Ah yes, let’s thank Starmer for his electoral coup of getting Farage to collapse the Tories while being unable to increase labour’s vote share. He’s a real dooer.
Ah yes, let’s thank Starmer for his electoral coup of getting Farage to collapse the Tories while being unable to increase labour’s vote share. He’s a real dooer.
Considering he got 40 percent in one of his elections and Starmer didn’t even get 35 percent in this one, yeah I guess I am.
At least I have a metric I’m pointing to when I’m saying what the consensus is, instead of generally pulling it out of my ass.
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And Macron started he won’t accept a coalition that includes France Unbowed. Something something antisemitism.
And according the abysmal turnout and the fact that starmer’s labour couldn’t even really outcompete Corbyn’s in the popular vote despite the collapse of the Tories, the people naturally want a watered down version of the Tory austerity platform and enlightened centrism?
If there’s one thing the UK election will show you, the people want someone to fucking do something about their cost of living problems, not play middle of the road and keep the status quo. They go to the far right because of that.
Took ya a bit Keanu, but you got there.
Implicitly, there is only one solution of puritanical situations and that’s to curate you feed.
Is a post about how you should unionize NSFW in this strange argument? Who knows. Do you live somewhere that showing ankles is only made as a prurient interest? Good luck friend!
If you scroll though the all feed enough, you’re going to find plenty of things that aren’t socially acceptable in your own mind.
You find it creepy that most consumers of anime are teens?
How can we be in the Fediverse and still have to fucking repeat this over and over.
This isn’t an algorithmic driven platform. If you want to see what you’ll like, you gotta be proactive. Complaining about anime pictures from an anime community is just dumb.
You’ll find it gets even more confusing. Our primary process differs from state to state. In some states you need to be a member of a party to vote on who gets to run for that party. Since many states are essentially one party, that process is where real democracy happens. In other states you can choose the day of to vote in one primary or another. In a general sense, the party itself has no say in who runs. They are able to play with funding and the conventions can have weird rules for things like presidents.
On election day, you of course vote for whoever you want.
Compared to the UK, our party leadership is very weak and driven by candidates and donors. Where you elect party leaders that then direct who gets to run, whoever we elect to run start to dictate how the party works. For the most part, short of directly volunteering, the vast majority don’t interact with the party itself at all.
“I do think people need hope, but it needs to be what I call ordinary hope, realistic hope,” - Starmer
The future is, uh, not looking good.
There’s literally privatization proponents in this new labour government.
To be sure, but with actual labour supporters looking at that and thinking “it’s because Tories didn’t actually keep their promises to stop immigration” and “let’s opress trans people too” I honestly don’t think the resulting government with a few more in opposition would’ve been worse than something where an actual left party might’ve succeeded. You know, one that provides a revolutionary vision of hope.
“I do think people need hope, but it needs to be what I call ordinary hope, realistic hope,” Starmer said.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/britain-keir-starmer-corbyn-election-serious
This government is doomed.
You listen to the liberals backing labor’s change they’ll say it’s because labor picked up Tory voters in key races while losing voters in “safe” races while cherry picking results to demonstrate.
I’ve yet to be convinced of that line of thinking though and I’m much of the same opinion as you. Nobody elects a status quo party when shit is going south like it is right now. The Tories lost because they couldn’t help but put up shit policies. The neo-blairites will lose because they kept those shit policies.
Depends on what you mean by funny. I think those guys wearing horse masks are out there.
I honestly don’t think it’ll work in the UK either. This election was a win against an undefended goal.
And while 34% is a few percentage points lower than other recent winners, the more centrist party, lib dems, got more votes than the previous election.
Sure, but Corbyn’s labour got 32.2 and 40.0 compared to this 33.7 “landslide.” And Corbyn won his seat even though he’s an independent. I don’t particularly find the centrist strategy to be a very compelling result compared to that.
It’s the same as a normal bishop. They use arch btw.
Now I understand this article is largely ragebait for this community, but I just wanted to point out that the incredible strength of this centrist approach resulted in one of the lowest turnout elections in 20 years with labour receiving about 34% of the popular vote.
Not exactly a ringing endorsement for a consistently winning strategy.
I’m not French, but it seems to be because they’re anti-zionist with a Muslim immigrant constituency and the center and the right like to use that as a political lever. That’s why I said “something something.” I have yet to see anything with substance but I obviously can’t go digging either.
An example I saw was the party leader was accused of being antisemitic because he said the finance minister was in the pocket of international banking. He later clarified he had no idea the guy was even Jewish, just that he was a centrist finance minister that he thought was in the pocket of international banking.
Then when the media reports on this as antisemitism and they complain that the media is biased against them they’re supposedly using the trope that the Jews control the media. In actuality it’s the capitalists that control the media and they’re more than happy to do a hit job on the left.