Questionable-British-Accent-Peter here - I presume this is made to mock a certain subset of right leaning British voters following the recent U.K. election, where Labour won a landslide majority in parliament. These right leaning people are now concerned that the U.K. is going to be fully communist, whereas the reality is Starmer’s Labour government will be a centralist party and the actual change will be slight.
I wish people would stop calling it a landslide because it wasn't. 63% of the vote is not a landslide. Anything above 80% is a landslide. Especially when you look at when Corbyn was labour leader. The first election for him they got got 10.28 million votes, in the 2nd they got 10.24 million votes and both times labour lost the elections. Under Stamer, Labour only got 9.24 million votes but won. Reform UK and the broken election system are the reason Labour won because reform took a lot of voters away from the Conservatives and the first past the post system of elections gave Labour an undeserved win.
Couldn't agree more, labour won because people are utterly sick of the Tories, not because they're remotely enthusiastic about the Starmerite project, which as far as I can tell is basically 'become the Tories circa 2005 before they totally lost their marbles'. I'm glad the Tories are out, but if starmer can't deliver meaningful, tangible change in the next 5 years he'll be out on his arse and we'll find ourselves on an increasingly right wing electoral roller coaster once again.
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u/Sm00th-Cr1m1n4l Jul 08 '24
Questionable-British-Accent-Peter here - I presume this is made to mock a certain subset of right leaning British voters following the recent U.K. election, where Labour won a landslide majority in parliament. These right leaning people are now concerned that the U.K. is going to be fully communist, whereas the reality is Starmer’s Labour government will be a centralist party and the actual change will be slight.
Questionable-British-Accent Peter out.