Being french ATM :
Don't group the US and the UK together here. The UK is on track to expel most of their Conservatives in the next surprise election because the Conservative in charge is an impulsive man-baby. The US is on track to hold their very last election as they fall into a tyranny built by Christofacists and Ultracapitalists and lead by the most ridiculous cult of personality you've ever seen.
Eh? Labour has been racing over to the right since Starmer buried all of his leadership election pledges and surrounded himself with all the most reactionary neo-liberal ghouls he could find. They're little different in political outlook from the 2010-15 tory-libdem coalition. Austerity and the "sensible" backing of the expedient genocides here we come.
They aren't out and out fascists but they are heaving that Overton window to the right, so fascist rhetoric will flourish.
Germany: "We won last time. It's ok to be third place this time."
Italy too!
The Netherlands just finished and walked out of this picture. But yeah we now have new discussions in Congress if umvolkung/the great replacement theory is a fact or if it a fascist conspiracy theory. According to the cabinet it's a fact and you can be minister and believe in it. (For example the minister that's decideds about immigration)
Germany too(but its not as bad as in the States yet).
The boys are back in town, huh!
Why are the UK on here, were about to vote in a left wing party.
were about to vote in a left wing party
Bahahahahahahaha, omg I needed a good laugh this evening., thanks..
Guy literally purged every halfway leftist in the fucking party, and has spent his entire time as leader, and is aiming his entire election campaign on, pleasing capitalists and maintain the status quo. The man doesn't have a left leaning bone in his spineless self serving body.
I mean, when the US trolls say "BoTh SiDeS" we all laugh. Even the choice to vote for corrupt Torries or not-so-corrupt Torries is better than no vote.
I'm with you about the authoritarian purging of the party. Nevertheless, with the size of the majority that's being predicted it will be hard to keep so many people in line once they have gone from being candidates to actual MPs. The biggest opposition in parliament may end up being socialist rebels within the Labour party itself.
Labour tried to do things the proper way under Corbyn and got completely destroyed. Back to lies, treachery and 'Realpolitik'. The fact is that after all the u-turning that Labour's leadership has done under Starmer, nobody can count on them doing anything. That includes the corporations and financial sector, who are just as likely to be getting played for fools as the rest of us.
Not counting chickens until they're hatched, I guess?
Tbh the question is just how big a majority labour get, and whether the Tories will even be the second biggest party.
Nigel Frog Face Farage's far right Reform UK do look like they might get up to maybe 15%-20% of vote however. But thanks to our very unrepresentative FPTP system they're looking to get 0.15% to 0.31% of the members of parliament. In short they're facing the same issues that have held down the left in the UK for years.
When did the UK get a new major party? Or are you just being wrong and calling the labor party left wing while their policies are just torie light?
Don't worry, you are still in the running, it's just a temporary setback.
it’s just a temporary setback.
Barely even that, the man is the establishment, and has proven time and time again that he isn't interested in the working class and other marginalised people. If anything, he's there to keep things the same so that in the next cycle of this sham theatre the Tories can point to the lack of improvement as Labour failing and get right back in to power again.
The system is designed to self preserve, this isn't a bug, it's a feature, and as long as people keep playing along and pinning their hopes on the establishment reforming itself, we're going to continue our rapid descent in to full blown fascism.
Because of the last 10 years or so?
Seriously, the Tories ran that nation into the ground and they did it with the full support of the voting public.
Everyone's scared of Reform UK I guess. Forgetting how FPTP will fuck them in the same way it usually fucks the Greens and the Lib-Dems.
Because this is a meme. It doesn't have to make sense or be rooted in reality. Just 😂.
Are you allowed to leap across the finish line like that?
Edit: guess so?
If only the American public responded like the French public when fascists try to seize power.
We’re corn-fed financial cattle, we can work sleep and handle a dozen crises at once individually; yet we’re unable to see that we share objectives because of team politics and exclusionary grouping. A lack of solidarity because it’s not allowed.
what did France recently do to leap ahead?
Marie Le Pew’s far-right party is gathering more followers for ? reasons?
I'm speaking in general terms because I'm not familiar with French politics, I just live in a neighboring country. But are we really surprised that it's moving in that direction? In a general sense, the right will always blossom in climates like these, migrants pouring in from decades of war, prices skyrocketing, the Russia affair further polarizing and instilling fear, a general lack of progress. But more importantly, while the right does its best to cultivate the most basic of emotional responses, the left seems unable to come up with anything attractive let alone exciting. And we can argue that progress and good choices can be utterly dull and unappealing, at some point we will have to realize that good ideas still need to be marketed to the people and that it's not enough to equate anything right-wing with fascism and hope that it will do the heavy lifting. We have become preoccupied with complaining about the right in such a way that we can no longer allow critique of what the left is failing to do. If they can do no good then we can do no wrong.
Le Penis party didn't achieve anything yet.
Whatever it was, the US Supreme Court deciding that presidents are immune from prosecution beats it by a very, very long shot.
People think that Macrons gambit was a mistake.
They're wrong, but its what they think.
Soon the bill will arrive
That's what happens when you over-regulate food.
In what ways?
