Quote Originally Posted by jon1959 View Post
Sludge's 'totalitarian society'?

Really?

Sludge has spent the last few months constantly arguing for a new governing party to be magicked up based on the Lib Dems, the right wing of the Labour Party, a few Greens and a few stray nationalists. Starmer's Labour (with the strings pulled by the old Blairite cabal) might have some Stalinist tendencies - but the whole package looks as far from totalitarianism as you can get.
I agree it does, but his continual using of 'libertarian' as an insult leads me to think his real politics are at the opposite end of the spectrum.
He continually praises hard left wing policies and berate anyone with more money then he, and he slags off anyone who likes opera etc. as I said, assuming they're the idle rich, but when I lived in a divided Berlin the 'only' place to go to watch, see and listen to such things was communist East Berlin, where it was held up as an example of greatness of the regime, and entertainment for the masses. But I'm sure he won't let that affect his opinion.
His call for cross party unity is only because its the only way he can see to get to a position where his version of the left can begin to change the policies to more totalitarian objectives. He has a long road in front of him
I often mention some of the things he says to my wife and she says, "He's mad, he needs to live like that"