Off Topic Politics Thread

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The geographic distribution is interesting:

https://petitionmap.unboxedconsulting.com/?petition=619781

While these are obviously small numbers overall, note how many of the areas in dark red (indicating a large number of signatures) are in Conservative-held ridings...

And it's only one poll (and you should never trust just one poll), but it's a pretty shocking poll:

 

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No confidence votes from Tory backbenchers have already been submitted against Liz Truss after 14 days in office. As I have said previously, this will be a very short-lived government.

 

She's protected against this for a year though.

 

Under the current rules at least. Who knows with the Tories.

 

Very pleased to see my own constituency of Wells (Heappey, Con) among the dark red bits. There are obviously loads of us desperate to get our best MP ever back in, the Lib Dem Tessa Munt. Although I want to see a Labour government, I wouldn’t be unhappy if the Lib Dem’s held the balance of power to force Starmer down the PR route.

 

Think about talking UK pensions other than state into a CROP. There are many benefits, UK pension annuities are a bad use of a pension pot.

 

Any child being exposed to people like that could be affected well into adulthood. And that would probably give them a serious distortion of life and what is acceptable behaviour. I wonder what happened to them?

 

I read a suggestion that Keir can’t go heavy on supporting PR, or include it in his manifesto, because the Tory supporting media would weaponise it with a variety of headlines suggesting that Labour couldn’t gain power with FPTP so we’re trying to “rig” future elections and gain power by default.
I think the fear is that those who normally support the Tories, who are considering voting for Keir as the least worse option, might not lend him their vote if it means the Tories never having overall control again.
The fact that the Tories generally run the country with a minority vote will continue to be ignored.

 

OMG. I hope they weren’t trying to breed.

 

The Electoral Reform Society are collecting signatures for a petition to send to Keir Starmer, requesting that Labour make PR a manifesto commitment. You can sign it by visiting the ERS website

 

Whatever you think of the Daily Star, this is a great front page!

 

As it stands neither side could gain power with full PR. So what the complaint really is is that the conservatives can’t gain a majority with a minority of the vote. Something that should never happen anyway

 

Trickle down economics.

 

Not so

 

Polls this far out of an election cycle can have wider margins. I don’t for one second believe the gap would be that much if an election was on

Also wasn’t it 45% Labour - so not enough to govern under PR. They would need a coalition

 

The seat prediction is an easy calculation based on this poll’s figures, which of course assume that we won’t have a magical transformation to PR before the next General Election.
I would remind you that this poll was done before Kwarteng’s speech wrecked the economy. And we haven’t even had the Bank of England’s interest rate hike yet which will effectively kill the housing market and devastate the private rental sector.

 

Oh, come on now. None of those kids are going to have their lives altered because they had a weird teacher. They'll have a funny story into adulthood, and that's about it.