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Mate, we're under a first past the post system, tactical voting matters to get the most damaging political force, i.e. the Tories, out of power and by a significant majority.
Anything remotely left of the Tories is better, even if it is Centre Centre Centre calling itself Left Labour.
At this point lib Dems are probably left of labour with their policies, given labours recent downturn
I mean I believed that and voted for Clegg and then he turned out to be a toffee tory
No, this is just untrue.
They are a centre-right party. They effectively represent Tories who didn't want Brexit. They may talk a big game and make big promises, such as UBI. But they also made promises when they went into coalition with the Conservative party, and once in power they fell in line.
UBI isn't even necessarily a leftist policy. Apparently Richard Nixon even considered it!
It's not inherently leftist but it is a big promise.
Not unlike tuition fees.
Just incredible that the Lib Dems are still trying this argument.
Apart from the reality of their platforms, Ed Davey was literally a cabinet member in a Tory government and was knighted for this service by a Tory Prime Minister.
Well the fact that when the Tories got a majority of their own they reversed most of what he did in office should be in an indication that he's not actually one of them.
So his record is five years of voting for every Tory policy and zero long term achievements?
Right, so it should be alarming that labour has worse policies than that, right?
IDK what metric you're using for 'worse'. Sure would be alarming if they did, but they don't.