Published on 12, July, 2020
Just wondered if people on here are happy or unhappy at the general election result last week? I stayed up most of the night to watch the results come in.
It would be wonderful if we could have a calm, logical, reasoned political discussion on here that doesn't result in anger, name calling and the mods locking the thread
Come on guys lets prove we can do it!
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?
I have my doubts about PR. It was wise of Starmer and Labour not to come out in support for it pre election.The r/w press would've relentlessly pushed that Labour wasn't capable of running the country on its own. For me the best time was after winning an election. Doing it from a position of strength.
firemonkey said:For me the best time was after winning an election. Doing it from a position of strength.
It would be like turkeys voting for Chirstmas though. They probably would not be able to win outright ever again so they just punt it down the line until the next election then repeat ad infinitum.