• Lad@reddthat.com
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    4 months ago

    Happy to see the Tories get obliterated, but not feeling confident about the incoming Labour government. The fact that a bunch of Tories defected to them and they were endorsed by the Sun is a bad sign IMO.

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      4 months ago

      After seeing the first few results come in, my main worry is how Starmer’s Labour will react to the rise of Reform. If Labour cannot visibly begin to turn things around, and they also fail to effectively counter the building populist undercurrent, we could be heading for some dark times.

      We will have to see what exactly Starmer’s Labour will actually do once it has power.

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      4 months ago

      Two Tories defected to them, and neither of them were standing for election this time, it was just a gesture against Sunak (although I do wish Labour had told them to fuck off).

      And as for the S*n, they just put their weight behind whoever is going to win.

      Labour and Starmer are far from perfect, but I think they will be far better, even if just from a competence and basic human decency standpoint.

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        4 months ago

        And as for the S*n, they just put their weight behind whoever is going to win.

        I was a bit surprised the S*n did switch to Labour. From what I’ve heard there still a grudge amongst Murdoch and his minions towards Starmer, due the prosecutions he pursued as DPP during the phone hacking scandal.

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      4 months ago

      I wouldn’t read too much into the Sun endorsement. Murdoch hates to be wrong, and they would have come out in favour much earlier in the campaign if they were actually ideologically aligned.