It’s almost like traditional Labour voters: workers, the youth, the poor, the elderly aren’t exactly impressed with labours drive to make life in the uk worse for all the above sectors of society and see his spineless grovelling to Reform voters and transphobes for exactly what it is.
Typically I don’t engage with libs on politics because we’re using entirely different lenses of analysis.
But in the past year people in my life have gone from asking me why I’m not voting for labour in the general election, to asking me to explain why I knew labour would be so bad, to asking me to explain Ibrahim Traoré and the Sahel to them because they like his reforms(?!??).
People want something to believe in.
This week I had to go to an office of ours I don’t often go in, and was baffled to have my coworkers mock me because “my guy” was doing such a bad job.
I had to explain that despite (because?) their accurate jeering assessment of me as a woke lefty, why Keir is most certainly not “my guy” and I absolutely didn’t vote for him.
The average Brit has zero political literacy, presumably by design of the education system.
I’m a communist, you idiot
