Quite agree. We need more independents; tories no longer wish to conserve anything that is worth keeping and labour are no longer for the working people.
It is bad, but tbh as sad as it is I expect that a lot of the voting public are sufficiently convinced by the Corbyn = bad mantra, and of course more importantly the Corbyn’s policies = bad message, that it won’t seem like a bad thing to the majority of people who weren’t already disaffected with Labour.Repulsive fluff piece in the Guardian on Labour fixer Morgan McSweeney. Just gross. The redeeming feature is that the Guardian politics desk are so starry eyed over would-be alpha males like McSweeney that they do sometimes inadvertently tell the public what their heroes have been up to, assuming that everyone will be impressed as they are. I don’t know, I’m not sure this will sound great to most normal people:
‘When McSweeney arrived in the leader of the opposition’s office after Starmer’s leadership victory, he was methodical in ensuring that Corbyn supporters were removed from every lever of power inside the party, from the general secretary’s office to the most minor committee. He was determined, allies say, to get rid of any obstacle to the total power of the leader, whether that be opponents on the national executive committee, malcontents in Labour HQ or awkward votes at party conference. Early in his sights was Richard Leonard, the party’s leader in Scotland. Rebecca Long-Bailey was swiftly out of Starmer’s shadow cabinet. And then, Corbyn himself.’
I mean…
Morgan McSweeney: Labour election guru and bogeyman of the party’s left
Starmer’s closest aide is credited with putting the party in a position to win but his popularity is not universalwww.theguardian.com
I’ve said it often but the main ideological role of the Guardian is to make sure that the vast majority of Labour Party members remain in the dark about what the Labour right are actually like. Most members are passive, soft left, low information, decent types who assume that the people in charge are the much the same as they are. Articles like this are laughing in their faces: revelling in the stitch-ups, the lies, the rule-breaking, the political knifings. I really think they - and Guardian readers generally - are not going to be impressed with this kind of thing.
Yes, but at least the campaign itself by the parties is such a positive vision of our future
As I say, some hope for the other side of the election, thanks to the British public being pretty progressive on the whole. Elections aren’t the be all and end all, and tend to encourage a bleak assessment of the country because 1) the focus is on our revolting media-political class, who are very unrepresentative of the rest of the country, and 2) both main parties are laser focused on maybe a hundred thousand voters in marginal seats who are undeniably complete ****s. Those two things are undoubtedly very bad in themselves but they also make Britain look a lot worse than it is.
They tend to believe everything they read in the paper also.
One thing we have to look forward to is the declining info of print media, Gen Z just aren’t interested. The flip side is that they get equally biased content via Tik Tok
Obviously I live in a middle class metropolitan elite bubble but in my experience most people are not obsessed with immigration and which toilet trans people use.
In the words of her deputy leader- scum! Utter, utter, lowlife, venal, opportunistic, vile piece of shit. How could anyone vote for this filth?
