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  • Look I understand the logic, but in this case it's bollocks.

    Yes, the NF supports lots of great things - workers rights, family values, protecting its citizens safety. But at it's core it is a party built on prejudice and fear. If Melenchon is too obtuse to recognise this is the thin edge of the wedge in Europe he can do one.

    I'm going to stake a greenhell-style position and put him in the same boat as the socialists in the NSDAP.

  • "family values" = shorthand for women stay at home / reduction of abortion rights
    "safety" = short hand for police state/racial profiling

    I know their ilk.

    I agree yeah that tactical voting is better, but that's the issues with the idealistic left atm: Nothing but purity will do.

    In a way I see where they are coming from, they feel center has become too right, and it has in many places, but this doesn't help.

    But Labour is willing to throw their purity under the bus over EU nationals, they feel very betrayed with the "but limit immigration" notes in Keir's talk (electioneering, innit) so there you go, sometimes you can't win.

  • "family values"

    In the case of France I was genuinely thinking more of having lunch together and that half day of school on a Wednesday they used to do.

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