Tag: Labour Party
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Better things aren’t possible
One of the articles that frequently springs to mind when contemplating the utter bleakness that is the British political scene of 2023 is the pithily-titled I Hate Keir Starmer, a piece by Tom Whyman which makes a compelling argument as to why futile, impotent hatred of Labour’s current leader is a rational response: Keir Starmer…
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Keir Starmer isn’t actually trying to win over the public
Keir Starmer is a terrible leader of the Labour party by any measure. His favourability ratings are poor, Labour still languishes well behind the Conservatives in polling despite abundant crises that are entirely precipitate from the Tory government’s actions, and in response to those crises — from coronavirus to fuel shortages — his response has…
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Why a “progressive alliance” isn’t going to happen, won’t work and is a silly idea
Note that for the purposes of this piece, a “progressive alliance” involves Labour, the Liberal Democrats, the Green Party and Plaid Cymru coming to an agreement to stand down in seats where one of them is deemed to have more of a chance to win it than any of the others. I’m excluding the SNP…
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The very real limits of Chris Leslie’s non-ideological ideology
If we’re to move entirely past the rather ideologically bankrupt centre-left consensus that emerged in the aftermath of 2008, we need to get into what the defining issues of that consensus are — its main tenets and its main flaws. A good case study of this is a pamphlet authored by former Shadow Chancellor and notable opponent…
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Corbyn and I
Jo Maugham QC, one of Twitter’s most prominent critics of Jeremy Corbyn (and board member of the Bright Blue conservative think tank) set the social network on fire on Saturday morning, with his incendiary claim that Corbyn’s statement of “I don’t drink” in an interview with Der Spiegel was false. In fact, he said that…
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Insults won’t get the Corbyn-supporting left to like you
In a previous post [no longer available], about it being moronic to have a pop at David Baddiel for something he didn’t write on a subject he’s fully entitled to write about, I wrote this: Corbyn has hardly, overall, had friendly media treatment — some of it for stupid reasons, some of it for entirely justifiable and…
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Performative remainerism
I’m neither surprised or shocked that the People’s Vote campaign, which aims to secure a second referendum on whatever deal Theresa May can rustle up in concert with the EU, has another completely unproductive idea for getting this; a protest march. Protest marches, obviously, are incredibly good mechanisms for obtaining change, particularly when it comes…
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No wonder the young are supporting unapologetic socialists— they’re fucked
NOTE FROM 2023: This article was written in early 2016. While I broadly still agree with its theory and conclusions, and stand by the overarching notion that a great deal of millennials and then-nascent zoomers are drastically underserved by most non-left candidates, I think I – in common with many others at the time and…