call it cope if you like, but the greens did a huge amount of community outreach for hannah spencer in gorton & denton (i live nowhere near there and was getting multiple emails per day from the greens about going over and doing some flyering and door knocking) and did very little for makerfield (i haven’t had a single email). i was under the impression that those who call themselves “the left” were voting tactically to beat reform rather than to dunk on labour, mostly because there are a significant number of people who will continue to vote labour by default since they’ve historically been the least bad option. though, admittedly, it would have been extremely funny if the greens had worked hard and burnham had lost.
the guy refuses to even call gaza siege a genocide, supported iraq war, wants more military spending, and amount of people thinking it’s bad around 1%, because some boutique reasons like sturmer must go (replace him with sturmer 2.0). genuinely, what one member swapping to reform even harm, they have super majority in the government.
oh i’m not disputing that he’s absolute filth and that whether he or keith run labour makes very little material difference. but i suppose, in a way, it might be good for burnham to become pm so that labour voters with short memories can see in real-time that burnham is as bad as starmer and perhaps get closer to realising that it’s not just one guy, but the whole of labour who are just as much our class enemy as reform. but idk, maybe i am coping.
call it cope if you like, but the greens did a huge amount of community outreach for hannah spencer in gorton & denton (i live nowhere near there and was getting multiple emails per day from the greens about going over and doing some flyering and door knocking) and did very little for makerfield (i haven’t had a single email). i was under the impression that those who call themselves “the left” were voting tactically to beat reform rather than to dunk on labour, mostly because there are a significant number of people who will continue to vote labour by default since they’ve historically been the least bad option. though, admittedly, it would have been extremely funny if the greens had worked hard and burnham had lost.
the guy refuses to even call gaza siege a genocide, supported iraq war, wants more military spending, and amount of people thinking it’s bad around 1%, because some boutique reasons like sturmer must go (replace him with sturmer 2.0). genuinely, what one member swapping to reform even harm, they have super majority in the government.
oh i’m not disputing that he’s absolute filth and that whether he or keith run labour makes very little material difference. but i suppose, in a way, it might be good for burnham to become pm so that labour voters with short memories can see in real-time that burnham is as bad as starmer and perhaps get closer to realising that it’s not just one guy, but the whole of labour who are just as much our class enemy as reform. but idk, maybe i am coping.