Why the left is COLLAPSING: Dan Hannan says socialists’ global downfall is huge danger

Monday, February 13, 2017
By Paul Martin

LEFT-WING parties across the world are collapsing because they are failing to keep up with the times, a leading MEP has warned.

By ALIX CULBERTSON
Express.co.uk
Mon, Feb 13, 2017

Dan Hannan accused socialists and left-leaning parties of losing sight of how the modern world is developing as they cling onto plummeting traditional labour union membership.

The Conservative MEP said the left has failed to realise the next generation are unlikely to ever have “a job” in the traditional sense of the word as they will “do different things at different times, freelancing and re-skilling to meet demand”.

The Eurosceptic politician also said those stumped by why Donald Trump won in America should concentrate on why Hillary Clinton lost.

He highlighted how seven of the eight British Labour Party leaders in the past 40 years have failed to win a general election, with the only exception being Tony Blair who he described as a “disguised conservative”.

Current Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is facing a crisis as support for his leadership was brought into question yet again over the weekend after it was revealed Labour was lining up potential replacements to oust him.

In Europe, centre-Left parties have been hit with serious losses, with the previously popular French Socialists dipping to fourth place, the Dutch Labour Party plunging to seventh and Greece’s PASOK party, which has led the country since the early 1980s, only having seven per cent of the population’s support.

The PSOE party in Spain and Social Democrats in former communist countries in eastern Europe are doing even worse, he said.

Mr Hannan said the losses could be easily blamed on centre-Left established parties supporting the euro in the 1990s which then brought poverty and tax increases, however the real reason is the Left has lost sight of how the modern world works.

Writing in the Washington Examiner, the senior member of the Vote Leave campaign said: “But a collapse on such a scale doesn’t happen overnight.

“The parties aligned to the Party of European Socialists – the main Centre-Left bloc in Europe – dominated Europe in the 1990s and, as late as 2004, were still more likely to be in office than not.

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