/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

the UK's energy, water and transport systems were all privatised following thatcher's and major's leadership (1979-97):
<More than 40 UK state-owned businesses, employing 600,000 workers, were privatised between 1979 and 1990 […] In 1986, the gas sector was privatised. The electricity sector followed in 1990, when twelve regional electricity companies in England and Wales were sold off to private firms. 
https://www.tni.org/en/article/the-living-legacy-of-privatisation-in-the-united-kingdom
<The water privatisation in England and Wales involved the transfer of the provision of water and wastewater services in England and Wales from the state to the private sector in 1989, through the sale of the ten regional water authorities (RWA).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_privatisation_in_England_and_Wales
<The privatisation of British Rail was the process by which ownership and operation of the railways of Great Britain passed from government control into private hands. Begun in 1994, the process was largely completed by 1997.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatisation_of_British_Rail

Who are Christopher and Catharine's parents who sent them to Eton and why do they won't to move to Portugal once Corbyn becomes prime minister?

>>2678741
want to move to Portugal*

tony blair is the best prime minister we've had in at least 50 years

>>2678752
early-stage dementia Harold Wilson (49 years and a few months ago lol), Gordon Brown and Theresa May (of all people) were all better. (Wilson was the best)

You’re not getting socialism because you don’t deserve it

Shitty bleak grey rainy impoverished peadophile rape TERF imperial core fascist daily mail hitlerian hellhole island

If it weren’t for Little Simz, Stormzy, and Geordie Greep all your heads would be on pikes

>>2678797
No idea what this means but I'm happy or sad for you whichever response you were hoping for

>>2678802
Sorry but I mostly listen to metal, goth, emo and occasionally a little techno or industrial. I'm as white and autistic as they come. I don't know the first thing about drill or gang culture.

>>2678808
Stormzy and Little Simz are pop rap, mostly fun stuff but you’d probably like Stormzy’s sadder songs. Geordie Greep is progressive rock, used to be part of Black Midi who was part of an indie and prog scene called Windmill Scene, good bands from there.

>>2678789
I'm truthfully jealous of yanks. At least their decay has a certain coherent aesthetic to it. We've just got the decaying ruins of a former civilization all around us. Greggs in a former Victorian bank, BetFred Edwardian, postwar brutalist M&S with a roof that's been leaking into a bucket for the last year and a half, weird Blairite millennium celebration sculpture that hasn't been washed since 2006, a cavalcade of student flats that look like they're composed of plastic and raw artifice, and a slowly fading street sign reminding you to maintain social distancing to stop the spread of coronavirus, covered in stickers advertising Instagram weed honeypots, tattoo artists, and the presence of at least one local seething enough to try and scratch off a trans flag heart.

>>2678823
>Stormzy and Little Simz are pop rap
Its Grime. u spaz.

Make it make sense

>>2678988
It's only a minor detail but the bit about Greens "enforcing" council cuts (e.g. setting lawful budgets with a reduced allocation from central government) always make leftists seem deeply unserious. They rolled the GLC (who didn't even do anything wrong), they rolled Hatton, and you lot think you're going to be the ones to set an illegal council budget and get away with it?

It's all well and good to sit on the sidelines and demand other people break the law (which, it should be remembered, can result in personal financial liability for the council's expenses. How'd you like to be paying off an impotent gesture that nobody noticed for the rest of your life?) but if you're not personally an office holder, it seems like LARPing at best and side stepping difficult policy decisions (confident in the knowledge your promises will never come due) at worst.

>>2678988
Was just about to post this.
Zarah is:
>Whinging that Your Party didn't stand a candidate - after she decided not to do so
>Saying via her Your Party factional mouthpiece that people should abstain and not support the Greens (and therefore let Reform win)
>Meanwhile saying the direct opposite in her personal capacity, that people should support the Greens
>Lying that the Greens support NATO (Polanski has repeatedly been explicit about his support for leaving NATO)

She's making up falsehoods about the Green party positions when there's plenty of other things you could corner them on.
She chose not to stand anyone for the by-election - then she complains about having no candidate.
She says not to vote for the Greens on one account - and then says you should vote for them on another.
This isn't even Corbyn vs Zarah infighting anymore. She's fighting against herself, against her own positions.
It's pure schizophrenia.

>>2679021
From said faction's political juggernauts: https://novaramedia.com/2026/02/03/the-green-party-is-great-but-its-not-enough/

>>2679024
The Left is so fucked in this country it's all so fucking dire

uh oh

Any more info on the CPB's internal struggle going on right now?

https://www.instagram.com/p/DUBXwrvCKku/

old news but
>Across both panel data sets, the researchers found the likelihood of a Leave vote increased as property wealth increased. In the Bank of England data for example, a standard deviation increase in property wealth increased Leave support by as much as 7.1 percentage points.
>And although the researchers acknowledge that poorer areas of the UK were more likely to have voted for Brexit, their work shows it was wealthier people within those areas that were more likely to support leaving the EU while relatively poorer voters supported Remain.
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/study-finds-wealthy-more-likely-to-have-voted-for-brexit

wonder how this changes the implication when one analyzes the class dynamics of the thing, taking it from a wail of anguish by the shittiest areas of the country (everyone's thinkpiece on why we need corbyn, c.2016-19) to a lark by the lumpenbourgeoise whether actually rich or just buy-to-let king of shit city.

>>2679021
She and her allies disagree on this issue, it's not schizophrenic, it's a political struggle going on between different groups involved in the faction.