As the left has warned, the Starmer regime mimicking the far-right is opening the gate to fascism
The left, including this site, has long warned that Keir Starmer’s attempt to outdo the Tories in cruelty, war and corruption will usher in fascism in the UK – and polls have reinforced that reality, with Reform outstripping the red Tories in successive YouGov polls of Westminster voting intention.
But the polls that matter – at the ballot box – are confirming the same, as last night Labour’s vote in the Torfaen by-election saw Labour collapse by more than forty-nine points to hand the Reform ‘party’ – in fact a limited company run by the far right – its first council seat in Wales:
Liberalism and so-called centrism are ever the handmaids to fascism. Starmer and his anti-democratic police state are attempting to take a shortcut to get there directly, but they are no less certainly leading this country into a moral and political abyss.
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Why didn’t ‘the left’ put up a candidate. 🤔
Oh, I dunno – maybe because keef is putting the country first?
Y’know? The self-professed socialist, keef?
Why didn’t the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, and Plaid Cymru put up a candidate?
Could be they too are taking the advice of Norman Stanley Fletcher and biding their time?
https://www.torfaen.gov.uk/en/AboutTheCouncil/Elections/Elections-results/County-Borough-Council.aspx
In a ward with over thirty-nine hundred voters, the Ward lost nearly 500 voters since 2023. Dropping to just 972 this time around.
To paraphrase Maximus Decimus Meridius: “Are you not enthused?”
“Why didn’t ‘the left’ put up a candidate.
Should that not have had a question mark, SteveH?.
They did, but Labour is LINO, not real at all. Its vote collapsed by more than forty-nine points and handed a limited company run by the far right (‘Reform UK’) – its first council seat in Wales.
The shape of things to come? I hope not. Scary times ahead if this repeated elsewhere.
Best brace yerself then, cos its the first of very many.
1. Right Wing Lab are shit.
2. Reform’s facer-inner in the North is Brexit and now they are a One Trick Pony clinging on to scares re Immigration for dear life, and a good living for themselves?
Of course once you analyse Reform you see they are the elite led by the elite with class politics for their class, tax cuts for the rich & tax subsidies for private education and private health insurance, though once they have reeled the mugs in on triggers like Brexit & Immigration the played seem to be oblivious to Reform’s real class agenda (Reform’s actual Achilles Heel).
3. Let’s hope ‘Collective’ emerge soon as the new Left Wing Democratic Socialist Party built around the brand name/public recognition name of Jeremy Corbyn.
Or we’ll have possibly the most Right Wing Govt ever in the UK (a Reform in the North/Tories in the South/South East Coalition).
We have been warned, Collective Now!
Or else!
What goes around, comes around, Bazza.
It will require a lot more rope yet.
EXACTLY Dave. exactly. Labour’s humiliating collapse has a long way to go yet…
We should just sit back and ENJOY it.
Once, it’s obvious and predicavle, always results in an EXPECTED Labour loss, that’s when ‘the left’ should field candidates against the faragist fascists and Conservatives.
Until then, we just sit back and enjoy how excruciatingly painful Labour’s humiliation and total electoral collapse is for them.
The elephant in the room which is not getting a mention is a context in which any election where any candidate, candidates, or party not acceptable to the status quo of the ruling class comprador oligarchy across the Collective Worst is either outlawed or annulled.
Asking questions as to why particular candidates do not come forward is like seeking reasons for why no one is willing to participate in a rigged game.
Most of the electorate, certainly in the UK, have cottoned on to this farce. Hence, the increasingly low turn outs in elections.
Those like Billy boy here who simply ignore what does not suit their own self-defined reality will become increasingly irrelevant as reality asserts itself. As it always does.