The whole point of democratic elections is to allow for a peaceful transfer of power—without violence—when a government embodying one type of policy has become widely unpopular.

The problem we've gotten into in the UK (and also the USA) is that extremists have seized control of one of the regular incumbent parties, and the other parties have responded perversely by moving towards them. Removing the ability for a course change after an election.

Labour or Tories, they're still neoliberals.

@cstross Don't worry, Labour will rediscover their socialist roots as soon as they've been elected, I guarantee it. It's why they went into politics, not the lust for power over others.

@rpluim Whenever I look at Kier Starmer I can't stop myself humming the first verse of "First We Take Manhattan" by Leonard Cohen:

"They sentenced me to thirty years of boredom,
For trying to change the system from within—"

@cstross @rpluim I remembered yesterday Keir ran for leadership on a Corbyn continuity ticket. That is going just great of course.