• wishthane@lemmy.world
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      Well, Labour is legitimately sliding right, and it’s become somewhat common among the so-called “left” in the UK to make a scapegoat out of trans people - it really wouldn’t surprise me that an older, liberal woman in the UK would have some right-wing things to say.

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          Well, I didn’t mean to say Labour is far-right or anything, just that they’re sliding in the direction of the right.

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          The benefit cap is right wing.
          Banning your MPs from joining picket lines is right wing.
          Purging the left wing from your party -but leaving the right wing untouched- iis right wing.
          You can only call Starmer centrist if your view is one from a right wing perspective.
          The Overton window in the UK is too far to the right, as is our policy on almost every area. We need a strong push to the left to take us back to the centre, not a slightly watered down, more palatable version of Thatcherism.