• floofloof@lemmy.caOP
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          So would a lot of people, and there was a chance of that with Jeremy Corbyn until the right-wingers in Labour stabbed him in the back with the help of the Tories and all of the media. They are terrified of workers figuring out where their real interests lie.

          Interesting to read yesterday that Corbyn is forming a new party. It’s a big mountain to climb and he’s no spring chicken, but if it’s done right the UK could once again have a party true to Labour’s original principles.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      The Labour Party is just a mainstream party from a system with First Past The Post (where power is pretty much a doupoly) which was captured and the ideology of those who captured it isn’t even left of center.

      Remember that not that long ago they were purging Leftwingers in that party.

      They’re Neoliberals so far to the Right that they’re actively supporting a foreign ethno-Fascist regime committing a Genocide along ethnic lines now entering a Holocaust phase, and do so using authoritarian measures against the population of their own country, all of this whilst wearing a Labour Party suit.

      I lived in Britain for over a decade until a little after the Leave Referendum and kept track of British politics for a while after that, and this surprises me not one bit after the style and nature of the coup against Jeremy Corbyn done by the very people now in Government there.