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London’s Metropolitan Police arrested another 492 people over the weekend after a protest Saturday in Trafalgar Square, as the Starmer government accelerated its crackdown on opposition to the Gaza genocide.

The entirely peaceful protest was held to oppose the proscription of Palestine Action. It was organised by Defend Our Juries and attended by over 1,000 people. Of the arrests, 488 were for holding up signs declaring, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”.

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[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 83 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

That's a funny looking labour government you got there UK.

How did you guys go from Corbyn to this? Is it so hard to have a labour party leader that doesn't back Israel or Russia?

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

A campaign by Israeli-backed British Jewish groups of anti-semitism slanders against Corbyn (so extreme that at one point a Jewish Holocaust Survivor was deemed an anti-semite to get at Corbyn by association) toppled him down from Labour Party leadership, to be replaced by these types, who as soon as they got control of the Labour Party started purging it of people who had voiced Leftwing ideas and support for Corbyn.

Essentially Labour was emptied from the inside and its shell was filled with supporters of a foreign ethno-Fascist regime.

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

This is a big part one party system of governments tend to fail.

Also indicative of how multi party systems Can fail apparently.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 35 minutes ago* (last edited 30 minutes ago) (1 children)

Power Duopolies, such as those found in countries with First Past The Post systems, suffer from similar problems as the Power Monopolies in one party systems, such as how there is a path to power which is entirelly unaccountable to voters, of just taking over one of the Power Duopoly parties from the inside and then let the normal back-and-forth of the duopoly system - since people only ever have 2 options, naturaly the power goes back an forth as people vote for the "lesser" evil that then turns into the "greater" evil so they vote for the other "lesser" evil - bring that party back to power.

Funilly enough, in the UK that seems to have been done to both of the Power Duopoly parties, first to the Tories during the Leave Referendum and after that to the Labour Party when Israel joined with the Liberals (and I don't mean the LibDem Party, I mean Blairites) and even the Tories to overthrow Corbyn (who was openly a defender of the rights of Palestinians) and replaced him with the Liberals who then proceeded to make sure there was nobody left-of-center in that party.

If you look at the US, you see the very same phenomenon transforming the Republicans from a Conservative Party to a Fascist one, as well as how the Democrats have be thoroughly taken over by those serving the interests of Israel and of Billionaires.

I think that the less rigged a country's voting system is for "stability" (read: for making sure only the same handful of big parties has power and they seldom have to do it as part of a cohalition) the more robust it is to this kind of taking over of a large party as an unaccountable way to get power, mainly because more parties have to be taken over and people will migrate more easilly way from a party when it stops representing them (there is no such thing as tactically voting for the "lesser" evil in a Proportional Vote system).

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 1 points 17 minutes ago

Great points.

My comment wasn't in reference to FTPT specifically, though I suppose the UK uses FPTP in voting for party leadership?

And im guessing this doesn't happen so much in other countries that don't use FPTP?

[–] Small_Quasar@lemmy.world 51 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

Starmer is terrified of Reform. So he's taken the really smart stance of pulling Labour to the right to court a demographic that would never vote Labour anyway, and in the meantime utterly piss off his core base.

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, it's very sad since I think people are more willing to vote Labour if they were just better. Now their voter base is more likely to stay at home instead of going to the voting booth. Weird move by Starmer since he was in the march against the Iraq war himself.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Same story, different country

Same shit, different assholes.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 18 points 10 hours ago

This almost always fails and only ends up moving the country average to right and make extreme right seem more mild.

Also I don't think right wing voters have that strong an opinion on Israel. This is more likely zionist lobbies pulling some of Starmer's strings.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 8 hours ago

He's been do that for years. Hell labour advisors even managed get Kamala and the dnc to to harder right