Bernie Ecclestoned to Europe@feddit.deEnglish · 1 year agoAfter Brexit, Britain and Europe embrace ever-closer unionwww.politico.euexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up136arrow-down110cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up126arrow-down1external-linkAfter Brexit, Britain and Europe embrace ever-closer unionwww.politico.euBernie Ecclestoned to Europe@feddit.deEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square21fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareBernie EcclestonedOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoNope, it’s just pragmatic politics. If your opponent lurches right, you take the centre. You don’t lurch left, if you want to win.
minus-squareBernie EcclestonedOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoUK moves from centre right to centre left fairly predictably. Thankfully the hard right or left never get the popular vote. Starmer seems quite boring but effective. I don’t have a problem with that. Popularism is much more dangerous.
minus-squareBernie EcclestonedOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoWell the Labour party tried that in 2019 with the worst results ever, you suggest a repeat?
minus-squareBernie EcclestonedOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoAnd his problems were that he and his cohort were too far left to get elected. Same as Kinnock. Nothing more than centre left is electable, evidenced by the election results of the last hundred years.
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Nope, it’s just pragmatic politics. If your opponent lurches right, you take the centre. You don’t lurch left, if you want to win.
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UK moves from centre right to centre left fairly predictably. Thankfully the hard right or left never get the popular vote.
Starmer seems quite boring but effective. I don’t have a problem with that. Popularism is much more dangerous.
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Well the Labour party tried that in 2019 with the worst results ever, you suggest a repeat?
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And his problems were that he and his cohort were too far left to get elected.
Same as Kinnock.
Nothing more than centre left is electable, evidenced by the election results of the last hundred years.
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