The Labour Party has some Methodist roots (possibly more than Socialist) and has long included a petty-authoritarian faction. Starmer and Shabana Mahmood are very much of that tendency. See also bans on anti-genocide protests, the failed-yet-again ID card scheme, cruel treatment towards asylum seekers and trans people, continuing opposition towards soft-drug decriminalisation, and upholding previous age-verification and porn bans.
It’s idiotic because Labour’s chances of seizing the curtain-twitcher vote from Labour and Reform are next to nil.
But I suppose Starmer’s too afraid to stand up to Trump, so there needs to be some kind of “think of the children” displacement activity to stay in the press.
The Labour Party has some Methodist roots (possibly more than Socialist) and has long included a petty-authoritarian faction. Starmer and Shabana Mahmood are very much of that tendency. See also bans on anti-genocide protests, the failed-yet-again ID card scheme, cruel treatment towards asylum seekers and trans people, continuing opposition towards soft-drug decriminalisation, and upholding previous age-verification and porn bans.
It’s idiotic because Labour’s chances of seizing the curtain-twitcher vote from Labour and Reform are next to nil.
But I suppose Starmer’s too afraid to stand up to Trump, so there needs to be some kind of “think of the children” displacement activity to stay in the press.