Is 2019 the new 1983?

[LeftishBrit]

2. Hope not, but who knows

There are several differences. Foot was not politically savvy or media-friendly, but he was intelligent, which Corbyn isn't. Maggie was obnoxious and had very damaging policies, but she was competent and honest (within her own rather appalling worldview), which Boris isn't. The Falklands war was directly started by a foreign leader, though the British first risked this through unpreparedness and then treated it as a glorious opportunity for jingoism. Brexit is entirely self-inflicted. There was no Internet or social media then; and this makes a huge difference to how politics are run.