RobotToasterTwo councillors resign from Labour criticising its lurch to the right
guriiniiA lurch? It’s a tectonic shift!
ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝They’ve not been a left wing party since Kinnock, except for the brief Corbyn years. This just seems like a return to Blairite business as usual.
mannycalaveraClearly not a popular opinion on the internet but… Blairite business as usual is actually winning elections and getting a chance to enact reforms as opposed to preaching to the choir with no influence.
I really do hope we get over this idea that if you’re not a direct descendant of Arthur Scargill himself then you’re some sort of right wing pariah. Starmer (or Blair / Brown) might not be to people’s liking but they’re far from the right wing nutters we have had in power for the last fourteen years.
I hope people are realistic and understand that we need at least a parliament to put into place plans to undo the damage the Conservatives have done. Nothing is instant, nothing is cheap.
Edit: Freudian typo.
Blairite business as usual is actually winning elections and getting a chance to reject reforms
I’m not sure if “reject” was a typo, but it seems accurate.
Blairism is what gave us disastrous PFIs in the NHS.
Oh lord how embarrassing. Hahaha. It was a typo. Enact. Enact is what I was going for.
True PFI was half baked implementation wise. But the other reforms Blair’s government made have had lasting impacts and have stood the tests of time. We wouldn’t want to be without those.