Why is the current labour party in the UK considered more center left? Do you think they will pass any policies that are considered left leaning now that they have won the majority?
Why is the current labour party in the UK considered more center left? Do you think they will pass any policies that are considered left leaning now that they have won the majority?
I'm not from the UK, but I've been trying to understand more about UK politics because of the election and I've seen headlines saying the Starmer has been pushing the Labour party to the center. What does that mean in terms of policies he's said he will push? Also, now that they have won an overwhelming majority, do you think the party will actually use this opportunity to push the UK more left?
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The media is pushing the narrative that Labour is on the left of politics as a way to fear monger and ensure his failures will be seen as failures of left wing policies, and shift the Overton window further to the right as a result, but they haven't even been in the centre, but rather completely past it and in to mild right wing since Starmer took over and purged all the actually left leaning members from the party, and made it clear that he has zero class, or any other conscious.
His entire career in opposition has been proof that he's nothing but a Tory in a red tie, since he didn't oppose them on anything of any substance, and his entire election campaign was cantered on benefitting businesses, not the people of the country.
He's gone against unions, he's neglected health and social services, he's ignored disabled people, he's mocked the fight against racism, he's made it clear over and over and over again that he's in politics to serve the establishment, and his own career, not the country or the working class people who carry it on our backs.
So like, yay, Tories are out, but actually, we just have more of the same, only this time the veil is thicker and there is a pretence of progressiveness, that is only going to lull liberals in to a false sense of security, and push centre and right winged voters even further to the right, and leftism remains unrepresented in our parliament, because it's too big a threat to the establishment (why Starmer was brought in in the first place - damage control after Corbyn).
purged all the actually left leaning members from the party
This is just not true.
Yeah, yeah, "not all", only enough to make sure there isn't even a hint of socialist influence left in the party. Also, he doesn't have to personally have removed someone from the party, for his actions and the actions of those who would fall in line with his establishment backed agenda to affect members of the party being sabotaged out of the party or leaving because they were made to feel unwelcome. The few that are left are relegated to the back benches and left with no real power to speak of.
In this thread there is already evidence of his dirty, unethical, and down right bigoted tactics, you not being comfortable enough to confront it doesn't change the reality - Labour under Starmer is a neoliberal party that is serving capitalists and the establishment, and doesn't have a hint of socialism nor solidarity or concern for the working class left in it (because when it does prop up as enough of a threat to the status quo, the threat is removed by whatever means necessary, it's not like he has to go far when he's deliberately stacked the party with other bootlickers who easily tighten ranks against anyone they no longer want around).
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw4y9evzzppo
He isn't some guy who just turned up and started enacting anti-Socialist measures, that's been far overblown. He has tried to clean things up, and he has done things which I don't think help him. But, as you can see in the link above, he has been a socialist his entire adult life. His cabinet looks like a mature choice with a good mix of influences, different from New Labour, but also different from Corbyn's shadow cabinet.