• borisjohnson [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    He has absolutely dogshit political instincts. Trying to simultaneously be a liberal arch-remainer and a flag-shagging nationalist is such a fundamentally doomed project. I truly have no clue who he's trying to appeal to, all I know is that it's not me.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Payed-to-loose/controlled opposition is the only explanation that makes sense.

    • Barabas [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      He is trying desperately to appeal to the strong change UK base. Fiscally conservative and socially slightly less hateful, that is what the electorate wants.

      Keir Starmer wouldn't have been able to pull off Blair tactics in the 90s, much less now, but they're going to try and emulate it with the panache of a wet fart. At least they scuppered any chance of Labour going back to being succdem.

      • borisjohnson [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        He doesn't have the slimy charisma of a Blair, nor the favourable economic circumstances. It's an inability to accept that times have changed and you can no longer be everything to everyone.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Trashfuture are pulling the strings to get him appointed as leader in order for Milo to do his impression of him.

  • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The hard left being, what, the Tory party? All he's done is purge, suspend, deselect, denounce, and condemn even liberal positions while cheering on actual fascism until the PR of women mourning a murder being beaten senseless by the same coppers made him flinch.

  • Randomdog [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Keith is just the most punchable man in british politics right now and that's saying SO MUCH

  • Chomsky [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    A lot of the confusion here is that he's appeasing the few people left with boners and not marxists.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      I preffer not to know what does that mean.

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    3 years ago

    This is just the Labour Party line going forward.

    If you don't like me, it's because I'm too far left. If you do like me, it's because I went further to the right. Anything vaguely associated with Jeremy Corbyn is bad and the farther away from Jeremy Corbyn we get, the more likely we are to win.