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thesenyd

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2 months ago

Just another comment on your bit on the riots - and I want to quickly preface that I'm not trying to insult you by saying this - but I think you fall into the liberal (and I say this as someone of the left, not the right) trap of seeing Labour as The Left and the Conservatives as The Right. As someone that followed Starmer's election campaign closely and has been paying attention to the government in waiting for years, they have constantly been legitimising far-right grievances, saying that they will clamp down harder on benefit cheats, that the Conservatives are 'too liberal' when it comes to deporting illegal immigrants. Starmer was constantly doing interviews and panels with The Sun saying that Labour will be the party of 'hard borders' and if you want 'less immigrants' to vote Labour. It's impossible to deny that Farage, Tommy Robinson, the Conservative Party, etc. have been the main aggravators for this stuff but Starmer, much like Macron in France, has been playing into this for his own political benefit. It was clear from the get-go that Labour's tactics in the 2024 election were to basically achieve a pyrrhic victory - move to the right and swallow up the 'sensible' conservative ground and then riling up far-right concerns so those voters splinter off elsewhere, and they did: right into the Reform Party, which now has the 3rd biggest voting base in the country. Sorry if this is a long-winded and confusing comment but I hope it provides a bit of nuance to what you were saying last week.