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minus-square@essell@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink8•1 month agoI’ll take a pragmatic responsive PM over the lurching idealogues of recent years
minus-squareTwigOPlinkEnglish5•1 month agoWell said. While he’s not perfect, I’d imagine Starmer will be significantly different to the Tories.
minus-square@essell@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink6•1 month agoThe fact that he won’t be distracted by right wing extremists in his own party is a good start. Within the labour party he is the right wing extremist. And I don’t think he’s likely to be too damaged by attacks on the left much either, certainly not until after the honeymoon period.
minus-square@fifisaac@lemmy.mllinkfedilink1•1 month agoSo when Tories go back on promises it’s lying but when labour do it its reasonable pragmatism?
minus-square@fifisaac@lemmy.mllinkfedilink1•1 month agoMaybe I misunderstood but that seemed to be what you were suggesting
minus-square@SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.mllinkfedilink1•1 month agoLabour seems to be shifting further and further Right, not sure how much better they’ll be than the Tories. But for what it’s worth, I totally agree.
I’ll take a pragmatic responsive PM over the lurching idealogues of recent years
Well said. While he’s not perfect, I’d imagine Starmer will be significantly different to the Tories.
The fact that he won’t be distracted by right wing extremists in his own party is a good start.
Within the labour party he is the right wing extremist.
And I don’t think he’s likely to be too damaged by attacks on the left much either, certainly not until after the honeymoon period.
So when Tories go back on promises it’s lying but when labour do it its reasonable pragmatism?
Did I say all those things?
Maybe I misunderstood but that seemed to be what you were suggesting
Labour seems to be shifting further and further Right, not sure how much better they’ll be than the Tories. But for what it’s worth, I totally agree.