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End of ‘natural’ governments: Once dominant parties in UK and SA face electoral extinction
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End of ‘natural’ governments: Once dominant parties in UK and SA face electoral extinction

African National Congress (ANC), British politics, Cyril Ramaphosa, EFF, International Politics, Margaret Thatcher, MK, South African Politics, UK Politics

End of ‘natural’ governments: Once dominant parties in UK and SA face electoral extinction

As the UK’s Conservative Party faces potential extinction after 200 years of dominance and South Africa’s ANC struggles with similar decline, Tony Leon argues that the era of “natural parties of government” is over, replaced by voter disillusionment that demands the kind of decisive, conviction-based leadership exemplified by Margaret Thatcher rather than today’s consensus-seeking politicians. Today, here [...]