My friend @Lazarou

[indyrichard@mastodon.scot]

@Geri @Lazarou I believe that Labour not been a party of the left for a while now.

[hashbangperl@hachyderm.io]

@Geri @Lazarou previously they always went harder at lib dems than tories

[staringatclouds@mstdn.social]

@jayflo They can claim to be left wing all they like

Their actions betray them

@Lazarou @Geri

[oyu_fka@mastodon.social]

@Geri @Lazarou Definitely....historic even 🤞!

[lazarou@mastodon.social]

@staringatclouds @jayflo @Geri exactly

[geri@mastodon.online]

@brianjohnson @Lazarou He's a balding little shill

A Weasle of a man

[brianjohnson@mastodon.sdf.org]

@Geri @Lazarou Totally. He winds me up whenever I hear his voice. And that's before I listen to his words.

[geri@mastodon.online]

@brianjohnson @Lazarou

You can see him in a few years time doing a fuckubg comb over like a bastard throw back of Bobby Charlton

Xx

[lazarou@mastodon.social]

@Geri @brianjohnson he lives a lie....

[falcennial@mastodon.social]

@Geri @Lazarou yes.

that consistent behaviour from UK Labour is evidence, of the incontrovertible kind, that UK Labour is a conservative party aligned with their friends the fascists, and directly opposes your progressive political movement and the party leading that.

[jackeric@beige.party]

@Geri @Lazarou well yes

Labour's core belief is that _they_ are the one-stop shop for delivering political change, their party are the gatekeepers of left-wing political activity

So the success of any other left-wing party is an existential threat to them - as is electoral reform that would effectively eliminate any future Labour majority government. They'd rather lose to the Tories most of the time than be a major partner in a coalition most of the time.

[hamishtpb@mewblog.thepolarbear.co.uk]

@Geri @Lazarou Except Labour in the 21st century are - at best(!) - a centre-right party.

[geri@mastodon.online]

@hamishtpb @Lazarou oh we get to see you in your avi xxx

[diffrentcolours@tech.lgbt]

@Geri @Lazarou This is not a profound point. This is how you fight elections under First Past The Post. The Green leaflets spent more time attacking Labour than Reform too.

[geri@mastodon.online]

@diffrentcolours @Lazarou no, with respect, you are missing the point here.

What naturally SHOULD be happening is a left wing party, or a party that claims to be left wing, should be attacking Reform, a right wing party and not another left wing party

Xx

[diffrentcolours@tech.lgbt]

@Geri @Lazarou That is what would happen if we had a preferential voting system. We don't, we have a system where parties competing for an overlapping pool of voters are incentivised to attack each other and ignore parties with distant voter pools.

[dash@social.coop]

@jackeric @Geri @Lazarou Look at how Brighton Pavilion was always a high priority target for Labour, even when it was the only Green seat.

[greytheearthling@fe.disroot.org]

@diffrentcolours @Geri @Lazarou And we have that voting system solely because the Labour party chooses to keep it. The Greens (and Lib Dems and SNP) have been consistently in favour of changing it for years/decades. A couple of years ago even Reform said they were in favour, though this was before they were 1st in the polls.

So yes this is an inevitable consequence of the rules — and Labour chose the rules. The belief that the voting system can't be changed may be a load-bearing part of Labour's perennial tactical vote.

[diffrentcolours@tech.lgbt]

@greytheearthling @Geri @Lazarou Yep. We had a chance to eliminate tactical voting in the 2011 Referendum, and half the Labour party decided it was more important to give Nick Clegg a bloody nose than support their own manifesto commitment for preference voting.

If I had money and no job I'd be running a grassroots campaign for electoral reform; ERS are too tied up in the Westminster bubble.

[ehproque@neopaquita.es]

@Geri @Lazarou *a* left wing party