Huh, so they want free healthcare and also ethnic cleansing. That's a pretty strange combination.

eudamoniac an hour ago | parent | next [-]

It is a sensible combination to me. If you first believe that the government should provide a bunch of free stuff, but it doesn't at the moment because it's too expensive, it kind of makes sense that you would then think there need to be fewer people getting the free stuff so it remains affordable. The first people on the exclusion list would naturally be noncitizens.

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hackinthebochs an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

As it turns out you can't have strong socialist policies and also open borders.

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Citizen_Lame 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Also they are anti EU and NATO. Lot of astroturfing here.

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graemep 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Lot of astroturfing here.

The guidelines say "assume good faith"

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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graemep 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Those are left wing positions. Until 2023 the UK's Green Party's policy was to leave NATO, and there is still a lot of support in the part for that. When the UK's Labour party was socialist they were anti-EU. If you look at campaigned for what in the 1975 referendum on EEC membership its pretty clear: for example, Thatcher campaigned to remain, Tony Benn campaigned to leave. The remnants of the old left remain anti-EU even now.

	▲	microgpt 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They're neither wing. A foo-wing person could want to leave the EU because it's too bar-wing for any values of foo and bar.

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graemep 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

its not uncommon. The overtly racist parties in the UK (e.g. the BNP has quite a lot of left wing policies (e.g. nationalisation of utilities), ending NHS outsourcing to the private sector, and free healthcare.

Its a combination that appeals to the worst off who compete with unskilled immigrants for jobs and rely on free healthcare etc.