Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Given a choice between Nigel Farright and Jeremy Corbyn as hypothetical UK PM, Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart both pick Corbyn;

alastaircampbell.org/2025/08/4

Of course they do. One option is a lying, snivelling, intellectually bankrupt, corporatist, appeaser of actual fascists. The other is a Fabian socialist Parliamentarian. It's not a hard choice.

For all their faults, neither Campbell nor Stewart have sympathy for fascism of any kind.

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Both Stewart and Campbell go to great lengths to distance themselves from Corbyn. But although they can easily roll out a litany of lies and dopey policies pushed by Farright, they don't seem to have any substantive criticism of Corbyn and his allies.

The best they can do is roll out the centre-right, old school tie techniques of picking on where they went to school. As if anyone but silver spoon boarding school boys gives a shit about that.

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

It's hard to build a new political party in any Parliamentary system, especially one with FPP elections. But in the UK both the Tories and Labour drawing from the same poisoned well of corporatist, US-centric policies. At a time when the US federal government and much of its corporate owner class have outed themselves as actual fascists, and self-declared enemies of popular democracy.

There's never been a better time for the left to break from a terminally compromised Labour.

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