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Brits think NO political party cares about their top concern—cost-of-living
(www.ourfairfuture.org)
They are correct in this.
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I think the only thing that matters for a future election is whether Labour will be willing to coalition with Greens and YP or whether they will give the election to the right to avoid letting the left have any semblance of power.
Nobody is going to get the numbers necessary, Reform and Tories are not going to be enough together, around 40%, Labour, YP and Greens should come out ahead between them but Labour will be the determining factor as to whether a coalition goes ahead or not.
The Labour are just copying Reform’s policies. I would sooner bet money on a Reform/Labour coalition than Green/Labour
Can’t even see Labour going in with Liberal Democrats either.
SDP is now totally redundant as terf Labour
Every CLP I've had experience with in the last year sees Reform as full fascists. They're not even talking to each other within local councils, even the borough councillors. The leadership might be willing to do it but it would kill the party and I think they know it. In the 3 places I've got experience with they despise each other.
I actually wrote a lot more than this but I have to be intentionally vague here as local level stuff will absolutely dox me.
What is a clp?
Constituency Labour Party - basically the local Labour organisations representing a specific area that's designated one MP and parliamentary seat (if they win).
They're ostensibly supposed to produce shortlists of candidates for MP nominees, operate the local level of democratic decision making in the party, but have been increasing repowered, overruled, or just straight up purged and astroturfed by Labour leadership.
Structural part of the labour party. They're the hands of the party. Like branch offices in PSL etc, they control and carry out operations at the local level. Outside of legislation they're where everything the party actually materially does happens.
I take it a YP/Green coalition is waaay too much to hope for?
YP/Green coalition
China and Albania combined make up a fifth of the global GDP
I’ll admit that this has gone straight over my head. Can you elaborate please?
I think it's based on
Together, the Albanians and the Chinese make up a quarter of the world’s population —Enver Hoxha
which is true, but take out the Albanians, and the Chinese still make up a quarter. I.e. what WIIHAPPYFEW is saying is that one of these parties would be the major contributor to this coalition and the other is... potentially even unnecessary.
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I can see an electoral pact happening
Unlikely that they'll have enough without Labour.
I’ll fully admit I’m wishful thinking.
I don’t care if it’s electoralism. Please, Your Party needs to actually launch (and change its name) as a matter of principle. As far as I’m concerned, we need real entryways into the left-wing pipeline.
They have launched, and they completely fucked it. They're dead in the water. When we were choosing the party name, there were 5 options, including Your Party, and they were all absolute generic shit. I don't know who came up with the list of names, but they really ballsed it.
It was mainly a problem because so many good names are already being sat on registered with the electoral commission. The names that were to be voted on were the only ones left that were actually available.
Kinda curious if that registry is public. Unbowed UK would have been a kickass name.
Haven’t followed the your party news since the botched launch, how have things been going for it?
Corbyn seemingly fumbled it to permanent end, by installing his clique and insulating it
He really is just Bernie Sanders with better politics 😕
well slightly better in action as well cause he was kicked out of his comfy party and forced to try to make a new party, instead of being ooooh i'm soooo independent rn, here is my support marco rubio
:person-leaning-into-a-senate-hearing-microphone: Correct.
*Most Brits don't rank Cost of Living as one of the top 1-3 priorities of any of the top political parties.
But I mean, sure? The other choices include Economy, Tax, Environment, Health, Poverty, Housing, Human rights, Crime, Pensions, Education. It's not like these things aren't extremely to moreso important, as well as hugely overlapping. Yeah the political parties largely suck, but this story feels pretty manufactured.
To put in perspective - "Most Britons don't think any political parties care about their top concern - " would be a headline that applies to every fucking listed topic except Environment (Greens) and Immigration (Reform).
The headline sounds interesting, but is bordering on a statistical inevitability.