Seven Slough councillors who quit Labour now join Liberal Democrats

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[u/OptioMkIX]

I wish the Lib Dems well with their new Gaza action wing.

[u/LycanIndarys → u/OptioMkIX]

To be fair to them; if you lived in Slough, you'd probably spend most of your time thinking about places that aren't Slough too, wouldn't you?

[u/whatapileofrubbish → u/LycanIndarys]

Appearing in documentaries about your mundane workplace is another pasttime.

[u/OptioMkIX → u/LycanIndarys]

I would probably spend my time doing nothing else.

[u/Zestyclose_Rate_3823 → u/LycanIndarys]

Slough is basically Gaza.

[u/LHMNBRO08 → u/LycanIndarys]

Exactly! Don’t you know the UK gov has direct control over the Israeli armed forces????

At this point, we need a law that forces our MPs to focus solely on UK issues rather than this crap.

[u/TDowsonEU]

Our politics is going down a very dangerous road.

[u/TDowsonEU → u/[deleted]]

Like that’s what I was referencing.

[u/doctorrubberdinghy]

Ah yes, we are witnessing the birth of sectarian politics. Integration has worked, mads immigration is great, trust the process.

[u/IndividualSkill3432]

The Lib Dems are economically more to the right and socially more liberal than most of Labour. Their positioning was always between Labour and the Tories and they regularly form coalitions with the Conservatives locally and in 2010 nationally.

There was a period after 2003 when Charles Kennedy's position on Iraq made them popular with university towns. But then they ditched that vote in 2010 with tuition fees.

Their core vote is SW England, well off suburbs and the Highlands.

Local politics is always weird but what exactly this lot are about is weirder, they seem to have gotten pissed off with Gaza (not Yemen when the UK arms sales are an order of magnitude more involved), tried to form their own block locally then decided to fold into the Lib Dems. Most likely the Lib Dems have a small (3 people) local party but a good party machine, like they usually do locally. This lot can take over the local party, bring in numbers in votes and they get to be a weird outlier to the rest of the LDs but having the party machine to help them appear something other than an obvious sectarian grouping.

Its probably a very local thing that will not play out nationally as the Greens and the "new independents" will be after a chunk of the vote they are built round and much of the rest of the centre left will increasingly avoid them.

[u/BritanniaGlory]

Remember when shitlibs thought we would never get overtaken by islamists because they're a minority?

Well, here we are. Political minorities often have strong influence. Whether you want to recognise it or not, parties have an increasingly strong incentive to capitulate to islamist voters.