FUCK YEAH. I don't know what makes me happier: the fact that the Greens won, or that Labour lost.
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The exact same thing happened in Australia last election. As the Conservative party became more fascist and mentally ill, voters shifted to the Labour party moving it from center-left to more corporate-whore center-right, and the Labour voters in turn shifted to vote for the Greens or other socially/economically left independents.
This isn't necessarily a good thing though. The law of averages means the corporate-whore parties maintain a majority, and continue the proto-fascist march and neoliberal economic collapse.
The worthless polical folding chair down, yay. Nigel's second... wtf.
Also, this is me not familiar with what parties are of offer.
At some point Labour will realise that the strategy of trying to win over right wing voters and hoping the left will stick with you regardless no longer works in the UK. I just hope they realise this before the next elections.
Pretty sure they arent trying to win over right wing voters, they are just right wing now.
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.
Yeah they "shook off the fleas" (I.e. leftists) ahead of the election as I recall.
Yeah, they must've raised taxes on the rich and redistributed it to the poor by accident.
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.
It's certainly a bit of good news in these trying times. Hope this is a sign of change for the better
Is it possible that the next PM can be from the Greens? Do they have a good candidate? Won't this just split the left?
In order:
- It seems unlikely at the moment, but unless Labour can shore things up in the next couple of years then someone may well take their place just as Reform seem likely to take the Conservatives'. The Greens are the best-placed to do that
- Yes, current leader Zack Polanski
- If Labour remain competitive, yes. If Labour collapse as the Tories have, it's less of a concern
How did Your Party do?
Alternative headline: Starmer breathes sigh of relief as reform lose to the green party
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