It’s wild how often this happens but I’ll post something like:
“Here is Labour and the Tories agreeing on the exact same policy”
Then I’ll get comments such as:
“Every Tory MP should be thrown into the sea!”
None of that energy reserved for Labour MPs that support the exact same thing.
Not only is Labour aligning with Tory policy, they’re starting to make promises which… well, they aren’t literally impossible in the sense of being mathematically impossible or mutually exclusive, like the Tories in 2019, but they’re things which are extraordinarily unlikely and not within the power of the UK government to force into being.
They’ve now said they’re going to renegotiate the terms of Brexit. The EU is obligated, under the terms of the 2020 exit deal, to meet with the UK to fine-tune some of the terms of the deal, but there is absolutely nothing which says they can or will renegotiate the whole thing and multiple sources within the EU have said flat-out that they will not do that if asked.
This is, on one level, what happened to the Tories — rather than telling anti-EU members to grow up and accept reality at any point, every leader starting with Cameron gave them concessions and promises in hopes of keeping them from jumping ship to UKIP, starting with the promise to hold a Brexit referendum at all. Now, years later and with the economy broken and the country failing and the party facing an electoral wipeout, they still are losing membership to Farage’s rebranded UKIP. Labour won’t be able to hold those voters by moving rightward on culture war issues or by making promises they can’t possibly keep, but they’re going to do all that anyway and still lose, with who knows what further damage to the country as a result.