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steverico said:
Went for a slash got up just in time to see 30p Lee Anderson win the Reform seat in Ashfield, the Reform vote is a protest vote against the government a bit like the Brexit vote was, come the next election they will all be gone like UKIP are.

However the predicted very low turn out in Hull East isn’t even shocking anymore, I would gamble that it has one of the highest benefit receiving constituents in the UK as well.

Like the Brexit vote they all moaned about “forinors” stealing the jobs they can’t be arsed to get off of bed for.
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Agree – 30p would have lost if he hadn't jumped ship.

Reform is just another temporal figment of the snake oil salesman Farage and a divided Tory party. I suppose you could see it as a manifestation of the fissure in the Tories, but without the accountability. They offer easy solutions and scapegoats to complex situations and are not a serious outfit, despite their burgeoning vote share.

However, Labour should take heed and deal with these pressing issues properly and fairly; without imitating.

I am sceptical they will do that but hope I am wrong.
 
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SydneyTiger14 said:
It's strange that the US and UK seemingly make it tougher to vote in a voluntary system and we make it easy for people despite it being mandatory anyway. You'd think we'd be the ones making it trickier since parties can't block people outright from voting.

8.30-10 on a workday can still be prohibitive as a single parent or someone in an office job. I was in the office flat out between those hours yesterday and wouldn't have been able to just pop out and stand in line for a few hours.
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It’s not remotely tough to vote, polling stations are absolutely everywhere, you don’t queue, it takes two minutes.
 
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originallambrettaman said:
It’s not remotely tough to vote, polling stations are absolutely everywhere, you don’t queue, it takes two minutes.
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Yeah as I followed up, fair enough, my mind was more on the US where it's really quite difficult to vote, as I haven't been in the UK for an election before. I'd still suggest having it on a weekend would encourage participation and turn out. Perhaps it's so easy to vote because no one turns out to vote! I think I saw participation rates around Hull were the lowest in the country?

I still think about the fact I was at work from about 8.30 yesterday morning and was under the hammer to finalise our result until late in the evening. I'm sure there's plenty of people working in jobs that would make it restrictive to vote on a weekday. (Of course I accept there's industries that work on the weekend too) but it does sound like your postal voting system is a bit better than the US.
 
SydneyTiger14 said:
Yeah as I followed up, fair enough, my mind was more on the US where it's really quite difficult to vote, as I haven't been in the UK for an election before. I'd still suggest having it on a weekend would encourage participation and turn out. Perhaps it's so easy to vote because no one turns out to vote! I think I saw participation rates around Hull were the lowest in the country?

I still think about the fact I was at work from about 8.30 yesterday morning and was under the hammer to finalise our result until late in the evening. I'm sure there's plenty of people working in jobs that would make it restrictive to vote on a weekday. (Of course I accept there's industries that work on the weekend too) but it does sound like your postal voting system is a bit better than the US.
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It’s simply a non-issue.

Voter turnout in Hull has historically been poor, but I don’t live in Hull, where I live voter turnout is above average.
 
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bradymk2 said:
im a leftist in most things apart from the mass immigration which imo has made not only the UK, but europe far worse

i also want rich ****s properly taxxed, and social welfare to ensure no one should ever worry losing a job could mean they lose everything etc etc
and no one should have foodbanks in the first world
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The over 4 million unemployed in the early 1980s didn't have any food banks to go to, and there were no jobs available. Today bigger population way less unemployed jobs vacancies all over but people need food banks?
 
originallambrettaman said:
Presumably Sunak resigns in his leaving speech, be interesting to see what comes next, not really a single decent option to replace him.
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From experience down here sadly there doesn't need to be a decent option.

I had hoped when our Conservative-equivalent party lost they would regroup and centrify, they actually went further and harder right.
 
The lesson from this election is that bungee jumping, zumba and a rubber ring behind a boat are bigger vote winners than discussing policies. <laugh>
 
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