There's no TU members because TU's have been decimated. Basically every time they try and stand up for their workers the govt makes whatever they're doing illegal. It's harder to go on strike than it is to form a government.
As for WVM being traditional Labour - they've always been more right...
I heard his dad was less enthusiastic and urged his son to be cautious and think about it a bit more.
I've been provided with the exact transcript:
"It's not time to make a change. Just sit down and take it slowly. You're still young - that's your fault - there's so much you have to go through."
They did, you're either choosing to ignore them or just can't remember because it was so long ago.
The reason people are calling them Tory-lite is because the things they're doing, like fuck-ups and U-turns, were done by the Tories before them.
Exactly. Which is why it's so batshit crazy that the response is to move further to the right. The stuff we're doing under Labour is what a centre right government would do.
If you don't like what the current govt are doing and hated what the Tories were doing before that the logical position...
Maybe it's my way of coping but I'm hopinging maybe Reform is actually the best chance for the left in the mid-term. They'll make such a fuck up of it that we'll see a big shift left the election after.
Though it somehow took 14 years of Tory bullshit too get them out and then barely a year of...