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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This honestly reeks of the Billionaire class that owns the media pushing to weaken any potential political will for strong, left-wing policies.

The grain of truth behind this lie though, is that Labour didn’t really seem to win many new voters but rather benefited from Con voters splitting their preferences amongst multiple smaller parties.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's interesting. I was under the impression that fifteen years of bad Tory policy, the consequences thereof, and nobody else to blame it on basically led voters to turn their backs on the Tories. It sounds like maybe that is the case, but conservative voters just traded the Tories for the Tories wearing a mustache or three Tories in a trenchcoat?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah this is basically what happened, the vote share for labour was very low, below 40 (don't recall the exact number)