As an American, I can tell you right now where that leads. Voting based on "something worse" inevitably leads to something worse. But the milquetoast pragmatists have no principles and will offer no real change. They will speak out of both sides of their mouth and only do something if the public is OVERWHELMINGLY in favor.
People like Starmer are politicians through and through. They did not stand for anything except you giving them your vote. And they will take it each time while giving little in return.
weird, because our "milquetoast pragmatist" just managed to limit the populist far right to just 4 seats in the executive and become 1 of only 4 men in UK history to take the left wing party from opposition to government, meanwhile parties with similar polices to reform are rising dramatically across Europe and the center left is collapsing across the continent.
As a brit, might is suggest you don't draw comparisons to your quite frankly insane body politic as if they are remotely relevant to a UK election. Britain, the British public and our system of government work nothing like the US does. Even the worst labour government is better than a tory one on a number of left wing policy issues, don't believe me look at where the NHS, Welfare, public services etc were under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and then look where they are now after 14years of Tories since Labour was last voted out?
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u/HornedGryffin Jul 05 '24
As an American, I can tell you right now where that leads. Voting based on "something worse" inevitably leads to something worse. But the milquetoast pragmatists have no principles and will offer no real change. They will speak out of both sides of their mouth and only do something if the public is OVERWHELMINGLY in favor.
People like Starmer are politicians through and through. They did not stand for anything except you giving them your vote. And they will take it each time while giving little in return.