I often find a lot of the criticisms of Starmer to be in bad faith, advancing a false narrative that he holds a less socially liberal position than he actually does, but I’m fully with this one. Virtually no one in Labour has bothered to address their backwards drug policies.
https://twitter.com/zoejardiniere/status/1451808291185627137
The war against drugs has failed, it doesn’t protect users & it doesn’t combat criminality. It really is time we moved on as a society, but that remains impossible while the leading progressive political force in the country is still stuck in the Prohibitionist 20th century.
Corbyn didn’t do anything on this front either. We need politicians to have the courage to say this war is lost and it must end. We must move towards treating drug use as a healthcare issue and not a criminal one. This is not even a radical socialist policy, it’s a liberal one.
Please stop telling the electorate that more cops will solve problems such as drug violence when they can’t even solve their own massive institutional failures. Please just stop passing bollocks off as policy.
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