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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Why does Starmer's Labour Party seem determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory? Because it hates the left more than it fears the far right. As a result it won't do the "left" things so many of its potential supporters are crying out for.

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Rouleur @rouler.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Exactly the same mistake made by the German centrist parties in Weimar.

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Dr Eric Farmer @himself132.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Even the occasional 'centre-left' policy would be welcome. I can't believe the demonisation of the sick and disabled, which even people like Braverman probably think is a little harsh.

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Radical Fairness @rudeeru.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Because McSweeney has defined the entire Starmer project from the start in just one way: not Corbyn. Labour have nowhere to turn but right.

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Paul Kerr@bluesky.com @paulkerr.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Critics may realise, Starmer, is for the established order. Once it's allowed to wrest democracy from society, free rein, will be the order of the day. (& only for realigned establishment). It no longer matters what each of them have on each other or what they do. Polls & elections appear unsafe.

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fearlessfishman.bsky.social @fearlessfishman.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

He doesn't care. His job is to serve his corporate backers not us. In that respect he's doing just fine. If someone else gets in they'll only do so if they agree to the same terms. I used to laugh at conspiracy theorists but looking at it through a different lens it all makes sense.

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Penny Flynn @pennyflynn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Yes. It’s exhausting. Depressing.

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Because the people who ‘Control’ the Labour Party are far right, therefore it’s basically a far right creation!!

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Mr C @bigchris6.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

A very good but complicated scenario and sets up the argument between the left and centre left. We are looking towards a socially responsible form of capitalism a la Will Hutton. How to blend two opposing systems and make it work?

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Dr Adam R. North @northy1.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The ming vase strategy seems to be their only strategy but voters want to see bravery and risk! The country is desperate for change and I think being bold would actually give them time.

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Squilkie @squilkie.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Time for Corbyn to maybe create a new left party. I hate looking at America and what's happening there, then seeing the same stupid hate here. Also if we could ban twitter and FB that would help

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greg_j_davis @gregorydavis.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

You'll know better than I, but is that quite fair? Doing unpopular borrowing-reduction stuff now seems sensible. Minimising space for Cons to distance from Reform may force wta competition..

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Stephen Hayes @stephenaytch.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

It is the same sort the US Democratic Party is rotted with.

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alistair g👋 @alistairblantyre.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

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1950sRobots @1950srobots.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

From the beginning Starmer was a Wolf in sheep's clothing. The lies, the purge of members, the harassment of Corbyn, and now he has lost the challenge to curtail the right to protest before the orange lunatic visits.

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Un-American @bennevis.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Clinical psychologist Benjamin Schoendorff talks about the five years he knew Keir Starmer through his Trotskyist group. He reflects on Starmer's moving from group to group, how he showed no signs of ambition within politics and how he had no firm political convictions. m.youtube.com/watch?v=pZM1...

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Starmer's old friend calls out links with the deep state

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The Fifth Dentist @fifthdentist.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

They sound like our Democrats. They'd rather lose elections than be seen as "liberal". Pathetic.

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Mark Tierney @marktierney.com · 03/05/2025

I disagree. They're petrified of the white northern voter. They are trying to appease them which is destroying their credibility with centre-leftists. Also,the UK is poor; really poor.The obvious answer would hand all the northern seats back to Tories/Reform. If this fear continues they are fucked.

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KP McDonnell @wildecard.eurosky.social · 03/05/2025

Every opportunity to tack right they've taken, even when the cold hard facts show it will lose them votes. This is 100% a choice and it's to abandon social democracy. The countdown to the next GE and their removal begins now. If the Greens or Lib Dems are your best option, start supporting them now.

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Johann S 🇨🇮🇺🇦 ⬅️ @johannshiel.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

‘Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory’ is Labour DNA. Always was, always will be.

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Falkirkbairnexiled @falkirkbairnexiled.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

It hasn't represented the working class since it was infiltrated by wealthy lawyers in the 1990s...

