The fact that the moment Labour has a total layup election they decide to pivot as hard right as they can feels like a fucking set up of some kind. Like genuinely wtf.
Don't political parties in the UK have some sort of charter or something that could be used to keep leadership accountable to their core values or can people just hijack them for whatever purpose? Like it seems so weird to have a party called Labour actively working against the interests of the working class.
They literally had a purge of every member to the left of Blair during the Corbyn years. Like they weren't even secret about it.
The right wing of the party apparatus openly conspired to not just exclude left wing members of the party, but actively sabotaged the election efforts.
The fact that it's not only not a conspiracy theory, but is public knowledge and yet nothing has happened to these ratfuckers would drive me crazy if I could feel empathy for britoid.
Sounds the same as in Denmark, parties aren't really accountable to anyone but the party leadership and since advancement inside the party is based on nepotism and ass-kissing, no-one rocks the boat too much when leadership decides to pivot.
It's just wild to me sometimes that there's no real way to do something like a vote of no-confidence among rank and file members, outside of the party getting their status/funding revoked by the state on account of not receiving enough votes. (Of course the lib response is to 'change it from the inside if you don't like it', but that runs into the same issue again: if the internal party structure and culture promotes sycophants and weasel behaviour, nothing will change)
And now I realize yet again that I'm basically just rehashing what is to be done in a confused and less eloquent manner
:ultra-keir-starmer-in-a-maoist-beret: "I welcome the Starmer proposal to minecraft all the leftist elements in the party, but I call on them to go further. We must root out even the soc-dems and the lib-dems, perhaps even the slightly left of centre technocrats. Even the right-wingers in favour of modest social spending should be cast out."
The fact that the moment Labour has a total layup election they decide to pivot as hard right as they can feels like a fucking set up of some kind. Like genuinely wtf.
Don't political parties in the UK have some sort of charter or something that could be used to keep leadership accountable to their core values or can people just hijack them for whatever purpose? Like it seems so weird to have a party called Labour actively working against the interests of the working class.
They literally had a purge of every member to the left of Blair during the Corbyn years. Like they weren't even secret about it. The right wing of the party apparatus openly conspired to not just exclude left wing members of the party, but actively sabotaged the election efforts.
The fact that it's not only not a conspiracy theory, but is public knowledge and yet nothing has happened to these ratfuckers would drive me crazy if I could feel empathy for britoid.
Sounds the same as in Denmark, parties aren't really accountable to anyone but the party leadership and since advancement inside the party is based on nepotism and ass-kissing, no-one rocks the boat too much when leadership decides to pivot.
It's just wild to me sometimes that there's no real way to do something like a vote of no-confidence among rank and file members, outside of the party getting their status/funding revoked by the state on account of not receiving enough votes. (Of course the lib response is to
'change it from the inside if you don't like it', but that runs into the same issue again: if the internal party structure and culture promotes sycophants and weasel behaviour, nothing will change)
And now I realize yet again that I'm basically just rehashing what is to be done in a confused and less eloquent manner
Liberal politics is a fuck
:ultra-keir-starmer-in-a-maoist-beret: "I welcome the Starmer proposal to minecraft all the leftist elements in the party, but I call on them to go further. We must root out even the soc-dems and the lib-dems, perhaps even the slightly left of centre technocrats. Even the right-wingers in favour of modest social spending should be cast out."