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but for the utterly bankrupt "Labour and the Tories are the same" BS
Yeah, nobody actually believes this. Which is why I said this earlier:
these statements—from the left at least—are generally not being literal about exact equality between the major parties' policy programmes, as I'm sure you've figured out. Any vaguely left-wing commenter can clearly see the destructive nature of the Conservative government and it's basically without question that Labour is preferable.
My point is that there's an annoying rift between otherwise progressive people on largely partisan terms, and it's not necessary in the slightest. What's the actual difference in policy preference? How does it differ from others?
Anyway, I've had my rant too I suppose, so I'll duck out of this for a bit.
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Yeah, nobody actually believes this.
I do accept that On Here the left criticism of Starmer tends to be a little more measured than in other parts of the internet, but all you need to do is head over to the This Fella Starmer thread to see people - who I've no reason to suspect are being dishonest - saying exactly that.
ReekBlefs
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.