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Clive @cliving2024.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Agreed. I’m so frustrated by the inaction.

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Cindy Michels 🇺🇲🇪🇺🇨🇦 @cindymichels.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

They probably will punch a few more trans people, they seem to like doing that. They are totally pathetic.

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Andrew Whiteley @andrewwhiteley.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

It's not "left" things so many of Labour's potential supporters are crying out for. It's the decent, compassionate things the Labour party was created to do: looking after the poorest, weakest and most vulnerable in society. If a Labour government refuses to do that it should not call itself Labour.

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Neil @evroadtrip.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Absolutely this!

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Jason Hibbs @handle.invalid · 04/05/2025

Because they don’t lose when the “Labour Party” loses

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John G @johnalex.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Greens are the best hope for socialist lefts at the moment, given the type of coverage nazi boy was given by the media, spearheaded by the grotesque BBC, the last election would have been a different story.

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pseudocrem.bsky.social @pseudocrem.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I'm starting to worry less about what Labour are doing now, than I am worried about what Refuk are going to do when they are in government.

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FredAKArogueNinjaS 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 @fredakaninjas.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Can’t vote labour now n as a lifelong labour voter…it would be like voting fur the “Milk Snatcher” 🐰👀😡😡😡

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Jeffie @jeffpapis.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

We need constitutional and political reform. We can’t go on like this. Or humans will perish and our planet will be gone forever.

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Sir Andy KBE @andykbe.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Sold out to corporate interests.

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JayGordon 🌱 @jaig5.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Well, why would it, it's not the Labour Party in any way other than stealing its name

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alfandalf @alfandalf.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The creatures outside looked from pig to pig, and from pig to pig, and from pig to pig again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. ¿ ❓❓❓❓ ❗️👁️🩵💙💔👁️❗️ 🐽

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Olivia (she/her) ⚢🏳️‍⚧️ @oliviaag9.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I think it's time for me to start looking for a job in the EU, or become self employed doing something and move to the Bahamas.

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PoisonPunk @gifsartidote.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

its not about hating the left. 'Other' class interests are a threat to the billionaire class who ultimately yield all power. the state and any government are puppets doing their bidding. they only protect the capitalist, hierarchical and neo-liberal system. we should DIY our own decentralised system

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Lorenzo Trojan @ltrojan.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

As usual, spot on George 👏 bsky.app/profile/ltro...

Lorenzo Trojan@ltrojan.bsky.social

Starmer is an extremely intelligent man, he knows perfectly well what he is doing... He is also a well known, remorseless, serial liar perfectly happy deceiving the entire nation The real question then is: what are his motives to persevere with the systematic destruction of the labour movement?

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Safety🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺💚 @safetygooner.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

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Ying B @tailsandtea.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

It begs the question who are they taking advice from and who is paying for this advice? I hope they can get a refund.

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lionel-hithersay.bsky.social @lionel-hithersay.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Starmer needs to get out of his echo chamber and start listening to Labour MPs,

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Mark G @thehammer9001.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I am a Canadian, so my view from the outside is this. The Labour party is a shadow of its former self. It's similar to the Dems of the US, made intentionally incompetent by donor wealth. If I were in the UK I'd probably be voting Lib-Dem or to be honest... Sinn Fein with how dumb Brexit was.

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Paul Baker @baldcodger.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Or is he just a mouthpiece for his sponsers?

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Colin Lawson @colindlawson.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

(Labour).. "hates the left more than it fears the far right." And the left also hates Labour more than it fears the far right. Blaming just one side for an internecine fight that has undermined Labour for as long as anyone can remember is not part of the solution.

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djcaress.bsky.social @djcaress.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Because as a result of political weakness, a lack of vision, and non existent conviction, they’ve allowed themselves to not just be used for the benefit of the super rich/corporations, but actually believe it’s the right way forward.

