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Democracy Has Spoken
Good morning,
Well the people of the UK have spoken and Labour has won whilst taking several scalps.
It has been interesting reading some of the comments on The Answerbank this morning.
It would seem to me that Labour cannot do anymore harm to the UK than The Conservative Party has over the last 14 years.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.less than 34% of votes cast by the british public were for labour. Labour received only slightly more votes than it did under Jeremy Corbyn... it actually received a smaller proportion of votes last night than Corbyn did in 2017!!
meanwhile reform UK gets 4 million votes and a tiny number of seats. i despise them but this is simply wrong.
our system is a joke. it is not a democracy if some votes count for more than others.
I don't think it was Tory voters staying home that cost them. It was the switch to Reform and LD. Labour held their support with, probably, a slight increase in their vote. John Curtice said it was the Tories wot lost it, not Labour wot won it.
Our constituency was shown as a Lab Hold, when in fact it was Lab Gain. One other result I was really pleased to see was Bolsover going back to Labour.
If the Tory vote had held up, it would have been a lot closer but I still think Labour would have won due to the gains in Scotland and reclaiming all the "red wall" seats.
I haven’t forgotten the 13 appalling years of Labour, when we had record low NHS waiting lists, record satisfaction with the NHS, our national debt (as a percentage of GDP) stood at around 70% (compared with now at around 100%), net annual migration stood at around 250k (compared with now at around 750k), there are now around ¾ million more children living in poverty under this Tory government – where virtually no one was using food banks just to get by.
I’m looking forward to 13 appalling years of Labour (see above).
but I don’t remember people having to rely on food-banks just to get by during the last Labour government.
If "the last real Labour Government" is a reference to Callighan and the winter of discontent, that's looking back quite a while. 44 years, in fact.
I think those afraid of what the commissars and aparachicks of SKSs government might do are worrying unnecessarily.
This present version of Labour looks to be more emollient than those of the past.
No need to worry.
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