A group wants to form a new party to 'transform' politics after Keir Starmer's betrayal of the left(www.thecanary.co)

posted 1 year ago

TheHangedMan@lemm.ee

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Transform Politics is the name of a new group looking to form a fresh left-wing party in the UK. It’s made up of individuals and pre-existing parties – and it’s launched its campaign with a flurry of interest on social media, as well as some criticism.

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pretzel@feddit.uk

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1 year ago

Angela Rayner, the deputy leader? Anneliese Dodds, the chair? Ed Miliband, business secretary

Sure there are more…

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pickle_party247@lemmy.world

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1 year ago

And they all fell into line when Starmer’s leadership forbade Labour MPs from visiting strikers on the picket lines… something Labour MPs have done since the party’s formation. No longer the party of working people.

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pretzel@feddit.uk

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1 year ago

Again:

Starmer is hostile to anything that could be used to drive a wedge between him and winning

Let them win and (at the very least) be better for a bit, and then more progressive.

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pickle_party247@lemmy.world

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1 year ago

More likely they narrowly win, nothing changes and they alienate voters.

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pretzel@feddit.uk

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1 year ago

That’s quite a pessimistic view! The biggest problem is the budget is tanked. Can labour invest in the future and deal with the shitshow of the last few years? QE is the easy way out but can they do that without having various things go tits up? Else they need to be good economic managers for a few years then translate that into a base that you can invest from. It’s going to be super tricky. But they can do lots of small things, in all sorts of directions that are not funding based. Local neighborhood policy was in the news today as a wedge issue. But there are lots of others. The environment. Schooling policy. Zero hours contracts, taxation of web giants, migration. All of these would be dramatically different under labour and even if only one or two were, it’s still a reason to vote them over the Tories.

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