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too bad its full of transphobes and corbyn can't even condemn them and say transphobia has no place in the party.
Jeremy going to great lengths to make sure Labour lose another election. Hat trick!
Lol I mean like since when does Keir do anything but bend down to the Tories and Reform
Keir is doing a great job alienating the base even without Corbyn.
Yeah but he isn't farage/badenoch
And Badenoch won't win shit.
Unless there's a split vote
Still won't. Most Tory voters will go Libs or Reform. They've lost trust and people are unprepared to give them another chance.
Pacts can avoid bad situations but Labour tend to avoid pacts as policy. They seem to want to fall on their own sword.
With them coming on the way they are I'm not sure what makes much difference who wins the election.
Transforming British politics by splitting the left so Reform gets in. I respect Jezza, but fear the unintended consequences.
Starmer is not even left — he's properly into Tory spreadsheet economic algorithms.
It's funny to me that people use the two party race argument, using reform over conservatives, and not realising the irony in saying the same can't be done with labour.
Kiers labour is an authoritarian government cosplaying as left wingers. Enforcing the OSA, refusing to even investigate let alone restrict our nations role in the Gaza genocide & appeasing a pseudo-hostile fascist dictator at the expense of the common worker in the UK are all facets of a centre to right gov, rather than left. The party is rotten; full of bad actors only intent on kicking the can further down the same alley.
He needs to be pushing for electoral reform before even thinking about another party.
Scotland has a fair and intelligent system. Make it apply to UK elections.
100% The first past the post system definitely needs to be abolished. It's the primary reason the Tories were allowed to desolate our country, but that's a debate I've seen fail to come to fruition at least twice in my lifetime.
Creating this party addresses the more immediate threat of labour collapsing, with no real alternative for socialist minded voters. Some may choose to vote for green, but a lot would have likely abstained rather than continuing to vote these clowns in. This, provides an alternative, which if enough people sign on for, could provide the catalyst for change.
Once the ruling government is focused on social reform, then maybe we have a chance on sorting out the gerrymandered mess that is UK politics. But until then, I don't see Kiers lot even entertaining the notion, let alone changing the system.
If you have a vote in the English/Welsh Greens leadership election vote for Polanski then.
He's stated a willingness to work with this new party so they don't put forward candidates in the same seats and compete with each other. The other candidates have done no such thing and are greedily and delusionally running on the idea that they can convince enough people to vote Green that the Green party will be able to enact change on its own.
Labour are not left wing, that is evident from the last year.
The Lib Dems are not left wing and will sell their principles for a whiff of power.
A Polanski led Green Party working in tandem with the Corbyn/Sultana party (and possibly the SNP and Scottish Greens) is the only hope I see of the left enacting any serious change. One of the most important of which being proportional representation.
what left, there's no leftist party in the UK at the moment
Greens?
A mate of mine calls them bicycle Tories.