Keir Starmer’s Labour government has had a dismal first year in power. In an interview, socialist leader Jeremy Corbyn explains why it’s time to create a new left-wing party that empowers working-class people.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    4 days ago

    I think you’re massively underestimating the appetite the population has for an actual left-wing government. The conservatives lost power because of how awful they were, they have demonstrated that they haven’t changed and reform are even worse than they are. It was a mistake for reform to gain council seats they’ve now just demonstrated their incompetence quite publicly.

    So what we’re left with is a bunch of proven uselessnesses, a sleepy lib dem party that’s unlikely to wake up anytime soon, vs whatever the flaming hell Corbin ends up calling his party.

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      3 days ago

      It took 14 years and 5 prime ministers for them to realise how shit they were, and the best alternative they could think of was red Tory.

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        2 days ago

        I mean, it worked for them last time they got in as well.

        Tony Blair didn’t sweep to power under a banner of socialist reform. He got in by being slightly less shit than the people we were all sick of.

        Our electoral system keeps us in a cycle of this by design. And Farage will just be Tories Extra.

        I can’t really trust any of them. I suspect Corbyn would have an authoritarian streak a mile wide as well, but he’s not going to get in anyway.