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Jack Graham

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The huge Labour majority is an artefact of the UK's insane - increasingly tinkered-with - electoral system. It does not reflect a popular enthusiasm for the vacuous, cynical Starmer or his reactionary centrist party. Labour's vote is down from the two Corbyn elections, their share only slightly up.

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As John Crace said, Labour didn't "win" the Conservatives lost....

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Jack Graham's avatar Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social
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Election result reflects pained exhaustion after 14 years of sadistic Tory misrule, lack of confidence in the shambolic Tory party, & polarisation, with hard-right, fascistic attitudes burgeoning as a reaction to a changing world, activist breakthroughs, & leftwards progression among younger people.

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