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Simon Brooke
Simon Brooke
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

This is a really good analysis of how #Labour became a right wing party.

I was aware of their courting of rich donors, but I'd missed the revolving door between Labour governments and the defence and private healthcare industries, and the point about Labour directing anger towards immigrants in order to divert it from the #kleptocrats I'd completely missed.

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/03/keir-starmer-gorton-denton-byelection-greens-labour

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the Guardian

Starmer has little to offer voters of either right or left in Gorton and Denton. That’s why he’s facing a perfect storm | Owen Jones

The Greens are buoyant as Labour struggles. After shredding any semblance of a progressive agenda, fear of Reform is all the PM’s party has left, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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Simon Brooke
Simon Brooke
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

"That is why #Labour is so comfortable competing with #ReformUKLtd and the Tories over bashing migrants. It is not because Starmerites are instinctively xenophobic or racist. Most are urban middle-class professionals who find such sentiments distasteful. But if forced to choose, they would rather indulge anger directed at migrants and refugees than anger aimed at bankers and CEOs." -- Owen Jones

He's correct. I hadn't seen this before, but it rings true.

#UKPol

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/03/keir-starmer-gorton-denton-byelection-greens-labour

Polling data from last year showing that a majority of UK voters see the ultra-rich are more to blame for our problems than immigrants, and that this view is particularly strong among younger and more educated voters.  source: Persuasion UK
Polling data from last year showing that a majority of UK voters see the ultra-rich are more to blame for our problems than immigrants, and that this view is particularly strong among younger and more educated voters. source: Persuasion UK
Polling data from last year showing that a majority of UK voters see the ultra-rich are more to blame for our problems than immigrants, and that this view is particularly strong among younger and more educated voters. source: Persuasion UK
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Starmer has little to offer voters of either right or left in Gorton and Denton. That’s why he’s facing a perfect storm | Owen Jones

The Greens are buoyant as Labour struggles. After shredding any semblance of a progressive agenda, fear of Reform is all the PM’s party has left, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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