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Embarrassing defeat for UK's Starmer as Greens seize Labour stronghold (www.reuters.com)
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The Green Party won 40.7% of the vote on Friday in an election triggered when a member of parliament resigned for health reasons. Nigel Farage's Reform Party came second with 28.7% of the vote and Labour finished third with 25.4%.

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[–] 17 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Pretty sure they arent trying to win over right wing voters, they are just right wing now.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    They're using the Morgan McSweeney playbook of modelling yourself on your opponent and then just differentiating by one or two "easy win" points. It makes you paletable to your opponents voters.

    You can only do this against one opponent though. If the greens are in play, they are an existential problem to a labour party employing this strategy against reform. You can't mirror two paries that are diametrically opposed to each other.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah, they must've raised taxes on the rich and redistributed it to the poor by accident.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    They've economically tiptoed towards the left, and have actually been doing some pretty good things (as you rightly point out) - but it's their social policies which have shifted so far to the right - and generally that seems to be what we colloquially judge our left and right on.

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