UK Politics

I'm a Labour member and I'm cynical of Labour. Still gonna vote for them though, because as much as I think we need a fundamental change to our democratic system, it's been 14 years of absolute shit for the majority of us, and as someone with young kids, who's in receipt of benefits...who also rents and has a long-term health condition, I can't chance having another 14 years of Tory rule.

Part me me actually wonders if It wouldn't be better for the country to have a Labour/Lib/SNP coalition. I don't trust Starmer, and I think our system basically makes it impossible to ditch FPTP when one of the two main parties are only ever a scandal away from earning a majority.

I have no idea what Labour stand for other than supporting the bombing of Gaza and Yemen and not opposing the Tories on anything specific.

So keen to show his neoliberal chops off at every opportunity.

despicable man.

his ten leadership pledges aged poorly

This is the best summary I could come up with:

In a botched reshuffle following disappointing local election results and a major by-election defeat in Hartlepool all the way back in 2021, Starmer attempted to clip the wings of his deputy leader Angela Rayner, seen as being on the left of the party.

Rayner — whose role is elected by members and therefore untouchable — was sacked from her job as party chair and national campaigns coordinator as Starmer’s team sought to blame her for the poor results.

When he ran for the Labour leadership, Starmer pledged to bring public services — name-checking rail, mail, energy and water — into “common ownership,” seen by many as a clear nod to nationalization of utilities long in private hands.

Labour last year formally confirmed to the i newspaper that it won’t end the charitable status of elite private schools if it wins power — though argued the change would make little difference in practice.

But hear us out: in a December article in the Conservative-supporting Daily Telegraph newspaper, Starmer positively gushed about the former Tory PM Margaret Thatcher — the very mention of whom sends shivers down the spines of Britain’s lefties.

After months — and, let’s be honest, what feels like decades — of internal and external pressure on Labour’s flagship £28 billion green investment plan, Starmer looks poised to finally announce its death.

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