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I'm not from the UK, but I've been trying to understand more about UK politics because of the election and I've seen headlines saying the Starmer has been pushing the Labour party to the center. What does that mean in terms of policies he's said he will push? Also, now that they have won an overwhelming majority, do you think the party will actually use this opportunity to push the UK more left?

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[–] ABCDE 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

purged all the actually left leaning members from the party

This is just not true.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, yeah, "not all", only enough to make sure there isn't even a hint of socialist influence left in the party. Also, he doesn't have to personally have removed someone from the party, for his actions and the actions of those who would fall in line with his establishment backed agenda to affect members of the party being sabotaged out of the party or leaving because they were made to feel unwelcome. The few that are left are relegated to the back benches and left with no real power to speak of.

In this thread there is already evidence of his dirty, unethical, and down right bigoted tactics, you not being comfortable enough to confront it doesn't change the reality - Labour under Starmer is a neoliberal party that is serving capitalists and the establishment, and doesn't have a hint of socialism nor solidarity or concern for the working class left in it (because when it does prop up as enough of a threat to the status quo, the threat is removed by whatever means necessary, it's not like he has to go far when he's deliberately stacked the party with other bootlickers who easily tighten ranks against anyone they no longer want around).

[–] ABCDE 1 points 5 months ago

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw4y9evzzppo

He isn't some guy who just turned up and started enacting anti-Socialist measures, that's been far overblown. He has tried to clean things up, and he has done things which I don't think help him. But, as you can see in the link above, he has been a socialist his entire adult life. His cabinet looks like a mature choice with a good mix of influences, different from New Labour, but also different from Corbyn's shadow cabinet.