love watching labours approval plummet the more racisms he does
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Before he was elected, I think we all thought Keir was going to be "a bit too right wing" - however, I was under the impression, that like the majority of governments from the mid 1990s to the late 2010s this would be economically right wing, whilst being socially centre or slightly left.
As it stands, his economic policies are actually quite a bit further left than I was expecting, but what I absolutely was not expecting for a minute was that his social policies would be so far to the right I can barely tell them apart from Nigel Fucking Farage's.
If you have a local Labour MP, write to them and tell them what you think of Keir Starmer. It might not achieve anything of note, but it's worth a go. At least they can't pretend to themselves that he has everyone's approval.
Is Starmer economically left? I thought he was big on austerity.
In the larger scale of things, not really - but more left than most were expecting, and arguably has drifted leftwards from where it was under the Tories. Leanings towards possible nationalisation of (aspects of?) rail travel and production of renewable power, and had made quite a few pro-employees-rights policies around wages, terms and conditions etc (in favour of the worker, not the company owner).
Obviously moving leftwards from "very right" is still "right".
I hope Corbyn can pull the UK up from the course of doom it is on.
I hope so too, though I'm not going to let myself get my hopes up too much.
I have a lot of time for Jezza, but he's really piss-poor at handling manufactured media pile-ons, such as the false accusations of antisemitism that were directed at him and other Labour socialists. A more street-smart leader would have been better able to counter the lies, and to remove the disloyal party apparatchiks and Blairite weasels who facilitated them.
He's also let himelf be suckered by Putin. He seens to think it's still the jolly old USSR and not a security-mafia fascist state.
Even so, unlike Starmer, at least he's not an appeaser of racist cunts.
I love that their own imbecile anti-immigration policies lead them to lock people up in rich people's hotel and they're too stupid to see the corruption, they complains about brown people existing. Tories are the one who owns the hotel, idiot. They are the one getting paid absurd amount of money to serve as camps.
Close the hotel and let them rent a flat like the rest of us, idiot
Block-booking a hotel involves far less administrative overhead than dozens of separate lease agreements. Anyway, flats are hard to find and putting people in flats would increase the impact of the housing shortage on working people.
Also, the Tories put asylum-seekers in hotels during the Covlid pandemic when hospitality businesses of all sorts were going to the wall. It was a silent bail-out.
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