Massive losses to Greens and fascists shows danger of so-called ‘centrism’ and Labour acting as red Tories
Labour’s two massive losses in last night’s English by-elections illustrates one of the major long-term dangers – the immediate dangers are obvious – of Keir Starmer’s red-Tory regime, which sits firmly in the pocket of business and is offering only more of the same as the last fourteen years of Tory rule.
Labour’s vote collapsed in the Lancaster Scotforth East by-election, with the Greens – who missed out there last year by 0.2% – surging by 22 points while Labour fell by over 18 points – to oust the Starmeroid party’s candidate and become the largest party on Lancaster City Council:
In Blackpool Morton, Labour suffered an even bigger collapse to lose to the fascist Reform ‘party’, falling by 23 points while Reform leaped by over 29 points, on a low turnout.
Labour’s loss to the Greens again illustrates the disgust of voters with a party that campaigned on the single word ‘Change’, yet has offered only a continuation and even intensification of the austerity of 14 years of Tory government, while just as cravenly clinging to a racist commitment to genocidal Israel.
And the loss to Reform shows clearly the long-known phenomenon that liberalism, so-called centrism and the corporatism and lack of vision that Starmer especially embodies will open space for the cheap racism and jingoism offered by fascism. His dwindling band of supporters might point to the low turnouts last night, but that again is a symptom of the dark visionlessness that he and his whole faction represent.
Starmer’s immediate threat to the UK is the poverty and starvation of our young and old under the ‘two-child benefit cap’ that costs more to keep than to abolish and the scrapping of the Winter Fuel Allowance for ten million pensioners, which Starmer knows will needlessly kill at least 4,000 people a year – along with the police state that he is busy creating and the lunatic international policies he is creating it to protect.
And that sociopathic managerialism, in the long term, leads the UK into fascism – unless a mass party of socialism and social vision can either rise or amalgamate from the existing left groups, as happened in the most recent French elections, only for another corporatist, Macron, to ignore the people and court the fascists to keep the left out of the French prime minister’s office.
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not Labour Votes, Sir Free-gear SPONGER freebie gobbler Warmonger STARMER votes which have COLLAPSED.
In Blackpool Morton, Labour suffered an even bigger collapse to lose to the fascist Reform ‘party’,
I’m always hearing on the news how Blackpool has some of the most deprived wards in the country.
Well if they will vote toerag, and then reform, then they get what they deserve.
Not that voting smarmerism’d be any different, but the lurch to the right in voting for those faragist gobshites leaves me with little-to-no sympathy for their plight. Same goes for those imbeciles in clacton, now moaning that forage is never there.
Hard shite. You elected him.
Encouraged to see the greens making progress though. 👍
I think it would be better to ask why people voted Reform in Blackpool in the face of the problems that they have to deal with in their daily lives.
We know what Reform represent. They are certainly not the solution for any people except the very well off. But it appears that Labour must not have been an acceptable choice for many. On a low turnout I suspect it was the pensioner vote that settled the issue, as they tend to vote.
If Reform had their way, Blackpool and many other coastal towns such as Clacton would disappear under the sea due to rising sea levels caused by global warming.
“Would you like your town to disappear under the sea?
“Then be sure to vote Reform at the next election”
Those who make it impossible for the left to function will make the rise of the right inevitable.
by design? Do Starmer and Macron and Olaf Scholz in Germany know what they are doing?
Good post until the green bit. They’re like Teddy bears. All cuddly and lovely until one day springs pop out from the eye sockets. A lot of Euros and Trots embedded within.
Starmer, Macron and Scholz are all playing from the centrist playbook, and creating space for the fascist right, which historically is their role within the political side of capitalism. The July//August New Left Review starts with an excellent essay by Tom Hazeldine that gives an excellent analysis of July 4th’s election results, and delves into the history behind Starmer’s rise. I will find the link as soon as this pub closes!
Thanks v much for the Hazeldine reference Ludus57. It’s superb. I’ll be reading, re-reading and looking it up for quite a while. It’s analysis and explanation is central to the very possibility of a democratic left revival – so obviously Starmer and the security state would rather we don’t.
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii148/articles/tom-hazeldine-neo-labourism-in-the-saddle
can I just say, I’m horrified that MPs in the supposed-Labour Left, leaderless and rudderless as they are, are not following MP Rosie Duffield’s EXCELLENT example, and leaving the PLP?
Now is the very right time for SCG members to leave Labour. Until they do they are Leaderless, rudderless and achieving nothing.
It is a fine piece of work. I shall spread it.
Sinister sods the lot of them. Mr Strasser meet Mr. Wall St, Trotsky.
A double disaster in Scotland with more to come:
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/winter-fuel-payment-cuts-are-causing-desperation-in-scottish-labour-ranks/ar-AA1rHk86?ocid=BingNewsSerp