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farfallica | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 My friend Carlos who’s been living in England since he was 18 years old told me same things you’re telling us here. It’s a shame that the UK turned into this kind of place. I see that many other countries are going to the same direction. How come the labor party won the last elections? I still don’t get it. If nothing is done to protect the population,a civil war will happen soon.
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davidwetton | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Three main factors: as to why Labour won

1) Tory govt had become so bad, so loathed, that people wanted a change. Tactical voting websites were promoted to vote for person most likely to beat a Tory.

2) Reform UK won 14% of national vote and took a lot of their vote from Tories.

3) UK's 'first past the post' voting system is corrupt. Labour won only 33% of national vote, yet got 412 seats our of 650, which is 63% of seats.

Reform won 14% of national vote, but only received 5 seats - 0.7% of seats - corruption personified.

And I heard a lot of people who didn't want Blue (Tory) or Red (Labour). They are a Uni Party, passing leadership baton to each other at elections, whilst their big business oligarch funders, paymasters, remain the same.
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Henry | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Good summary but lots of people are so fed up of politics you should have mentioned only 60% of the eligible population voted.  So from a total perspective only 20% voted for them.
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davidwetton | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Agreed. 
Those registered to vote, but didn't, plus those not even registered to vote are larger than the Tory and Labour vote put together.

The Uni Party / Oligarch worst nightmare is  seeing these people becoming engaged and voting for a party away from Red and Blue.

Hence, I've a sneaking feeling that behind the scenes they promote "It's cool to check out of the syatem" to ensure they don't realise their voting power.