It's so odd it took the Tories decades to lose support, and Starmer manages it in just a couple of years.
I am surprised Labour is not sacking him posthaste.
It's so odd it took the Tories decades to lose support, and Starmer manages it in just a couple of years.
I am surprised Labour is not sacking him posthaste.
behind reform
We did it Patrick! We saved Britain from the 2 party state
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Both The Green Party and Reform want to get rid of First Past The Post as a voting system and are pro-Proportional Representation, but I'm sure only one of those parties will implement it if they win the next general election outright.
what @zwerg@feddit.org said; my point is that having reform be one of the two new parties isn't saving britain at all, and they are going to ruin britain with fascism.
When Labour first won, they made some great changes and everything was going well until they started throwing disabled people off of busses and shielding private water companies and it got to the point where I was like - wtf happened.
I don’t even know who they think they’re serving.
Personally I don't think this political polarisation is a good thing
The Greens apparently want to "immediately begin the process of dismantling our nuclear weapons, cancelling the Trident programme" which I think is the wrong move when Russia poses such a big threat to Europe. China and the US could pose threats in the future. Nukes deter those big powers from invading the UK. We could also work with our allies in Europe to try and create a nuclear deterrent which covers all of Europe.
Then on the other side you have Reform who want to blame brown people for everything, and I think that's also a wrong move.
Whilst I can see the benefits of a nuclear deterrent, I do think there's an argument for scrapping the Trident programme as it relies on US support. If there's an alternative that makes us less reliant on the US, I think that should be explored.
Sure it would be good to reduce reliance on the US, e.g. by replacing Trident missiles with British missiles for delivering nukes. But that web page from the Greens I linked to talks about intending to "immediately begin the process of dismantling our nuclear weapons". I think the UK should keep its nuclear weapons for now, while exploring a future possibility of non-American missiles to deliver them.
I live in a Labour constituency next to Gorton & Denton; previously I always voted Lib Dem. I'm torn now - I may vote Green if their support holds to the next general election. I'll only vote for parties that support proportional representation.
PR is the one change Labour could make that would actually make a huge difference to the UK. It'd prevent Reform ever getting a majority like the Tories and Labour get on a minority of the electorate. The old "big tent" parties of Labour and Conservatives are dead - they need to help the country be allowing the left (and right) splinter into more parties that form coalition governments.
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