Poland and Hungary also did fairly well, if I’m not mistaken
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EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee 5 days ago
How is this fascist right wing shit show not a global debacle? Putin, Netenyahu, Bolsanaro, Trump… Italy & Germany both rolling right. North Korea (of course) and Xinny the Pooh.
Does Britain’s finally dumping the Tories (after a decade & a half+) make them one of the few to break left at this time on the global stage? {Something about broken clocks being right from time to time.}
gentooer@programming.dev 5 days ago
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
No I wouldn’t think that about the UK. Tories shifted massively rightwards over the past decade and they are really losing most voters to Reform - a hard right party, so they are simply not hard-right enough for most voters, meanwhile Labour has shifted massively right to occupy the space Cameron-style neocons were in before.
The right win in the long run because if labour wins, the dynamic will be of that between Cameron-esque conservatives under Starmer Labour and hard-right conservatives under Reform/UKIP/whatever Farage party as the two major parties. This is the final form of the overton window shift, on which the UK and US led the world on in 2016.
If anything the lib Dems - if you take their manifesto at face value - are far more progressive than Labour at this point and don’t adopt the “managed decline” style of governance.