What's in the tea leaves

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10. I would put it this way....

...whilst I do think that there is a direction with UK politics, that direction appears to be politics motivated by spite.

The main thing dominating British politics is immigrant bashing, which is inevitably borne out of sheer spitefulness (and which is most pronounced in areas with the least immigration).

Beyond that you've got spitefulness towards people with different religious views, different skin pigment, people working in jobs that aren't considered "ideologically pure", people under 30 years old, people with more money and people with no money at all. The idea that politicians should treat others as they would wish to be treated themselves has gone.

Add into this a wilful disregard for any facts that might be considered inconvenient and you've got an extremely poisonous mix. British politics has become something of a repository for the worst in human nature.