Remember that episode of Black Mirror in which the prime minister was blackmailed into fucking a pig? Starmerism is that with flags.
At least with the tories you knew what kind of scum you were getting.This spineless neo libral makes my skin crawl.
Submitted 12 hours ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/09/07/starmerism-what-is-it/
Remember that episode of Black Mirror in which the prime minister was blackmailed into fucking a pig? Starmerism is that with flags.
At least with the tories you knew what kind of scum you were getting.This spineless neo libral makes my skin crawl.
What’s liberal about what’s going on? It’s all authoritarians keeping the population under heel.
Liberalism was always about liberties for property owners and boot on the necks of everyone else.
It was the most inevitable thing that’s ever been.
9point6@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
For a brief self-gaslighting moment, I tricked myself into thinking the plan was to get any unpopular but (for whatever reason) necessary policies out of the way at the start so people hopefully forget about them by the next election.
I think we’re well past that point now, and we need some pretty radical policy to combat the economic disaster we’re hurtling towards.
wewbull@feddit.uk 9 hours ago
It’s not just economic. Its a road towards societal disaster. We’ve been on it a long time but has accelerated of late. All of the post-war social democratic values have been abandoned and replaced with paranoid protection of the rich and powerful.
Brekky@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I’m ootl what has labour done since getting into power?
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 4 hours ago
Basically, though they’re traditionally considered to be left wing, and people were expecting them to be slightly-right-wing, they’ve enacted all the Tory (very right wing) policies that were in the pipeline, and in an attempt to appeal to the far right, have jumped from “a little right of centre” into a government more right wing than David Cameron’s Tories were. They’re probably still to the left of where we’d be if we’d actually got Tories or UKIP.
For example (I have paraphrased and sensationalised the descriptions, because I am sad and angry):
I’ve used slightly loaded language and twisted a few specifics, but I’m sure you get the general idea.
Tweak@feddit.uk 10 hours ago
My only hope is that he throws in something like proportional representation right at the end, but that’s an awfully long shot - and I could see Reform winning either way.
wewbull@feddit.uk 9 hours ago
No way that’ll happen.