Banjax
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What is this vision you speak of?
Certainly, the Labour party has retreated into a ‘we’re better for the NHS’.
The average English voter is more socially conservative than the members of the Labour party and those members won’t STFU about talking about specific minorities. The right can then take advantage when declaring the cultural war and not talking about things the mainstream cares about.
It is very reminiscent of the US.
We don’t need no EU, we’ll get all we want and the EU will get nothing?
Nope, it’s just that the Brexit candidate in the last election gained 26% of the vote in Hartlepool, his “replacement” gained 1% of the vote, those voters transferred their vote to the Tory party. Without a Brexit candidate they probably would have gained this seat at the last election.
Ok, well they ain’t getting smarter.
From what I see out of the US and Britain, I’d say this is most definitely true.
“Thickos”. What a great word. The article is complete shite, but the word is fun.
So Idiocracy then. Ah well.
Welcome to Starbucks. I love you.
I love the idea of the Sun bemoaning the world getting dumber. There are few papers which have done more to further that end.
I thought the same. The irony isn’t even funny.
Indeed
And I didn’t bother voting this time around, despite not liking Boris…
My Google skills have failed me, but The Onion made that joke / observed that truth at least a decade ago.
So - renewed mandate for the SNP, and Sturgeon clearly stating that she will move forward on a second independence referendum - including taking the question to the courts, if necessary.
I don’t see how that ends well for the union, if Boris allows it to come to that. “Interesting” times ahead, I guess.
I think it comes down to the Tories not coming off as scary Trumpies, so the realignment you got in the US just hasn’t happened in the UK.
Not exactly about Brexit, but interesting considering the same push happening in the US.
draxen
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Tony Blair wrote a good article about the state of progressive politics in todays New Statesmen.
Razgon
9067
In Denmark, you can vote “blank”, as in no parties or people voted upon, but you still vote.
I do this quite often, to signal my disgust with the political parties here in Denmark.
AFAIK that’s not an option here.
(In the UK) I just spoil my ballot paper by writing “None of the Above” across it, spoiled ballots are reported by the returning officer, so my theory is if enough of us did it (HAHAHAHA! As if!) then some of those parties might bother to ask what they could do to accommodate my dissatisfaction.
So Blair’s solution for Democrats: become Republicans.
No thank you. He is at best a Clinton left, which isn’t really left at all.
Not available at the national level, but four provinces in Canada allow voters to formally decline their ballot. These declines are counted and are separate from spoiled ballots.
