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Keir Starmer abandoned net zero to court Reform voters. He failed (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 17 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I don't believe the claim that Starmer's Labour abandoned progressive politics to appeal to Reform voters. I think that's just their excuse.

I believe they're appealing to their donors. The Labour Party is owned and controlled by the ruling class now, as evidenced by many of their top leadership having close connections to Epstein.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

places still list Labour as centre-left and as an outside observer i can't say i see it that way. i'm remembered of the 1970s when in the US the coal labor unions got so much power that the union leaders became the new bosses. they worked with the mine operators and the courts to keep the mines open even as the workers pled with them to do more and call a strike to get respirators so they'd stop dying of black lung (btw, black lung is part of the inspiration for white plague in one piece).

the labour party seems pretty right to me

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, Labour are left in the same way that the Democrats are left, which is to say, they're not at all, but in the absence of truly left-wing parties, I guess they're slightly less far-right than the alternative(s).

[–] Shikam@slrpnk.net 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

What ever happened to the Your Party? I haven't heard anything about them in awhile but I also don't follow UK politics much

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

There was a whole bunch of internal drama and in-fighting, hopefully they've straightened the ship up a bit since. They've said that they see the Green Party as allies, whatever that means, so if they run at all at the next General Election, I would assume that they do so under some sort of agreement with the Greens not to split the left vote. Long story short, they're still just cooking away quietly in the background, whether they have any real influence on UK politics more broadly remains to be seen