{"product_id":"pariah","title":"Pariah","description":"\u003ci\u003ePariah\u003c\/i\u003e is a retrospect of Tony Blair’s recent New Labour plebiscite, so far the most absurd ‘election’ of the twenty-first century. After a much-vaunted Constitutional Revolution, overwhelming victory was obtained on less than a quarter of the electoral register, with more people abstaining than voted for Blair. In 2000 the Constitution of the United States collapsed into farce; in 2001 it was the turn of the United Kingdom, as the oldest and most stable of Western democracies turned into a despised pariah of the global age. ‘How is Britain breaking up?’ asks Tom Nairn. Is there any chance – or indeed any need – of its being repaired?\u003cbr\u003eIn this corrosive polemic Nairn argues that democratic and constitutional reform alone provides an answer to such questions. But the longer the British \u003ci\u003eancien regime\u003c\/i\u003e endures, the less chance there will be of such changes taking place by agreement. ‘Reform or perish’ is the moral; but perish farther looks like the only way towards reform.","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"hardback","offer_id":50192099344661,"sku":"rpi1789930178061","price":15.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0878\/5349\/8645\/files\/pariah_1.jpg?v=1789930182","url":"https:\/\/zenmatfitk.shop\/products\/pariah","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}