Fen CFeb 1, 2023

POLL: My 'Pet' #Tory Councillor* says: "If lefties stopped banging-on about #Socialism and did Nordic-style #SocialDemocracy instead the #UKToryParty would be permanently out of power even under #FPTP."

(* Thinks I must be a #Tory as I run a business & own a suit.
I don't correct him.)

Do you agree/disagree that Nordic-style #SocialDemocracy would beat the #UKToryParty better than talk of #Socialism?

(Pls. Boost for wider view.)

#uk #ukpolitics

Strongly Agree.✅✅
34.9%
Agree.✅
44.5%
Disagree.❌
13.5%
Strongly Disagree.❌❌
7%
Poll ended at .
Show threadMaikeFeb 1, 2023
@fencoul conservatives will keep on telling this kind of stupid nonsense regardless what the 'lefties' do or say.
Show threadFen CFeb 1, 2023

@maikek

👆 True, but it's easier to counter when you can point at successful examples of where what you're selling actually works...like the Nordic #SocialDemocrat countries.

His point is: 'Keep saying the #BogeyMan S-Word and you'll keep on losing.'

BannedalotFeb 1, 2023
Show threaddragonfrog

@fencoul @maikek

The American Chopper meme is always topical on this. At least where I live, it's the Conservatives (no longer really the "Tories" of a generation ago, now they're a farther right team that's wearing the Tory party's skin as a suit) who brand anything to the left of hunting the poor for sport as "socialism" and therefore exactly the same as sending kulaks to the re-education camps.

Feb 1, 2023 at 10:34pmWeb