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Tories are obviously fucked but labour are the new tories. I don't believe in bourgeois electoralism so I'm inclined not to vote at all but would also like to spoil the tories and labour from winning in my constituency. To that end, I'm torn between Green (libs with good climate policies, left of labour but pro-Israel-existence) and Workers Party GB (economically socialist with weird-to-concerning opinions on LGBT+)**. Discuss.

** Workers Party leader Galloway in an interview with Novara media has said he believes all LGBT+ people should be treated with dignity and respect and that he has had many gay and one trans colleague (and used their preferred pronouns) but he has boomerish ideas about what should and should not be taught to children in schools and which changing rooms people should use. It's not great but could be worse I guess.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Usual caveats about electoral politics etc etc

I'm going Green. The Worker's Party is Galloway turning a dial labelled "transphobia" while looking at his audience for approval.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Sigh. You're probably not wrong. Galloway is a strange beast. Problem with Greens is that they're pro-Israel in that they spew the usual lines about Hamas.