02-05-2024, 09:09 PM in response to #44153
Baldman Wrote: Kev is a traditional lefty. He believes in a strong social safety net but also that the social contract relies on strong controls on immigration and benefit scroungers.
He has no truck with the identity politics and internationalism of the modern ‘left’
But that doesn't tie in with the general cloudy ethos within most of those bands.
Cloudily, I'd say that the tone is that there's nothing wrong with benefit scroungers because all they're doing is destroying a nonsense way of life. The safety net is social rather than political. And they have absolutely zero respect for the idea of monarchy.
Aside from that, I would agree.