Connor DalyA week of division and uncertainty may sum up 2016 thus far.
This week we’ve watched the Labour Party’s infighting continue as MPs seek to oust Jeremy Corbyn with a leadership contest. Despite rallying behind one candidate in Owen Smith, time will tell whether they’ll manage to force out the man who seems the grassroots’s and bookies’s favourite.
Elsewhere, Prime Minister Theresa May has discussed with European Union leaders the potential ins and outs of Brexit. She says “Brexit means Brexit”, but what Brexit means and what it might look like remain unclear.
Further afield, Turkey remains under a state of emergency following a failed military coup; its human rights convention suspended.
France and Germany mourn in the wake of attacks on innocent civilians in public places, events which remind us that violence and terror come in many forms and with many different motivations.
What direction global politics is heading then, we may find out in November at the US general election. This week both Hillary Clinton (Democrat) and Donald Trump (Republican) both revealed their respective candidates for Vice President. With each week the race appears more like a repeat of the campaign that preceded the Brexit vote: Clinton in the blue corner, Trump in the red; the establishment versus the outsider.
Until then, it seems the only certainty is uncertainty.
