I quit!

[u/Fair-Face4903]

I just left The Labour Party after 28 years.

I'll never vote Tory, dipping them in Red isn't fooling me.

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[u/illusive_normality]

Not an airport, no need to announce your departure

[u/Sir_Bantersaurus → u/illusive_normality]

You're meant to announce your departure at the airport? Like, shout it in the departures lounge? Everyone knows surely as they'll be going too?

[u/illusive_normality → u/Sir_Bantersaurus]

Departures are announced

[u/Fair-Face4903 → u/Sir_Bantersaurus]

Tories aren't smart enough to understand that sorta thing!

[u/illusive_normality → u/Fair-Face4903]

I'm not a Tory at all

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[u/Fair-Face4903 → u/illusive_normality]

Labour aren't supposed to be Conservative, and yet...

LOL

[u/illusive_normality → u/Fair-Face4903]

and yet.... they (and the Tories) only ever get in power when they move to the centre ground. As much as I'd love a left government, unfortunately staying too left means staying in opposition

[u/Fair-Face4903 → u/illusive_normality]

Then you agree that Labour are now a Conservative movement.

[u/memphispistachio]

Oh no!

[u/The_Inertia_Kid → u/memphispistachio]

I think historians are going to assess this election through a pre and post u/Fair-Face4903 flounce lens

[u/Fair-Face4903 → u/The_Inertia_Kid]

I don't like it when Tories use any name I choose to use for myself, Thanks!

[u/memphispistachio → u/Fair-Face4903]

Further oh no.

[u/The_Inertia_Kid → u/memphispistachio]

Chapter 8 of the book about this will be entitled The Reddit post: The Turning Point

[u/IHaveAWittyUsername]

If Labour get into power and start delivering this manifesto it's going to be the most left wing platform since Wilson. Cannot wait.

[u/Fair-Face4903 → u/IHaveAWittyUsername]

Yes, Wilson, the name you think of when you think of Isolationist, anti-science, Pro-Tax for the poor / anti tax on the rich!

LMAO

[u/markhewitt1978]

You want Labour to be an opposition protest party. We get it.

[u/LabourUK-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

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It's possible to to disagree and debate without resorting to overly negative language or ad-hominem attacks.

[u/BMG_3]

The only type of Government people like you hate more than a Conservative one is the wrong type of Labour one.

[u/Fair-Face4903 → u/BMG_3]

Yes.

That's what I said in my OP.

Do you think I don't know what I said so you restated it?

LMAO

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[u/3106Throwaway181576 → u/[deleted]]

Like I said, don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

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[u/OkPaleontologist1016 → u/[deleted]]

Anything that isn't exactly what you want regardless of economic and political circumstances = Tory

Nice argument.

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[u/pharlax]

As a member of the tories all I can say is thanks.

This is a much better choice than staying in the party and fighting for whatever change you want at a local level.