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Originally Posted by PartyGirlUK
2017 was Labour's most right-wing manifesto in recent history (maybe ever). Their signature policy was literally a tax cut for (certain) rich people (mostly those from rich families), their leader supports and is one of the main causes of Brexit, generally considered a right wing project, and they're being investigated and soon to be found guilty of rampant, institutional racism, also generally considered right wing (the only other British political party to do similar was the BNP).
The 2017 Labour manifesto pledged to continue with 80% of the Osborne welfare cuts, which even Iain Duncan Smith resigned over, so there's that. And, when Parliament resumed, Labour voted to endorse a Tory tax cut for the rich, so there's also that. Corbyn's private office, of course, is part run by Andrew Drummond-Murray, whose family in 2013 sold a world-famous Picasso, Child With A Dove, on loan to the National Gallery since the 1970s, to a Qatari buyer for a confidential sum probably north of £50m. The government's export ban on this piece of national heritage expired because no national collection, not the National Gallery itself, not the Courtauld, not the Tate, could afford the Drummond-Murray family's price.
Part of the gains after tax went to buy Andrew's daughter Laura, who holds a nepotistic job at Labour HQ, a five-bedroom house in Primrose Hill, where film stars like Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz live. Some of the rest went to buy her sister a part-mortgaged similar property nearby.
Andrew Drummond-Murray, just to remind you, is a Communist, and a lifelong member of the Stalinist 'Straight Left' faction of the Communist Party of Britain up to 2016.