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Labour (under Jeremy Corbyn) shares a lot of blame for this situation. Why? In the last election, Labour refused to take a stance on remaining in the UK [1]. To

by jmyeet 4y ago

Labour (under Jeremy Corbyn) shares a lot of blame for this situation. Why? In the last election, Labour refused to take a stance on remaining in the UK [1]. To be fair, there was also a massive, coordinated and successful smear campaign against Corbyn. Brexit won by a narrow majority (52-48) and there was no party to vote for to vote against it in the election. The Conservatives went from having a narrow majority (and requiring DUP support for that) to having a massive majority not seen in 40+ years. [1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-election-corbyn-brexit/corbyn-i-would-stay-neutral-in-a-second-brexit-referendum-idUSKBN1XW26K https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-election-corbyn-b...

hermitcrab 4y ago
And now the tories are imploding it looks like we are going to get a massive Labour majority at the next election. And that probably isn't good either. Especially given that Labour prefer to spend all their energy fighting each other. I think the antiquated first-past-the-post system is at least partly to blame for the mess that is UK politics.