What will happen in the UK under a Labour government ? 🤔 \ stacker news ~news

pull down to refresh

What will happen in the UK under a Labour government ? 🤔

267 sats \ 15 comments \ @cristaiji 6 Jul news

I have a number of concerns. Firstly Keir Starmer was given a knighthood and is embedded deep in both the British and global political establishments for example being a member of both David Rockefellers Trilateral Commission and the World Economic Forum.

Secondly during covid Labour consistently called for more authoritarian and draconian policies to be pushed onto the public.

Weirdly as much of the world is shifting to the right Labour is a hard left party at a time when socialist policies seem to be failing everywhere.

The world is complicated right now and I’m not gonna call it however many of us in the UK are deeply aware of what a Labour Party under a globalist such as Starmer might try to do and are thinking about how we can prevent him from opposing a tyranny for example what they appear to have in Canada under Trudeau.

Why do you guys think?

https://m.stacker.news/38444

view all related items

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @south_korea_ln 6 Jul

Well, the austerity government from the last 10 years hasn't really done good for the UK. That's a fact. Is it because they were not doing enough in terms of austerity or because they were doing too much, is it because of the clowns who got elected? That's another story... but many of my friends, both conservative and labour agree that the UK is sick. Some blame Brexit, some blame the conservatives, some blame the current state of the world... I'm just curious what this new government will do...

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 6 Jul

Many conservative voters stayed home. Labour received more votes in 2019.

34 percent vote total translate to 65 percent of seats in Parliament.

The Tory problem was they tried to govern from the centre

39 sats \ 3 replies \ @SpaceHodler 6 Jul

I live in the UK, but my knowledge of UK politics is so bad I didn't even know about the election. I mean I knew one was coming sometime, because I'd received leaflets (which went straight to the recycling bin), but didn't know it was this soon. Literally no one was talking about it - not on SN, not on Nostr, not on X, not on Youtube.

I don't know what the current government has done (other than Brexit and some scandals around Covid), but I had the vague feeling that they were associated with cronyism. The new government may be much more socialist and mess things up even more.

27 sats \ 0 replies \ @cristaiji OP 6 Jul

American politics is far more entertaining in my opinion. I’m probably similar to you in that I ignore a lot of the political theatre in the UK.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 6 Jul

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/07/06/meet-sir-keir-starmers-trump-hating-anti-brexit-cabinet/

New cabinet

18 sats \ 0 replies \ @SpaceHodler 6 Jul

Thank, I found out about it yesterday by accidentally seeing someone reading an article on their phone.

As an ancap I'm not into politics, but I reluctantly admit I'm not yet at a point in my pursuit of freedom and self-sovereignty where state predation has zero effect on me.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinAbhi 6 Jul

The labour will increase!!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 6 Jul

More immigration from Rwanda

59 sats \ 6 replies \ @orthwyrm 6 Jul

deleted by author

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 6 Jul

Go Nigel!

67 sats \ 4 replies \ @cristaiji OP 6 Jul

Fair point about Reform. And I agree that Labour are not too different probably in most respects.

The UK political establishment is really a uni party with left and right wings. And it feels like most of the policy decisions if not all are being made at the global level.

21 sats \ 3 replies \ @Bell_curve 6 Jul

Every Tory leader opposes Brexit except for Boris

Edit: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/05/uk-election-2024-britains-labour-pulled-off-a-thumping-election-victory.html

17 sats \ 2 replies \ @cristaiji OP 6 Jul

The Brexit debate is interesting. I was formally against Brexit but now suspect that it hasn’t made much difference or it may be in fact advantageous . I think covid restrictions and money printing were far more damaging to the UK than leaving the EU.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 6 Jul

I was initially opposed to Brexit until someone told me about the European Parliament

UK is still a member of the European Court of Human Rights

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 6 Jul

Brexit was about the British setting immigration policy without veto interference from Brussels

Did immigration decrease since 2016?

The EU was created as an economic union: common market, free trade zones