Much as I’d like more left-wing policies from Labour (or whoever!), the fact is just over 51% of thr UK population favour far right policies. Do we stick to our guns and lose the next election? Will a more radical left idealogy somehow persuade those voting for reform to vote Labour instead?
Look back to the hatchet job done on Jeremy Corbyn. He had his issues, for sure, but the right wing has spent the last decades fine tuning their political warfare. For Corbyn, it was that he supported Palestine. For Kamela, it was she didn’t support Palestine. I get what you are saying, but this perfect-or-nothing attitude landed the US with Trump. And the rightnwing know the left loves to find an excuse to not vote and leverage that over and over again. If we want to stop the fascists, we need to wake up to the way we are being manipulated.
I am not so sure. I think people were much more inclined to vote left, had Labour (and the Left internationally as well) mobilised opposition to the radical neoliberal agenda of the last fucking! 40years. Instead they went with it and moved the Overton Window by a lot. It’s difficult to come back from that of course. 8 years ago under Corbyn they tried though and were really successful. If I am not mistaken Corbyn got more votes than Starmer. They were just unlucky at the time. With Brexit and Boris and all that shit. But I am not sure whether the rightwing media and public are responsible for the purge of actual leftwing politicians inside Labour. To me it seems, the old guard of Labour undertook that purge. Picking some young ambitious wanker to come up with an idea of how to get rid of the business damaging lefties. And here we are.
I also don’t think Palestine was really in any way responsible for the outcome in the US elections.
Much as I’d like more left-wing policies from Labour (or whoever!), the fact is just over 51% of thr UK population favour far right policies. Do we stick to our guns and lose the next election? Will a more radical left idealogy somehow persuade those voting for reform to vote Labour instead?
Look back to the hatchet job done on Jeremy Corbyn. He had his issues, for sure, but the right wing has spent the last decades fine tuning their political warfare. For Corbyn, it was that he supported Palestine. For Kamela, it was she didn’t support Palestine. I get what you are saying, but this perfect-or-nothing attitude landed the US with Trump. And the rightnwing know the left loves to find an excuse to not vote and leverage that over and over again. If we want to stop the fascists, we need to wake up to the way we are being manipulated.
I am not so sure. I think people were much more inclined to vote left, had Labour (and the Left internationally as well) mobilised opposition to the radical neoliberal agenda of the last fucking! 40years. Instead they went with it and moved the Overton Window by a lot. It’s difficult to come back from that of course. 8 years ago under Corbyn they tried though and were really successful. If I am not mistaken Corbyn got more votes than Starmer. They were just unlucky at the time. With Brexit and Boris and all that shit. But I am not sure whether the rightwing media and public are responsible for the purge of actual leftwing politicians inside Labour. To me it seems, the old guard of Labour undertook that purge. Picking some young ambitious wanker to come up with an idea of how to get rid of the business damaging lefties. And here we are.
I also don’t think Palestine was really in any way responsible for the outcome in the US elections.