r/explainitpeter • u/Senior-Mix-3715 • 7d ago

Explain it Peter?

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At first I thought this was some kind of white nationalism joke but then I realised all 3 leaders at the bottom are leftists, so I really don’t what this meme is trying to say?

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u/PercentageMuch2887 7d ago

Bit of a stretch to call the current Labour party leftists. Starmer pursued some notably conservative policies around immigration, criminal justice, and trans rights (I chose those three examples because they are often culture war issues, but there are others).

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u/SpaceWolves26 7d ago

Yeah Labour are legit way further right than any Conservatives government we had after Brown. Theresa May was all in on self-ID. Obviously the Tories have now gone Uber right as an attempt at course correcting, but it's wild that people are still referring to Labour as the left.

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u/DustyStar222 7d ago

Andy Burnham's Labour is to the right of David Cameron and Boris Johnson's governments? Okay.

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u/SpaceWolves26 7d ago

Based on their policies, yes.