*Please please please be the trend of things to come*
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At some point Labour will realise that the strategy of trying to win over right wing voters and hoping the left will stick with you regardless no longer works in the UK. I just hope they realise this before the next elections.
It's certainly a bit of good news in these trying times. Hope this is a sign of change for the better
Is it possible that the next PM can be from the Greens? Do they have a good candidate? Won't this just split the left?
In order:
- It seems unlikely at the moment, but unless Labour can shore things up in the next couple of years then someone may well take their place just as Reform seem likely to take the Conservatives'. The Greens are the best-placed to do that
- Yes, current leader Zack Polanski
- If Labour remain competitive, yes. If Labour collapse as the Tories have, it's less of a concern
How did Your Party do?
FUCK YEAH. I don't know what makes me happier: the fact that the Greens won, or that Labour lost.
The big gap between Greens and Reform is what makes me happiest. This is an amazing result.
The Green Party won 40.7% of the vote on Friday in an election triggered when a member of parliament resigned for health reasons. Nigel Farage's Reform Party came second with 28.7% of the vote and Labour finished third with 25.4%.
Or the fact Reform probably thought they were going to take it!? Get fucked you racist cunts!
The exact same thing happened in Australia last election. As the Conservative party became more fascist and mentally ill, voters shifted to the Labour party moving it from center-left to more corporate-whore center-right, and the Labour voters in turn shifted to vote for the Greens or other socially/economically left independents.
This isn't necessarily a good thing though. The law of averages means the corporate-whore parties maintain a majority, and continue the proto-fascist march and neoliberal economic collapse.
The worthless polical folding chair down, yay. Nigel's second... wtf.
Also, this is me not familiar with what parties are of offer.
Alternative headline: Starmer breathes sigh of relief as reform lose to the green party
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