Hello_there@fedia.io 4 months ago
Politicsjoe is a good outlet for uk politics. Or watch John Oliver's recent episode
Essentially, the UK has had fiscal austerity for 14 years under the conservatives. To prove that labor will be 'good for business' their new platform maintains the same cuts and has tied their own hands on taxing.
So, fiscally, there wasn't much diff with the conservatives, minus some crazy tory boondoggles like tax cuts for rich and paying tons to Rwanda to deport asylum seekers.
r00ty@kbin.life 4 months ago
I think that is indeed the best you can hope for with new labour in control over the tories. Slightly less backhanders and tax breaks for the already stupidly rich.
I don't expect anything far left of centre. I say this as someone that is somewhat centre left (UK centre left to be clear, USAans don't judge me on your political compass), I don't really think I resonate too much with the current labour party.
I think the thing that terrifies me, is that the tory party we had, that pushed through a no-deal brexit (when there were many other less disruptive ways to leave the union available), that has wet dreams about planes flying immigrants to Rwanda weren't right wing enough for our population.
What is the tory party's solution to this going to be? I doubt it will be returning to the centre right position they occupied in the Cameron era. They either accept their death, or move further right. I suspect we'll see the latter. When we find out their new leader, I suspect it will cement their direction for us all to see.
Hello_there@fedia.io 4 months ago
The reason I got into UK politics despite not living there is the parallels with us politics. It's all that Satan spawn Murdoch's fault. But the same trends her travel there. 'remain in Mexico' and Rwanda. Tax cuts for no reason. Anti trans and gay. 'woke'. Boris Johnson and trump