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SpicyParsnip 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🍉🕊️ @spicyparsnip.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I'm getting more terrified of Starmer than I am of Farage. Both of them are equally as bad if your a disabled person. I feel that I'm not going to survive the next five or six years either way. Getting through the last 14 years of Tories as a disabled person was difficult enough. I'm so tired.

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Scree @screecycle.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

When it comes down to it the left is just a label. There is humanity and on the other side there is what we get from all these politicians.

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Brizo75 @brizo75.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Starmer's Labour Party have shown themselves to be bereft of real leadership in that it is too malleable, defined by reactionary responses to media whim, or a billionaires tweet, stuck in a replay of the red wall crumbling in 2019 and Brexit, unable to stand firm and ask us to stand with them, Lost.

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timesscary.bsky.social @timesscary.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Because England and its media has swung to the Right.

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Labrador-Lover1🇪🇺🇵🇹🇬🇧🔸💚 @labrador-lover1.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

It won’t do what many centre ground voters, forced to vote Labour due to FPTP want. To rejoin the EU, or at least join a Customs Union with them. The red lines make me see red. Twice Labour got my vote. We need Proportional Representation if we want democracy. They never earned my vote. No more

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jim-bob-nelson.bsky.social @jim-bob-nelson.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

They've failed to show meaningful progress on growth - which was their main mission. By refusing to make heavy investment, except bailing out a loss making steel business, and failing to accelerate housing construction - all for the sake of balancing budgets (sexy!), they've failed the electorate

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Tim @paddytimmerson.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Sounds familiar

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puggsy.bsky.social @puggsy.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I think the main reason is that at the moment, the left is calling for action to be taken against israel

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Neil the amatuer tube enthusiast @neiltaffy.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Pretty much!

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗@sarahviktoria.bsky.social

People have to keep repeating "Starmer is weak," "Starmer lacks a spine" etc. to convince themselves that we're still in normal politics and there hasn't been a right wing omni-coup.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Starmer's Labour are seat warmers normalising far-right policies and attitudes towards immigrants, the poor, and the sick. Starmer will call a snap election long before it's due, and the Tory media will fall over themselves to anoint Farage as the true voice of Britain.

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mgogorman.bsky.social @mgogorman.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Agree completely but would add that also they don't think there's anything actually wrong with the present socioeconomic system that can't be cured by better management, i.e. by them being in power As a consequence they dare not challenge right-wing media which they think holds the keys to power

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Aldo "Antifa" @annoyed-aldo.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Sad but true and no more evidence needed other than the disgusting way Starmer treated Jeremy Corbyn. I felt he's treatment of Jezza was very personal and if the rumours are true Jeremy is one of the nicest people you could ever meet. Starmer is a backstabbing liar

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iniseoghain.bsky.social @iniseoghain.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

So Labour losing votes to all other parties. They haven't even been in power for a year yet. Whoever would have thought that a centrist dad approach would fail so quickly. Labour needs to start delivering, and fast, otherwise it's pretty obvious what's coming in 2029.

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Marlow ❤️ 🇮🇳 🌹〓〓♀️🇪🇺 💚 @hunjanmarlow.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Labour could tax the rich, fund nhs, give everyone winter fuel £, reverse welfare cuts etc but people will still say, why are immigrants getting a share & push this narrative hard through msm, social media & GB news. We've become an intolerant and selfish society with racists living amongst us.

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Jan Coombs @jancoombs.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I’m not suggesting Starmer is a soulless office manager type who’ll say anything to hit his quarterly targets, much less sell out the hopes and ambitions of vast swathes of the traditional voters of whatever party he finds himself the head of, but if he was, what would he be doing differently?

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Iona Brand @mikeiona.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

It's perfectly simple. Stärmer is head of the 'Red Tint' of the Millionaire Donor's Party. He serves his (very generous) donors instead of the voters and they've stitched up English politics to the point where all ordinary people get to do is vote for a colour scheme every few years.

