Starmer, a former senior prosecutor, has made repeatedly clear that he is not in favor of changing the law to decriminalize drugs.
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I would really like to see some meaningful changes from Labour on this issue, when you compare to the UK to the US and EU, we are too far behind. Pride and Prejudice is still too strong in the political class of the 2 main parties.
It’s ridiculous that I can get medical cannabis and yet they still drag their heels on recreational. Half of America has legalised already and our governments attitude is stuck 50 years in the past and Starmer shows no interest in any progressive policies.
I really thought labour would be progressive here too, to show a clear difference between them and the Conservative Party.
I don’t get it. Not evening opening a debate just shows total close-mindedness from the top of the party.
If they want those conservatives vote taken in 2019, my opinion is those voters would like to see progression on the issue too as they were lower income areas.
Starmer has walked back any progressive policies he may have had due to a fear of upsetting the right wing voters. What’s the point of a Labour party if the aren’t going to represent the working class? It just feels so hopeless sometimes, who do you vote for when nobody represents your views?
A lot of the working class are very socially right wing (as demonstrated by the “red wall” voting Tory over Brexit), and Labour are trying to win them back by abandoning the left of the party in favour of being “less right wing than the Tories”. Decriminalising drugs would turn off a lot of those voters so it’s never going to happen. This country’s voter base is still largely conservative, at least on social issues, and that isn’t going to change overnight. The working class are more likely to be economically left wing (traditional labour trade unionist), but Labour has largely abandoned that as well in favour of being “pro-business”.
yeah my 50pence is this is it also, they’re trying to pull in socially conserative voters for the next election and this may be too progressive for them
I don’t think that’s it, really - the more obvious answer is that Starmer himself is right wing. I mean he was the head of the CPS, let’s be real. Starmer is a conservative.
Let’s be real, the only way to gain power in the UK is to be centrist.
I remember my mum getting all excited about Neil Kinnock and how he was going to win, only to see him get kiboshed by the media.
Corbyn was a rinse repeat.