Going for the Younge vote

Graun electoral fever is starting with this fiery call to arms, or nicer narratives anyway, by G Younge. It is a thoughtful piece:

A hard Brexit and entrenched inequality – or a nation where we can feed our kids and save the planet? It’s up to us

We start with some classic penetrating analysis:

We don’t know what the story of this forthcoming election will be. We may not know until it is over. The campaigns have only just started. People haven’t voted yet. Electability is, ultimately, decided not by opinion-forming elites but by the voters.

It's definitely not just about Brexit, of course (because they might lose if it were?). It has world-shaking significance:

This election is about nothing less than how we incorporate protection of the planet into everything we do as a society. Put bluntly, there’s a lot on the line here....

Vote Labour and save the Californian sea otters.It is all the fault of LibDems reluctant to enter a GNU:

That could be the story of the election: that a country with a majority opposed to the politics of poverty, greed, deregulation and austerity, a hard Brexit and entrenched inequality could not or would not unite, strategically, to prevent them.

It all ends on a positively priestly note, a bit like a CofE funeral:

Fortunately there are a myriad of other possible stories, where we help feed our children and save the planet. We still have time to write them.

However, despite Younge's view:

The Guardian view on election 2019: it’s about Brexit above all 

After all, no less an authority than 'Iain Duncan Smith boasted this week [that]. The Tories... “are the Brexit party now”'. The Graun always agrees with him!

So let's read the editorially (but not ideologically) free and independent calm review of the options:

Mr Johnson captured the prime ministership in July on a shamelessly false prospectus [leave by October 31].... Enough Tory members – 90,000 mainly white, elderly men living in southern England (fewer people than the population of Tunbridge Wells) [fuck them then] – were taken in by this for him to oust Theresa May. But, as with most of Mr Johnson’s promises, these were merely cheap words...By 2029 the economy would be 4% smaller than it is forecast to be if Britain remains [I still find this not very fearful though]. Scotland could be pushed out of the UK [ditto] and the Irish peace process destroyed [doubtful]. The Tory right, strengthened by this week’s retirements, will be within touching distance of the small-state, light-regulation Britain they crave.