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Ian Martin @democritus3.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Conservatism = Faragism = Starmerism. No wonder so many liberal progressives feel disenfranchised.

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Posset G @possetg.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Starmer has no need to fear the far right, he is part of the demographic as them.

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💙 EveNewtonJobs 🦋 @evenewtonjobs.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Governing through fear. There is no boldness or bravery. That said after 13 years of conversative governments he was not starting at sea level...he is needing to swim a fair distance just to get back to sea level. They left him a disaster.

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Algux (I write stuff) @algux.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Hate drives poor decisions and makes a fire of the world.

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Michaela @michaela5.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Desperately need to get rid of First past the post

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Grayzo @grayzo11.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

We need to forget about the Labour Party. Why remain loyal to a party that shows no loyalty in return. It’s like staying with a partner who continually cheats on you.

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TimB33 #noKings @timb33.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Labour made a net gain of seats, and took control of some councils (lost a few too). Overall isn't this Tories jumping to reform?

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Bjørnar Egede-Nissen 🇨🇦🇳🇴~🇺🇦🇵🇸🍉 @bjornar1.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

A Left party that hates the left? That's new... From dyed-in-red Corbyn to light blue Starmer. Surely some middle ground could be found? Centrism is not it, that's really just conservativism by another name.

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Ethel Crimble @ethelcrimble.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

It's not just the Left, it's centrists too.

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angelM @angelmsattya.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Starmer’s relentless obsession with purging the left from the party extended to deselecting good candidates from the party machine-including during the last election. They would rather lose a seat than have a left-wing candidate stand. I’m glad they lost to independents by doing that.

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Dodgyvictorians @dodgyvictorians.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

“It’s human nature to hate those who you have injured” P Cornelius Tacitus.

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Jane Harris @janeharris62.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Trying to win over enemies rather than satisfy its friends. Thinking back to Corbyn's 40% of the vote in 2017. On Thursday Labour got half that!

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LetteJ @lettej2205.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Agree but it's also because those around him in No 10 lean towards the right. Sue Gray recognised that. He needs to get rid and quickly.

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Iacovos @iacovos.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Irrespective of left-right, Labour's lost all sense of what's for the best and moral. Stupid EU red lines, crawling to Trump, punching down on vulnerable/migrants/trans, aiding genocide. What decent person can support these, even if not especially a "lefty"? While shitheads will vote Reform anyway

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Knot Aloud @bluecow11.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Left is right when it comes to making a difference - urghh it’s how we got the NHS…..

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Ivan Richardson. @inshado.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

This ☝️ 💯

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Ian Stevens @ianstev91.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

It's not even as if it's just "the left" in a narrower sense it's alienating. Its direction of travel is clearly turning off plenty of centre-left, centrist and liberal voters.

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bohemianchameleon.bsky.social @bohemianchameleon.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Exactly like here in the U.S.

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Paul McO'Smith III @pavsmith.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

the only people we hate more than the Labour People's Front is the People's Front of Labour... ...if only that was a joke.

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Edo @slowwalkingdad.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

My question is: why isn’t the left doing anything? Why isn’t the left assembling to form a strong coalition to fill this massive political vacuum?

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Andy Prentice @andyprentice.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

At the 24 general election I spoke to Labour activists in the counting hall. I questioned how they could support their top table under Starmer Streeting Cooper etc. they looked sheepish. Q’d why Labour given up on Clacton but piling on to Green targets. They looked sheepish.

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Rhuarhii @rhuarhii.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Well said George… Starmer seems to be scared of his own shadow when it comes to owning causes he should be advocating for

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jpj-13.bsky.social @jpj-13.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Absolutely true. Starmer comes across as a Manager weighed down by having to satisfy his stakeholders. Unfortunately, in his head, the most important SH is Business, and he hasn't the moral compass to understand that, by enabling the billionaires, he's become Reform's shovel digging Labour's grave.

