The coup in spain isn't going well.
(11-10-2023, 07:49 PM)Potato wrote: With all the incompetence the Tories have shown, imagine how fucking stupid the Labour Party has to be to lose multiple elections to that lot?The thing with ruling parties in European countries is that they throw their ideology overboard when its convenient or if there is money to be made.
Most aren't like the Republicans in the US, who won't budge much on say gun rights or abortion rights or whatever.
When it was clear that the climate thing would stay trending the conservatives and their business and lobbying buddies suddenly jumped on it.
The same with migration, big money to be made there. Hotel business was down during COVID, so they're now renting those rooms at 2x or 3x the cost to migrants paid for with tax money.
So a lot of left wing talking points are simply being adopted by the conservatives who compared to UKIP or other 'radicals' label themselves as the 'reasonable center' between the left and right. In fact, many parties have a sort of 'fake' opposition within their own party as well. So people pick out of 2 sides of the same party. And finally they make sure that just enough voters profit from their schemes, government jobs and contracts. So they privatize what are actually useful government services like energy or public healthcare and they increase the size of the bloated bureaucratic paper pushing machine that contributes nothing to the economy or well being of the population. The result is a non-functioning government which of course ensures that people won't vote for a 'bigger government' the left promotes.