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Labour nowadays are even to the right of Blair. I'm a socialist. Labour are the enemies of socialism. They're doing everything they can to expel socialists. They offer a hobson's choice between blue Tories and red Tories - and they want you to vote for them simply because they pose as the least bad option. From my point of view, Labour are more of a danger to socialism than the Tories because they stand in the way of socialsim more than the Tories.In the Blair days of new labour, I would have agreed with you. But the Tories have moved so far over to the right these days that the Home Secretary can be overtly racist without raising an eyebrow. Yes, labour have moved a lot to the middle, but the Tories have swung to the far-right to grab the UKIP vote and placate their backbenchers.
And there is every reason to believe that voting for a more left wing party is not a wasted vote. Look at UKIP, all they did was threaten to take votes off the Tories and so the Tories had to move to the right to counter that. Similarly, if you vote Green you apply a leftward pressure to British politics. If you refuse to fall for Labour's ploy of getting left wing voters to vote for them simply because they pretend to be the least worse option, you have more effect on British politics than if you acqueisce and vote against your own interests. Furthermore you put pressure on the system to change the voting system. PR will not come about until Labour is made to realise that FPTP isn't in its interests - like has happened in Scotland.