One of the things that gives me a flicker of hope for my country is when groups like the Quakers, the RNLI, the Women's Institute and the National Trust stand up for common decency. I just don't understand why the Labour Party can't.
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Nor me.
sep 1, 2025, 12:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Because they are no longer decent.
sep 1, 2025, 11:08 am • 1 0 • view
Indeed. Labour was supposed to be better than this. Instead, it keeps throwing its natural supporters under the bus to placate the far-R.
sep 1, 2025, 11:36 am • 2 0 • view
It can. It just won’t. And nor will the Corbyn and Sultana party.
sep 1, 2025, 11:27 am • 4 0 • view
That (essentially) means you have no hope even of the British populace. It's a new party. Anyone can sign up for it. Including you. Your friends. Anyone. It will be a bottom-up organisation whose members decide what it stands for and what its goals are. Dismissing it at this point is beyond...
sep 1, 2025, 11:47 am • 0 0 • view
... cynical. It's doommongering, and it's an abnegation of personal responsibility.
sep 1, 2025, 11:47 am • 0 0 • view
Prob with the latter is positioning itself as Gaza protest party, attracting socially v conservative Muslim vote on a single issue. It's incompatible with more widely egalitarian modern society. I don't want religious reactionaries of *any* religion dictating policy.
sep 1, 2025, 11:42 am • 3 0 • view
Quakers are rocking it.
sep 1, 2025, 1:08 pm • 1 0 • view