I cannot see a way out of this for Starmer. Extremely poor judgement or a willingness to turn a blind eye. Either way it’s bad.
Mandelson is only one of Starmer’s many mistakes, failings and betrayals. Even if Mandelson had never crawled back from under the flat rock he’d been hiding under, there would still be compelling reasons for the Labour Party to replace Starmer. He’s just not up to the job.
This may even have been the intention of the US DoJ by making sure Mandelson is highlighted the maximum amount of times. It certainly benefits the Trump administration to have the UK as weak as possible, especially when we are looking to renew bonds with Europe and are pivoting away from US hegemony.
also replace a left government with farage
“Left”
But yeah Farage would be much worse so you may be right.
jesus man, lay off the purity tests. Auth left is left. Center left is left.
I’m not saying Labour are the paris commune, I’m saying the motivation is to remove the leftwing party from power and replace them with nazis.
I’m fine forming a coalition against fascism with centrists but I just don’t think you can be pro-police state and be on the left. That’s a fundamentally incompatible position. It’s not some pet issue, building a police state is the single most anti-left policy I can possibly imagine. Starmer is literally working to make left organizing impossible.
Again I’m not saying Farage wouldn’t be worse, and maybe tactically it’s right to support Starmer to oppose him. Or maybe not, we can have that discussion. But if so it’s truly an act of desperation because Starmer is absolutely our enemy too.
I just don’t think you can be pro-police state and be on the left.
go explain that to basically all the big auth-left countries in the 20th century; China, Cuba, Vietnam, Cambodia and North Korea. (EDIT : missed the obvious, USSR)
They did famously right wing things like nationalising all industry, killing landlords and capitalists, and banning religion.
I do try to explain that to them and people never listen.
If your definition of leftism is “it’s good when we brutally murder the
filthy foreignerskulaks!” then you’ve completely lost the plot.The left right axis isn’t about “left good, right bad”. If you look at the things I posted, and try to determine if those are actions that have political motivation on the right, left or center.
Most of those things are bad (nationalising all industry is a mixed bag, and open to long ass discussions many people have had in the past). However, they are aimed at reducing the income disparity or restricting captialist actions. They fit on the left, or at least, are not centrist, nor right wing. The way those actions were carried out are through authoritarian regimes with police state like apparatuses to enforce them.
In terms of the political compass, the USSR is not lib left; it was far too socially restrictive, thus, there is a mixture of authoritarianism and left wing economic policy.
These are historic facts and analyses that are corroborated. They aren’t nice things, but it’s how it is.
jesus man, lay off the purity tests. Auth left is left. Center left is left.
And centre right is right, like Labour.
labor is not center right.
Labour. Of course they are, they’ve pretty much kicked out anyone remotely left leaning at this point.
Speaking of left-wing purity tests, when the next UK election comes, I wonder if anti-Reform voters will be able to unite around a single party to keep Reform out of power, or whether they’ll be spread into factions between Labour/LibDems/Greens/SNP/Plaid and even the Tories.
If anti-Reform voters can’t unite behind a single party then Farage will surely be the next prime minister.
There’s very little to distinguish Reform and the Tories at this point. They’d form a coalition with Frogface in a heartbeat.
Yes they probably would form a coalition if one of those parties won the election and the other could provide enough seats for a majority. But if the right-wing vote were split between Reform and the Tories then probably neither would win the election. Anyway I guess we’ll see. Hope for the best, expect the worst.
I think its likely they will do what Lab/Lib did in the past few elections where they strategically stand down candidates in tory regions to unite the vote, thus stopping people from being able to split the vote.
I’m not sure it will do much good, the numbers are very close when it comes to CON + “reform” , compared to LIB + LAB. (~10mil v ~12 mil, favouring left).
plus all the usual shennanigans of rural places getting more votes, the voters being clumped in various regions, etc etc.
I already left, so I don’t care much.
I’m not sure it will do much good, the numbers are very close when it comes to CON + “reform” , compared to LIB + LAB. (~10mil v ~12 mil, favouring left).
Fair point. The latest YouGov poll shows 44% of British voters favouring Reform and the Tories so I guess a majority are against the Tories and Reform. But yeah, due to being split between different parties, Reform look likely to win the next election. We really should have proportional representation.
We really should have proportional representation.
good luck getting anything when the blackshirts are in power
These purity tests are done by closeted right wingers too scared to say that they’re right wing.
Also wrong. Unless you think designating peaceful protesters holding signs for Palestine terrorists is leftist praxis.
how about nationalising rail?
Having a few leftist policies isn’t sufficient. Especially when the anti-leftist actions are far more impactful than a plan that to my knowledge will likely never happen.
Personally I think nationalization is overrated by leftists but it is a genuinely popular policy on the left so I’ll grant you it’s something.
