The Labour Party Is Right

by Rab Bruce’s Spider

 

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Labour’s performative cruelty in releasing videos of them deporting people is clearly a response to the threat of Nigel Farage who seems destined to be the UK’s next Prime Minister. It makes me wonder who is advising Keir starmer. Have they learned nothing from what happened to the Tories? No matter how far right the Tories ran, Farage was always able to outdo them. It was probably a threat the Tories could not cope with because they were so accustomed to being the voice of the Right. “You can’t out-Tory a Tory” was a common refrain. However, Farage and his fellow extremists took it one better, and the Tories have become largely irrelevant as a result of chasing the xenophobic element within the UK electorate.

 

And now Labour seem to be making exactly the same mistake. Surely it would be better for them to promote proper social policies which actually improved people’s lives. Yes, they’d encounter negative press because the people who own the media don’t want anything remotely left wing in a UK Government, but Labour are receiving negative press anyway. They are rapidly alienating their own voters and failing to attract that element of the electorate which is fascinated by Farage’s rhetoric and which hasn’t yet seen through the grifter’s self-serving motivations.

 

Of course, the main problem Labour have with veering leftwards is that there genuine socialists have largely been purged from the Party. Keir Starmer is a Tory at heart and in practice, so he seems unable to contemplate any course of action which does not pander to the racist element within the electorate.

 

So Labour seems doomed, and Farage will inevitably become PM unless there is some major revelation among voters. I sincerely hope that Scotland has escaped the UK prison before that happens. If we haven’t, we are in real trouble.

 

  

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