Are we happy with the general election result?

I see that after voting to implement Proportional Representation in 2022, Labour have now pushed the idea off until after the next election

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/17/labour-divided-over-calls-to-scrap-first-past-the-post-after-landslide-win

his [Starmers[ leadership team have dismissed any chance of action [on implementing PR], saying people would be “kidding themselves” if they believed it would find any bandwidth within a first term of government.

It sounds like they are not even supporting their own policies now they have a supermajority.

Snouts are firmly in the trough with their curly tails waving at the electorate. Who could have predicted it?

Conference motions are non-binding and that one didn't make it into the manifesto two years later. So it's a bit rich to claim it's "their own policy" because lots of conference resolutions didn't make it in. And "supermajority" is not a thing in the UK, it's just a majority. If you can look at the first two weeks of Labour's raft of progressive policies and call them pigs with "snouts in the trough" then I don't know what you are watching, GB News maybe?

LateToTheParty said:

Conference motions are non-binding and that one didn't make it into the manifesto two years later

My uderstanding is that the rank and file voted for it but the manifesto created by the leaders left it out - then they refused to talk about it until after they got into power again (and guess it it won't be kicked down the line again if that happens).

My point here is that the leaders are effectively ignoring what their own party voted on because it is inconvenient for them - they have been corrupted by power already hence the snouts in the trough description.

It is the same every election for as long as I can remember and I'm, like, prehistoric. Never trust a career politician.

LateToTheParty said:

Conference motions are non-binding and that one didn't make it into the manifesto two years later

My uderstanding is that the rank and file voted for it but the manifesto created by the leaders left it out - then they refused to talk about it until after they got into power again (and guess it it won't be kicked down the line again if that happens).

My point here is that the leaders are effectively ignoring what their own party voted on because it is inconvenient for them - they have been corrupted by power already hence the snouts in the trough description.

It is the same every election for as long as I can remember and I'm, like, prehistoric. Never trust a career politician.