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There’s a key point being missed here, and it’s that many believe (myself included) that the existence of the Labour Party as a pressure release valve of sorts precludes any sort of meaningful left wing change. It must be destroyed.


It's this. My political goal is the destruction of the Labour Party. We tried to take it over from the left, it was a failure for a multitude of reasons that include the then leader being staggeringly naive for a nearly 35+ year MP. It was a fight for the heart of the Labour Party & he really just wanted everyone to just get along. So now it's a failure the death of Labour is the only real option. Labour winning another term in government obviously stymies that goal.

The reason the "you have to vote for the lesser of two evils" thing doesn't work is that it's one way. Leftists must accept neoliberalism, never the other way around, to stop fascism. The French left are expected to vote for Macron who goes around destroying workers rights & pensions. And then next time around it'll be even more imperative to vote for the neoliberals because more people will turn to fascism as the only alternative on offer. And so on until Le Pen wins eventually, be it now or in 10 years.

It's so short-termist & frankly I've had my fill of politics that's unable to think more than one election cycle ahead. Parliament itself is a tiny encapsulation of this: for decades they've been talking about needing to shut it down for a while to do massive restoration works. And for decades they kick the ball down the street so someone else can make the decision & here we are in 2022 & it still needs massive works on the plumbing system, on holes in the roof, all that shit. And the longer it goes the more it'll end up costing & the longer it'll take. It's a disaster.

Yes, 5 more years of the Tories is chronic, I don't want that. But 5 years of Tory-lite before 5 more years of the Tories proper again is better how? The NHS is in a dire situation, it needs more than "enough funding to keep it almost ticking over for 5 years, but still pretty shambolic in the scheme of things", it needs massive reform, massive investment to have a health service fit for purpose. We need a government that places human welfare over profit & growth. God do we need to end the obsession with growth, an environmental catastrophe. And Kieth fucking Starmer isn't it. Kieth Starmer is at best going to pause most of the decline for 5 years. Sorry, not enough. Kicking the can down the road for 5 years is not acceptable. We've done that for longer than I've been alive, at some fucking point there has to be a reckoning where big decisions are taken, & Kieth is not a man who is going to take big decisions unless it involves sending people to prison for the pettiest bullshit, like the last New Labour freaks who were in government