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Lettuce.

I won't lie, the cabbage was pretty popular. It was Truss who was less than useless as a politician.

Have they, though?

• nationalising trains
• nationalising steel
• nationalising a part of our energy sector
• bringing the NHS back under direct public control
• ending various tax-dodging loopholes, such as the IHT for farmers
• windfall tax on energy companies
• charging VAT on private schooling
• expanding free childcare
• restarting SureStart (albeit under a different name)
• expanding free school meals
• expanding school breakfast clubs
• guaranteeing jobs for young people (announced this morning)
• big increases to the minimum wage, especially for the youngest
• expansion of workers rights
• expansion of renters rights
• big increase in infrastructure investment, particularly for renewables

OSA, fair enough. I'm sure plenty of young people especially aren't happy about that. But overall, how are they actively working against people they're supposed to be helping?

Here's a drinking game if you want to stay sober:

Take a drink every time you see someone who's working class, at a Labour Party conference.

They've long time lost their way.

His supposedly labour government has also doubled down on censoring wikipedia, calling people pedo-sympathizers for resisting absurd internet control laws that literally affect every digital facing international company, and is now promoting a digital ID straight out every digital era authoritatians or fascist's wet dreams.

Is he better than sunak? Probably? Kinda? That's a very low bar though and the fact that we even talk about it is sad. Their actions have been so much unlike what people think about when voting labour parties that it's surreal.

People reasonably feel cheated on given the party's supposed focus.

It's the expectation.

Boris and Truss were abject morons and Sunak was an insulated, rich Tory. They were expected to be terrible and so we weren't surprised.

Starmer won in a landslide victory for Labour and went about screwing the poor, arresting old ladies, and presiding over genocide. Conservatives hate him because he's on the Red Team, and the Left hate him because he acts like a Tory.

If he'd run as a Tory, he'd be scoring higher than everyone since Cameron, but he was supposed to fix the mess, not make it worse.

I am sure purging all the leftists and reformers out of the left Center option was the better strategy, on the backs of openly false allegations at that. /s

Labor is a fucking joke and it's going to hand England to the far right that will fix themselves into Power with the help of the US and Russia, same as macron is going to hand over france, and Europe is going to fall like fucking Domino's to Fascist governments because we have all allowed conservatives to seize our mainstream political parties and Ratchet privilege to the plutocracy. The only reform option is the far right.

I feel like people don't like him because he's as dull as dishwater. I am not a fan of Kier's politics, but I think he's practical and level headed. Following 14 years of a Tory shit show - I'm suprised people aren't happy with having someone like that in the job and winning some brownie points.

The biggest mistake he's making is that people expected a bit of a shift to oppose what the Conservatives were offering but instead he's also trying to appeal to the right of politics through a lurch to the right. He's not charasmatic or radical enough for that to succeed, so has pushed away the left only to fail to win over the right. Nobody likes him.