Labour loses in a biiiig way!
Jun. 12th, 2004 09:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miriam_eI hope the Australian Labour party is sitting up and paying attention to the results of some local British elections. Labour over there have been so badly damaged by being defacto conservatives that they not only have lost, but for the first time have come third behind the Liberal Democrats!
Maybe this is the wakeup call that they need in order to understand that most people are NOT the right-wing conservatives that politicians think. Politicians surround themselves with selfish, power-mongering, avaricious conservatives and develop a distorted view of the world. They should get out more and meet some real people.
Unfortunately it won't happen that way, because the Liberal Democrats effectively divided the non-Conservatives vote and that let the Conservatives win. The Conservatives are predictably strutting around, happily wanking. The idiots think they got voted in, when actually Labour got voted out! Most politicians are such dopes!
Maybe this is the wakeup call that they need in order to understand that most people are NOT the right-wing conservatives that politicians think. Politicians surround themselves with selfish, power-mongering, avaricious conservatives and develop a distorted view of the world. They should get out more and meet some real people.
Unfortunately it won't happen that way, because the Liberal Democrats effectively divided the non-Conservatives vote and that let the Conservatives win. The Conservatives are predictably strutting around, happily wanking. The idiots think they got voted in, when actually Labour got voted out! Most politicians are such dopes!
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Date: 2004-06-11 06:10 pm (UTC)It's not so much that the public are sick of Labour's shift from the left to the centre and then starting to move into right-wing territory, IMHO (though, this is a bad enough thing in itself and must have had some effect). I think it's more that they hate Dubbya with a passion and can see what an absolute cock Blaire is for dragging the country into Dubbya's mad war. One can only hope that Australia's voters punish Howard the same way.