Midway through this summer, a high-quality poll found that Democrats in California were overwhelmingly in favor of the upcoming ballot measure for a one-time 5% tax on billionaire wealth.
The ratio was more than 4 to 1. But the state’s most powerful Democrats – including the governor Gavin Newsom, his near-certain successor Xavier Becerra and the Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass – have lined up with Silicon Valley billionaires who’ve raised upward of $340m to defeat the initiative.
The new Prime Minister who has not run an election as leader of the party and was only chosen to lead the party by a handful of senior MP’s who nominated him - because he stood unopposed the party membership were not given any opportunity to vote on him.
He was voted MP by a Manchester constituency who knew him as the mayor, and then he was voted PM by a handful of MP’s - not by the general electorate nor even the party members.