Bofferbrauer2 said:
A counterweight only on the left would result in Labour becoming Labour in name only as it will slouch rightwards to catch those voters to beat the more leftwing party. A similar thing has happened in several countries, where Labour/Socialist/Social Democrat named parties are actually center-right or even right-wing parties. Also, the Tories still useful as a bad example to point to. |
Firstly, the current labour is plenty right already. The Tories have gone just too much into that whacko territory. Secondly of course tories won't just end. There will be a weak tory party as a worst case scenario. And other parties already exist in the UK too. Point being, tories aren't even useful as a bad example except in the history books and their present government. Labour seriously needs a stronger left wing competitor.
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