Starmer bans Labour councillors from doing deals with Polanski’s Green Party

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If labour are going to be so childish then I feel even more justified in not voting for them.

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• ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Remember folks. Liberals and centrists would rather deal with conservatives over a progressive party.

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  • Twig@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Liberal Democrats cozy up to Conservatives. I don’t think Labour have.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They don’t need to. There’s a reason everyone calls them the Tory Lite party. It’s all the fault of Blair and his new Labour ideas, if you cannot win by being liberal then don’t be liberal. It’s a stupid idea because what’s the point in winning then?

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• Egonallanon@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Oh they’re scared ain’t that?

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• rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Is saying “LINO” (“Labour in name only”) a thing yet?

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  • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is just what happens when reactionaries cry about a non-existent communist purge, and then take power and sideline anyone left if Thatcher. The only way to avoid this was for Corbyn to purge the Blairites.

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    • hellothere@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Corbyn failed twice, he was not the guy.

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  • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not very related but I hate the XINO label and similar ideas. No, they're not "Democrats/Labor/whatever in name only" that's just how your (royal you) favorite influence laundering machine for the capitalist class works.

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  • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh Labour has been bickering over ideological purity for decades.

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    • hellothere@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Literally since day 1.

      This has always been the tension between the wider labour movement - which by definition must always be advocating for more than is currently acceptable - and the party, which must present itself as a balance.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If the right of the Labour Party were forced to break off into the wrong party no one would ever vote for them. They don’t offer anyone anything, if you’re that way politically inclined you’re just going to vote for the conservatives, or reform these days.

      There has been this constant fear from various party leaders over the years that if they actually cut out the right of the party they would somehow lose votes, but I honestly don’t think they would.

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• BestBouclettes@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Same thing happened here in France with our equivalents of Labour (PS) and the greens (LFI). It’s utter insanity especially when you look at the progress of far right parties

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  • Brummbaer@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, I’m afraid of the shit show that will be the next Presidential elections.

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• RubberDuck@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Lol, well, where I voted the Greens don’t have to make any deals with you as we kicked you out

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• JohnSmith@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Two party system must come down, here in the UK and anywhere else it’s dominating politics. Proportional representation inevitably leads to much more balanced governments and better politicians in power. Not perfect, but better.

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• apotheotic@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What the fuck

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Oh how very right wing of him. Bad Enoch has done the same thing, but she actually is right wing so being petty and small-minded is basically part of the job description.

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