The BBC’s “Seats Changed” map is wild. You can now walk from the coast of North Devon up to Bicester and then down to Eastbourne without ever leaving newly Lib Dem seats.
Tired: The Blue Wall
Wired: The YELLOW SNAKE
Serious question to help an outsider understand your politics better. The Yellow Wave, or in this case Yellow Snake. Would be the equivalent of an American Blue Wave? Because how British politics does tend to reflect attitudes and changes beyond the British Isles.
Kind of and kind of not - this is definitely what (as I understand it) would be called a "wave" election in the US - a revolt against the Conservatives from the centre, left and far right simultaneously. We have a semi-viable third party aside the Conservatives and Labour, the Liberal Democrats...
...who tend to benefit from big anti-incumbent swings. In this case they've gone from winning about 10 seats (=districts I guess) to 72 - a huge increase, and the map is showing unbroken chains of seats which are now Yellow (their colour). These all were Conservative-controlled until yesterday..
...and they're in suburban and rural parts of southern England, where Labour have never had much of a stronghold electorally, so when there's an anti-Tory surge this is where they benefit. The snake is me being silly :) Hope that helps!
One reason why the Tories lost is that some of their voters went for the new Reform party.
I think generally a lot of people are fed up with the two biggest parties, which is reflected in the results being all over the place. We desperately need electoral reform.
Not sure in Great Britain. But I do know in the US. The reform that is needed is the ability of a candidate, not necessarily just an elected official. To generate large amounts of cash, that can then be laundered for their benefit. The ones who make the most money being the accessories people.
Bear in mind that you aren't the only ones stuck with an awful electoral system. Labour have got in with only 34% of the vote, like someone winning the Electoral College while losing the popular vote.
There was a big revolt against the Tories, yes, but in a multi-party system, it looks different.
I am not a Lib Dem (and know this is a joke reply sorry) but this election they are literally the only party to have got almost the same proportion of seats as votes! (about 12%)
Yeah, I'm not talking about vote percentage, which is also a terrible system.
I'm thinking something closer to democratic like single transferable vote.
The Tories and Yellow Tories are hated so they wouldn't feature on most ballots.
Yeah, you’re right. They got 12% of the vote nationally, which should give them about 78 seats, but their utterly disproportional representation gives them *checks notes* 72.
This is completely unlike, say, Labour who have, like three quarters of the seats on a third of the vote.
Very maths.
