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  • Angela Rayner cleared of criminal wrongdoing over sale of home

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  • He lost his seat! Let's hope it's forever.

  • New poll by Survation: Labour on course to win 484 seats (a 99% certainty)

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  • That "99% certainty" isn't aging well.

  • How the 2024 election could have looked with proportional representation

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  • The far right are part of several coalitions in countries with PR, though. It doesn't vaccinate your political system against that. The main thing you can do to reduce the march of the far right is to make people feel like their lives are getting better and better.

  • How the 2024 election could have looked with proportional representation

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  • The party list system would mean that Nigel Farage was never out of parliament in the last ages. He would win every time.

  • How the 2024 election could have looked with proportional representation

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  • To be fair, the PR result is far, far worse than what we have - only 4 Reform seats. It's not a great time to be selling PR.

  • UK General Election results megathread

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  • You make very good points.

  • Babe, wake up. Polls are open. Go and vote.

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  • Sweet of you to call me babe. How much did I drink last night?

  • Babe, wake up. Polls are open. Go and vote.

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  • Title: George Carlin Doesn't Vote. Reaction: Idiot.

    Subtitle: George carlin speaks the truth, Voting Is another way to keep you in a closed distracted bubble. Reaction: George Carlin is working to bring about the end of democracy in the USA. Clearly he doesn't believe in it. I do.

  • Ex-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn re-elected as MP after running as independent in Islington North

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  • I think being an independent suits Corbyn. He's always been more of an independent campaigner than a party MP. All the best to him now he's free of the whip.

  • Leadership drama? Shotgun marriage with Reform? The Tory party’s next move will define its future

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  • Slime is the word.

  • Leadership drama? Shotgun marriage with Reform? The Tory party’s next move will define its future

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  • Well he's a bit of an idiot if he's supporting Putin for free.

  • UK General Election results megathread

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  • Historically, people turn to the far right when things are going terribly wrong. The conservatives ran the country into the ground and legitimised everything the far right stood for, then were upset that people started voting far right. I say it was unsurprising. Why not vote Reform if you're a rabid racist and your usual party are about the same policywise but have a boring British Asian leader instead of a white laddish thug of a politician?

    If things get significantly better for folks, there's less motivation to vote in desperation.

  • UK General Election results megathread

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  • I think it's a bad day to be criticising first past the post. Labour stole a bunch of seats from Farage with his kill-the-NHS policies, a turd who oughtn't to be allowed to attend D-day celebrations, given that he stands against almost everything that we fought the war for. Not sorry one bit for that disproportionality.

  • UK General Election results megathread

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  • Yes, but I think you're overstating how right wing Labour pitched it. There were no claims to be anti woke. I think it was a pretty firmly centrist pitch. It's the Conservatives who are going to panic and try to out-nutcase Farage. Labour are going to try and be responsible and fix the broken ship. It's just whether they can do it fast enough for people to notice a big improvement in the cost of living vs wages problem.

  • UK General Election results megathread

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  • Thank you. But we don't blame regular Aussies. You're good with us.

  • The UK’s Brexit dream is dead

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  • Yeah, the writer of the article seems to think that the Brexiteers were honest politicians trying to achieve what they believed would be good things for Britain. I don't think that's a widely held view in Britain.

  • Leadership drama? Shotgun marriage with Reform? The Tory party’s next move will define its future

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  • You can't out-Farage Farage. The Putin-sponsored shyster has no limits. Elections are won in the middle ground in the UK. The Conservatives could easily win next time. They just need an affable leader, some more centrist policies and some headlines about how they've had a change of heart and want to be nice to poor people now and balance the books again. Worked for Cameron. Starmer, meanwhile, had to make a difference in the cost of living crisis so large that people notice they're getting better off, and restore hope that our children will be better off than us. Tall order.

  • Leadership drama? Shotgun marriage with Reform? The Tory party’s next move will define its future

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  • She is one remarkably stupid, reality-blind narcissist.

  • New poll by Survation: Labour on course to win 484 seats (a 99% certainty)

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  • I lived through the Blair government. Some left wing people were upset because he was on the right of the Labour Party, but things did indeed get a lot better in those ten years. Not everything by any stretch of the imagination. But no one expected him to make things better for gay people but not only did the legal situation change but the mood music affected the nation's morals for the better for a while. It became socially far less acceptable to hate on gay folk. Could happen again, but I get why you might be cynical.

  • UK Politics @feddit.uk
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    'Why Do You Hate Young People So Much?' Rishi Sunak Skewered By Student

    uk.news.yahoo.com /why-hate-young-people-much-153924168.html
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    ‘No one going to jail’ for avoiding UK national service, says Cleverly

    www.theguardian.com /politics/article/2024/may/26/no-one-going-to-jail-for-avoiding-uk-national-service-says-cleverly
  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    david @feddit.uk

    Who did you have a crush on that went nowhere?

  • British Success @feddit.uk
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    Bagged myself my best username ever!