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In an effort to appeal to the median voter, Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, has accepted the Right’s talking points on immigration and economics. This experiment has been a disaster for Labour’s popularity.

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Progress is progress, no matter how small.

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think UK is progressing. To be honest it seems to be regressing these days. Each new day it's becoming more and more a police state with secret policing and surveilance powers being passed.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

JFC ya'll forgot real fast what it was like with the Tories in power.

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That's the point. It was happening under Tories and continues to happen under Labour. Either way, you seem to be very invested in supporting them as an outsider.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah because I want to keep our enemies down: Tories, AfD, and Republicans are the same vein and the failures of the USA's DNC and the German SPD and Greens could happen to the UK as well.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Swapping out one government for another with identical policies on key issues like sustainability, xenophobia, and genocide is not progress.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Ah yes. Key issues. Those issues. We all know the ones. Just not taxation. Not funding services like hospitals, nurseries, mental health. Not the environment, either. Actually very little they agree on other than Defence and Law Enforcement.