Labour's disastrous plight is very easy to understand.
The people who run the party were good at one thing: smashing the left.
Destroying, not building, is their skill. They have no vision for the country. They're in power because the Tories imploded, and no other reason.
The people who run the party were good at one thing: smashing the left.
Destroying, not building, is their skill. They have no vision for the country. They're in power because the Tories imploded, and no other reason.
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The biased self serving media, lobby groups et al. just told the British they didn't like him
Not necessarily wrong that he was unelectable, but thats because the British public are fucking idiots
Where the hell are they now? Making excuses for Labour moving further right, it would seem.
I didn’t expect Starmer to be a panacea in govt.
He has however been more shit than I expected. Not surprised though.
I put part of the blame on McSweeney. V poor choice for C of S.
He could reset, and implement progressive policies. He could step aside like Trudeau for the good of the party and the country.
Either would be better than the current shitshow. So expect neither...
That's why I'm so pissed off with the greens: they're missing the opportunity of a lifetime...
but I dont think public consensus is just made by money, media finantial resources: it does help of course, but it's not enough
if it was only for money, how come tory/labour are where they are now? or how do you explain Corbyn?
If only.. 🙈
We need a proper government urgently.
So yes, Labour needs to be more decisive and louder, but not in the way that they are currently.
The rest of us see it, and it’s not pretty.
Given that governments tend to get *less* popular over time
This one says 10 points back 🤷♂️
And also, governments tend to get more unpopular. I dunno how things are going to go, but this can’t have been the plan, can it?
Starmer is only PM because the Conservatives lost their minds & their voters stayed home.
It might say Labour on the rosette, but the policies are right-wing and do not favour anyone doing the actual labour in the UK.
They are meant to be a left wing party and should remain one.
They won't listen because they're arrogant af. They'll just double down and try and be even more awful then they already are.
And the UK needs to end
https://open.substack.com/pub/thepoliticalgardener/p/from-red-to-dead-keir-starmer-ramsay?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2lbyd4
Strangely as soon as the lying Tory cunt became leader he now won’t even consider reversing Brexit.
BTW, Starmer in 2024 couldn't match Corbyn's popular vote even in 2019! (The right-wing vote may not be split next time.)
Needed to purge the neoliberals when he had the chance. Look at the likes of Rayner, Ashworth and Thornburry and how they have turned out. I understand why he done it but it proved fatal. Even if he won power, the....
Labour have assumed that these votes are support for Lexit, and doubled down.
Labour won't be lent those votes again.
Guess all the very sensibles will along any moment demanding Kier's resignation as they did when Corbyn lost a by-election and a couple of council seats.
That seems to be the only explanation for their idiocy in power, exemplified by hitting pensioners, the poor and the disabled.
Now they are genocide deniers.
Tried to make #StarboardStarmer trend. No luck.
He’s more likely to get the wankers that vote reform the further to the right he goes.
The famous saying translates to being an elected party that does what it's told for billionaires, not a party that does what is necessary for people.
https://bsky.app/profile/damonthedemon.bsky.social/post/3lo6gmenpqk2y
But the populist Left have failed abysmally to deliver anything except throw rocks
One can only conclude that you welcome and embrace the Alt-right insurgency!
There are only ever 2 parties in the UK's non-democracy. You grab control of one or t'other, or you die.
Voter share for the two main parties has been falling for several decades, aside from GE2017 & GE2019
We've seen UKIP / Reform grow as well as Lib Dems, but no Left alternative
Oligarchs spend a lot of money on media, new and traditional, to ensure a leftist party isn't one of those 2.