And undercover she becomes
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And the haunted Victorian trouser press.
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And Braverman launches her leadership bid, dripping venom
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The system is that the country is divided into 650 constituencies of about 75,000 registered voters each, plus a few island seats which are based on geography rather than head count.
There have been moves to reduce the number of MPs, but these have come to nothing so far. OTOH, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland also have their own parliaments with a certain amount of local law-making power. I suppose they are a bit like the states in the US.
Then we have the House of Lords, which is a mixture of the 26 (?) bishops, the remaining 90 or so hereditary peers who weren’t purged by Blair in the late 90s, and hundreds of life peers appointed by the government of the day on various excuses. They have little legislative power because any bills they send back to the Commons for amendment can be overridden anyway.
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Given it’s a for profit entity owned by the toad there might be problems with that surely?
Also, had the UK a more reasonably democratic voting system the Fash would have about 90 seats which puts their vote in perspective.
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It has annoyed me throughout the campaign that the all news services have kept on referring to the Reform Party, when they should be referring to the Reform Party Ltd, and its owner, Nigel Farage.
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Wikipedia has you covered
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Pleased. Not that i’m a Labour voter and they won comfortably in my constituency, as they have done my entire life. Worrying to witness the rise of Reform though.
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Reform
Such a cosy word for a bunch of fascists.
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I saw a bunch of ‘Vote Reform’ picket signs in my area yesterday and it made me wish i had my can of black spray paint with me to scrawl a massive ‘NO’ over the top.
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Just wait until they establish Ministries of Peace, Love, and Plenty.
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Who for?
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In Canada in the 1990s, a party called Reform overtook the Progressive Conservative Party to become the biggest right-wing party, and then merged with them. Farage named his party Reform because that is his goal.
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Oh, that’s easy: for everyone.
Only “Miniluv”, “Minipax”, and “Miniplenty” are probably too hard for the average Reform voter to spell.
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I love the tolerance for a whackiness in these elections. It helps me see just how thoroughly English Monty Python was.
Surely he’s flanked on the other side by Lord Binface.
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No, Count Binface ran in Sunak’s constituency.
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Yeah. I was joking.
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