had experienced. Now we have groups playing on fears of the lastest waves of immigrants- never mind that WE started the wars that displaced most of them.
When you say "just not in Britain", do you mean that? Or did you mean to say "Not just in Britain." Because you have Nigel Farage, although I thought that he had lost a good deal of his appeal to people lately.

UK politicians tend to be all similarly detached from real people.

Many go to the same schools, they go to the same universities, they take the same degrees, they enter politics and move in the same posh circles in London.

I think you're full of dung. This is just another backlash of the reactionary twits. These jokers don't listen to "the people" at all. They listen to & govern for ONLY that noisome minority that got them elected. Then they lie & propagandise & try to make the world believe that they are "populists."
You blather on about The D.F. In Ontario, totally ignoring that his party was elected by the 40.5% of the 58% of eligible voters who dothered to vote of the 66% of the population that was eligible. That means he was elected by about 15.6% of the people of Ontario - about 2 in 13. You'd like to think that one in such a position might try governing in the interests of 100% of the people, rather than that tiny bit. Fools like him always seem to forget that people remember, & many whom his policies now urinate upon are youths. Many of them will be able to vote in the next election. He'll have a session of power in the legislature & then will fade away like a hangover.