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There’s something a bit stinky about Renew, \u2018the UK\u2019s most credible new political party\u2019 according to press release that heralded the party’s launch earlier this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s not surprising that another new party has emerged. In the febrile atmosphere of Brexit, now is a healthy time for new parties \u2013 50-odd were created last year<\/a> and more than 20 have emerged<\/a> this year before we’ve even left February.<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\nBeyond a press conference, a functional website and a vague centrist ethos, it’s unclear what Renew has that many of the other small outfits don’t. From the outside, it is bizarre that a party led by an accountant, a start-up consultant, a comms advisor and a fintech executive with limited experience in politics has gained any traction.<\/p>\nFrom its website the party has <a href=\"https:\/\/renewbritain.org\/candidates\/\">19 declared candidates<\/a>. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lkjQaMJTsVQ\">the Core interview with principal James Clarke<\/a>, it is crowdfunded, and has a few larger donors. Given that it is deliberately drawing candidates who have never been in politics before \u2013 much as French president Emmanuel Macron did before he was elected \u2013 it presumably has few local roots in any of the constituencies it will fight for.<\/p>\nEqually, many of the arguments are remoaner boilerplate. None of the spokespeople can countenance that the EU is an unloved institution in Britain, with all attributing the leave vote to inequality, or anger at the financial crash, or anything but the idea that the British do not want to be governed from Brussels. Nor do they have a convincing argument for why the referendum should be ignored.<\/p>\nWhat gives? The only reason I can think of is that they have connections in the media that allowed them to wrangle some early coverage. And while it’s possible <\/em>it could take off, there’s no reason to think it will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There’s something a bit stinky about Renew, \u2018the UK\u2019s most credible new political party\u2019 according to press release that heralded the party’s launch earlier this week. It’s not surprising that another new party has emerged. In the febrile atmosphere of Brexit, now is a healthy time for new parties \u2013 50-odd were created last year…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[510,847],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rightdishonourable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rightdishonourable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rightdishonourable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rightdishonourable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rightdishonourable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3686"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/rightdishonourable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3691,"href":"http:\/\/rightdishonourable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions\/3691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rightdishonourable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rightdishonourable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rightdishonourable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}