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?
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:And "supermajority" is not a thing in the UK, it's just a majority.
Supermajority is a new word and was coined for the current election.
It has no dictionary definition as yet but it is intended to refer to a "massive majority" which is what Labour clearly have.
Background to the term is here: https://fullfact.org/election-2024/supermajority-parliament-explained/
Just because it is not "official" does not mean it lacks meaning as is the case with most new words.
LateToTheParty said:Supermajority already has a meaning in other jurisdictions, so you ant just start using it to mean something else in the UK.
You just DON'T want to open that "can of worms"!
(That can of worms being the misuse or redefining of words one....)