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That’s a thumping
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Sounds like a seat up for a vote. Thumping by Brookshire reports heavy turnout.
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Is this good for the UK or bad? I know nothing about their politics.
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Things can only get better, as the old Blair anthem went
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Better social services, but Starmer leaned hard into anti-immigration/TERF hysteria so a lot of people are worried about the bigotry side of the new leadership.
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AS someone who does not truly understand British politics, my completely uneducated view is that there have been no serious, dedicated & hardworking leaders of the Conservative party since Cameron. Whether or not Labour is "good", the Conservatives have completely fallen down on the job.
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Think of it as hiring a carpenter: one company sends a degenerate alcoholic who used to be a great carpenter but now can't even cut a board straight for the DT's. So you send them off. The other company used to spout random anti-semitic slurs at random but at least hasn't done that lately.
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Oh, you mean David Cameron, who led us into the abyss and then walked away when the vote didn’t go as he expected? That “serious, dedicated & hardworking leader”?
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Si, I probably should have expected that response. He knew there was a large segment of the populace very unhappy with the EU - and there was some justice there. The EU is kinda of a mess on a good day. He tried for popular support & failed. This was the policy the people demanded in the end.
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I think the British public chose dead wrong. But it was their choice to make. Cameron knew he had an unpopular policy and tried to bring the public around. But since they've certainly not made a clear choice to the alternative. Labour isn't exactly cheering the notion of re-joining the EU.
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I’m sorry, but how did he try to bring the public around?
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Managed decline as opposed to the free fall we have had..
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Now it's just time to see if these results are inaccurate enough to drop the actual Conservative results below 100. Unlikely but, hey, everyone needs a hobby.
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I’m going to pour myself an extra pint when the EU forces the UK to give up Gibraltar and The Pound to re-enter the EU.
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I'm happy for them. I was hoping the Conservatives would dip below the official opposition threshold, but this will do.
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Strong results for the Lib Dems and Reform if the exit poll is accurate
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Lib Dems at 61 would be almost as high as 2005 (62)... the second-best result for Liberals since 1929 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Un...
2005 United Kingdom general election - Wikipediaen.m.wikipedia.org
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It’s good to see that the far right isn’t winning everywhere.
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Not quite the extinction level event for the Cons people were talking about though.