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- federalreverse-old ( @federalreverse@feddit.de ) 23•8 months ago
And the only rationale is this…?
in the hope of opening up a clear divide over the green agenda with Labour
- quicklime ( @quicklime@lemm.ee ) 6•8 months ago
He’s trying to make sure his party will lose by an even greater margin?
- Rambi ( @Rambi@lemm.ee ) 2•8 months ago
It is basically guaranteed that he has lost the next election so he is just frantically throwing everything at the wall to see if anything sticks
- interolivary ( @interolivary@beehaw.org ) 8•8 months ago
It’s fairly clear at this point that conservatism and conservatives are an existential threat.
It’s unfortunate that right-wing parties will likely get more and more popular the worse things get as people tend to flock to populists in times of crisis, and I don’t know about other countries but here in Finland the under-25’s are actually more conservative than eg. millennials or gen X – in this year’s parliamentary elections ~30% of them voted for either an extremist right wing party that has a nontrivial amount of literal neo-Nazis in it, or the “fiscally conservative” party which isn’t much better (and has a bit of a revolving door with the extremists).
- gandalf_der_12te ( @gandalf_der_12te@feddit.de ) 7•8 months ago
At this point I consider any of these “policies” to be a form of suicide.