Today's email newsletter by @stephenkb.bsky.social has a stronger critique of this argument, in the context of the Starmer government's patchy anxiety about racism (the PM has spoken well about racism at parry conference 2024 and party conference 2025, but without much useful content in between)

And just like here it's not like they're actually ditching the centre-left for the far-right, but our media can only ever talk about far-right gains and never gains by the left.

Pink - the left
Dark red - Soc dems
Yellow - far right

Alright redneck

Great Britain is all English now, is it?

Pretty English yeah

I've never seen a party implode so fast in my life. Reform voters won't switch their vote to Labour just because of their cruelty. It's that Farridge bloke. It's a personality cult. They don't like Starmer nor trust him. As a brown man, neither do I. Labour are now in lock step with the far-right.

It's so uncanny it's amazing it's not deliberate

"Only I can tell people to go home!"

For a Home Secretary who just... didn't do that

One of the Scottish Green co-leaders is as well
As am I

Who's out-of-touch now columnist who spends all their time on Twitter instead of talking to real people?

Scottish media looking at this graph of the Scottish Greens performing better (not just better, two to three times better) than the anti-trans parties on trans rights with the Scottish public like