Labour didn't lose to the Greens. The Greens took some councils in London that they're already making a pigs ear of running, they did so based on the votes of middle class graduates. In post industrial declining England - the kinds of place that need a Labour government, we lost to Reform.
i don’t understand how some people can mourn 9/11 but not care that our government is doing the same thing to thousands of innocent people in iran & palestine :(
A quintessential example of why this form of politics is nostalgia idiocy.
You can no longer 'seize the means of production' when the means are a human mind rather than a factory conveyor belt.
If you're a working class person and would like to stand in Zarah's seat for the next election, please drop us a DM
Hot take: this level of performativeness is what has caused the left-wing to become so dismantled over the course of the last 20 years, and is why nothing ever gets done, and is part of the reason why right-wing populism continues to be on the rise.
The Greens are fundamentally a petit bourgeois party, for better or for worse. That isn't a slur; it just illustrates their social origins and the social forces they represent. It doesn't matter how much ZP tries to butter up the trade union bureaucracy (seemingly he has stopped trying anyway); the party's historic origins will haunt it without an historic transformation of its structures and programme. We will see where the Greens end up.
The anti @novaramedia stuff is tedious. They messed up, amplifying a story that preyed on a vulnerable man, but they are a news outlet that responds to news.
Suspect much of it has to do with so much of the left’s tendency to despise left figures who become ‘too prominent’
@matthewjswalker I can’t take you people seriously when you clip a perfectly even handed analysis that even concedes that the journalistic response to arday was inordinate and your caption is LOOK at this FUCKING CUNT! There is nothing anyone can say to you people!
🚨 It’s almost like we have a two-tier press in this country.
If you’re black or trans and you do something wrong, they will hound you into an early grave. Otherwise you’re just not news.