@matildagirl it's still early days, but Keir Starmer is already starting to fix some things the Conservatives couldn't do in 14 years.
@tgraf66 I will, of course, because we need to stick together in this increasingly volatile world and push back against the rise of fascism, which affects us all.
@luminous I was pleased to see Keir Starmer's show of solidarity with Ukraine, pledging this week to stay with them until then end. Interestingly, last week a work friend and I were talking about what we think the world would look like in the awful (and unlikely!) event that 45 prevails. We were concerned about Ukraine and I said, you know, maybe the Brits will step up and lead the way. They held firm against fascism during WWII before the US entered the war, and when the US was doing with them what it's doing now with Ukraine -- arming but not entering the war.
So many parallels between our countries. BREXIT was a Russia influence operation that took place right before our 2016 election/Russian influence operation. Around that time 45 gave some speech in Mississippi and who was with him at the event? Nigel Farage. In Mississippi. I got a chill when I saw him with 45 and again, asked myself, why is this happening now? No coincidence.
@lynn That's a great assessment of the situation, and I agree that there are many parallels going on between our two countries and with WW2.
In my opinion, it's like the energies relating to fascism from WW2 are playing out again and are trying to once again do what they failed to achieve in WW2.
I don't believe any of this is a coincidence.
@luminous Yes, definite parallels to WWII and also, at least in the US, the civil war as well. Fights over equality and fighting among ourselves.
In any event, I'm rooting for the UK, and it gives me such joy and hope to see that things are, hopefully, going in the right direction!
So things are not quite as rosy in the UK as they might appear to be.
There have been a number of violent knife attacks in the UK, to which the far right has responded with several protest marches, which have degenerated into violent riots. There has also been a large influx of UK racist far-right spam on Facebook, Twitter/X and YouTube.
The situation is worrying because far-right movements and their responses here are beginning to become more extreme.
All of this has been giving me some intense anxiety about the next few years ahead.
Hi I'm somewhat new here (signed up a month ago - haven't yet posted much), I dont make any special claims, but consider myself very spiritual, and I made a prediction to my family when Boris won his election that he would definitely not last, and that he would be ousted during the first quarter of 2021 by a growing number of his own mps turning against him.
Unfortunately I think brexit will happen still, but it won't go quite as smoothly as planned. This and a series of continuous errors will cause his party to turn on him. The combination of the covid19 pandemic and brexit is part of the catalyst.
Basically, his own Party will eventually throw him under his own brexit bus!
Just a feeling, but I could be wrong.
Huh, I should try to do more UK predictions. This was from 2020. I usually don't bother because I don't trust my own intuition sometimes and doubt myself, so I don't like to put bold predicative statements out there. But maybe I should. Maybe I should meditate on these things more and do some in the future.
I regret my decision to vote for this government. What the Labour party are doing disgusts me on so many levels. How they can attack and go after the most vulnerable in society as a scapegoat for their incompetent economic policies in government makes me sick.
My intuition during the UK election was that Labour had moved much further to the right politically, but their past values of being a centre-left party and what they were promising to do were why I gave them a chance. But I felt a strong inclination to vote for the Green Party because they showed policies that have consistently been focusing on helping people and the environment, and I ignored that feeling because I thought it might be a wasted vote to vote for a smaller party that can't win when I should be focused on voting for a party that can win and get the Tories out. Never, ever again, am I going to ignore that feeling.
What is happening right now from this Labour government is a complete betrayal to all the people who voted and supported them.
Prime Minister Starmer can enjoy his small rise in popularity for his foreign policy and stance on supporting Ukraine, but he is failing immensely on his domestic policies at home.
First they came for the trans kids, I am not trans and so I did not speak up.
Then they came for the elderly, I was not elderly so I did not speak up.
Then they came for the disabled and sick...
It’s foul. They have gone for the least capable to fight back.
Yes, they are.
But it's not helping to see off the far-right in the UK.
Nigel Farage's far-right populist party called Reform UK is surging in the polls and may overtake the Conservatives.
This adoption of conservative policy by Labour to appease right-wing voters has just further enabled the narrative of what Reform UK is offering people.
What Labour should be doing is fighting Reform UK and challenging that right-wing narrative.
This is why I have a lot of praise for the SNP, Green Party, and Liberal Democrats, because they have challenged Reform UK on their right-wing populism and have made attempts to deconstruct their arguments about migration being the cause of all the UK problems, for example.
In my heart, the more I see what's happening here in the UK and in the future, with a climate crisis looming on the horizon, the more I feel I can't vote for either Labour or the Liberal Democrats. Their climate policies are too weak.
In fact, I've just read the Green Party manifesto and I agree with almost all their policies.
I may change my mind when the general election comes around, but I feel I can't in good conscience vote for a party that doesn't prioritise drastic action on climate change.
Maybe I'm naive in thinking that a more equal, fairer and climate-friendly society is achievable, but it's what my heart wants.
The Green Party may not have a chance of winning a general election against either Labour or the Conservatives at the moment, but maybe by voting for them I can help create an appetite for change, and maybe one day they will have a bigger political presence.
I should have listened to my intuition on this one.
Thanks @lovendures
I am disappointed that I didn't trust my intuition more. I voted for a party that has attacked the most vulnerable in society and I feel betrayed.
Over the years, the Labour Party has attacked the Tories for their treatment of the sick and disabled, in fact, Keir Starmer called it inhumane. Now, his party are cutting deeper and harder than the Tories ever did.
In the UK right now we have three right-wing parties, including the Labour Party, which is at the top of all the polls. What this looks like to me is the normalisation of right-wing authoritarianism. People are so focused on directing their anger at immigrants and the sick and disabled that they have lost sight of the real cause of their problems in the first place. We have seen this before in history. The right uses people's anger about their situation in life and creates a scapegoat that they can blame for all their problems. It's disgusting.
The UK is heading in an extreme right-wing fascist direction. The right-wing party called Reform UK made some serious gains in local elections over both Labour and the Tories.
I wish I could say I am surprised by the result, but sadly I'm not. The Labour Party have failed on so many levels to address domestic problems in the UK, and they have in some ways made them worse. The same thing happened during the EU referendum vote when the Tories were in government. People were angry at many domestic issues and felt largely ignored, so when they were given the opportunity to vote, they voted in the most destructive way they could in leaving the EU, to piss off the establishment.
The Labour Party campaigned during the general election last year not to impose cuts and a return to austerity after 15 years of pain under the Conservatives, and they have failed to address that since getting elected into government. In fact, the Labour Party have implemented many of their own cuts, which has consequently angered and hurt many millions of people across the UK.
The Labour Party's denial of the economic problems that they have further perpetuated shows a complete disrespect to the millions of people who voted for them wanting to see a change from the Tory party.
So going by the amount of deep-seated anger by millions of people across the UK, I see these local election results as the beginning of the end for the Labour Party unless they acknowledge their mistakes and begin to address many problems quickly. Otherwise, the UK will find itself electing Reform UK into government at the next general election, and universal healthcare, such as the NHS, will be gone in favour of US-style health insurance – this will put many people such as myself with health problems into an extremely difficult position.