5jul24 – Alexandria, VA
This is an absurd commentary on the British election by a disingenuous, conservative ideologue. It does a disservice to the Salon’s readers, many of whom are well versed in international affairs.
Labour won a huge victory irrespective of the number of votes with a low turnout, thanks to the British first-past-the-post parliamentary system. To see how faulty the author’s reasoning is, by many metrics, look at: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/general-election-swing-results-vote-numbers-b2574629.html .
Starmer and Labour are inheriting a miserable situation created over 14 years by looney leaders implementing irresponsible and self-serving conservative policies.
Our Republican party, turned extremist organization beholden to Trump and, for decades, the Koch Bros. & Co. (read Jane Mayer’s “Dark Money”, published in 2017, for a detailed account of how they manipulated American public to further their aim to neuter the federal government, warp the tax code in their favor and to eliminate regulations), should see the Tories’ punishment by British voters as a warning.
Paul
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Subject: [Salon] Closer scrutiny re UK election/Keir Starmer/Labour
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/07/election-in-britain.html
Election In Britain
July 05, 2024
The Tories have lost the election in Britain.
Labour, under Keir Stamer, did not win the election. It received less votes than it had received under Jeremy Corbyn in 2017 and 2019.
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The turnout was low. The overwhelming voter sentiment was 'anything but Tory'. There was no enthusiasms for Labour and Stamer's program.
Labour, under Corbyn, had been a real worker party with socialist tendencies.
The deep state, with the help of the Israeli embassy, had launched a media campaign against Labour alleging that it was hiding anti-semitic tendencies. Corbyn made the huge mistake of not fighting back against it. In the end he was kicked out despite Labour's healthy election results.
Jeremy Corby, no longer in Labour, has been reelected. So have been five MPs who campaigned on a pro-Gaza position.
Stamer is a controversial figure. He seems to have been placed in his position by the deep state. His previous position was the Chief of the Crown Prosecution Service. He had a major role in indicting and incarcerating Julian Assange.
After being installed he has moved Labour to the right. It is now occupying a pro-capitalism center-right position:
“What Keir has done is taken all the left out of the Labour Party,” billionaire businessman John Caudwell, previously a big Tory donor, told the BBC. “He’s come out with a brilliant set of values and principles and ways of growing Britain in complete alignment with my views as a commercial capitalist.”
The Labour Party highlighted his endorsement.
Stamer will hurt the British public more than the Tory did under Sunak.
There will soon be an uproar against him.
I do not expect him to survive for long.
Posted by b on July 5, 2024 at 13:16 UTC | Permalink