US Republican senator praises UK Labour’s ‘Reaganesque’ policy : worldnews

[-] TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com 62 points 2 years ago

UK Labour should take this as a grave warning and change course immediately.

[-] crow@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

I completely concur. Talk about a harbinger eating your own face.

[-] darq@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

But of course, they won't. They're leaning right in both economic and social policy. It's awful.

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 years ago

Should have called it Thatcheresque for the local flair.

[-] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 31 points 2 years ago

That would require the Republicans to have knowledge of history outside their own country.

[-] tryptaminev@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

The republicans have knowledge of history inside the US?

I have the feeling they mostly believe in a fairy tale version of US history from what they peddle.

[-] s20@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 years ago

If a US Republican is praising your policy, it's a bad policy. If they call it (🤢🤮) Reganesque, then it's a disastrous one.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 8 points 2 years ago

Especially for fucking Labour.

And he didn't even have the situational awareness to call it Thatcheresque instead.

[+] lemmus@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

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[-] grte@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 years ago

Corbyn got done dirty by that psychotic media you guys have over there.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

And the other half of the party. The leaked Labour report last year showed the Blairite wing of the party engaging in organised sabotage of any left wing candidates in the 2019 election.

Labour would have probably won if it wasn't for the fucking party itself.

That's cemented the fact for me that the Blairites in the party aren't just misguided, they're actively malicious. They communicated very clearly that they will ensure labour can only win if they're in control and will sabotage anyone outside of their clique.

FPTP needs to go so we can kill this abomination that the party has become and the real factions can stand on their own merits or lack thereof.

[-] tintory@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Corbyn was also incompetent and didn’t keep his faction together, now Foxman is picking off the remnants one by one

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

So disappointed in Labour right now. I was never a huge fan of Corbyn himself, although I agreed with a lot of his views.

I was also quite hopeful about Starmer as a leader, as I was impressed with his his work in opposing Brexit and the government's attempts to force through changes without proper parliamentary scrutiny. But now...

I've voted Labour all my life, but I feel politically homeless right now. Everything they have done or said in the last year or so has made me less inclined to support them. And that's despite the fact that the Tories absolutely, positively MUST be got rid of asagdmfp.

I live in a reasonably safe Lib Dem seat, so it doesn't really make much difference what I do, but it's frustrating nonetheless. I'd like to be able to go into the polling booth and proudly vote Labour because I believe in them. Not right now though.

[-] palordrolap@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

When the right-wing party moves so far right that the left-wing party now stands where the right wing party once stood, it's time for everyone to do a little soul searchi...

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[-] shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

You know you really fucked up when...

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