Rachel Reeves becomes UK’s first female chancellor with Angela Rayner deputy PM as Keir Starmer names cabinet – election live
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Rachel Reeves becomes first woman to hold post in 800-years as Angela Rayner named secretary of state for levelling up
  • kurikai@lemmy.worldEnglish
    46·
    6 months ago

    They better not waste it. The better make changes that actually makes people’s life’s better. Not just enrich the already wealthy

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      362·
      6 months ago

      The labor leader is the most centrist, bland, and ineffective dude I’ve ever seen. This is absolutely going to be wasted opportunity unless they non-confidence him out.

      Their platform doesn’t look awful but they need to make sure it actually happens.

      The tragedy of our age is that we’ve got alt right parties in countries across the globe gaining speed while “leftist” parties just continue to push neoliberalism that is crushing us working folks. In countries where real leftist parties have control (Spain is an excellent example) people’s lives are noticeably improving and their popularity is solid… in the rest of the world it’s basically this really shitty game of “Do we have enough power to keep the disappointing centrists in control or is this the election we go full fucking nazi.” America, Canada and France are dealing with this now - the UK will probably have to deal with it next cycle.

      • acargitz@lemmy.caEnglish
        19·
        6 months ago

        Yea, in fact if Labour fucks this up, Reform will ride a wave of populist right wing nastiness in the next election…

      • FaceDeer@fedia.io
        83·
        6 months ago

        Centrism is what gets large numbers of votes.

        Obviously I hope that they’ll do well and make good decisions, but in a choice between a left-wing party that makes a principled stand but fails to secure power and a more centrist one that has more good ideas than bad on balance and does secure power to implement them I think the latter is preferable.

        • Gamoc@lemmy.worldEnglish
          71·
          6 months ago

          You want to be like America? Because a two party system where the right party keeps going right and the left party, which is already right of centre, follows them to court their voters is how we get there.

          We have two parties. One getting more and more extreme and one that’s letting them, just like in America. People are severely underestimating how dangerous this is and if you’ve paid any attention whatsoever over the last decade and a half is should be painfully obvious that we are actually tied to America by outside influences and that connection is slowly pulling us off the fascist cliff after them.

    • thehatfox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      6 months ago

      From the results that have come in so far, the right wing populist party Reform UK is quickly rising as a new political force. They’ve placed second in at least three constituencies so far.

      If Starmer’s Labour fail to make visible progress to the country’s fortunes we could be facing a Trump moment in the form of Nigel Farage.

      • azimir@lemmy.mlEnglish
        31·
        6 months ago

        Yeah, but you already have a king and we in the US just annointed our president king. Unless something changes hard for the better of the Republic in November, we’ll be a dictatorship in no time.

  • return2ozma@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    6 months ago

    Exit poll predicts Labour will win 410 seats, securing a majority of 170, to the Conservatives’ 131

    You need 326 seats for a majority. It’s a huge landslide!

  • acargitz@lemmy.caEnglish
    61·
    6 months ago

    All I want is Corbyn to win Islington North.

    Edit: HE DID!