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oldandcrippled.bsky.social @oldandcrippled.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Exactly this! Why has socialism become a 'dirty' word? Why is it bad to care about the weakest? Why is everyone's goal meant to be gathering wealth and goods?

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hubertlaneite.bsky.social @hubertlaneite.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Hear hear well said and well summarised.. it’s absolutely proving to be astonishingly bizzare..!

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azurevista.bsky.social @azurevista.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Because Sir Starmer is a plant. He's supported by the same Extinction Agenda cult as Farage. The cult wants to wipe out humanity with pandemics and pollute our food and water. Why do you think Farage wants to destroy the NHS? Only those with money will get healthcare.

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Somefella @somefella1.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Why do the 'left' constantly moan so much that it pushes the right into power? Nothing would ever satisfy the 'left'.

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Chris 🍁 @chrischoptain.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

every democracy must implement ranled choice voting its the only way to forever defeat the fascists

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GJdop @gjdop.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The #Left or #Socialism could destroy the right and their greed. This is why #Starmer's backers need socialism destroyed.👇 bsky.app/profile/did:...

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#KeirStarmer wants the destruction of #Socialism for his backers; he enabled the #Israelis to blacken #Corbyn, he frequently backed the #Tories whilst in opposition, he supports #Brexit, and has introduced policies that will kill those too old or sick to work. Truman was right 👇

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

It’s no longer a left wing party, Labour in name only. With Reeves praising Trump and set on trashing the environment.

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bovrilheid.bsky.social @bovrilheid.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Labour is toast….. new socialist party required. But in Scotland vote snp

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I have always assumed that this is because of progressive infiltration by the right wing, since before Blair, as part of the general effort to push the country to the right. It could, of course, just be incompetence and stupidity, two things for which there is no remedy apart from replacement.

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Nafeica @nafeica.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

At what point will we as traditional Labour value voters, understand that Starmer was put there for a reason by the right wing oligarchs and the press they own. Why is this a surprise?

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Arrimow the 👉 SC, NFC @arrimow.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

It leaves a great big gaping hole on the left of the political spectrum, one millions of voters are itching to jump into rather than pick one of the many right wing parties. Perhaps it’s time for the Co-Operative Party to break away and start doing its own thing.

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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

It relies on us to make the calculation that they are still better than Reform, while at the same time trying to be more like Reform.

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Nikos Leverenz @nikosleverenz.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Force of habit, lack of vision, moral drift, and misplaced priorities have made austerity seem like a palatable baseline for some time.

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Joe St Clair-Ford @joestclairford.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Reform voters consistently poll as more economically left yet that's the area Labour don't want to appease them on.

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Nualaatpeace @ros14.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

They're not labour!

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Jason Caits-Cheverst @caitscheverst.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I can't think of a time that Britain's government have moved left deliberately. Certainly since the Industrial Revolution our politics have served money, and only ever veered left when that politics caused too much damage to enough people that it became unignorable.

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Matthew Gyamtso (Jee) @freedomforall.net · 03/05/2025

Yes, they are neoliberal stooges one and all. Until they start paying for the common good of the land with the ill-gotten gains of the wealthy, we're fucked.

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Steve Whitworth @stevewhitto.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

What does it hate so much?

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James FBSI 🐸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 (Fanatic) @toplandscaper.eurosky.social · 03/05/2025

Oh, the money's there. What we urgently need is tax reform. Close the tax avoidance loopholes and generous tax breaks for already wealthy companies. Why are we paying UC to subsidise wages at places like Amazon + Tesco? Let them pay a real living wage!

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Mark Mckay @markmckay71.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I’m afraid I agree. McSweeney has lost any notion of what Labour should be. This is even further to the right than New Labour. I read an interview with Glasman last weekend and shuddered at who he’s mates with.

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Jude @jude-brucemoll.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Starmer and his new boys don't know what they are missing...

