Oddbean new post about login | logout @0f342e77 @5ee8143f The Tories also suffered their worst election losses due to the Brexit factor. There is a case that there was no need to throw out the baby with the bath water and row back from popular policies as Starmer has done since. https://jacobin.com/2020/12/jeremy-corbyn-labour-uk-defeat-december-2019-election
@5b2d9d54 @5ee8143f The 19% average #Labour poll lead suggests different. Let it go. Move on. #Corbyn has gone & he ain't coming back. Put your efforts into campaigning for the #SocialistWorkersParty & installing Corbyn as your leader, with Abbott, McDonnell & Derek Hatton etc as your executive. You can then put your #Socialist case to the electorate at #GE2024 & we'll see how the nation takes to you. I can only ask why you aren't already doing this? 🤔
@0f342e77 @5ee8143f Former Labour Party member, now Greens for me.
@5b2d9d54 @5ee8143f Great! So why are you commenting on #Labour instead of concentrating on achieving the #Green party's objective of increasing it parliamentary representation from one to four? 🤔 Do something more constructive instead of purely being negative about #Starmer & Labour. Tell us about the #Greens. I heard your keynote pledge is a wealth tax on the rich to pay for your manifesto pledges? How dya think that'll go down with the electorate?
@0f342e77 @5ee8143f 🥱
@5b2d9d54 @5ee8143f It's best you go for a lie down in a dark room then Karen. It's for the best. 🛌 😴 https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/111/194/036/927/175/699/original/26d6d886f8d02ef7.mp4
@0f342e77 @5b2d9d54 because the local parties still want their socialist Labour candidates and MPs… but the undemocratic Labour leadership doesn’t like that…
@5ee8143f @5b2d9d54 You're welcome to take any #Socialist #Labour MP's with you if/when you all join the #SocialistWorkersParty & install #Corbyn as your leader. Which Socialist MP's are these by the way, & why haven't they been purged from Labour or left in solidarity with Corbyn & The far left #Corbynistas who've apparently been expelled? 🤔
@0f342e77 @5b2d9d54 you mean socialists like Keir Starmer claimed to be during the leadership campaign?
@5ee8143f @5b2d9d54 There are levels of #Socialism. It's like a sliding scale. Like myself, #Starmer is a Social Democrat, hence why he suits my brand of politics & many on the left. He also appeals to centre right voters too as illustrated by today's latest poll showing #Labour with a 23 point lead over the #Tories. We saw where political extremism got us in 2019. It's not done the #UK any favours.
@5b2d9d54 @0f342e77 I would say without genuinely socialist policies (which starmer promised during the leadership campaign), then more and more people are going to find that neoliberal economics don’t actually provide a good life and are going to turn towards the right… Change is needed, change that reasonable left wing policies can provide.