The Labour Party could have made the case for a humane immigration system that treats refugees with dignity. Instead it has fanned the flames of racism and emboldened the far right.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/52505884

The Labour Party could have made the case for a humane immigration system that treats refugees with dignity. Instead it has fanned the flames of racism and emboldened the far right.

  • bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net
    131·
    3 days ago

    I wonder among the Labour ministers who were complicit in his ouster, how many were always cryptofascists planning this from the start in secret like Starmer, and how many were actually fooled by use of the magic word to make people go away, “aNTisEmiTisM!”

    • tankplanker@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      Streeting wouldn’t surprise me, hes always been a boot licker.

      Starmer I feel is just fascist adjacent with a lot of his actual policy preferences, such as his stance of marijuana being a mass gateway drug, and absolutely willing to say anything to stay in, see that speech on Island of Strangers.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caOP
      111·
      3 days ago

      They’re neoliberals, and as such have more in common with fascists than with socialists.

  • Krill@feddit.uk
    18·
    2 days ago

    As much as Feddit.uk does not mention it, in the 2024 GE more people voted for reform and the Tories than Labour and Lib Dems.

    So Corbyn is arguably wrong, and the Labour government is actually only in power because of FPTP, and everything was already in place before Labour did whatever they have, or have not done.