• ThenThreeMore@startrek.website
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    1 year ago

    One bi-election where they won on a local issue by about 500 votes, and they think they’ll get a polling boost by ditching climate policies.

    Bold strategy, let’s see how that plays out.

    • MrMakabar@slrpnk.net
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      Polling is currently a Labour landslide, so they need bold policies to stay relevant and this is a topic Labour might actually use some points in.

      • ThenThreeMore@startrek.website
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        1 year ago

        It’s a massive gamble. Polling over the past few years has been constantly calling for action on climate change. They’re clearly hoping that there’s been a shift on this.

        • MrMakabar@slrpnk.net
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          6
          ·
          1 year ago

          They have a year, Rupert Murdoch and fossil fuel money to create that change. Still a hard sell considering the situation.

    • Echo Dot
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      They would have lost ULIZ if Labour had bothered to actually correct the record. But they just decided to throw Sadiq Khan under a bus because they were scared of coming out in support of him. They were worried they’d lose the brainless shit head vote.

      What everyone needs to do now is yell very loudly at the Tories for having no green policys, and then hopefully Labour will pick up on that and decide that this pussy footing around the problem approach isn’t actually a good idea.