Last Week Tonight 11x16- 2024 United Kingdom general election and history of the Conservative Party since 2010 Full Reaction!
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Ughhh. I've heard about how bad the UK is on trans issues :( The two biggest parties both wanting to strip away rights and attack trans people is depressing. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge about UK electoral politics! Looks like both of our countries have nothing but bad choices at the top for this election cycle.
Eric Reacts
2024-06-25 15:18:42 +0000 UTCThis episode isn't available here in the UK. There are technically fairly strict rules about what you can broadcast during an election campaign here, though realistically the rules not applied evenly, favouring the right - and by the time you can look into the bias, of course the election is already over. John was fairly appropriately down on Starmer in this, but he skipped over what i think is most scary about him - social conservatism. Starmer has opposed "teaching gender ideology in school", which is just "don't teach kids the gay agenda" but for trans people. He's promising to implement the recommendations of the Cass Review, a biased medical review into treatment for trans kids which recommends denying medication and giving trans kids "exploratory" (conversion) therapy. And a bunch of other bad stuff for trans adults too, which being trans myself, is horribly depressing. I don't get to celebrate when the conservatives lose because bigots will stay in charge anyway. Labour under his leadership have also been expelling left-wing members and blocking them from candidate selection. We don't have proper open primaries here like you do - parties can control who is allowed to be on the selection ballot, and Labour have been blocking anyone who isn't factionally aligned with the leadership. Personally I don't particularly like the Labour Left for various reasons too long and boring to get into here, but still, they're absolutely much better than the Labour Right. Another thing John skipped over is the effect of the 13 years of Labour Right government before the conservatives took power. Much of what the conservatives did, Labour laid the groundwork for, structurally and ideologically. And it's worth noting that in the 2010 election campaign, *both* Labour and the conservatives were campaigning on austerity. funnily enough it was the liberal democrats who were the most anti-austerity party in that election, and coalition talks between them and Labour after the 2010 election failed because *Labour* didn't want to commit to the spending that the lib dems wanted. And history repeats itself somewhat, the lib dems in this election are promising significantly more investment than Labour. Of course in 2010 the lib dems propped up the conservatives and their austerity anyway, so it's not like they're the good guys or anything. Personally I'll be voting green. Their platform is basically environmentally-conscious social democracy, which still isn't nearly as left-wing as I am, but it's the best offer available. They won't win where I live (though they do in local elections where my rep is a green), it'll be pretty safe for Labour.
awktopus
2024-06-25 10:00:45 +0000 UTC
