I voted Green with my postal vote. Not because I think they'll win where I live, or even because I think they're a good party, but because I refuse to vote for parties who are on the right. Plus I'm disabled and a trans ally, and labour want to hurt and kill both those groups.
I hate the tories but I hate starmer even more. Anyone who lies as much as him, whilst pretending to be a socialist, is a waste of oxygen. At least with a tory you know what you're getting. I'll be voting for a real socialist party - the Greens.
I've just read a precis of the Lbour Manifesto, admittedly published by the (leftish) Daily Mirror. It actually seems as if Labour will be trying to make lives better: ending zero hour contracts, ending no cause evictions, reducing the need for food banks, employing more teachers, making water companies pay to clear up their mess etc etc. It does not really say how it will pay for these changes.
Is there a glimmer of hope or am I being naive and overly optimistic
I'll add, if you're in NI, vote People Before Profit. Don't fall for the illusion that Sinn Féin, SDLP and Alliance are some sort of alternative and anything but enablers of a status quo. NI Greens are sadly a completely useless toy poodle of the establishment too.
*Of course, I don't blame you one bit if you aren't voting at all on the grounds that you're not participating in elections for an occupying government whose jurisdiction you don't recognise.
This week The Sunday Times endorsed Labour. Which means that Murdoch has done a deal with Starmer for the super rich to stay safe from having their wealth taxed.
Very obvious comparison to be drawn with Blair's first six months in office. A new uni student at the time, I was seduced by his apparent promise that he would reverse the Tory decision to phase out the grant over a decade and replace with fees and loans. But it might have been phrased along the lines of 'I promise we won't do what the Tories said they'd do". So I, and many of my fellow students voted for him. Pretty much the second thing he did after announcing a ban in tobacco advertising in sport (a costly and ultimately futile virtue signalling endeavour that essentially ruined televised sport for a while) was slash the grant back to nothing in ONE year and introduce loans and fees the next. And that was my first ever engagement with democratic process in the UK as a young voter. And then of course there was the whole illegal war. Is it any wonder I can't take a word any of them say seriously? NuLabour is clearly the executive arm of the Tory Party, happy to continue and even 'improve on' (using the term advisedly) the more unpopular Tory policies and not bringing any meaningful improvement to the lives of workers. The whole thing is a farce!
I voted Green with my postal vote. Not because I think they'll win where I live, or even because I think they're a good party, but because I refuse to vote for parties who are on the right. Plus I'm disabled and a trans ally, and labour want to hurt and kill both those groups.
I hate the tories but I hate starmer even more. Anyone who lies as much as him, whilst pretending to be a socialist, is a waste of oxygen. At least with a tory you know what you're getting. I'll be voting for a real socialist party - the Greens.
I've just read a precis of the Lbour Manifesto, admittedly published by the (leftish) Daily Mirror. It actually seems as if Labour will be trying to make lives better: ending zero hour contracts, ending no cause evictions, reducing the need for food banks, employing more teachers, making water companies pay to clear up their mess etc etc. It does not really say how it will pay for these changes.
Is there a glimmer of hope or am I being naive and overly optimistic
Politics?-Bah! Humbug!
I'll add, if you're in NI, vote People Before Profit. Don't fall for the illusion that Sinn Féin, SDLP and Alliance are some sort of alternative and anything but enablers of a status quo. NI Greens are sadly a completely useless toy poodle of the establishment too.
*Of course, I don't blame you one bit if you aren't voting at all on the grounds that you're not participating in elections for an occupying government whose jurisdiction you don't recognise.
Excellently written!
We have an independent candidate who resigned from the Labour Party - he will get my vote for his honesty and integrity
Another expose of Labour & Starmer: https://theleftlane2024.substack.com/p/a-former-israeli-intelligence-officer
This week The Sunday Times endorsed Labour. Which means that Murdoch has done a deal with Starmer for the super rich to stay safe from having their wealth taxed.
Very obvious comparison to be drawn with Blair's first six months in office. A new uni student at the time, I was seduced by his apparent promise that he would reverse the Tory decision to phase out the grant over a decade and replace with fees and loans. But it might have been phrased along the lines of 'I promise we won't do what the Tories said they'd do". So I, and many of my fellow students voted for him. Pretty much the second thing he did after announcing a ban in tobacco advertising in sport (a costly and ultimately futile virtue signalling endeavour that essentially ruined televised sport for a while) was slash the grant back to nothing in ONE year and introduce loans and fees the next. And that was my first ever engagement with democratic process in the UK as a young voter. And then of course there was the whole illegal war. Is it any wonder I can't take a word any of them say seriously? NuLabour is clearly the executive arm of the Tory Party, happy to continue and even 'improve on' (using the term advisedly) the more unpopular Tory policies and not bringing any meaningful improvement to the lives of workers. The whole thing is a farce!