• SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    Then why did they use the phrase “why isn’t this ringing alarm bells?” to describe the only leftist political party remaining in the UK?

    The Guardian sells itself as a left-of-centre newspaper, yet they attacked Jeremy Corbin repeatedly, platformed the “gender critical” hate group, and now think that voting for the Greens is something that should be alarming.

    They also market themselves as the only paper to actively cover environmental news …

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      The Graun’s centre point is near the middle of the Lib Dems. Anything that even vaguely resembles socialism is alarming to them. I remember how much they fell over themselves to promote that absurd vanity project, the SDP, back in the day. I suspect they even found Blair a bit too much a lefty for their comfort.

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      Then why did they use the phrase “why isn’t this ringing alarm bells?” to describe the only leftist political party remaining in the UK?

      “This” refers to young woman voting different, on average more left then before. Read the article first, then comment.

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        2 days ago

        And I’m saying that young women voting more to the left is no reason at all to sound an alarm … if anything it’s a good thing, given how the British centrist parties keep fucking people over.

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            2 days ago

            I have read it, it literally says that some young women are being “radicalised” into voting Green, which is intensely ridiculous.

            It appears aimed at bending the ears of Labour, but anyone who has been around for a while will know that Labour is very good at ignoring progressive or environmentally minded voices from within their own ranks.

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              Labour is very good at ignoring progressive or environmentally minded voices from within their own ranks.

              Is a lot closer to what is said in the article than “some young women are being “radicalised” into voting Green”

              You have not read it.

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                1 day ago

                I read the first 3/4 of it, then gave up because I don’t care about someone trying to talk sense into a political institution that has repeatedly failed working people since Tony “War Criminal” Blair came into power.

                The use of “alarm bells” and “radicalised” didn’t come off as sarcastic, so I still think this is a stupid article.