• dad@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    Out of interest did you join the party with the wave of others in order to vote for Jeremy Corbyn or were you a member of the party for years before this?

    • Tenebris Nox@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      Long before Corbyn. I’d believed that a Labour govt - even if centre-right - was better for people than anything else. After the Blair years, I’d say that a Labour government relocates some funding towards the most obvious extremes of poverty but other than that carried on the neoliberal agenda it inherited from Thatcher and Major.

      I worked in education and the last Labour government continued Tory policies, introduced forms of privatised funding (PfI) and enabled Michael Gove’s “reforms”. Some of the worst aspects of education - the various “National Strategies” were implemented under Labour and gave the Right some great ideas.

      There really isn’t much difference in policies between the main parties. Just differences in “style”. You pick your team and defend them whatever. It’s another form of what James O’Brien calls elsewhere the “Footballification” of politics.