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Lol, no - the blue team are set for a poor election result, that doesn't mean conservatives nor their hold on power are at any risk whatsoever, since all 3 largest parties directly serve conservative, right winged interests.
The only thing a red team win will do is give blue team someone to blame the past 15 years on, so that they get back in power next time.
The fact that people still not only believe this charade, but are actually pinning their hopes on it is beyond depressing, but it also serves as living proof of the system working exactly as intended - to keep the powerful in power, and everyone else serving them.
I don't know anything about UK politics but it's common enough in any country to say "all parties are too conservative" while in fact one of them is clearly less-so than the others.
That's true but the labour party is far more conservative than ever before in its history, and is still squarely "conservative" even if less so than the others. They still want to privatise the NHS even more, for example, a.right wing position which will cause a lot of suffering and cost many lives. Just because they're not fully fascist doesn't mean you can't criticise them for being too conservative.
That is absolutely not true what are you on about. Is absolutely no evidence they want to privatize the NHS unless of course you want to actually point to some evidence
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/25/keir-starmers-private-prescription-for-the-nhs-is-dangerous
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/keir-starmer-nhs-pledge-privatisation-b2123849.html
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23236106.nhs-keir-starmer-defends-use-private-sector-despite-earlier-pledge/
And this is before the election even happens.
When a politician says "Let me be clear, we’re not talking about privatising the NHS, we’re talking about using the private sector effectively" (emphasis mine) they mean further privatisation, just like under Blair, Starmer's hero.
That's not really how major parties work though?
This is incredibly reductive but suppose there was a single spectrum between progressive and conservative. Let's make progressive 0 and conservative 10.
Forgetting about parties for a moment, let's say the will of the general population is 7.
If you have two major parties they will arrange themselves as 6.5 and 7.5. Both parties appear "conservative", but really your progressive party needs to appear conservative to steal as many swing voters as possible.
If they won consecutive elections their policies would start to move back down the spectrum.
This is known as the "Overton window" for anyone who wants to read into it further.
Yeah right I had no idea it had a name. Thanks.
This proves that you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Then again, very few people seem to know anything about healthcare provision, yet pontificate like experts.
Take a look at Europe for how we should do healthcare. Shock horror, it's a mix of public and private that isn't anything like America and is affordable for all. And that you can actually access. And doesn't waste all the billions we put into it.
Wrong. 1) The Labour party do intend further privatisation and 2) the current creeping privatisation has been directly attributed, time and again, to worsening outcomes. A third point would be that capitalism and healthcare fundamentally do not mix, as one relies on quantitative feedback and metrics, while the other can only be measured subjectively.
The NHS model is not that of European healthcare systems, and further privatisation under this model will cause damage.
Which is why we need to change to a European model.
The NHS model is outdated. When it was created, it was designed to be used to make people healthier, then demand would go down. They didn't envision a society where we would all lead healthier lives, live longer and then need healthcare in our later lives as a natural byproduct of aging.
The NHS hasn't moved with the times, so either we reform it or we stick with the current model, continuing to chuck money into a bottomless pit.
People say that Labour are like the Tories but they're not at all like the Tories. People say this basically want the Labour Party to be the socialist workers party. There wouldn't be happy with anything else.
If you're tired of people who are upset with their choices at the polls, consider working to pass electoral reform so they can shut the fuck up and get off the sidelines and show us how it's done!
The solution is more democracy, not vote shaming people into a false dichotomy merry go round.
and now we may have a blairite to look forward to, wish the working class would vote in theyre interest
Blair took a few years to embrace authoritarianism. Starmer is doing it straight out of the gate.
Exactly this. Starting with better education, schooling, and basic spelling competency. But instead we get Tory.
That's what I plan to do, while being well aware that playing within the rules they've set us won't actually change anything (but I refuse to vote for someone who doesn't represent me, and Labour now categorically don't), and aiming to abolish the establishment, rather than put any trust in it to look out for the working class, because it never will, no matter how we vote. By design.
There's always been a strong dose of authoritarianism about the red team, they might purport to represent the working classes but they also seem to want to 'improve' them too. And as someone on the Alexei Sayle podcast pointed out, their Foreign Policy is always quite imperialistic.