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Starmer is a conservative/neoliberal from 10 years ago. There is no "left" party in mainstream UK politics anymore. There is only a fascist party, and a conservative party.
Same with Australia, Canada, and most of 14 eyes. Weird... Almost like we said this Overton shift towards fascism was occurring the entire god damn time.
Yeah our "Liberal" PM was asked by the conservative government 13 years ago to be the finance minister. The Overton window is completely fucked up, we have neofascism on one side and the opposite side is neoliberals who are okay with neofacism as long as it keeps the progressives away from taxing the rich and regulating multinationals. Any suggestion that the systemic problems destroying society should be addressed with structural solutions, or even that genocide and ethnic cleansing are bad, has now become tantamount to terrorism.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-stephen-harper-1.7460897
Wait, you think green party isn't left leaning? They gained seats last election with their 2 million votes. who's to say they are not a mainstream political party
They gained seats, yes, but 4 seats isn't exactly a landslide. They're a force in local politics, but at the national level, they're just really not a major player - at least not yet
The next election will be split between Labour, Cons, Reform and Greens.
I was a member of the Green Party back when I lived in Britain (about 5 years ago) and can confirm they're left leaning. In fact back then (a year or so before Corbyn) they were the only left of center party in Britain with MPs.
At least the members tended to be middle class well intentioned in multiple ways (not just environmentally but also socially) types, but oh so naive (at least in my eyes, as I had a totally different background plus had spent a lot of time there in the seedy underbelly of that country - the Finance Industry, which is pretty much Sociopaths'R'us - hence felt they had a very gentle view of things which was quite ignorant of the life of the working class there).
If you want to pin down their ideas to an actual ideology, they were Social Democrats and Environmentalists.
Mind you, the party had only 2 MPs back them (on the vote of 1 million people, so they got only less than 0.3% of MPs on the vote of 2.5% of the electorate, almost 5% if you only count cast votes) because Britain two has the anti-Democratic First Past The Post system.
In a place like The Netherlands (which has Proportional Vote) they would've had between 7 and 14 MPs (depending on abstentions) with the votes of that proportion of voters and if the Tweede Kamer had 300 MPs (which it doesn't) like the British Parliament.
As an Australian I’m thankful that while our Liberal (conservative) party is shit and evil, they’re just barely not quite as unhinged as the UK and certainly USA overall. In part because we have reasonably strong democratic processes like the independent Australian Electoral Commission responsible for electorate zoning, running elections etc.