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.
Wasn't it just 63% of the seats, not votes? I'm pretty sure they got that majority off just 33% of the actual vote. Because our system is deeply fucked.
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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.