GeriatricGardener on Nostr: npub1hq2x7…q07w7 Quoting Dan Hind in npub1zqlkv…2qqc9 “But a 2024 ...
npub1hq2x7vhrefya6nl8jpnfwv4sq2z9qu4mhn4katq4hqxssmjf0euqyq07w7 (npub1hq2…07w7)
Quoting Dan Hind in npub1zqlkvx66l3xz03u6gwzrt7xa8tmtfyf8r5qwk7hhdakeh6vwq6ksh2qqc9 (npub1zql…qqc9)
“But a 2024 npub14hshg4ehuv9t8g9v0dzhakz8n5cplzappzfdyxyj7f7wq04f57kq2maxed (npub14hs…axed) govt committed to the #Blair-#Thatcher status quo, which refuses to meet the #UK’s accumulating crises with a programme equal to it, will only aid a nativist and authoritarian #Right that offers its own, hallucinatory solutions.
Our likely trajectory, absent fundamental reform, is one that discredits the centre-left in government and empowers the extreme right in opposition.
In these circumstances, our best option at the next general election must be a mobilisation that puts as many ecosocialists and sincere left Keynesians into Parliament as possible. Our priority should be to maximise the number of MPs willing to argue for replacing Thatcherism with a new green and democratic settlement.
Once we grasp that, the question then becomes technical: how?”
[..]
“If we can create the means for voters to communicate among ourselves in pursuit of our shared interests, if we then act with some fraction of the right’s energy and daring, with some fraction of their budget, we can begin to create a new economic and political settlement before the old impoverishes and demoralises even more of us. If we wait meekly for a #Starmer landslide, we will get nothing, and deserve less”
#LabourLies #StopStarmer #RedTory #EcoSocialism #Election2024
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/keir-starmer-labour-general-election-2024-need-radical-change-green-left/
Quoting Dan Hind in npub1zqlkvx66l3xz03u6gwzrt7xa8tmtfyf8r5qwk7hhdakeh6vwq6ksh2qqc9 (npub1zql…qqc9)
“But a 2024 npub14hshg4ehuv9t8g9v0dzhakz8n5cplzappzfdyxyj7f7wq04f57kq2maxed (npub14hs…axed) govt committed to the #Blair-#Thatcher status quo, which refuses to meet the #UK’s accumulating crises with a programme equal to it, will only aid a nativist and authoritarian #Right that offers its own, hallucinatory solutions.
Our likely trajectory, absent fundamental reform, is one that discredits the centre-left in government and empowers the extreme right in opposition.
In these circumstances, our best option at the next general election must be a mobilisation that puts as many ecosocialists and sincere left Keynesians into Parliament as possible. Our priority should be to maximise the number of MPs willing to argue for replacing Thatcherism with a new green and democratic settlement.
Once we grasp that, the question then becomes technical: how?”
[..]
“If we can create the means for voters to communicate among ourselves in pursuit of our shared interests, if we then act with some fraction of the right’s energy and daring, with some fraction of their budget, we can begin to create a new economic and political settlement before the old impoverishes and demoralises even more of us. If we wait meekly for a #Starmer landslide, we will get nothing, and deserve less”
#LabourLies #StopStarmer #RedTory #EcoSocialism #Election2024
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/keir-starmer-labour-general-election-2024-need-radical-change-green-left/