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The really rough part is that while the Democratic Party in the US is a weak slightly-left-of-center party, the Labour Party in the UK is basically a right-of-center party with decreasing amounts of daylight between them and the Tories.

In particular, there is no major political party in the UK that supports trans rights, which is devastating to that community there.

(On the plus side, so far as I can tell, with the Reform party to absorb the true fascists, there are fewer of them in the two major parties in the UK. ...With the downside being that Reform is doing distressingly well these days.)

>>danari+(OP)
It's becoming increasingly confusing to me who any of the parties actually represent.

The more left leaning people I know are foaming at the mouth over how Labour have operated since being elected, all moderates (outside London) I know tend to lean Conservative (though that party seems to be AWOL since the election) and the only party I hear that is gaining any popularity is Reform, and they are doing so at an alarming pace.

4 years is a long time, but it seems inevitable its a two horse race between Reform (given polls I have to presume not everyone who votes for them is a racist twit) and Labour, and Labour seem hell bent on alienating any one who isn't centre-right, and they have to contend with Reform for those votes. Maybe it's politicking to a degree I don't understand, but it seems like a very odd strategy.

For those outside the UK look at this chart to see how fast Reform are rising:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_U...

>>danari+(OP)
There are (almost) no fascists in reform. You think the fascists will join a party whose second in command is "Muhammad Ziauddin Yusuf"? They're all in Homeland or other serious nationalist parties if at all.

Reform are basically a joke amongst the "real" right (by which I don't mean neo-nazis but anyone with any actual beliefs)

>>danari+(OP)
The Liberal Democrats seem (from a quick read of just this article) to have thrown out a proposal to water down an existing trans rights policy.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0vvle9w7zo

>>danari+(OP)
> In particular, there is no major political party in the UK that supports trans rights, which is devastating to that community there.

I believe this is incorrect. No party has said they have any intention of removing "gender reassignment" as a protected characteristic from the Equality Act. This law provides protection and offers legal recourse from being discriminated against by employers, service providers, and so on. Which, to cover those individuals with this characteristic, is the most reasonable consensus interpretation of "trans rights".

>>AJRF+e2
> and Labour seem hell bent on alienating any one who isn't centre-right

Raising the deficit massively more than the predicted massive deficit raise is definitely not a centre-right-pleasing move. It's just to buy all the NHS worker votes.