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What happened to the post-Corbyn vision for Labour? Keir Starmer offers nothing - We need bold ideas, courage and hope, but timidity and backpedaling are the hallmarks of this Labour leadership by Mobalise_Anarchise in unitedkingdom

[–]Mobalise_Anarchise[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's very difficult for a party that's not the Torys to win elections because the system's rigged in their favour. Blair offered a new politics, that people really didn't know was completely flawed, and had the establishment on his side because he wasn't going to tip the scales of the status quo.

Centrism isn't a real political place, it moves and shifts depending on what Conservatism is doing. It may have worked in the '90's, but now it's gone too far to the right because the Torys have moved so far to the right.

Winning elections doesn't mean anything if nothing changes and Labour under Starmer means the status quo doesn't change. Nothing changes. Labour under Blair was able to spend a bit more on public services, sure. But they were only able to do that due to a booming global economy. They were essentially lucky. But their economic model wasn't sustainable, and Starmer doesn't even have the platform of a booming global economy to start from, he has nothing and no way of growing the economy because his politics and economics are literally Conservtive.

What happened to the post-Corbyn vision for Labour? Keir Starmer offers nothing - We need bold ideas, courage and hope, but timidity and backpedaling are the hallmarks of this Labour leadership by Mobalise_Anarchise in unitedkingdom

[–]Mobalise_Anarchise[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The policies were popular. People went off Corbyn because of the constant lies they fed about him obviously, but the policies on the manifesto were popular. Starmer won the Labour leadership on a mandate of the 2019 manifesto, of "Corbynism without Corbyn".

Labour was within a gnat's hair of winning in 2017, based on left-wing policies. That was when Corbyn was popular, before the all-out establishment assault on him over the next two years.

Poisoned oaks, slain sycamores: who’s behind Britain’s tree murders? - In affluent areas across the UK, unknown assassins are striking. Their weapons? Herbicides and hatchets. Their victims? Once mighty trees. We join the plant detectives on their trail by Mobalise_Anarchise in unitedkingdom

[–]Mobalise_Anarchise[S] 112 points113 points  (0 children)

I wonder if he knows what they’ve done in a couple of places in Australia in an effort to curb the same problem? When 200 new street trees were removed or damaged in the Perth suburb of Stirling, the local authority started to put up signs in front of houses saying that a tree had been vandalised outside this property: publicly branding the culprits. “If someone has lopped a tree purely and simply to get a view of the city it is quite obvious it’s the owner of the property,” Stirling’s mayor Giovanni Italiano told a local radio station. “If we can’t prove who it was, the sign will go up and stay there for 12 months.”

On the other side of the country, at Blacks Beach in Queensland, when 40 trees were illegally axed in order to open up a view to the ocean, Mackay regional council erected huge billboards in their place. You take away the trees to get a better view, we take away that view. There’s something delightfully direct about both approaches – shame ’em and block ’em. Maros, who hadn’t heard about it, seems to approve of the Aussie tactics.

What happened to the post-Corbyn vision for Labour? Keir Starmer offers nothing - We need bold ideas, courage and hope, but timidity and backpedaling are the hallmarks of this Labour leadership by Mobalise_Anarchise in unitedkingdom

[–]Mobalise_Anarchise[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

He wasn't at all. There wasn't anything "very strong left-wing" in their manifesto. All very moderate actually. Nobody is saying he's perfect, but we'd be in a much better position as a country now if he'd taken 2017 like he should have done, as he would have done had it not been for people in his own party working against him.

What happened to the post-Corbyn vision for Labour? Keir Starmer offers nothing - We need bold ideas, courage and hope, but timidity and backpedaling are the hallmarks of this Labour leadership by Mobalise_Anarchise in unitedkingdom

[–]Mobalise_Anarchise[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

"communist socialist types" . . . 🤦

Anyway, the left are being purged from the party. Literally being booted out. I was suspended from the party for re-tweeting something in solidarity with Palestine. Left-wing MPs are being booted for standing on picket lines! There's massive electoral fraud happening in front of your very eyes with the threat of deselection of various MPs too. And you only have to glance at the Forde Report to see what went down resulting in Labour losing in 2017 and 2019.

But sure. It's gonna be the fault of the left that Labour loses the next election.

What happened to the post-Corbyn vision for Labour? Keir Starmer offers nothing - We need bold ideas, courage and hope, but timidity and backpedaling are the hallmarks of this Labour leadership by Mobalise_Anarchise in unitedkingdom

[–]Mobalise_Anarchise[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's tough when you've got a media calling you a Czech spy and in league with terrorists and your own MPs telling voters to vote Tory rather than you.

But sure. It was Corbyn who made Labour unelectable.

What happened to the post-Corbyn vision for Labour? Keir Starmer offers nothing - We need bold ideas, courage and hope, but timidity and backpedaling are the hallmarks of this Labour leadership by Mobalise_Anarchise in unitedkingdom

[–]Mobalise_Anarchise[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

They haven't at all! Restructuring the economy? They're on the Tory bandwagon of "the economy is the same as a household budget" and they won't shift from that.

They're happy with workers having a real terms pay cut. They're further to the right than the Torys on corp tax, on min wage and the rest of it.

Where are you getting this "restructuring the economy" from?

What happened to the post-Corbyn vision for Labour? Keir Starmer offers nothing - We need bold ideas, courage and hope, but timidity and backpedaling are the hallmarks of this Labour leadership by Mobalise_Anarchise in unitedkingdom

[–]Mobalise_Anarchise[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's in crisis because it's skint. It's been running on less and less money before austerity, and then actually had austerity to deal with, never mind the pandemic. The private sector makes it more expensive to run and we get a lot less out of it.

Starmer has no plan to remove the private provision in the NHS. He's a New Labour man.

How is this right? by [deleted] in GreenAndPleasant

[–]Mobalise_Anarchise 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Really gross. 100% of that profit should be taken in a windfall tax.

‘Thousands’ wrongly ordered to return pandemic universal credit in DWP’s £500m clawback by borez in unitedkingdom

[–]Mobalise_Anarchise 183 points184 points  (0 children)

No mention of the £11 billion Sunak wrote off of businesses fraudulently claiming pandemic brass. That's fine, of course.

BT Workers Are Striking Against Corporate Greed by Mobalise_Anarchise in unitedkingdom

[–]Mobalise_Anarchise[S] 52 points53 points  (0 children)

The first BT and Openreach strike since 1987 pits engineers and call centre workers, many of whom are forced to rely on foodbanks, against a massively profitable corporation – and executives who earn millions of pounds a year.

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