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Post by ellie on Jul 10, 2024 12:18:12 GMT
Exactly my thoughts Sgev. The UK is ,in general, a centerist population. Which is why neither Labour’s swing to the far left with Corbyn or the Tories swing to the far right under Johnson/Truss/Sunak worked out well for them. Aside from the small minority who support Reform and those who elected Corbyn and one or two other far left representatives the UK basically falls in to moderately left of centre and moderately right of centre divides. They do not like extremes. If the near devastation of the Labour party under Corbyn and the disastrous results for the most recent iteration of the Tory party doesn’t prove that I don’t know what would.
I think the new Government has made a good start and I really hope they continue to do well.
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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 11, 2024 0:34:14 GMT
I listed today a NYT podcast in which they talked about the election and they actually linked even Reform success to the Labour party moving to center. Of course the Conservative imploded but they also think that people sympathetic to Farage “dared” to vote for his candidates because they don’t longer see Labour as a danger. They think they used to vote for the pathetic Conservatives not because they totally sympathized with them but because they didn’t wanted to divide votes and let the old Labour to win. Now they can have the (awful) “luxury” of having a silly extremist that would never win the whole thing representing them.
I also read today that the police arrested a campaign organizer of one of the Independent candidates that won (linked to Corbyn) for terrorism! 🙄
Anyway, if a two system is bad, then the result was great for plurality. Except for the extremists but there is also a lot of centrists there. Some of them are Tories! Now they are fighting each other but that also happened to Labour and they could extirpate the extremist and achieve a victory so maybe it will happen something similar. That’s good for the country!
I even loved Sunak’s goodbye speech! I don’t know but it seemed he was liberated himself from his own party! What a difference to our local politicians. At least in recent years! In the last election, just last month, everyone won and all of them were victims of fraud! Even the winners! There is just a lot of division.
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