It’s going to be a fight to get your future back. Don’t get comfy. They need to do the work to fix what was broken. I assume, not a brit
Your assumption is correct. This will not be an easy or a smooth path. And it will happen in a few months. They’ve been talking about needing 10+ years to deliver their goals. But they need to show enough progress in about 4 or 5.
This was an interesting election.
- Labour won in a landslide, but voter turnout was low (lots if thoroughly disillusioned people).
- A lot of the new seats they won were by narrow margins, indicating that while they have a mandate, it’s not as emphatic as the MO count might suggest.
- Regardless of their policies/objectives, Reform made good gains for a new party. Not many MOs to sit for it, but they will feel invigorated by how many races in which they outpaced the Tories.
- The Liberal Democrats has a fantastic night, increasing their MP count by something like x7.
- The Scottish independence cause took a hit with the collapse of the SNP.
- This election was a spectacular culmination of missteps (both individual and organizational) for the Tories. And this might have been a mortal wound for a nearly 200 party that will massively change British politics. Such a collapse hasn’t been witnessed for centuries. If they survive it might be as a nationalistic husk within which the Reform party takes up residence. Though nothing is certain for the Tories at this point. They might come back from the brink of death; they might shuffle back to the centre; they might become a third party for the next couple of decades; etc. Labour had to do a huge rebuild over the last 5 years and managed it. But their situation is very different from the Tories, so that analogy isn’t the best.
It’s a very good morning. Nice to have a little bit of hope that things can get better.
Good. Good for you all - hopefully other countries get to experience something similar soon.
I donno, anybody remember Obama? Trudeau?
Keep this guy accountable and call out the bullshit.
The last party set the bar so low it’s painted on the floor, so just saying the right things feels like significant progress regardless of if actual actions are taken.
Reform UK is waiting in the wings for the jaded masses if Labour doesn’t follow through, and the jaded masses don’t understand that voting for the wolf to punish the fox is a dumb thing for rabbits to do.
As your bard said, words pay no debts, give deeds.
UK still has the stupid house of lords, but maybe Labour has enough support to get rid of that too?
Apart from being stupid by life time membership, it’s extra stupid for having mandated religious influence. Truly a leftover from medieval times that has no place in a modern democracy.“I do think people need hope, but it needs to be what I call ordinary hope, realistic hope,” - Starmer
The future is, uh, not looking good.
Breathe a sigh of relief, Britain. The NHS is saved.
There’s literally privatization proponents in this new labour government.
Glad Starmer won.
