After the Election: A Debate
Monday 27 April 2015, 6 p.m. · 93 minutes![](https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/300_filter/images/4/1/5/0/530514-8-eng-GB/5523dc8f33241.jpg 300w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/400_filter/images/4/1/5/0/530514-8-eng-GB/5523dc8f33241.jpg 400w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/800_filter/images/4/1/5/0/530514-8-eng-GB/5523dc8f33241.jpg 800w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/1200_filter/images/4/1/5/0/530514-8-eng-GB/5523dc8f33241.jpg 1200w)
The May General Election looks likely to be the closest in a generation. But what happens after it? The gap between the two main parties is narrower than ever, and their share of the vote in the election is set to reach a new low. What hope is there that in these conditions, a progressive agenda will re-emerge in British political life? What forces – economic, social, environmental – are likely to shape the landscape of British politics over the next five years, or the next twenty? Can the centre hold, or will we see a fragmentation and radicalisation of politics?
Aaron Bastani, founder of Novaramedia.com, Jeremy Gilbert, professor of cultural and political theory at University of East London and author of Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in the Age of Individualism and Zoe Williams, Guardian columnist and author of Get it Together: Why We Deserve Better Politics joinined Paul Myerscough of the London Review of Books to discuss the future of British politics.