Submitted 5 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://jacobin.com/2025/06/starmer-labour-globalization-neoliberalism-nationalization/
In an effort to appeal to the median voter, Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, has accepted the Right’s talking points on immigration and economics. This experiment has been a disaster for Labour’s popularity.
Progress is progress, no matter how small.
I don’t think UK is progressing. To be honest it seems to be regressing these days. Each new day it’s becoming more and more a police state with secret policing and surveilance powers being passed.
JFC ya’ll forgot real fast what it was like with the Tories in power.
Swapping out one government for another with identical policies on key issues like sustainability, xenophobia, and genocide is not progress.
Ah yes. Key issues. Those issues. We all know the ones. Just not taxation. Not funding services like hospitals, nurseries, mental health. Not the environment, either. Actually very little they agree on other than Defence and Law Enforcement.
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Counterpoint: the press won’t allow a lefty leftleft government to get elected, so Labour see centrist as their ol y route to power. Look at how they stitched up Corbyn.
cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk 3 days ago
I agree that needs to be done up until the election, but now Labour have a massive majority and no election for over 4 years. There’s no need to be pandering to the right at the point.
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 3 days ago
No need to be more right then they promised.
But democracy requires them not to go more left either.
This whole win the election by lying to the public sounds very Tory.