• twinnie@feddit.uk
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    6 months ago

    Now I’m a Lib Dem voter but the UK Conservatives are not clones of the Republicans no matter how many times the internet says they are. When the Republicans made abortion illegal the Tories condemned it, and while the Republicans are trying to make same-sex marriage illegal it was Tory led coalition when it got legalised in the UK, and they didn’t put it to the public vote, they just did it.

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      6 months ago

      Yeah, the Conservative Party are actually far closer to the US Democrats, largely because American politics swings much further to the right.

      It’s amazing how people pontificate and say things with such certainty when they clearly don’t pay any attention to the reality.

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      6 months ago

      They’re not as bad as the Republicans, but given how they have been acting in recent years in particular it is definitely not an entirely unfair comparison. They’re ludicrously, dangerously angry at asylum seekers and trans people.

      It is also worth noting that more Conservative MPs voted against same-sex marriage than for it, despite it being one of their own MPs that introduced it

      • Adam@doomscroll.n8e.dev
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        6 months ago

        They’re ludicrously, dangerously angry at asylum seekers and trans people.

        Easy scapegoats thrown to the masses cause they have no excuses that will work for the way things have gone.