Britain Takes a Turn to the Left

The Labour Party secured a major landslide in Britain's elections, resulting in a parliamentary majority not seen since the early days of Tony Blair. The reign of the Conservative Party, who have governed for 14 years, ended in an ignominious rout. But Labour’s victory, led by Keir Starmer, the new prime minister, was achieved with the lowest share of the vote for a winning party in British history. A strong performance by the populist Reform UK party seems to have split the right wing vote. So what does the downfall of the Tories mean for the conservative movement in the U.K. and elsewhere? And what does Britain’s future under Labour look like? On this episode of the Free Expression podcast, political commentator Tim Montgomerie tells Gerry Baker why the United Kingdom may have seen the end of the two-party system, how Keir Starmer will perform on the world stage, and how the Conservative Party can stage a comeback.
0:00 Introduction
3:15 Britain Takes a Turn to the Left
9:10 The Conservative Party
15:10 Commercial Break
15:45 Keir Starmer
25:00 The U.K. on the World Stage
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[@manuelleluciani9208]

It’s in no way a turn to the left .

[@howmanybeansmakefive]

Wow the WSJ host seemed quite out of his depth, he sounded more like an embodied twitter feed rather than engaging in thoughtful analysis. It's that american problem of trying to force everything into an ideological/twitter soundbite (even if problems have an ideological basis), which is the exact problem that destroyed the Conservative Party and their reputation for good governance and pragmatism. Wokery is a problem, but the Conservatives let it fester on their watch - often due to vain political jostling within the party - rather than just legislating the issues when they had a majority. I hope the new Conservatives listen to Tim, and don't get even more sucked into the trap of ideological hysteria over real solutions.

[@mandead]

Pro-Trump right-winger who hasn't lived in the UK for years. Doesn't understand the situation on the ground and his opinions are based on nothing.

[@Relisysification]

There was a lot of analysis in this that was plain wrong. Starmer pulled members out of the party who had a whiff of association with the previous leadership and even lost a seat by splitting the anti conservative party vote due to the candidate previously supporting the green party before joining and running for labour. She ran as an independent, similar to hiw Jeremy Corbyn did. The vote share that went to the independent candidates in most seats were due to the stance of siding with the government when in opposition about not pushing for a cease fire in Gaza As per usual labour is seen as bad from both sides by pundits and the public. Not left enough/too left, even though the policies put out were the lowest costing of any party, boosting investment from private capital, mirroring the current budgeting of the outgoing party to remain stable and not cause a shock to the economy. The BIGGEST takeaway the American Media should have is Starmer and Sunak peacefully acknowledged each other and thanked one another for their service. Which will be the biggest healing factor for democracy for the majority, BUT will upset those that voted reform because "they are as bad as each other" and those ststing "labour are just tories with a red rosette and tie"

[@dschoene57]

Mind you, this was done by Americans. They think Donald Trump is normal and both their main parties are right-wing parties. For Americans anything that isn't socially sadistic is communism.

[@nvna1111]

Holy fkn delusion LOL