#UnpopularOpinion, if people in #USA & #UK on here are serious about 2024 elections & not losing to Republicans & Conservatives in 2024 they need to spend more time talking to swing voters.
That means either getting them in here, on #Fedi, or talking to them where they are.
@ArtBear but with the slide to the right, the parties are creating more swing voters by leaving behind the ones you are asking to influence the swing voters..
Take me, hate the tories with passion, but cannot in good conscience tell people to vote starmers labour as an alternative.
@Thebratdragon
People said the exact same thing to me about Blair. I can't vote for Blair. He's too like the Tories. Politicians are all the same. Blair is a red tory.
Parties are more than just their leader. Take for example emergency food parcels, Tories are not twice as bad, not 5 times, not 10 times, not 20 times, not 50 times.
@ArtBear maybe so, but starmer/reeves/cooper/Lammy/streeting are not just red tories, their policies would put them in the current tory cabinet quite happily.
And your wonderful chart also notes, that food parcels and food banks started to be needed underblair/brown.
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
@Thebratdragon
In Scotland there's a real alternative vote in the SNP.
BTW what the chart is showing is that labour did an excellent job removing food insecurity after Tories. That the 2008 GFC had an impact worldwide but the disgusting explosion in poverty & food insecurity comes from policy changes once Tories implemented new practices, DWP, PiP, DLA, IAS/ATOS, WCA.
#TLDR letting Tories win, creates misery & gets people killed.
@ArtBear@Thebratdragon wait a minute, Labour lost the trust of disabled people when they brought about welfare reforms in 2008 under Tony Blair’s regime. It was those reforms, initially intended for new claims, which turned social security into the negative state it is now in. The Labour reforms to social security gave the Tories the tools they have gone on to use with such viciousness against disabled people.
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