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My reply disappeared perhaps because there were too many ****s in it. Just like the West.
That's similar to the fate of a recent message I sent to a mate about the stupidity of a large swathe of the British public. A message that also included the words 'frog-faced', 'grifting', 'racist' and 'Charlatan'...
Truth to PowerThat's similar to the fate of a recent message I sent to a mate about the stupidity of a large swathe of the British public. A message that also included the words 'frog-faced', 'grifting', 'racist' and 'Charlatan'...
Always a bonus.
...so, of course, Croydon re-elected the useless slab of lard they call mayor, even after a campaign that made Trump look truthful
Vince McMahon's estranged (yet complicit) wife has never watched The Simpsons
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I see that the media are running with the 'massive sweep to power by Reform', despite the fact that this is transparently not the case. Yes, they have made gains and Labour has lost across to he country, but the Tories have been absolutely decimated, Wales and Scotland are in nationalist hands and the Greens, particularly in London, have significantly increased their seats despite the relentless attack from opponents and UK media over the past week.
And it's ironic that Reform have won less than 1500 council seats - which by coincidence is also the total IQ of all the Boroughs they won!!
And it's ironic that Reform have won less than 1500 council seats - which by coincidence is also the total IQ of all the Boroughs they won!!
Would be nice if elections had a "soapbox" slip, where
the voters could separately summarise their ballot
rationale (dissatisfaction with local council rather
than national govt etc) .
Other than that, voting patterns seem to be stronglly aligning with this :
and a UK << racist >> voter table I have constructed.
Since the Reform vote has dropped since last year's local elections i am also hopeful that this trajectory continues.
The working class have been treated very badly ever since the Conservatives were elected but I don't think the solution is a more extreme version of them.
The Great Yarmouth results indicates the Restore party
will be the option come 2029 (Reform has Uniparty UK
infestation from the Tory cheek, and Farage appears
to yet again be Faraging a political party he leads) .
Yet another reason why the Electoral Commission needs to have a good, long look at the Croydon mayoral election: it turns out that they were signing people up to their mailing list without their consent, for example LadyC was signed up and she definitely doesn't fit the sort of people the Tories want voting for them, so their inboxes were getting flooded with fearmongering ****e such as this which was the basis of the entire campaign - a campaign which really tried not to mention the Croydon Tories were behind it
Add to that the general gaslighting of Perry's tenure so far: he spends the budget on maintaining the parks in Shirley so the True Blue die hards think he's doing a good job and vote for him in droves (for the uninitiated: Shirley is right on the border with Bromley), all the while letting the town centre - which doesn't matter to the Shirley residents, as they never visit the town centre as it's "dirty" or "dangerous"
Add to that the general gaslighting of Perry's tenure so far: he spends the budget on maintaining the parks in Shirley so the True Blue die hards think he's doing a good job and vote for him in droves (for the uninitiated: Shirley is right on the border with Bromley), all the while letting the town centre - which doesn't matter to the Shirley residents, as they never visit the town centre as it's "dirty" or "dangerous"
The more the right wing vote splinters the fewer seats they will win in a General Election. Most opinion polls have the right wing vote between 42% and 48% so splitting it three ways would give them very few seats unless the same thing happens on the centre-left in which case the outcome will be a lottery (similar to the last GE).
If a proportion goes from 50:50 to 80:20
and higher, the 20% cannot "splinter" anything.
Which is precisely what happened in Great Yarmouth.
And now most of the senior members of those Governments feature in.....oh, that's right, Reform!!
You couldn't make it up, but people still buy into it.
Great Yarmouth First might be a recipe for local success but it won't scale. Anyway they didn't get close to 80% of the right wing vote in any ward.
1. They got 2x the vote that Reform did
(the latter finishing second in every contest) .
If there was a "right wing vote" (which there isn't) ,
then the "splinter" means neither should have won.
2. To "scale" means nothing more than having a good
"ground game" in every constituency. That comes with
local membership scale/enthusiasm.
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And on a similar vein...
What a sad, Authoritarian country the UK is fast becoming! 
What a sad, Authoritarian country the UK is fast becoming!
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