I think they’re referring to how Labour is right and Tories are left, unless I’m completely misreading it.
What??? No.
sure, Tories are left wing, that’s why they have a self hating black woman with african parents, who grew up in africa talking about how much she hates woke diversity in charge.
Labour are obviously nazis, since they have a white male human rights lawyer in charge.
No, I mean left and right are literally reversed in British politics.
Progressives are right-wing and conservatives are left-wing specifically in Britain.
Progressives are right-wing and conservatives are left-wing specifically in Britain.
put down the crack pipe.
Labour are explicitly no longer left.
They themselves dropped that pretence in the 90s. They follow what they call the Third Way. What some would spin as “socially liberal, fiscally conservative”. Capitalism light. Nice capitalism. Capitalism is a right wing economic ideology, not left.
See my comment here for an explanation, with sources:
cool, good luck overthrowing Keir Starmer and sticking his head on a pike.
What’s that got to do with anything?
You stated they were a left government, many people corrected you and you argued with all of them that you’re right and they’re wrong.
Now that I’ve provided sources you’re changing the topic? Get over your ego.
I like you, my vote tally has you sitting on +34, but take a minute and think beyond trying to win an argument.
How can you expect any form of left unity when you argue blue in the face that an explicitly not left government is so. Are we supposed to prop up our enemy at all times because there’s a worse guy waiting in the shadows?
The ratchet effect has been ongoing since the 70s and now we must pretend that an explicitly not left party is left as well? Where will that lead us? How will that affect the Overton window? How can we expect to make progress when discourse gets shut down because we’re not showing enough solidarity to people that explicitly don’t show us solidarity because they’re explicitly opposed to our views?
The modern day Labour party are not left wing. Nothing to do with the spectrum of liberal or authoritarian but the spectrum of economic policy.
Labour are both authoritarian and right wing.
And the left are expected to back them?
We have FPTP, yes. But we’re not a two party state like America either. Our only options aren’t Labour or Tory, akin to Democrat or Republican. The Lib Dems were power brokers in 2010, the DUP were power brokers in 2017. The Greens and Your Party have both made mention of working together to prevent standing candidates against each other. The SNP are also likely to work with a Green and Your Party alliance, as they have allied with the Scottish Greens in the past (who are more left wing than the GPEW).
If we continue voting for right wing authoritarians we will never make progress. Regardless of whether they wear blue or red. Regardless of whether they’re explicitly racist or not. Regardless of whether they’re explicitly pro-aristocrats or not.
Labour were captured in the 90s. There was no viable alternative for left wingers to go then though and there were still many lefties within the rank and file of the party. Starmer has made sure to purge most of that since Corbyn left. They only thing left about them now is legacy, branding, and reputation. Don’t let the bastards win.
I’m just going to try to protect the reputation I have with you.
- I have seen actions taken by the Starmer led Labour party that are in line with economic left wing values.
- I am not in a state recently where I can bust my ass remembering them and looking up the evidence for it.
- I have consistently voted 3rd party in the uk, tried to convince others to do the same etc.
- I have left the UK because not only were the conservatives stoking racist fires, labour were not going to do a fucking thing to roll back dragnet surveillance (in fact, literally made it worse!)
- I want people to not devolve into the same shit flinging , purity test laden crap that’s happening in the US to also happen in the UK so that Farage gets the country instead. because of the first point, I want people to give credit to labour the way they didn’t for the left wing actions taken by the Biden government in the US, and for the same thing (switch to fascism) to not happen in the UK.
Sorry about not citing reference, try again in a few weeks.
Why would a NATO ally and friend to the UK be so back handed and insidious that it would want to overthrow the democratically elected government?
Oh wait… USA. 😕
Let’s get rid of him, sure. But can we please not swallow a spider to catch a spider?
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/12/30/nigel-farage-41-mentions-in-the-epstein-files/
Totally agree. Why is no one challenging Farage when he says this is the biggest political scandal in a century (it’s not) by asking him to explain his name being mentioned in the files. The press need to step up and start asking the tough questions.
Seems the Reform treasurer is up to his neck aswell https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/02/03/epstein-files-names-reform-uk-treasurer/
And they will both be elected. I know it. I knew for a fact that Trump would be elected both times. First time he ran I knew, instantly when I learned about him. When he ran for 2024 I also just knew, in spite of the polls, because the fix was in. It’s like, when you know, you know, you know? I know when I’m being scammed. I don’t need to know the particulars to know the end result. Powerful forces want Farage in, because these fascist rubes are easily controlled and manipulated, they’re stooges of whoever is actually pulling the strings. Cockroaches like Farage get installed, they don’t get elected.
There you go, my completely unfounded conspiracy rambling, and watch my words.
If we can get this over and done with so we can move past this nightmare of the Blairites doing what they can to turn the public against the left.
