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> “they all want”

Let me stop you right there - any time you generalize to that degree, you’ve already failed to think critically and charitably about the issue.

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I am not sure I would characterize the current UK government as 'left' myself.
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Based on drawing the 'middle' where, or how widely? It's not as far left as Corbyn's Labour of course, but it's still a Labour government!
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New Labour wasn't a consistently left-wing government, was it? Or they'd have banned FOBTs, not profiteered off them to an extent that they ruined a generation of people.
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So it's based purely on party labels? Political parties are not static and is clear that Labour has been moving further and further away from a left platform.

I mean they tried to cut benefits for disabled people, supported Israeli war crimes in Gaza and prosecuted pro-Palestinian activism, sneakily increased taxes on the working class, clamped down on immigration to try and undercut the rise of Reform, I am honestly not sure of a single left policy they enacted, granted I haven't been paying super close attention to that shitshow.

Blarite/neoliberal fits them much more I'd say.

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> I am honestly not sure of a single left policy they enacted, granted I haven't been paying super close attention to that shitshow.

I'm likewise fairly disengaged, but off the top of my head: increased taxes, and removal of the two-child benefit cap.

Israel does not really fit on a left-right spectrum, nor even really (though slightly better?) on two (economic & liberty) axes. The Liberal Democrats & Greens are the only (somewhat significant) parties consistently, err, anti-Zionist if that's fair to say, pro-two-state, accusing of war crimes, etc.

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Today's Labour is even actively promoting anti-LGBT policies.
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Also their anti-trans stance.

And any party that is pro-monarchy could not reasonably be described as left wing.

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