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Seemed like you were agreeing with Ted's original rant. [...] Like why give equal focus on a hypothetical future Labour government when we actually have a lettuce-competing, fridge-hiding, government right here right now to get shut of first
Oh, maybe I wasn't very clear! There's every reason to criticise both with equal focus. Labour will have at minimum five solid years of a hefty majority, so if they're sticking with an outdated economic model in what will likely be an unstable, low-growth, high-inequality period it will have much farther-reaching consequences than some minor Tory's banal sex extravaganza, or Angela Rayner's tax affairs.
The Tories trash every public service, public endeavour, and public conscience they can get their hands on, and have set the conversation for decades — that needs arguing against at all costs, at every opportunity. Most media interviewers however don't raise the social, human or environmental cost of their policies in response, and sit happily in silence thinking that some pound coins have been spared under the guise of neutrality.
If we want to see progressive policies, critique is all we've got, basically.
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There's every reason to criticise both with equal focus.
Oh, I disagree then. One is yet to shit on the carpet, the other has machine-gunned it with shit for 14 years and continues to do so.
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and sit happily in silence
I think this is on purpose because the tactic was in place when the carpet shitting was occasional, has worked even better as far as polls go throughout the machine gun shitting, they're essentially sat on a mountain of turd, trying not to disturb any incase it gets all over them and clears it off the carpet. Just wait it out like they are and then have at the other stuff, it's stuff I desperately want them to do better on, but they'll find it easier with less shit to clean off themselves first, and even if they're not actively very good at cleaning shit up, the hiatus from the gaping arsehole of more shit is something to look forward to.
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The rant was not intended to imply that Labour cannot be criticised - they can and should be but proportionally at this stage, they aren’t holding the conch - but for the utterly bankrupt “Labour and the Tories are the same” BS.
Squaredisk
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The 'just' there ^ is too strong, meant you two were actually aligned rather than in disagreement overall!