Glad I voted green instead.
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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.
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
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
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
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).
As an American, following the recent move to the Green Party in the UK, I wanted to find more information about the Reform party I had also heard about, since I was mostly familiar with Labour and the Tories.
I was surprised that apparently, one of the most common reasons to criticize the UK Reform party is that they're perceived to be racist. And perception is quite important to voters deciding which party to support. How would Labour plan to court this type of voter? It doesn't make sense to me. To date, they'd be voting for Reform instead of Conservative due to their far-right-wing views, right? Or am I just oversimplifying/misunderstanding?
Nah, you pretty much nailed it in one. That's why I wrote in my other comment, I don't believe it, it doesn't pass the sniff test.
serious question: what does this man think that his labour party have in crossover with reform? Has he been advised that there arent enough non-reform voters to win an election, should he manage to earn their votes?
Tbh I think it’s very similar to the bullshit macron pulled. Namely, that their moneyed backers are Very Not Okay with anything even remotely leftist. So instead, they court the neofascists.