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It's time to see if the polls are right.

Previously: the voting megathread

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Ree Smog is out! I repeat, Ree Smog is out!

Yes, despite many leftists decrying Labour's centreward shift, I think this is a good result. This result was helped by that shift in no small part.

Starmer is very well spoken and his morning after speech does well to inspire confidence.

[–] Luvs2Spuj 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Top hat wanker! Truss lost too, this is amazing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh good, so now Truss can now piss off too the US and moan about the apparent conspiracy that was against her all she likes, and it won't inconvenience her constituents anymore.

And of course no one in the US will really care, because will have no idea who the hell she is.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is she that head of lettuce who killed the queen?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Yeah. She has convinced herself that her complete failure is a result of a grand conspiracy. This conspiracy requires some of the most uncharitable and profit driven people in the world, to be bleeding heart liberals, which is why no one believes it.

Apparently a bunch of venture capitalists, economists and fellow politicians decided that, rather than making vast sums of money under her "brilliant" scheme, it was instead better to crash the economy just despite her.

[–] 13esq 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This is clearly a great result, but I think that given the popular vote, that it's important to accept that this election was anti-tory, not pro-labour.

Labour have five years to make a substantial tangible change in people's lives or we may very well find ourselves back where we left off or even worse.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Countdown to Smog reappearing as a Reform candidate?