"Wide But Thin Mandate": Why U.K. Labour Party's Landslide Is on Shaky Ground

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25 күн бұрын

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Labour's landslide victory in Thursday's U.K. election gives the party a "wide but thin" mandate, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik, who says the new government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer has to work hard to solidify its gains "if it's not going to be a temporary win." She also discusses her new piece, "Pro-Palestine votes aren't 'sectarian'. Dismissing them would be a dangerous mistake for Labour."
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@RJH755 23 күн бұрын

Glad Corbyn held his seat

@paulembleton1733 11 күн бұрын

Agree. Also glad Farage won. A chance to check if he’s a genuine representative, or just a politician.

@martinsundland7614 23 күн бұрын

All the talk about right wing ascendency around the world and then we get G.B and France.Perhaps not all hope is dead.

@Saki-K. 22 күн бұрын

The Guardian speaks about reform.I dont see any.Starmer made it clear that he will continue neoliberal policies, so all the excitement for nothing...

@gttv1832 23 күн бұрын

All money from sales of resources from Russia should be given to Russian citizens, but our officials take everything for themselves! We pay high taxes and our government also sells weapons, but life is not enough for them; we ordinary Russians have not been given and are not being given! I believe that the resources in Russia need to be returned to Russian citizens! All money from resources must be distributed to Russian citizens.

@johnschlesinger2009 23 күн бұрын

Starmer is nothing more than an opportunist. He has abandoned just about every policy that he was elected leader of the labour party to deliver.

@anthonyferris8912 17 күн бұрын

That's the only way he got elected.

@paulembleton1733 11 күн бұрын

Regardless of whether that’s true, a faultless person becoming PM is more difficult than a camel passing through the eye of a microscopic needle. I think best here not to judge him against the policies of the Labour Party, but only against what happens next few years.

@hadoken5402 11 күн бұрын

@@paulembleton1733 This guy doesnt even know what a woman is and you want to give him the benefit of the doubt?

@kaltope 23 күн бұрын

yay! another round of musical chairs/pass-the-parcel. Another half-decade before the proles realize that they're no different from the last lot. such fun.

@alanbeaumont4848 23 күн бұрын

At this point we will settle for decency and competence. All the alternatives were worse.

@Howeverwhatabout 23 күн бұрын

@@alanbeaumont4848you must work for blair

@alanbeaumont4848 23 күн бұрын

@@Howeverwhatabout No, I voted Green for my borough council, but was desperate to get rid of my Tory MP. It worked. Anything else is posing until we get PR.

@Howeverwhatabout 23 күн бұрын

@@alanbeaumont4848 so please explain where the “decency and competence” will come from?

@alanbeaumont4848 23 күн бұрын

@@Howeverwhatabout Do your own research over the term of this parliament.

@Dvco33333 23 күн бұрын

Democracy Now has been more accurate news than most.

@someoneelse.2252 23 күн бұрын

Are you really that dumb, making a comment like that, or are you just pretending?.

@paulembleton1733 11 күн бұрын

For FPtP it seems not so much how many votes the party gets, but how many who vote against. Labour had long been predicted to win big, on the day only 40% decided to vote against.

@geertdecoster5301 23 күн бұрын

Never bad to be a hope-giving centrist. Look at France after this weekend

@hatoju 18 күн бұрын

No specifics in this interview about what Labour is promising to do.

@sandal_thong8631 23 күн бұрын

Ouch. If Labour goes for austerity policies, and "no new taxes" on businesses and the rich, then they aren't going to be in power for very long when their economic policies fail. I was hoping that there might be some lessons learned here as a prelude to America's 2024 November election. Brexit and the Facebook scandal was a prelude to Trump's victory in 2016, but we didn't want to learn from the former to prevent the latter.

@skyblazeeterno 23 күн бұрын

less than 40% of the votes can NEVER be considered a mandate

@alanbeaumont4848 23 күн бұрын

But it is under "First Past the Post." Get over it.

@codycrawford7842 23 күн бұрын

They have the seats but representing 60% of the public puts you in a stronger position than representing 30% of the country

@alanbeaumont4848 23 күн бұрын

@@codycrawford7842 I see it the other way. They haven't got the luxury of screwing over the electorate without swift consequences.

@steveturner609 23 күн бұрын

@@alanbeaumont4848???? Which is both Broken and Corrupt and is in desperate need of replacing…..You get over that one!!

@alanbeaumont4848 22 күн бұрын

@@steveturner609 Corrupt? How so.

@jillhargrave-george4510 23 күн бұрын

Just a protest..!!

@DerrickThomas-l4b 23 күн бұрын

😢😢😢😢 labour 😢😢

@davidmenasco5743 23 күн бұрын

The expression you're looking for is "right wing." Endorsing austerity is a right wing policy.

@moragmckay3779 21 күн бұрын

So all the poor parents who have to cut back on kids' Christmas presents, or buy them second-hand clothes, or explain why they can't go on holiday like some of their friends are being "right-wing"? Frugality when already in debt is not right-wing, unless it is combined with lavish spending on unnecessary schemes and tax cuts for the well-off and the super rich and on attacking the most vulnerable.

@davidmenasco5743 21 күн бұрын

@@moragmckay3779 You are making a straw man argument and drawing a false equivalency. There is a HUGE DIFFERENCE between a national economic policy of "austerity" and actual frugality in any sense of the word. They are very nearly opposites, as austerity almost always involves enacting policies that incur tremendous long term costs on the affected population, putting them in greater debt.

@MrDragon1968 15 күн бұрын

It's hilarious the level to which you've completely misinterpreted this UK election - simply to justify your partisan political position.

@philquota7405 23 күн бұрын

We're in the deepest shit right here in the USA. But UK news is cool. Going to hell but DN wants to talk about a kitchen fire in Freedonia.

@alanbeaumont4848 23 күн бұрын

American narcissism at its finest.

@alanbeaumont4848 23 күн бұрын

American narcissism at its finest.

@Dvco33333 23 күн бұрын

No, the deepest is what's happening to the "Innocent Palestinians" and while we're on the subject, reparations are long overdue for African Americans.