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Without an election Labour dont have enough seats to be an effective minority government. They would need either lots of support from other parties. Best optio
by Milner08 4y ago
Without an election Labour dont have enough seats to be an effective minority government. They would need either lots of support from other parties.
Best option right now is an election, its really our only path to stability. But the Tories will hang on for as long as they can as they are expecting to be wiped out if they held an election right now.
- londons_explore 4y agoIt would be nice if there was a way for the people to request an election anytime. For example... Anyone can gather 100 signatures asking for an election. Then the electoral commission will select 1000 people at random from the electoral register and ask them "Should the UK hold an immediate election?". And then if the majority of those responding say yes, then an election happens.
- dane-pgp 4y agoA method similar to that should certainly be introduced for triggering recall elections of individual MPs (possibly with a condition that the expense of the by-election be covered by crowd-funding). To your point, though, there is "a way for the people to request an election anytime", and it has been used already, to little effect: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/when-next-general-election-liz-truss-jeremy-hunt-parliamnt-petition-b996692.html https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/when-next-general-e...
- me_me_me 4y agoI am sure such system would never be abused or tempered with even. Queue in gerrymandering.
- londons_explore 4y agoI don't really see how it can be gamed... The worst that can happen is nuisance elections.