The Bishop
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Post by The Bishop on Sept 14, 2024 9:45:54 GMT
It’s not often the leading party is on less than 30 percent in the UK. We’re becoming increasingly less like the USA and more like continental Europe in our voting patterns. We had a period in mid-2019 when polling regularly showed this, a few had a four way pile up with the top party on 23-24 per cent. But then Johnson became Tory leader and set about calling his "Brexit" election, and that changed dramatically. Things could have majorly altered again by the time of the next GE.
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European Lefty
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Post by European Lefty on Sept 14, 2024 14:20:14 GMT
Yes, and of course in 2017 two party politics was back for good
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Post by aargauer on Sept 14, 2024 14:24:11 GMT
If this becomes the norm, some form of pr is inevitable. You can’t have majority governments on 20something% of the vote and expect them to have legitimacy. I would be amazed if both major parties get below 30. It's obviously all to play for in a way it wasn't in 1997 to 2001, and basically anything could happen from here, from a repeat of 2024, to SDP levels of collapse.
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