Ah shit

They are already in the showers

Good news, they're still Italy.

Eh, still better than the Tories. Supermajority begins the process of dragging the overton window back left, which I'm all for

Dude literally promised to continue tory policies. He's a fucking Tory in a labour suit.

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.

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.

Remember what we are getting rid of

I mean, he really isn't. He's far to the left of them.

Nope. Both murican dems and cons are further right than Reform in the UK.

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.

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.

Seriously, the Tories ran that nation into the ground and they did it with the full support of the voting public.

Honestly, they are talking about relations allowing the rail - they are left wing. Starmer just happens to be a pragmatist who actually wanted to get elected. You wait and see how much better state the country is in after 5 years under a left end labour government

It's really not, it's just actually electable

For real, the French Resistance is estimated at like 3% of their people lol

A bicycle is under my own power?

European fascism was pretty insane.

Macron's party is pulling out of races to give the socialists a better chance of cutting off the nazis.

It could work. We will see.

Marie Le Pew sounds way too nice for that POS

It’s Marine Le Pen, and her goon Jordan Bardella (who has Algerian origins from his grandmother but ignores that completely and prefers talking about his Italian origins from his grandfather)

The reason being that a single fascist billionaire owns several TV channels, radio stations and newspapers.

Le Penis party didn't achieve anything yet.

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.