2009 a turning point in politics

Are we at the next turning point in politics?

Writing at Open Democracy,Gerry Hassan certainly thinks so.

Two turning points have occured for him.In 1940 which

saw the establishment of the National Coalition with Churchill becoming Prime Minister, Labour entering office and the emergence of a mobilising, radicalising ‘people's war';

and 1976 which

witnessed the death knell of a Labour Government crucified on the alter of the IMF which openly abandoned many of the tenets of the post-war consensus and embraced monetarism.

Now in 2009 we stand at the cusp of a third one which has seen the demise of the neo-liberal consensus,yet at the moment there is nothing to replace it.