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
Tories always outperform voting intention polls, I suspect because people don't want to admit in public that they're going to vote Tory.
But fingers crossed.
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
Well, transphobia requires a lot less money than say helping families out by abolishing the two-kid cap on Child Benefit.
I have a mostly decent MP whom I expect to be returned. Planning to start with “don’t make me hold your feet to the fire on this one”.
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.
The friend who introduced me to that one is actually older than me (by about 7 years); but she took to her SMSing like a duck to water, during the advent of mobile telephony in Ireland.
We don’t appreciate being threatened with equally rapacious attempts at genocide, as a rule. Maybe vote for a tolerable Labour candidate or an ethically acceptable left party, like most of your countrymen, and then go bother UK subjects with power over LP about it?
