Post #3387158
2026-06-22 15:35 UTC
@cstross@wandering.shop
Tbf, it was funny to see the horror on centrist faces when they realised that their 'no one likes socialism anymore' mantra didn't apply to the electorate.
@NotTheLBCGuy@mstdn.social
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@fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net 2026-06-22 17:29
@ReggieHere@mastodon.social @cstross@wandering.shop @NotTheLBCGuy@mstdn.social far more people voted for Corbyn's Labour in 2017 (12M) and the catastrophic 2019 election (10M) than did for Starmer in 2024 (9M), despite being an election Starmer couldn't lose given how fed up everyone was with the feckless Tories. The so-called mandate Starmer got from a numerical artifcat of FPTP simply does not exist. The British people had the opportunity to fix this in the AV referendum of 2011, and blew it. 2/3 voted against, so basically the Tory and Labour voters colluding to ensure the other 1/3 remain disenfranchised.