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Big tent politics is basically the natural outcome of a 2 party FPTP electoral system.
The right tends to further to the right and the left needs to shift to the center to stand an actual chance of winning an election.
The tories fucked it up for a long time and the country will pay a hefty price but it also means labour needs to shift to more centrist policies than a chunk of their voter base is happy with. It’s a lose lose situation really. Still happy to see the back of the tories either way.
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Labour infighting basically killed off Corbyn. That is 2 elections and 7 years where we could have had someone other than the Tories in power.
If the Tories win again they will stuff the HoL, redraw constituency boundaries, shore up FPTP, disenfranchise voters, attack the BBC and empower right wing media, continue to engineer public frustration with the NHS and human rights, restrict the right to protest, restrict the right to strike, continue to restrict access to mental health services, legal aid, and so on.
The more infighting there is on the left and the further left Starmer goes the more likely it is that the Tories get in. Is the infighting really worth the risk of letting the Tories back in? The answer to me is "fuck no". Is it not sufficient to just accept a Blairite Labour that will repair the NHS and improve things for people who are poor/disabled/mentally ill/sick/refugees etc.?