Turnout was 67.3% btw.
There’s no doubt FPTP is not how you get a representative democracy. The Tories benefit from this, but so too do Labour, which is why they’ve always blocked electoral reform when in power, even though if there was a representative system in operation they could have led a coalition government based on these results.
The Daily Mash is on a roll:
I suppose the only good thing coming out of this shitshow is that the satire (the good kind, anyway) is going to be great, in that “I wish we didn’t have to make these jokes but as it is they make the situation a little more bearable” way.
Got my 60% from the NY Times.
Still a minority of the electorate gets a parliamentary supermajority.
My point, probably unclear, is given the difference of the US and UK systems and the Brexit debacle, there’s pretty much no lesson to be taken by the US from the UK election.
This result is depressing.
I guess I just have to hope that it’s not as bad as it looks. Like maybe there won’t be food and medicine shortages. Maybe there won’t be a crescendo of terrorism in Northern Ireland. Maybe there won’t be a massive flight of nurses and medical technicians that cripples the healthcare system. If positive messages and bravado carry the day in the way that Johnson seems to think they always will then I’ll be thankful to be proven wrong about Brexit.
The whole sitch is the same in the USA as the UK, and elsewhere. Weapons grade information manipulation. Mark Zuck taking BJs off world leaders. Voters swirling in panic and anxiety, nudged into results.
The way to stop it is somewhat Mr Robot.
I’d be conflicted. The country not being plunged into a dystopian nightmare-scape would be a plus, but realising that I was wrong to ever be concerned about truth would be a tricky adjustment
Well, it doesn’t necessarily mean creating an entirely new worldview. I doubt I’ll stop thinking the UK has just hit on 20, but I still hope the next card is an ace because real people’s lives and wellbeing are at stake.
As someone in America I can ensure you that satire has long since ceased to be funny if only because it’s become near impossible to tell from the actual news. It’s as if Trump and his cohorts read The Onion and nod in approval.
Cultural differences, I guess? In my neck of the woods, during the ~45 years of building communism being a Soviet vassal state, and now, after ~10 years of the same thing except with a far-right flavor (but also being firmly wedged in Russia’s ass crack), humor is proving to be one of the only things that the system can’t control. Especially since if there’s one thing those narcissistic, amoral dicks up there can’t bear it’s being made fun of.
(A few years ago our local version of The Onion published as a “guest article” a parody of the infamously unhinged rants of perhaps the morst outrageously, openly Anti-Semitic, racist, homophobic members of the governing party… who threw a fit and demanded that the site rectify that the article wasn’t written by him… because it was exactly something like he would write. Sad? Yes. Terrible? Sure. But it was funny.)
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