Comment on Labour U-turns on promise of Scottish-style right to roam in England
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 8 months ago
You have to understand that Labour’s mission at the moment is to win the upcoming GE… and win big. They’ve been buoyed by the recent string of by-election wins and need to capitalise on how shit the Tories are doing. If this means appeasing Red Tories in the landowning Home counties and the north of the Red Wall then so be it.
You’ll see more announcements of “now is not the time to do what we said we’d do” and “we’ll find other ways to do the same thing… but only after you vote us in by a landslide” in the coming months and throughout the GE campaign. Brace for it.
scrchngwsl@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Yeah it seems obvious that this is designed to preemptively avoid Tory campaign leaflets in the heartlands with scare stories about Labour being bad for rural communities etc.
echodot@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Rural communities think everything is bad for them. I grow up on a farm and it’s bizarre how many farmers are Tory voters.
They’ve just made your life more difficult why are you voting for them? “Well you see Brexit means I get more money for my produce. I have absolutely no reason to believe this and all evidence points to the country but I’m still going to spout it”