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Rishi Sunak says Britain would go ‘back to square one’ with Labour ahead of first major campaign event of year. (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The article writer has a good summary:

There are three types of campaign you can run during an election: ‘it’s time for a change’ (normally an opposition message, but a governing party can also campaign like this, as Boris Johnson did in 2019); ‘give us time to finish the job’ (the standard incumbent’s message); or (the last resort option) ‘you might not like us, but at least we’re not as bad as the other lot’.

All this albatross can tell is, if he's saying that, there's an election a coming.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If only there really was a party offering to undo every law the conservative and coalition governments have passed and return us to a time before they existed.

That party would be the best party.

Sadly that isn't on offer and even Labour intend to keep this mess of a country mostly without any reverting of changes at all.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Labour party is currently trying not to give the Tories any ammunition to use against them in an election campaign. That's why they seem to be aligning themselves with the current Conservative talking points. Come a successful general election they will back away from the Tory position and make some changes. I fucking hope.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yes, indeed, very much so.

[–] Jackthelad 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Every law? Because the coalition actually brought in some good ones.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

@[email protected] Yeah, it'd just be easier to reset than to sort through good from bad. Can always re-assess any good ones. Chances are even they can be done better.

Resetting the Brexit and other foreign treaty stuff could be quite tricky in practice too.