• DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Was he saying he’s a leftist but acting like a rightist, or a rightist who was always going to be so?

    There’s only really those two types left in Labour globally.

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      7 days ago

      He presented himself as a moderate, which in reality means he wanted to pull the labor party back to the right again. The very first thing he did was purge the left wing of the party

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        6 days ago

        What’s this Labor Party of which you type? Are letters falling off a la Tory Conference?

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        6 days ago

        Honestly, good riddance to some of the labour left, I hope they are happy in the new “Your Party” they set up.

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          6 days ago

          That’s fair. I’m much happier voting for Greens, less hand wringing, more sleep, that sort of thing. I couldn’t imaging having the support of genocide on my conscience, I support it via taxes… But voting for it? Then theres the anti-privacy, the anti-LGBT, the Mandleson thing…

          I can’t remember the moment I chose not to vote labour, it could have been when he told people to leave. I do remember, very specifically, not wanting to support Starmer though, a good call I think. There’s a reason Starmer got fewer votes than Corbyn: we knew.