Comment on Polls be damned, Labour have tripled down on Starmerism

• fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Basically, though they’re traditionally considered to be left wing, and people were expecting them to be slightly-right-wing, they’ve enacted all the Tory (very right wing) policies that were in the pipeline, and in an attempt to appeal to the far right, have jumped from “a little right of centre” into a government more right wing than David Cameron’s Tories were. They’re probably still to the left of where we’d be if we’d actually got Tories or UKIP.

  For example (I have paraphrased and sensationalised the descriptions, because I am sad and angry):

  • Starving the elderly and disabled
  • Banning trans people from being allowed to use I public toilets
  • Implemented a ban on any website which could ever potentially contain a picture of a boob, or offer things like “quitting smoking support”, unless you upload your name/passport/3d scan of your face, postal address and email address to a dodgy company in Cypress or the USA
  • Come out in complete support of a genocide
  • Banned peace protesting and arrested hundreds of innocent people
  • Come out in complete support of the other year’s Tory/UKIP rioting
  • Come out in support of far-right nationalist flag-shagging
  • Come out in support of killing refugees
  • Various other atrocities. I’m sure you get the idea

  I’ve used slightly loaded language and twisted a few specifics, but I’m sure you get the general idea.

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  • Twig@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    slightly = extremely a few = all

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Campaign for Reform, from the looks of my area.

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