"Wide But Thin Mandate": Why U.K. Labour Party's Landslide Is on Shaky Ground
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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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Glad Corbyn held his seat
Agree. Also glad Farage won. A chance to check if he’s a genuine representative, or just a politician.
All the talk about right wing ascendency around the world and then we get G.B and France.Perhaps not all hope is dead.
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.
That's the only way he got elected.
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.
@@paulembleton1733 This guy doesnt even know what a woman is and you want to give him the benefit of the doubt?
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.
At this point we will settle for decency and competence. All the alternatives were worse.
@@alanbeaumont4848you must work for blair
@@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.
@@alanbeaumont4848 so please explain where the “decency and competence” will come from?
@@Howeverwhatabout Do your own research over the term of this parliament.
Democracy Now has been more accurate news than most.
Are you really that dumb, making a comment like that, or are you just pretending?.
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...
Never bad to be a hope-giving centrist. Look at France after this weekend
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.
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.
less than 40% of the votes can NEVER be considered a mandate
But it is under "First Past the Post." Get over it.
They have the seats but representing 60% of the public puts you in a stronger position than representing 30% of the country
@@codycrawford7842 I see it the other way. They haven't got the luxury of screwing over the electorate without swift consequences.
@@alanbeaumont4848???? Which is both Broken and Corrupt and is in desperate need of replacing…..You get over that one!!
@@steveturner609 Corrupt? How so.
No specifics in this interview about what Labour is promising to do.
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.
Full marks for trying to make something out of nothing.
😢😢😢😢 labour 😢😢
Just a protest..!!
The expression you're looking for is "right wing."
Endorsing austerity is a right wing policy.
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.
@@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.
It's hilarious the level to which you've completely misinterpreted this UK election - simply to justify your partisan political position.
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.
American narcissism at its finest.
American narcissism at its finest.
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.