cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/8269177
were about to vote in a left wing party
Bahahahahahahaha, omg I needed a good laugh this evening., thanks…
Guy literally purged every halfway leftist in the fucking party, and has spent his entire time as leader, and is aiming his entire election campaign on, pleasing capitalists and maintain the status quo. The man doesn’t have a left leaning bone in his spineless self serving body.
Eh, still better than the Tories. Supermajority begins the process of dragging the overton window back left, which I’m all for
Supermajority begins the process of dragging the overton window back left
Literally the opposite.
Normalising the current Labour party as anything even remotely left, which it isn’t in any way shape or form, shifts the window to the right by removing actual left from the map altogether. That’s the whole point of Starmer - to regain back ground for the right after what Corbyn awoke in the party and country.
We are getting a Tory whoever wins, they just wear different coloured ties.
I’m hoping that everyone to the left of Starmer makes their move post-election.
Coming at him hard and forming a new party out of purged leftists, greens and independents.
But without a labour victory today we’ll be voting against fascism next time. The Tories just did such a good job of failing and disgusting everyone capable of being so.
Corbyn got absolutely fucked at the election. Running as an out-and-out leftist awoke fuck all in the general electorate.
The right were more than happy to get their foot in the door with Cameron, before dragging politics in this country further and further right. Why are we so unhappy to do the same?
Also, when on earth do you think the Tories were planning on setting up a nationalised energy company, renationalising rail?
Dude literally promised to continue tory policies. He’s a fucking Tory in a labour suit.
Yup, but people don’t want to hear it, they want to pat themselves on the back for “doing their part” and move on with their lives without ever having to stop to consider what they’re actually endorsing and what part they are playing in this charade designed to keep us forever subservient to the owning class.
I mean, when the US trolls say “BoTh SiDeS” we all laugh. Even the choice to vote for corrupt Torries or not-so-corrupt Torries is better than no vote.
We laugh because when they say both sides they’re thinking about left and right, but in reality left isn’t even represented in our politics at all (be it US or UK and plenty others, but really all nation states, since leftists don’t even believe they should exist), so they’re really talking about two different coloured representations of the same side being the same, which they are. Both serve and worship capitalism, and therefore fascism.
Also I never said anything about not voting, that’s what people like you who refuse to see the reality always like to insert to make yourselves feel superior for doing the bare minimum, I simply refuse to endorse someone so blatantly acting against my own interest and the interests of the country and its people, nor do I believe the vote I did cast will make any difference, because the system is designed to be irreformable, and as they say - if a vote changed anything, they wouldn’t let us do it. No matter who is elected, the system ensures we remain in service of the owning class.
Also fuck linking that to me, assuming I must be ignorant because I don’t agree with your uninformed centrist take when actually being disabled I have actively and consistently been on the direct receiving end of Tory cuts for 15 years, and have suffered greatly for it. Labour is literally offering me nothing different, worse, they make it crystal clear over and over and over again that they don’t give a shit about people like me (not just disabled, but poor, and queer, to name a couple more groups they don’t give a shit about).
So you feel free to pat yourself on the back for “getting rid of the Tories” all you like, but all you’re doing is endorsing another shade of exactly the same shit, and letting people like me know how little you care about our safety and rights (nor your own, since first they may have come for us, but they’ll be coming for you eventually).
I’m with you about the authoritarian purging of the party. Nevertheless, with the size of the majority that’s being predicted it will be hard to keep so many people in line once they have gone from being candidates to actual MPs. The biggest opposition in parliament may end up being socialist rebels within the Labour party itself.
Labour tried to do things the proper way under Corbyn and got completely destroyed. Back to lies, treachery and ‘Realpolitik’. The fact is that after all the u-turning that Labour’s leadership has done under Starmer, nobody can count on them doing anything. That includes the corporations and financial sector, who are just as likely to be getting played for fools as the rest of us.
The biggest opposition in parliament may end up being socialist rebels within the Labour party itself.
You can keep telling yourself that, but it’s never going to happen, Starmer made sure of it.
Labour tried to do things the proper way under Corbyn and got completely destroyed.
By the establishment they threatened, which you are now completely willing to bow down to and cooperate with.
That includes the corporations and financial sector, who are just as likely to be getting played for fools as the rest of us.
Wow, lmfao, if you think that you’ve really not been paying attention, Starmer has been pretty openly licking corporate arse so hard his tongue is its own shade of brown, his whole neoliberal existence is to make sure capitalists remain top priority.
Starmer doesn’t give a shit about you or me, and he has no intention on making our lives better, nor do the rest of the neoliberals he’s made sure to surround himself with.
