It took 14 years and 5 prime ministers for them to realise how shit they were, and the best alternative they could think of was red Tory.
Comment on Jeremy Corbyn on Britain’s New Left-Wing Party
echodot@feddit.uk 5 days agoI think you’re massively underestimating the appetite the population has for an actual left-wing government. The conservatives lost power because of how awful they were, they have demonstrated that they haven’t changed and reform are even worse than they are. It was a mistake for reform to gain council seats they’ve now just demonstrated their incompetence quite publicly.
So what we’re left with is a bunch of proven uselessnesses, a sleepy lib dem party that’s unlikely to wake up anytime soon, vs whatever the flaming hell Corbin ends up calling his party.
Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 days ago
I mean, it worked for them last time they got in as well.
Tony Blair didn’t sweep to power under a banner of socialist reform. He got in by being slightly less shit than the people we were all sick of.
Our electoral system keeps us in a cycle of this by design. And Farage will just be Tories Extra.
I can’t really trust any of them. I suspect Corbyn would have an authoritarian streak a mile wide as well, but he’s not going to get in anyway.
Naich@lemmings.world 5 days ago
I hope you are right. I just can’t see it myself.