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Sam @sam-b13.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

This is sadly so true. And what is so bad about those “left” things anyway? Like lifting children out of poverty, ensuring the disabled who can’t work are properly supported and the elderly can eat quality food and stay warm. Ensuring all families can support their kids. Timely access to healthcare.

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Ger D @rardeenus.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

It was already challenging when they won the election. But to overlay the inherited difficulties with performative cruelty, punching down on vulnerable people and being stupidly tin-eared- they’re architects of their own miserable failure.

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Thomas Swords 🇮🇪 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thomasswords.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

This is EXACTLY why the useless Democrats lost here in the U.S.

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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

So the climate crisis gets worse, the resulting expenses get higher, the inequalities get worse etc

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Kay Crowe @kayx51.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Factor in Starmer's charisma free leadership and Labour is doomed.

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Theresa @tlc57.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

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The first 6 months: what has Labour actually done?

Yesterday we highlighted some of the achievements of our new government in its first six months. Here we explore some of the detail

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Gar_eth @garmobile.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

It appears that Starmer`s purged of lefties Labour party is not the quite the flavour of the month they thought it would be.Ridiculous I know but BBC/SKY now designate RF as a left wing party🙄 Labour having allowed them to steal a march on the very popular Water Co nationalisation.

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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

It’s why I voted for them for the first time! To get the hateful corrupt Tories out and get some of the good social policy rebuilding going again, with my rose tinted Tony Blair years in mind. How foolish I was. I guess there was money to spend back then. Now it’s just gruel and hate we’re getting.

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Leo Greene (if you're nice) @leo-greene.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I think it's worse than that. Starmer's thrown in his lot with Trump, putin, Netanyahu and all those who've decided to throw ordinary people under the bus of climate change so that they can survive when everything goes to hell

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JayK @jayk117.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

He needs to realise this is recreating the US election, it will cause the disenfranchisement of the left voters and the right voters will stay right, you can't double down on this. He needs to reverse course.

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Ivor @ivorbolakov.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Simple Labour only works when perceived as the underdog. Even if the damage done is self-inflicted Decades of habit rather than rote

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metacomet.bsky.social @metacomet.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

George. Don’t blame Labour for white people voting nazi. Nazi’s gonna nazi. The UK is becoming a Nazi country. Like the USA.

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Neurodivergent07 @neurodivergent07.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Neoliberals are on the right. Always have been. It is based on business and profit and has no interest in people who cannot or will not particiate in the accumulation of wealth. They have never been Labour, simply used the party as a means to an end.

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Jane Caroline Napier @janenapier1960.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Yes! Where's a green transport policy? And why don't they tax jet fuel?

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Helena Handcart @handcart.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I find it utterly bizarre that they're so desperately chasing the Reformed Ham vote, but haven't the slightest interest in chasing the votes of over 10million of us that actually did vote for Socialism in 2019. Fairness and social justice must be terrifying for them.

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Steven @lwio.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The right wing cabal lead by Reeves will kill Labour.

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hollyhock64.bsky.social @hollyhock64.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I want them to stop worrying about the next election and do what is right.

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greensdavid.bsky.social @greensdavid.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Bread & circuses! A man in the street only cares about GDP or growth when they hit his / her bills, hit his Drs or affect his car. Reeves & Starmer grandiose plans may ring in Westminster or the city, but they leave the High St cold. Look at Farage. Give people something that helps them, directly !

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AndrewT @andrewt500.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Has #Reeves replaced her Anti-Corruption Minister yet or is she relying on the elderly, disabled & the poor to rescue the economy?🤨

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Kim Cummings @kimmer.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Oh boy, then their on our path believe me.

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fwells.bsky.social @fwells.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Yep. A chasm is opening up between the basic decency of the UK electorate and the putrid offerings on the UK political menu.

