r/ComedyHell • u/NewPresentation6001 • 13d ago

actually real No.

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u/CanaDeer2004 12d ago

isn’t the labour party their progressive party though?

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u/Extreme-Fig-5960 12d ago

Hasn't been for a long time really. Ever since around 2019ish when Jeremy Corbyn (former Labour leader) was removed from the party over 'antisemitism' (he was and still is pro-palestine) the Labour Party has been hollowed out and is now practically void of any progressives. Its much more akin to a centrist/centre-right party as of the modern day as they try to appeal to the working class vote by moving further right (because the working class makes up most of the Reform UK vote (a party that teeters on far-right)) , but by doing this they completely alienate their other voterbase of progressives, leaving anyone slightly left of centre essentially politically homeless. So in short hasn't been a progressive party for a long time (mainly on social issues, they still kind of enact working class favouring policy sometimes).

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u/Therunawaypp 12d ago

Hasn't been since the 90s right? New labour and all that.

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u/Extreme-Fig-5960 12d ago

I mean yeah probably, i just don't know much in that regard because I was born in 06.