In 2009-ish Peter Hitchens suggested the UK's is locked into a 2-party political system which continues to get worse. The 2 corpses of parties are locked against each other propped against each other. For everything that goes wrong one party will always blame the other. The only way to fix the situation is to dislodge one of the corpses, one must lose, and fall big.
In today's UK politics, the Conservatives have just lost big, and Labour got the win not because they were popular but because they were second by default. 60% of the UK voted in these elections and of that Labour got approximately 34% - that is to say with only 20% of the electorate, Labour won more than 50% of the parliament seats. Everything that goes wrong from here people will label directly on Labour - they have no excuse. For conservatives they had been taking people's votes for granted and doing whatever the fuck the globalists want and this is a slap in the face that they can't do that. Maybe they'll reflect on the problem and do good or maybe they'll be replaced by Reform (Not perfect but at least they're in the correct ball park of what people want - secure borders).
I suppose my mad ramblings here are that sometimes a party has to fail in order to realize they need to listen to the voters more than their donors.
I suppose my mad ramblings here are that sometimes a party has to fail in order to realize they need to listen to the voters more than their donors.
Nope. Neither party in the UK nor the US listens to it's constituency. Voters listen to each other though, see each other and that's why voting matters. It forces things to be said which otherwise would not have. It's real meaningless to give a fuck what the 0 party system cares for.
I suppose also, if 1 party fails then it opens the door to new parties rising. People stop voting because they've probably despaired from the current system which then is a green light for talking about other parties which might interest them and be more aligned with based values.
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