Typically I don't engage with libs on politics because we're using entirely different lenses of analysis.
But in the past year people in my life have gone from asking me why I'm not voting for labour in the general election, to asking me to explain why I knew labour would be so bad, to asking me to explain Ibrahim Traoré and the Sahel to them because they like his reforms(?!??).
People want something to believe in.
to asking me to explain Ibrahim Traoré and the Sahel to them because they like his reforms(?!??).
asking me to explain Ibrahim Traoré
something must've gone viral on tiktok or something because this is the second or third time in about a week I've heard about politically disengaged liberals asking about Burkina Faso
It must be something like that.
This week I had to go to an office of ours I don’t often go in, and was baffled to have my coworkers mock me because “my guy” was doing such a bad job.
I had to explain that despite (because?) their accurate jeering assessment of me as a woke lefty, why Keir is most certainly not “my guy” and I absolutely didn’t vote for him.
The average Brit has zero political literacy, presumably by design of the education system.
I'm a communist, you idiot
asking me to explain why I knew labour would be so bad
i know it's shallow, but i love these moments. not for my ego, but because it gives me an excuse to be like "well they call it the immortal science for a reason 🤓"
I said a year ago that labour was going to be so dreadful there we'd see a surge in Reform.
Now that that's come to pass, friends asking me what's going to happen next and all I can say is I don't know - I just hope we'll all be ok.
-96 points underwater with the only constituency you're actually targeting. 
Of course, it doesn't actually matter since the project of Starmer's handlers isn't to actually have Labour maintain power, it's to strip the copper out of the walls & dismantle what's left of the welfare state + social contract, while completing the UKs transformation into a fascist outpost of unmitigated US policy.
Well yes, his job was to take power with the clamour for reform after decades of Tory rule, deliberately squander the chance for change. Turn left wing people off politics for a generation so Reform can take power in the apathy vacuum and we can continue marching towards fascism unopposed.
You only get to do the neoliberal turn once. You get one Clinton, one Blair, one whoever. That's it.
He knows that, so he’s getting his Enoch Powel heal turn in early.
abundance begs to differ
Try to be the skimmed version of the real thing when both of them are at the same price
Knowingly buying a fake Rolex from some guy in the pub, but still paying £14k for it
But what about the almighty columnist class! Surely their opinions matter too!
yes, but they will vote labour again in the next election anyways like democrat's keep voting democrats not matter how much they keep openly caving to trump and our oligarchy.
I don’t know, I think that’s part of the issue. Labour collapsing splits the ‘left-ish’ vote even further between the greens, Lib Dem’s and Labour. Whilst the right is all happy to vote for Reform as seen in the council elections this last month.
Kamala lost because a lot of people who voted last election didn't vote for her again.
-- because of the genocide
this strategy would never work to begin with, the frothing chuds that make up reform voters would never vote labour, even if they did every single thing that reform want them to, purely because it's the labour party doing it
Not to mention that every time a liberal party tries that, the right just runs more right. So suddenly what seemed like a super conservative opinion you could've used to scoop up some of your opponent's voters seems more centrist now, and the voters just go for the more right-leaning opinion again.
Overton window goes rrrrrrrrright
He needs to drink from the puddle to prove to Farage that he's not gay
I'm now learning that reactionaries call him "Two-Tier Keir", (some racist paranoia about policing), he's done the impossible and made them funny.
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