Starmer's vision quest

[CXRAndy]

I was kind of hoping that they'd go with 'Hard Labour'

What about

Well Hard Labour WHL

Nickname

We're Hamas Lackeys

 

[CXRAndy]

Its all over the socials

Starmers an idiot chasing votes

Trying to keep the Muslim vote by grandstanding

What a situation he got himself and country into

 

[CXRAndy]

View: https://x.com/NicholasLissack/status/1950270256057844036?t=5R85QjtHqdnbiu24_q9rew&s=19

 

[First Aspect]

Old Labour would have been my choice.

 

[briantrumpet]

 

[Stevo 666]

Old Labour would have been my choice.

Clueless Unreformed National Trots Society has a certain ring to it.

 

[briantrumpet]

This isn't great writing, being very messy in its organisation, but I think there are a lot of good points about Labour and its difficulties now and ahead.

https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/07/delusions-on-left-and-labour-right.html

This means that social conservatives, and therefore potentially a combined Reform/Conservative ticket, have a natural majority in general elections, just as Brexit did in 2019. It is social liberals who are the new silent majority, who don’t hear their point of view expressed by the major political parties and who are ignored by much of the media (in part because the very right wing populist Conservative party remains the official opposition). It will mean that right wing populism is an ever present threat, and the best its opponents can do is unite against it.

So many on the left fail to see this, in part because they find it hard to stop seeing neoliberalism as their main enemy. As Eagleton notes here, according to some on the left right wing populism represents the death of neoliberalism, while according to others it is hyper neoliberalism. Eagleton gets it half right when he says that right wing populism prioritises the nation state. That can interfere with parts of neoliberalism while not messing with other aspects of it. But right wing populism also negates national unity by prioritising one part of that nation (e.g. ‘real Americans’) against the rest. It is by definition a divisive project, setting one part of the nation against other parts. It is divide in order to rule.