Greenseer,
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As a Marx might have said, 'I refuse to join any club that would have as a member.'

Unlike a terrible policy held while in Opposition, which can be rationalised away with 'Well they can't change anything now and they need to get elected', or 'They'll be better than they seem once they're in power', there's something about letting such a right-wing, bigoted monster into that crystallises the fact that Labour is truly lost under Starmer

For real

She'll cost them votes

fkamiah17,
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@Greenseer More importantly, she could also lose them members, and volunteer canvassers 🤞

Greenseer,
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@fkamiah17 Frankly, I hope so. Labour as it is now would deserve it. The very last thing we need is nationalist Toryism under a fresh label, which is what Starmer's Labour promises. Democracy in the UK is looking more like a rotting corpse every day

fkamiah17,
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@Greenseer I do too. I'm surprised there hasn't been anyone camped outside the CLP offices in Dover to canvass opinion.

OliverNoble,
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@Greenseer It is a disgusting, unprincipled betrayal of what should be

But the electoral calculus in the head of or his advisers will be this:

"We loses leftwing votes but mainly in areas where we will still win anyway but we pick up votes from a few old racists in marginal seats"

I think its incredibly damaging to long-term and a democratic farce to have an "oppostion" so indistinguishable on policy from the

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