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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Three members of the new cabinet have told the BBC that if Labour does not keep its promises, voters will back populists instead.Chancellor Rachel Reeves suggested it would be an “institutional failure” if they could not get things done.Interviewed for a Panorama special, the chancellor, foreign secretary and health secretary all warned separately that the public has lost faith in mainstream politics and that if they fail, voters will turn toward the far-left or far-right.Ms Reeves said that if Labour doesn’t stick to its word, "it will be seen as sort of an institutional failing, that mainstream politics doesn’t deliver.

    "The new Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, said members of the cabinet had to preserve their connections to working class communities and the constituencies they represent.

    "If we don’t, as we’re seeing in other parts of the world, in democracies, the populists - whether from the far-right or the far-left - will offer a different vision.

    Now the foreign secretary, who had previously been very critical of Donald Trump, he said he would “embrace the constraint” of being an office-holder where he could no longer speak freely like a backbencher.The programme also captures the Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, joking with a group of builders that Ms Reeves is the “moneybags” and she is “tightfisted”.Reeves responds: "I’m a Yorkshire MP… We have a reputation in Yorkshire of being good with money.

    "Moving into Downing Street at the weekend, the chancellor said it was a “big change” for her whole family, but that her husband had been unpacking most of the boxes so far.

    All three cabinet ministers know only too well the risks if they do not keep their promises.The health secretary admits he is concerned about being able to stick to the targets he has set for 2025.


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      the chancellor, foreign secretary and health secretary all warned separately that the public has lost faith in mainstream politics and that if they fail, voters will turn toward the far-left or far-right.

      Oh no, not the far-left!

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        The funniest thing is that there is no real ‘far left’ to speak of in the UK or most other western countries. What they consider ‘far left’ is in fact the moderate, left-of-centre politics which only appear more extreme because the Overton window has been dragged so far towards the right.

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          Socialist Party formally militant SP, Trade Union and Socialist Coalition TUSC, Revolutionary Communist Party RCP, Socialist Workers Party SWP, Workers Party, Communist Party of Britain CPB.

          Theres a few I can name.

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            And how many of them have more than a proverbial handful of members and any chance of winning seats in local or national parliaments?

            I know these parties - or parties like them - exist. I also know that they are largely way too marginal as to tip the scales of politics in any way. Unlike UKIP, RefUK, or elsewhere the AfD in Germany, RN in France, FdI in Italy, PVV in the Netherlands…

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              we wont win by election or plan to be elected through the electoral system