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fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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):

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

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