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FindOutNow Voting Intentions Poll: Greens Tied Second Place, Your Party Polls below 1%, Reform loses votes to Restore Britain but still stays in Lead (media.piefed.zip)
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[–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

Maybe, but I think that their desire for power will overwhelm the Machine's hatred of getting a better voting system. If the other parties make it clear that they put this in their kings speach or they dont back it, I cant see Labour saying "no we'd rther collapse the government have another election and almost certainly lose seats" Especially when doing that would cause huge outrage in the party over something the majority want.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe I'm just too jaded. But they've not shown any backbone so far. Why would they start? If they had a track record of voting for sensible policies then they would have defied the Labour machine and voted down enacting Brexit for a start. They might have voted against needless wars in the Middle East. They might have voted against making criminals of grannies that are against genocide. But they don't. They only know how to grasp at power long enough to enrich themselves.

    But like I said. I'm a jaded bitch.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I dont expect them to just choose to do the right thing for no reason, like you say, if they were going to do that then they would have already. But put them in a situation where doing the right thing aligns with them not losing power (and for individual MPs not losing their seat) and I think they would. Mostly for selfish reasons but it also helps that a lot of them are in favour of it and most of them know its the "right" thing to do.

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