I know so many left wing people who say they love Boris, but hate that he's a Tory. The only worry is that once in power he turns out to be an evil genius.
With his genius there is no need for morality, shhhhhhhhh sweet child of Spring, only Boris now, let the Rhubarb rub you to sleep
The impression I get locally is that a lot of old school liberals just may vote Labour instead of abstaining like they usually do (the hate for New Labour is strong). Frankly I'm no fan despite leaning left, but Labour have no chance around here anyway LibDem v Con forever.
The Labour party membership is increasingly in line with the views of their leader. 68% of Labour members opose renewal of Trident, 64% think trade unions should have more influence, 58% say they wouldn’t vote for any Labour leader if they had supported airstrikes against Syria. Recent recruits are even more Corbynite – over 80% of those who’ve joined in the last year are anti-Trident, over 70% think unions should have more influence and would only support a leader who opposed airstrikes in Syria.
A leftwards consolidation of the Labour party membership however risks opening up a significant gulf between the views of members and voters. The most obvious example of that here is immigration. On salience, health and the economy are seen as two of the three biggest issues facing the country by Labour members, Labour voters and the general public. But on immigration 60% of the general public think it is a major issue, 46% of Labour voters do, just 17% of Labour members do; 78% of Labour party members think immigration is good for the economy, only 41% of Labour voters do, only 29% of the general public.
http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/
Purging your own party's moderates unsurprisingly fucks up your appeal to the entire country, limiting yourself to grabbing a larger share of the fringe-left whilst losing touch with the majority. The libdems could get away with this because their specialty is being a large share of a small percentage, but for labour it's just sad, pointless self-destruction of a party who formerly had broad appeal and rule over our country for so long. Good for Corbyn's career, but the party's future is increasingly in jeopardy. Now I wonder where all those moderates pushed away will go. Libdem/green, tory, civics, or abstain? It's been one month since mass resignations, one week since the last public row and infighting and one day since Corbyn was last attacked for supporting an organization that crushed the Greek anti-austerity movement. He's havin a laff. In the wake of 2008 when parties started adopting ideological lines, only labour saw fit to begin dismantling all of her own MPs who did not fit with the leader's ideology. For all their sheer, sheer fuck ups with cultural enrichment and corruption I actually once supported them and would have more sympathy with them were their EU stance more pronounced, but they've steadily been drinking more and more kool-aid under a leader who gives no fucks and just wants his ideology to win. This must be what it is like for GOP members to watch Trump dissect the Republicans, it's grueling to see infighting after infighting, every headline being the latest cabinet member or MP declaring 'I have decided I can better help labour outside the party.' We're seeing people who have fought for labour for decades being forced out by a ideologue :/
I'm not even going to go into how dismally the Labour party, the one that introduced mass cultural enrichment for the purpose of replacing their working class support with immigrant support, managed to lose both under Corbyn. Black, Asian, Jewish support for Tories has been increasing whilst Corbyn's had extreme friction with the likes of Chuka Umunna, Sadiq Khan, David Mencer e.t.c. at a time when Labour cut off one leg to hold onto a crutch it began sawing away at! Why would you do this?
Labour needs their own Boris or their moderates to hold on desperately in order to save the party before it is hemorrhaged to death by zealots.
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We live in a world where our conservatives are multikultural diverse fuckers doing their own thing whilst our left-wing party is ruled by an old white man who kept women out of his cabinet and purged his party of its ethnic support
And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm BOGO
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very mad world, mad world