That’s worth a FFS.
Seems like Rupe’s people here haven’t read the memo Rupe sent to Rupe’s people there.
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Yep. Labour did not win, the Tories have been just abysmal for 2 to 3 years. Keir Starmer needs to know, a sheep dog would have led Labour into Government.
Keirs key move was disposing of Jeremy Corben, who ironically might even
have been electable in 2024 given the extent of the Tory baggage.
Your problem is that you don’t get the Government’s are supposed to govern for everyone not just what you want.
This should be sobering reading for centrists, leftists, greens and conservatives alike. What happens when the major conservative party flirts and indeed hops into bed with the loony right and the opposition sees the window shifting, jumps right through it and becomes the defacto conservative party. Australia already down that track well and truly.
Re Reform Party
“ This result was remarkable enough. Though the shocking initial exit poll prediction of 13 seats for the populist hard-right party did not, in the end, come to pass, its final tally of five seats still represents a big advance. Founded only in 2018 as the Brexit party, it had never previously won a Westminster seat at any election.
And if that headline figure remains small, it conceals a much more significant breadth of support in a wide range of seats, Conservative and Labour, right across the country. Nationally, Reform won more than 4m votes, over 600,000 more than the Liberal Democrats who returned 71 MPs thanks in part to their sophisticated ground campaign and targeted tactical voting. The Green party won four parliamentary seats on under 2m votes, less than half the tally of Reform.
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Your problem is your mobs definition of everyone doesn’t seem to include any policy that is to be benefit of anyone under the age of 40
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I think they might be giving a couple more mill to some Sydney music venues to prop them up, sorry shut them up, for a bit. Yoof looked after
So I guess you gave your tax cuts back.
Have a look at State and Federal Government subsidies to the likes of Melbourne City Mission , whose main function is looking out for the homeless, in particular homeless youth, getting them into school and keeping them in; funding for free TAFE courses to get qualified and have a future . Education is the guarantee of a decent future and getting an income.
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i’m sure you did
Without preferential voting, I suspect Reform will have little long-term impact. A substantial portion of their vote in this election is the 14-years-everyone-agrees-you-suck-but-I’ll-never-vote-Labour bonus (see also LibDems!)
Reform can get 5% all they like in future elections, and be irrelevant in all senses other than continuing to kill a few Conservative hopes.
Hopefully the Tories realise that, and don’t bother to adopt some of the wackier stuff.
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In some seats Reform split the Conservative vote, leading to a Labour win in an otherwise safe Tory seat.
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We’re saying the same thing. In a first-past-the-post system they can destroy the conservative forces as a whole even after the vote-them-out rush has passed.
I don’t believe there is State funding if you get a certain percent of votes, even if unsuccessful, as exploited by the likes of Hanson here.
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I have retired and do not earn enough to pay tax any longer, but why would you give any of it back.
The damage the Torries did to themselves fighting against preferential voting in the referendum always makes me smile.
If only it hadn’t hurt the UK so much.
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There is minor funding under a complicated formula.
Each year there is a £2 million Parliamentary Grant to Parties to develop policies, which they can use in election campaigns.
Eligible Parties are those with at least 2 sitting MPs who have taken the oath of allegiance.
The first £1 million is distributed equally between the Parties. The second tranche includes a formula of the number of votes cast in an election.
An elected MP said that once Parliament is dissolved, they no longer have the status of MP. The only ones to retain status are Ministers with letters patent. They are required to surrender their letters patent on change of Government, before new Ministers can be sworn in.
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sky news aust are pretty butt hurt. they keep going on about how many the lib dems won and how many farage came second in
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In France, withdrawal of all NFP candidates not running second, together with a number of Macron Centrists, should avoid the vote splitting hopefully, reducing the capacity of the RN to win enough seats to form a majority government at least in the 7 July run off ( and something to celebrate the next week on Bastille Day).
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it’s nice but why would you think a few hundred bucks does anything to help the housing crisis, stagnate wage growth, green lighting hundreds of new gas projects that do nothing to help domestic supply.
But don’t worry about what i’m saying, just don’t act surprised when you’re back in opposition in 2 years
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Zero chance they will be in opposition but very chance they have a very slim minority
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