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Labour is dying


Heathcliff

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Biggest issue in polotics, in general right now, not just in the UK, is extremist politics on both the left and the right. It has infected the Conservatives and created UKIP and the Brexit party on the right, and it has infected Labour and the Lib Dems on the left. I think the biggest issue is party politics itself just doesn't work, people are voting because they want to beat the other side rather than voting because those parties have good policies, and each party is subject to the whim of their leader, so if their leader has extremist views then it will spread and not much can be done about it.

We don't have party politics where I live (Jersey) and I won't ever say our government is perfect (They have spent 7 years and £40 million of public money regarding a new hospital that is BADLY needed and they haven't even agreed on a site yet!) but, I do think our way of governing, individuals getting voted in based on their policies rather than because of a party, works better as those individuals can be held more to account if they don't deliver on their promises and their is more pressure for them to deliver as they don't have a massive party that will keep them in office even if they fail to deliver.

Just my ten cents on the subject, had I lived in the UK I would have voted Labour in the past but since Corbyn came in it isn't the same kind, compassionate party it used to be, and the Lib Dems current position is a joke and just as big of a slap in the face to democracy as Boris Johnsons plans, if not worse.

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Wow, I never realised you lived in Jersey.

And I feel like crying because you make me feel what I think is okay. Your last paragraph is exactly how I feel.

Corbyn has put Labour in a place I don't support- and I flirted with the Lib Dems, but I can't honestly vote for Jo Swinson's proposal.

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It wasn't long ago that Corbyn was seen in Europe as the great hope of socialism. I was in Italy when he became leader of the Labour Party and was very impressed to see how closely he was followed by the Italian press.

It was a hope to reclaim power from the private sector to the collectivity : a country should not be run like a business (this was Berlusconi's take), nor should schools, hospitals etc.  and this seemed to be recognized by a return to basic Labour principles.

 

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