Apologies, I was not going to post anymore on Thursday's by-election.... but I've just read this comment by an un-named Labour ministersin the FT:
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@usmu @Quantillion @ChrisMayLA6 And let me guess... Instead of uniting against the Wilders scumbag and his cronies, the new left party and the conservatives prefer to fight the respective other democratic party?
I hate this timeline we are living in.
@zappes @Quantillion @ChrisMayLA6 It just happened, so the exact ramifications aren't clear. It looks like the new party (called Groen Links - PvdA for now) is fighting everybody right now. With the Greens being the dominant factor in the merger I am reasonably sure that will not change that much. I'm more worried the lack of a "true" labor option will turn people off from voting left wing. The last election results seem to point in that direction as they were not as good as hoped for.
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@celeduc @Walrus @ChrisMayLA6
A bit more niche, but the Dutch labor party (PvdA) did exactly the same thing in the 90s and have now merged with the Greens (Groen Links) because they got punished for it hard and went from coalition partner to small opposition party. Not a fan of that, because it causes a lack of diversity of left wing parties, but it is what it is.Edit: spelling error
@usmu @celeduc @Walrus @ChrisMayLA6
Yes, and the Dutch Greens unfortunately agreed to that merge. Now they are not attractive to left voters, nor to right voters and are left drifting in an impossible split having aimed for a mostly empty center.
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@Walrus @ChrisMayLA6 New Labour! Third Way! Red Dogs! It was remarkable how the US Dems and Labour sold out in lockstep. Blair/Clinton used to maintain a thin pretense of leftism over their rapacious neoliberalism, but neither party can be bothered to even *gesture* to its base anymore.
I argue that Labour is now to the right of Boris Johnson's government: climate, economy, immigration, health, and gender scrutiny madness.
Here's hoping the lot of them fucks off to Dubai, like Spain's ex-king.
Interesting that both Tony Blair and Bill Clinton both had a lot of contact with Epstein at around that time. It's wild how much garbage is tied together.
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Interesting that both Tony Blair and Bill Clinton both had a lot of contact with Epstein at around that time. It's wild how much garbage is tied together.
@gbargoud @Walrus @ChrisMayLA6 it's all obvious in retrospect (as usual)
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Interesting that both Tony Blair and Bill Clinton both had a lot of contact with Epstein at around that time. It's wild how much garbage is tied together.
@gbargoud @Walrus @ChrisMayLA6 Reagan, Thatcher, and the fall of the USSR cleared the way for this vile orgy of the ultra wealthy consuming the earth. The subsequent neoliberal politicians were just ushers passing out towelettes and receiving gratuities.
Some gratuities were peerages, board memberships, juicy speaking gigs, even juicier book deals, and then some of those gratuities were invitations to the literal Trump-Epstein orgies of child rape.
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Apologies, I was not going to post anymore on Thursday's by-election.... but I've just read this comment by an un-named Labour ministersin the FT:
'A Green victory is easily the worst outcome'....
NO!!!!: a ReformUK Ltd win would have been the worst outcome... the very idea that Labour could see Hannah Spencer's victory as worse than Matthew Goodwin & Reform winning pretty much sums up the problem with the Labour Party!
#politics #Greens #GortonAnd Denton
Clearly talking from Labour's POV - the Greens are eating their lunch, Reform are eating the Tories' (broad simplifcation).
The Greens may end up replacing Labour, or at least this is their fear
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Apologies, I was not going to post anymore on Thursday's by-election.... but I've just read this comment by an un-named Labour ministersin the FT:
'A Green victory is easily the worst outcome'....
NO!!!!: a ReformUK Ltd win would have been the worst outcome... the very idea that Labour could see Hannah Spencer's victory as worse than Matthew Goodwin & Reform winning pretty much sums up the problem with the Labour Party!
#politics #Greens #GortonAnd Denton
@ChrisMayLA6
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@ChrisMayLA6 Exactly this.
But I was smelling this coming for a while now, that PLP saw the left as a greater existential threat to its power than Reform.
And that is what convinced me that I belonged to an immoral party and needed to leave it.
@Remittancegirl
To a man they believe that if they put the boot in on the left sufficiently that'll free up resources to knobble the right.What they're *actually* doing is bolting their door so the punters walk straight past into the nazi bar.
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@BarneyDellar @BNorbury @ChrisMayLA6 That is exactly what I wanted to reply, but your words are better!
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Apologies, I was not going to post anymore on Thursday's by-election.... but I've just read this comment by an un-named Labour ministersin the FT:
'A Green victory is easily the worst outcome'....
