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    Across the world, voters need to imagine a positive future, to be part of something | Ngaire Woods

    Mainstream politics is struggling to keep up with the changes in people’s lives
    by Ngaire Woods Jun 11, 2017 4 minutes
    Artists at a Grime 4 Corbyn concert on 4 June: ‘a new mobilising politics may be in the offing.’ Photograph: © Grime4Corbyn / Joe O'Neill

    The world’s electorates are confounding what we thought we knew about voters and voting. Neither Brexit nor Donald Trump was on the cards. Nor, until the very last moment, was a Labour surge predicted in last week’s election. Explanations are forming. The rise of populism and a disenchantment with globalisation are blamed. But what is actually changing in politics and what do we really know?

    People have found their lives transformed since 2008, but establishment politics have not kept pace with the change. A downturn in economic growth and technological change have caused a precariousness in employment, a loss of social status and

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