Haha. Just today, Telstra told me they could not handle even a quote for a website my company needs set up because it involves “too much data” for their systems.
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Current polls remain steady.
Labour will bolt in. Even an improving economy finally beginning to kick in can’t stop the Tories stagger from one undercooked policy to another e.g. return of a kinda National Service, Rawanda, state of the waters and rivers in this country.
Change cannot come soon enough…
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Family in the UK are still thinking that a minority government is a possibility which seems far fetched but a change is definitely needed
One of biggest issues in the UK is that they don’t have compulsory voting like we do. Any result is possible.
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Based on the graph above and without preferences, how lopsided do individual seats have to be for that to happen? They’d need to have >60% in many seats, then a half or third of that elsewhere?
I honestly don’t know as I don’t follow it closely and aren’t interested enough to vote either 
Or preferential voting. You have a bunch of minor parties with significant support, but their voters have to do the ‘tactical voting’ calculation every time.
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An APH eurvey estimated that just over 20 countries have some form of compulsory voting at national or sub national level, with varying consequences for failure to vote. Some cast it as a civic duty.
Then there’s proportional voting, which we have in the Senate and Hare Clarke in some subnational.
Yeah, and the uk have the House of Lords instead of an elected upper house, a bunch of hereditary aristocrats and partisan hacks who’ve been appointed as lifetime legislators for services to partisan hackery (or, in at least one case, for being Boris Johnson’s illegitimate kid)
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In Continental Europe, with histories of minority governments, there are now groupings of different Parties forming a limited platform of policies. Nothing resembling our LNP Coalition, but it gets some elected. It reflects disenchantment of the younger voter with the established Parties and is the alternative to not voting.
Whatever has happened to the UK Liberal Party, which was once one of the two major Parties, then the third Party, not so long ago having a role in Government IIRC?
You forgot the Lords Spiritual, the 26 Bishops of England appointed for life.
The Libs pretty much died out in the 50’s.
They merged and became the Lib/Dems in the 80’s but they too are as good as dead I believe
Jeremy Thorpe Liberals were influential long after the fifties.
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Possibly:
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Their forming a minority government with the Tories, which pushed austerity and introduced (or increased?) university fees was seen as a complete betrayal. They’ve been pretty forked since I believe.
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This all sounds very Meg “GST” Lees.
The Democrats got what they deserved.
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Trade off was no GST on unprocessed food, which has declined substantially in food consumption. She also left out the bits on GST on services in delivering all products to the consumer.
And when the services charge on my energy bills dwarfs actual consumption charges , with GST attached ……
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Oh yeah. I was living in the UK at the time and mentioned the similarities.
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Need to register to vote, deadline is 18 June.
With all the scandals in the SNP, how will the vote go in Scotland?