In an effort to appeal to the median voter, Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, has accepted the Right’s talking points on immigration and economics. This experiment has been a disaster for Labour’s popularity.

In an effort to appeal to the median voter, Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, has accepted the Right’s talking points on immigration and economics. This experiment has been a disaster for Labour’s popularity.

  • Maeve@kbin.earth
    91·
    23 days ago

    (In lieu of development, Nairn contended, nationalism gives the masses “something real and important.”)

    It seems this is the illusion of “real,” am I missing something?

    Margaret Thatcher famously identified Blair as her greatest political achievement. Starmer might yet come to represent a similar victory for Nigel Farage.

    Seems a bit of a pyrrhic victory, to me. It saddens and annoys to see the whole Western world following the neophyte nation state’s worst examples with history-proven terrible consequences, while throwing out the baby and bathwater, for anything decent we accomplished.

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      93·
      23 days ago

      From outside looking in, kicking the Tories to the fucking curb is a huge accomplishment. Maybe the UK could even try to rejoin the EU in the future with the rate things are improving.

      • blackn1ght@feddit.ukEnglish
        91·
        23 days ago

        From outside looking in, kicking the Tories to the fucking curb is a huge accomplishment.

        This is more of an own goal from the Tories rather than there being a serious competent alternative.

      • Maeve@kbin.earth
        83·
        23 days ago

        Does it even matter when it’s the same policies repackaged as different politicians with different labels, is my point.