Yeah I had a similar path with Labour membership and Corbyn. We're clearly in the bad timeline. Honestly the timeline where Gore won (well, he did, but y'know, actually became president) looks pretty great from here.

And we shouldn't beat ourselves up. We've not been more disempowered for a long time. We need a mass, class-centered movement and there isn't one.

 

Consultant Psychiatrist, Health Professional, fully-qualified doctor, Wes Streeting (actually has a BA in history) says he believes: This "opinion" has nothing to do with his worry that proposed cuts to Personal Independence Payments might be opposed by the few remaining Labour MPs with a conscience. I love the use of "too many people being written off". It's a real piece of new Labour doublespeak, suggesting that some unwilling people go to their doctors for help and that somehow prevents them from being employed. I see all these doctors with their "thou shalt not work" rubber stamps being the guilty parties. I expect they're all woke.

I actually find it sickening that Streeting is trying to swing the narrative that these ill people aren't really ill. Presumably he's consulted widely and done a vast amount of research to form this view. Couldn't just be some crap from a labour/tory spin doctor?

Yeah the "too many people being written off" line is kinda fucking genius honestly. Sound compassionate while slashing benefits.

Unnecessary cleverness, maybe, in this era where the winning strategy seems to be to tell lies so fast that no one can catch up and hold you to account.

It really just feels like Labour's goal is to just tee Reform up for the next election.

Is Reform losing any ground because Trump scaring the bejesus out of just about everybody?

I don't think the kind of people likely to vote Reform would make a connection between them and Trump. And Trump's been quite insulting to Farage which reinforces a separation there.

I forgot about that last part. You'd think they have quite a lot in common, but maybe that's a problem.