Guidance for US people trying to understand the UK election results later:
Tories under 150 seats: LOL
Tories under 120 seats: LMAO
Tories under 100 seats: ROFL
The absolute funniest thing would be a pro-EU prime minister decides to let the people decide in a non-binding referendum which starts EU reentry negotiations.
No, it's not exactly hope and change. As far as I can tell the manifesto is either "no change", or "we're going to do this thing that doesn't require us to spend money", which I am extremely sceptical of, or transphobia
I keep saying that the Tories have absolutely screwed the UK's finances so badly it's going to take a decade to get back to normality. I do not envy his job, it will be uphill every step of the way.
Does not excuse the transphobia though, deeply disappointed at that.
Yeah. I think righting things is a long slog. I am planning to write to my Labour MP about the transphobia, with some facts. I don’t know if it will move things but it’s the least I can do.
Definitely helps.
It's the little actions between elections that often make the difference. The feedback in the mechanism is us grumpy electorate that are bothered to get in touch.
Mine has been in the Shadow Cabinet so I feel doubly useful to contact. I’m actually thinking 2 letters, 1 re: Teens and Cass, 1 general “I’m a cis woman and a feminist, Trans women are women, JKR is a bigot.”
I think we're all collectively holding our breath until the takes shape, who is in the cabinet, what the first 100 days feels like.
But yeah, there's going to be a lot of letters.
