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How the fuck are the Labour party going to unite a progressive alliance when they can't even do the same with their own fucking membership?
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You think Starmer wants to unite the party? Lol
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It's for this reason I quit the party last week. Fuck the lot of them, after a lifetime of voting Labour I've had it with them.
I was particularly annoyed by the comment after the London Mayoral vote that essentially people were complacent with their vote by using their first pref for other parties, Sadiq Khan didn't really give any real reason to vote for him for a second term, other than he wasn't Shawn Bailey and that isn't going to cut it as a party strategy.
I'm fed up that it has become such a liner thing between the two factions. I sit on the left on most things, I might move more towards the centre on others, but I am realistic enough that both party factions need to work together to have any success, and neither side seem to be able to grasp this.
What do Labour stand for anymore, it's actually depressing, we are staring at years of Tory rule, and we have two sides of the party that would rather have stupid internal battles that don't matter at all to the general voting population.
I have hung on for a while, but I don't feel like its worth it anymore, if the party carries on like this it's not going to have any electoral success anyway, so I'm going to route my energies towards supporting smaller more progressive parties to have an impact at a local level, I'm sure I'll still vote Labour in the nationals but I am no longer willing to be part of such a basket case.
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mustardbeak
Not just Labour, but also the Greens and LD.
Unpopular opinion of the day, but one of the more viable routes to ending Tory rule is by uniting the anti-Tory vote via the fabled Progressive Alliance.
Given the events of the last week that's currently looking more realistic than turning around the giant turdberg flying the flag of flacid Blairism that Labour has returned to sailing in. And I imagine courting the SNP / Greens / LD's would take less nose holding for Starmer than trying to stitch the party back together, though obvious blocker being whether Starmer could push through support for indy ref 2 in order to actually offer anything to Sturgeon....