There have been shifts to green and Lib Dems. But conservatives are the party currently in charge during a pandemic, and Labour have been saying and doing jack shit except "we're under new management!!!!", or only commiting to 2.5% increase to nurses wages and they'll "negotiate up" (????), our media is very right wing...
Conservatives have also been using a bunch of rhetoric that encroaches on Labour territory, even if the actual policy/implementation doesn't match. "Levelling up", "Green revolution", recent announcement of Great British Rail, and they've done stuff like furlough (80% of wages paid during lockdown as you keep your job). No opposition to call these things out, little serious criticism in media, and vaguely popular economic rhetoric half cribbed from Labour in the first place.
In addition to these two excellent posts, Labour has been tacking right to a centre that literally doesn't exist and in doing so, are explicitly attacking the Tories from the right. Starmer argued againstraising taxes on the wealthy and large corporations . Labour were quickly called out on wanting to do austerity--an extremely unpopular policy with most Brits and especially unpopular within Labour's base.
There have been shifts to green and Lib Dems. But conservatives are the party currently in charge during a pandemic, and Labour have been saying and doing jack shit except "we're under new management!!!!", or only commiting to 2.5% increase to nurses wages and they'll "negotiate up" (????), our media is very right wing...
Conservatives have also been using a bunch of rhetoric that encroaches on Labour territory, even if the actual policy/implementation doesn't match. "Levelling up", "Green revolution", recent announcement of Great British Rail, and they've done stuff like furlough (80% of wages paid during lockdown as you keep your job). No opposition to call these things out, little serious criticism in media, and vaguely popular economic rhetoric half cribbed from Labour in the first place.
In addition to these two excellent posts, Labour has been tacking right to a centre that literally doesn't exist and in doing so, are explicitly attacking the Tories from the right. Starmer argued against raising taxes on the wealthy and large corporations . Labour were quickly called out on wanting to do austerity--an extremely unpopular policy with most Brits and especially unpopular within Labour's base.