Tories are obviously fucked but labour are the new tories. I don’t believe in bourgeois electoralism so I’m inclined not to vote at all but would also like to spoil the tories and labour from winning in my constituency. To that end, I’m torn between Green (libs with good climate policies, left of labour but pro-Israel-existence) and Workers Party GB (economically socialist with weird-to-concerning opinions on LGBT+)**. Discuss.
** Workers Party leader Galloway in an interview with Novara media has said he believes all LGBT+ people should be treated with dignity and respect and that he has had many gay and one trans colleague (and used their preferred pronouns) but he has boomerish ideas about what should and should not be taught to children in schools and which changing rooms people should use. It’s not great but could be worse I guess.
Usual caveats about electoral politics etc etc
I’m going Green. The Worker’s Party is Galloway turning a dial labelled “transphobia” while looking at his audience for approval.
I might chuck a vote in for my local Green candidate just as a recorded non-Labour vote.
It doesn’t matter here though, Tory red wall guaranteed to go back to the new Red Tories.
Tempted to just write in Hamas / Houthi split ticket though.
The only correct answer is Corbyn. Even if you aren’t in his constituency, vote for him anyway.
Why tf is he not starting his own party? This seems like the perfect time to do it.
Green….or spoil.
initially i was all in for supporting galloway because i thought that he’d de emphasise his weird boomer reactionary takes about queer people and immigration and just focus on pushing his actual left wing economic ideals (which he did at first) but then he started with all this weird shit and im kind of suspicious that the workers party is just another careerist move by him rather than an attempt to make an actual alternative party so i’ll probably be voting green instead
Yeah I honestly don’t know. His interview with Novara (on youtube) sorta made me feel better about it but then not really. He said some good things (about respect and dignity) but then some bad things (won’t repeat here because it’s offensive). He’s a massive missed opportunity but he’s not the whole party. Looks like they have a huge number of minority candidates who seem like genuinely good people and not terfs or homophobes.
The immensely frustrating thing about him is that he would be the perfect politician for the moment if it wasn’t… for those things. We need someone on the left who not only doesn’t give a fuck about lib sensitivities, but actually goes out of their way to point out that libs are disgusting, immoral, shameless and violent. That libs have lost all moral and pragmatic credibility, and have no business policing the respectability of anyone else. Exactly the way Galloway does. Instead all we get from most of our left politicians is varying degrees of cowardice, timidity, and deference to a machine that has no intention of allowing the left to succeed. But Galloway is throwing some of the most marginalised and vulnerable people in this country under the fucking bus to get approval from a bunch of red-faced fucks. He doesn’t even need to do it!
