Remember that episode of Black Mirror in which the prime minister was blackmailed into fucking a pig? Starmerism is that with flags.

Remember that episode of Black Mirror in which the prime minister was blackmailed into fucking a pig? Starmerism is that with flags.

  • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    3 days ago

    For a brief self-gaslighting moment, I tricked myself into thinking the plan was to get any unpopular but (for whatever reason) necessary policies out of the way at the start so people hopefully forget about them by the next election.

    I think we’re well past that point now, and we need some pretty radical policy to combat the economic disaster we’re hurtling towards.

    • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
      16·
      3 days ago

      It’s not just economic. Its a road towards societal disaster. We’ve been on it a long time but has accelerated of late. All of the post-war social democratic values have been abandoned and replaced with paranoid protection of the rich and powerful.

    • TWeaK@feddit.ukEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      My only hope is that he throws in something like proportional representation right at the end, but that’s an awfully long shot - and I could see Reform winning either way.

      • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.ukEnglish
        141·
        3 days ago

        Basically, though they’re traditionally considered to be left wing, and people were expecting them to be slightly-right-wing, they’ve enacted all the Tory (very right wing) policies that were in the pipeline, and in an attempt to appeal to the far right, have jumped from “a little right of centre” into a government more right wing than David Cameron’s Tories were. They’re probably still to the left of where we’d be if we’d actually got Tories or UKIP.

        For example (I have paraphrased and sensationalised the descriptions, because I am sad and angry):

        • Starving the elderly and disabled
        • Banning trans people from being allowed to use public toilets
        • Implemented a ban on any website which could ever potentially contain a picture of a boob, or offer things like “quitting smoking support”, unless you upload your name/passport/3d scan of your face, postal address and email address to a dodgy company in Cypress or the USA
        • Come out in complete support of a genocide
        • Banned peace protesting and arrested hundreds of innocent people
        • Come out in complete support of the other year’s Tory/UKIP rioting
        • Come out in support of far-right nationalist flag-shagging
        • Come out in support of killing refugees
        • Various other atrocities. I’m sure you get the idea

        I’ve used slightly loaded language and twisted a few specifics, but I’m sure you get the general idea.