Simon BrookeI wonder to what extent oil industry dark money lobbying is behind the "#ULEZ cost #Labour the #UxbridgeByElection" narrative?
@jackLondon fair. But Labour caved in to this narrative much too easily. Why? Who put what pressure on them to do so?
I mean, you might say that this Labour leadership is so craven and unprincipled that they can be blown off course by the gentlest of breaths; and I'd agree with you. But who breathed?
We need #SignpostsNotWeathercocks .
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Loukas (They/Them) 🏳️⚧️@jackLondon @simon_brooke Yes, o think you're exactly right. This is just the labour strategy of hugging the Conservative agenda closely, to make sure the Tories can't create a new wedge issue that will mobilise the gammons. See also their dumping of trans rights. There's probably lobbyists involved in all these cases, but at root this is just the old Blairist policy of triangulation at work.
@jackLondon @Loukas It works in exactly the same way that jumping out of an aeroplane without a parachute works. You do get to the ground quicker.
@simon_brooke @jackLondon I mean, it 'works' in that it gives Labour a better chance of forming the next government with a bigger majority.
But personally I care more about cutting emissions and protecting trans people as an end in itself, so I'd rather political parties pushed harder to shift the overton window, rather than do the most elegant job possible of fitting into the existing window.
@jackLondon @Loukas Almost half of all voters in the UK under 34 do not vote. Those are the age group most likely to vote #Labour.
Why do they not vote? Because no-one is offering them a vision worth voting for. If #Labour offered them a vision, and got 80% to turn out (as the #Tories do at the other end of the age spectrum), #Labour would win.
But to do that you need strong policies on #ClimateEmergency, #SocialJustice, and #MinorityRights
Mark@simon_brooke @jackLondon @Loukas
Perhaps those voters would be interested in a political party with a manafesto that #Labour used to have:
Their core principles (at the bottom of their webpage) would be, I should think, quite attractive
@jackLondon @simon_brooke @Loukas
I should think the goal is to have a manifesto which actually reflects with regular, everyday people want
An active #StrategicVoting program to get the #ToryFascistDictatorship out is most important
#TransformPolitics will not be judged by "how many MPs" elected (although in future it may be). Rather by movement away from a #fascist #dictatorship to #democracy
transformpolitics.uk/