I kind of hate that this distinctly centre-right version of a labour party is going to consider themselves as given a mandate to fill their centre-right boots, despite the fact that they’re only as powerful as they are because of how utterly toxic the Tory party have become. Largely from chasing the same ends that this labour government will likely continue to chase.
Not only that, but people think we’re about to have a left wing government (mostly because the media tells them so, and school didn’t teach them any better), and when nothing changes (at best) they’re going to use it as “proof” that leftism doesn’t work and fall in to the hands of even further right populists, rather than face the reality - that they’ve just elected more of the same, and that the system was designed to never serve us, only the establishment.
I kind of hate that this distinctly centre-right version of a labour party is going to consider themselves as given a mandate to fill their centre-right boots, despite the fact that they’re only as powerful as they are because of how utterly toxic the Tory party have become. Largely from chasing the same ends that this labour government will likely continue to chase.
Not only that, but people think we’re about to have a left wing government (mostly because the media tells them so, and school didn’t teach them any better), and when nothing changes (at best) they’re going to use it as “proof” that leftism doesn’t work and fall in to the hands of even further right populists, rather than face the reality - that they’ve just elected more of the same, and that the system was designed to never serve us, only the establishment.
“Think of how much damage, in the wake of 14 years of mismanagement, an even more left wing party might do! Never again!”
Yeah I don’t really like it either, but TBH things are so bad that just destroying the Tories is good enough for me this time around.
Hopefully they’ll be radioactively unelectable for a really long time, and we can push it in a better direction over the next couple of elections.