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Originally Posted by Russ
I’ve voted Labour to keep the Tories OUT. It’s worked perfectly for me so far. That doesn’t make me a Labour fan. But if you’re going to criticise them, be sure to reference the posts you’ve made about the Tories doing the same or worse.
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Personally I think that they are both as bad as each other. Labour focused on the things the Tories were doing, when they were in opposition, because first of all that's the point of being in opposition, but secondly and more crucially what they were doing was wrong. It is kind of important that they were probably also doing the same and would do it in power too, but, they had much fewer MPs at the time and so it was presumably easier for them anyway.
In regards to the rest of the point, whilst tactical voting is a thing, and whilst many others probably hold a similar stance and voting to keep someone out rather than someone in, this is an issue when the other party are not without major issues themselves. Labour are no better or worse than the Tories. In fact with a middle of the road leader like Blair or Starmer as opposed to it being someone like Nandy or Rayner, or even someone more hard-left like McDonnell, Abbott or Corbyn, they are incredibly similar, but with the socialist undertones within the party always there (perhaps in a similar way to the ERG wing in the Tory party but on the other side). But they are the only two parties who could make a government so it happens. I'm reminded that one's enemy's enemy isn't necessarily one's friend...