NO!!!!: a ReformUK Ltd win would have been the worst outcome... the very idea that Labour could see Hannah Spencer's victory as worse than Matthew Goodwin & Reform winning pretty much sums up the problem with the Labour Party!
#politics #Greens #GortonAnd Denton
@ChrisMayLA6 Well to be fair the dude is a Labour politician. A Green victory is the worst thing that can happen to Labour, even if it is the best thing that can happen for the company. Politicians think this way.
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@ChrisMayLA6
They are not going to learn the lesson that moving to the right does not give them support. Thay have the opportunity now to become the Labour Party the country needs. They need to change now before it is too late. They are not going toI understand your frustration. It really does feel like they’re missing the point, moving to the right won’t win back trust or enthusiasm. This is their chance to stand firm in their values and become the Labour Party people actually need. If they don’t change course now, they risk losing that chance altogether.
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I think that’s a fair reading. When the Scottish National Party moved into a softer left space, it inevitably stepped on ground the Scottish Labour Party long saw as its own. That overlap was always going to sharpen tensions.
And from a Green point of view, the SNP’s habit of holding together different factions can look like careful balancing or papering over cracks. For Labour, though, it probably just feels like being displaced from what they still see as their natural role.
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@ChrisMayLA6
The categorical error they are making is in believing that they can rein in the right once they've dealt with the left.agreed; what is so stupid is the idea of 'dealing with the left' in the first place...
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agreed; what is so stupid is the idea of 'dealing with the left' in the first place...
@ChrisMayLA6
They're all managerial types, their remit is cracking the whip and keeping the circus on the road.
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@Walrus @ChrisMayLA6 New Labour! Third Way! Red Dogs! It was remarkable how the US Dems and Labour sold out in lockstep. Blair/Clinton used to maintain a thin pretense of leftism over their rapacious neoliberalism, but neither party can be bothered to even *gesture* to its base anymore.
I argue that Labour is now to the right of Boris Johnson's government: climate, economy, immigration, health, and gender scrutiny madness.
Here's hoping the lot of them fucks off to Dubai, like Spain's ex-king.
@celeduc @Walrus @ChrisMayLA6 Absolutely.
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Apologies, I was not going to post anymore on Thursday's by-election.... but I've just read this comment by an un-named Labour ministersin the FT:
'A Green victory is easily the worst outcome'....
NO!!!!: a ReformUK Ltd win would have been the worst outcome... the very idea that Labour could see Hannah Spencer's victory as worse than Matthew Goodwin & Reform winning pretty much sums up the problem with the Labour Party!
#politics #Greens #GortonAnd Denton
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Apologies, I was not going to post anymore on Thursday's by-election.... but I've just read this comment by an un-named Labour ministersin the FT:
'A Green victory is easily the worst outcome'....
NO!!!!: a ReformUK Ltd win would have been the worst outcome... the very idea that Labour could see Hannah Spencer's victory as worse than Matthew Goodwin & Reform winning pretty much sums up the problem with the Labour Party!
#politics #Greens #GortonAnd Denton
@ChrisMayLA6 They way Labour and the others are taking pops at the greens is good news - shows they are worried. Bring on proportional representation and a multi party system, with whipping outlawed. Oh, and make it a republic.
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Apologies, I was not going to post anymore on Thursday's by-election.... but I've just read this comment by an un-named Labour ministersin the FT:
'A Green victory is easily the worst outcome'....
NO!!!!: a ReformUK Ltd win would have been the worst outcome... the very idea that Labour could see Hannah Spencer's victory as worse than Matthew Goodwin & Reform winning pretty much sums up the problem with the Labour Party!
#politics #Greens #GortonAnd Denton
@ChrisMayLA6 @AndrewHenry centrists always say things like this. Here in Ontario, Canada when the Liberal party was about to loose the election instead of fighting the right wing Conservstives they attacked the (slightly) left party, NDP, that was leading in the polls. Three elections later the right is still in power and you basically can’t see a doctor anymore. Sigh.
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Apologies, I was not going to post anymore on Thursday's by-election.... but I've just read this comment by an un-named Labour ministersin the FT:
'A Green victory is easily the worst outcome'....
NO!!!!: a ReformUK Ltd win would have been the worst outcome... the very idea that Labour could see Hannah Spencer's victory as worse than Matthew Goodwin & Reform winning pretty much sums up the problem with the Labour Party!
#politics #Greens #GortonAnd Denton
@ChrisMayLA6 they're not going to change, we just need to move on without Labour.
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Clearly talking from Labour's POV - the Greens are eating their lunch, Reform are eating the Tories' (broad simplifcation).
The Greens may end up replacing Labour, or at least this is their fear
@gotofritz @ChrisMayLA6 their fear, our hope.
