RE: Good News from France and the UK
July 9, 2024 at 2:22 pm
(This post was last modified: July 9, 2024 at 2:23 pm by Mr Greene.)
(July 9, 2024 at 5:03 am)Pat Mustard Wrote:(July 8, 2024 at 4:01 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Labour’s politics are… complicated. The name suggests a socialist party, and, indeed, there’s a good-sized portion that are. But there’s a lot of factions within it. Some are truly based and left-wing (Jeremy Corbyn was one), but some are more centrist (New Labour definitely was, and PM Keir Starmer seems to be trending that way.) And despite the general rule that the European left is usually a lot further left than America, even the British left seems to have yet to come around to certain issues (trans rights being one of the most glaring examples.)
Basically, at the moment, they’re less conservative and more closer to the center than is probably ideal.
Labour are a coalition of centre-left social democrats and hard right thatcherites. Since Neill Kinnock in the mid-80's Labour's leadership has been thatcherite barring the few years Corbyn tried to rintroduce social-democracy.
(July 9, 2024 at 6:38 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ^I’ll take a coalition of centrists, thatcherites, and social democrats over a monolithic bloc of fascists every day of the week. Twice on Sundays.
Boru
? Not sure where you're getting any of that from.
'NU-Labour' would be the Social Democratic side of the party, Brown was a Trotskyist, Corbyn and Momentum are very much a reactionary group from the fringe. An earlier group of social democrats split from party after the '70s strikes before joining the Liberals in '83.
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