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Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @the-librarian.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Pandering to the far right in an attempt to woo Reform voters will never work because the rhetoric will always out trump the reality. You will however add credence to their lies and reinforce the beliefs of their voter-ship while losing labour voters who no longer identify with labours new position.

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Peter Garbutt @petergarbutt.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Why is everybody still wringing their hands over this or that Party? Apart from the Greens, they're all corrupt, steering towards a world dominated by corporations, AI, billionaires etc. The Greens try to compete in this system, but it's the system that's at fault.

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Malt_Dismay @malt-dismay.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

100% this! People are asking ‘has Labour got a Kier Starmer problem?’ No! Labour has an IDEOLOGY problem! It won a massive majority! Stop chasing Reform votes!

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Alex Can @fan-in-exile.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Just like Kamala Harris. She ran a 1990s Republican campaign and that is a big reason she lost.

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kazzie3g.bsky.social @kazzie3g.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Seems to be an issue for a lot of “Labor” governments

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julie1176.bsky.social @julie1176.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The far right don't threaten the interests of the people funding Labour now.

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Modern Money Lab @modernmoneylab.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

We want to discuss this over two weekends in June. There IS another way which is essentially the opposite of Farage and rejects Starmer and the Tories. We want to discuss replacing capitalism and finding the money to pay for progress. modernmoneylab.org.uk/events/

modernmoneylab.org.uk

Events

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Michael Havard @michaelhavard.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

👏👏👏👏

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spiralbinding.bsky.social @spiralbinding.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Exactly ✊

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Rachel 🌹 @rachturner.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Starmer is not a brave man. I still do not know what he stands for. Leaders need to have a clear vision and be brave!

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Goodmojojo @goodmojojo.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Even some remotely centrist things would do me right now🙈

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Rick @hrrunka.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Because (hat tip to @goodlawproject.org‬) they're not listening to the people, but instead to some wonk from Policy Exchange of 55 Tufton Street? politicshomecom.cmail20.com/t/t-e-gpyhdt...

politicshomecom.cmail20.com

The Saturday View - Blue Labour's Jonathan Rutherford Is Helping No 10 Find Purpose

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Elly @ellyraying.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

It won't do the "left" things because no-one is paying them to do that. We're moving to a time when our lives are being conflated with our labour, all justified because of this weird imagined financial system that rules us all.

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Dr AM Sardar @amsardar.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Just to clarify - that's Starmer & the Blair-clones. There's enough socialists to make a stand.

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peanco2025.bsky.social @peanco2025.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

3 things Labour need to do NOW: 1. Sack Morgan McSweeney 2. Sack Morgan McSweeney 3. Sack Morgan McSweeney

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Doe Bee @doebee99.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

And that's why the left won't vote for them any more.

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nickchid.bsky.social @nickchid.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

This Labour party as with New Labour is not a representative party for the "working classes" Taxing the wealthy not the working is both morally right and would prove popular as perfectly illustrated by @garyseconomics.bsky.social but they will not do it...why?

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Hexenbeest @hexenbeest.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Whatever Reform blame immigration for, Labour should work to improve that particular thing. Yes, immigration needs to be curbed but Labour needs to show voters *Reform is wrong*. Reining in Rayner's scorn for environmentalists would help too! 😀

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fletch49er @fletch49er.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

It's a Labour thing and just a soupçon [sarcasm] of arrogance

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Kevsorchids @kevsorchids.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

They try to be all things to all people and end up being nothing to anyone.

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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2025

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social I've long felt the hatred Blue Labour has for the Left Wing, one wonders why they choose the Labour Party for their career when the Tories would accept them without question. #BlueLabour

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Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

And necessary to build the popular socialist movement necessary.

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sbarlster @sbarlster.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I and other local parents have repeatedly asked our Labour councillors and MPs for safe segregated active travel lanes and safe routes to school. Silence. Labour would rather support the wealthy car owners than the young, old and poorer car-less residents.

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sbarlster @sbarlster.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

💯 and if you campaign as a Reform-lite party. Voters who want that will just vote Reform

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Jacquie Hampton @jaxhampton.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I get the strong impression they’re desperate to appeal to the far right, chasing those votes when they can never win. So pointless, and such a waste. Beats me why they didn’t just make the most of their massive majority.

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Raedwald @raedwald.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The widespread dislike of Trump and Musk in the UK, and the recent election in Canada, should be a clear sign to a left-leaning party that putting up some leftist policies that are clearly the opposite of Trumpism, and presenting them as that, should be a winning strategy.

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Andrew Thomson @quantinghome.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The reason is simple: unlike its detractor it has to work within the economic and fiscal reality the country finds itself in. Raise taxes? Yes, Labour did that? Change the fiscal rules? Yes Labour did that too! We have to face the fact that we're already paying £110bn a year on debt interest.

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Aighearach @ambodach.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

His policies are #Thatcheritte

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Rob Stewart @robstewartwriterq.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

It’s remarkable that they are dimly following a path that will soon destroy the most successful party the world has seen of the last couple of centuries. No subjection to our current media will ever be enough.

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Robin Smith @bobin.uk · 03/05/2025

I think when you have had Jeremy Corbyn as leader a party does then need to overcorrect in order for the general public to realise it has corrected at all. Just correcting back to baseline will leave the public thinking that they haven't changed. It's dumb psychology but how humans seem to think.

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Dean @herne-thehunter.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I didn’t think you’d be one to buy into the paranoid-schizoid position of ‘if they disagree with us they must hate us’. We’ve seen again and again that this immature level of emotional engagement leads to nothing constructive

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Jed Slocum @w45tr3l.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The key word is disenfranchised which is how we feel now. When Starmer attacked the vulnerable it was the final straw, now there is truly nobody looking after our interests. They will pay at the next general election and things will just keep getting worse. The system needs radical change.

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Dr J @w2jmf.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Well, England need a new left. Stat!

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DamonTheDemon @damonthedemon.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

George, we must face fact, we dont have a Labour party anymore. We just dont. We have flavours of right wing parties, with one party on left, Greens. Reform/Cons/Labour are in a race to emulate each other and dare each other as to how far right they can go. Lib Dems the outlier, but still right wing

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Richard Price @richnp.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

In what is now a multi party environment we need a new left party with a fairly simple tax the rich (the assets) message to also appeal to non-voters, and young. [Reform’s projected national vote yesterday was still only 30%]. Greens can’t switch enough Reform votes (it’s historic and cultural)

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Axel Foley @roadwarrior29.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Starmer, a hostage to Reform the way that Cameron was a hostage to UKIP, which brought about BREXIT, the racist's charter.

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mitchbligh.bsky.social @mitchbligh.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

100% on this. Crazy times.

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C4Darkmane @c4darkmane.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Lib dems feel more labour than labour at the moment

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zidangus.bsky.social @zidangus.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Well thats great because the left hates him just as much in fact judging by his polling and labours performance in local elections and by election, the overwhelming majority of the public don't like him. Hopefully that penny will drop with labour that keir is the problem not the left.

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Myles Hoyle @myleshoyle.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Rewrite the election rules. Only allow democratically structured political parties to participate. End private companies passing themselves off as political parties. Individuals still allowed to stand. Cap donations. End foreign donations to political parties. Lower the age limit. PR.

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jasfriedman.bsky.social @jasfriedman.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Labour hasnt been for the WORKING people for a long time. They havent taxed the rich. They havent solved the NHS problem. They havent done anything on climate change. They have NEGLECTED disabled people

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jimmyobyrne.bsky.social @jimmyobyrne.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Starner is loyal to Zionism above all else

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Gavin Knight @gavinknight1.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

True. More social justice less austerity! But also now Reform is the official opposition can we have lots of scrutiny and aggressive questions about the exact budgeting of all their policies and how they will pay for them

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