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Link to British Election Results — 27 Comments

  1. NOTE ***Vote Share*** — NOT done for USA gerrymander elections — just FPTP winners/losers.

    Mother of all *modern* ANTI-Democracy minority rule gerrymander regimes since 1200s — 700 plus years of monarch/oligarch laws — mere 650 gerrymander districts — TOTAL mob scene.

    On schedule to have 600 districts — more urban packed rebel areas.

    Infected Brit Am colonies in 1600s.

    Infected States in 1776-1789.

    Infected USA Const in 1787.

    === pending END of UK and USA regimes in de facto Civil Wars — urban vs rural areas.

    Added UK timebomb with Parl structure — same top hacks having tyrant legis and exec powers.

    At least less SOP violations in USA in 1776-1787.

    Who would LOVE to have DJT yelling at Pelosi every second — and vice versa ???

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    PR and AppV and TOTSOP

  2. Well, well, well… I guess the UK will get out of the EU but might break up anyway! Adios, Scotland! Adios Ulster?

  3. Who would LOVE to have DJT yelling at Pelosi every second — and vice versa ??? – Demo Rep

    How about Sen. Milquetoast from Kentucky? Despite leading the Senate majority he still looks and acts like the guy you beat up and stole his lunch money in grade school. But he does have a mean second face and will stick a shiv in your back at the first opportunity!

  5. The Lib Dem leader was the best looking of the three main parties but it didn’t keep her from losing her seat! Johnson sucks but Corbyn was even worse! Kinda like the Democrats here in the good old USSA!

  6. The Labour Party made a mistake when it used a primary (administered by the party, at party expense, for the dues-paying members of that party) to choose its leader. Without that primary, the old system with unions and Labour members of Parliament choosing the leader would have chosen someone with more voter appeal.

  7. Really Richard? You don’t think a hard core socialist had appeal to Labour and millenials?

  8. The “hardcore Socialist” was unpopular with “new” and “old” Labour party supporters. He should not been the party leader.

    The Tory leader is also not well liked, but pledged to back many popular leftwing policies and also a rise of nationalism among both normally tory and labour voters.

    The Lib Dems seemed like the most sane platform, IMHO, but nationalism and xenophobia bleed into the British election.

  9. So Edward Brown… are you saying Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and the other progressive Democrats are doomed in 2020? Trump and Johnson seem to me to be cut from the same cloth.

  10. 1. The progressive caucus of the Democratic party is not running the party. Its a relatively small number of elected officials in progressive constituencies.

    2. Johnson backs socialized medicine, an agressive green policy, legal abortion, etc. Not like trump at all.

  12. …or most British people like clean air, affordable health care, reproductive rights and caring for the planet

  13. Is the UK DEBT regime even more bankrupt than the USA DEBT regime ???

    DEBT/GDP ratio.
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    Govt spend / GDP — will be more/less ???
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    43.6 PCT — CONS Vote Share — even less than 2016 Trump

    326 low Cons winners of 650 = UNDER 25 PCT of total votes ?????? — will need final giant spreadsheet of votes for ALL candidates in ALL districts.

    IE – One more EVIL/VICIOUS ANTI-Democracy minority rule regime in the 100 pct rotted to the core 1066 DARK AGE Brit regime —

    Now totally ready to blow up the so-called 4 *nations* in the regime — England, Wales, Scotland, N Ireland.

    MORON Chucky waiting in a castle to be THE last UK monarch ??? —
    Republic forces on the march.

  14. The far lefties are running the Democrats. It’s obvious.

    I am far from an expert on UK politics. The EU is nothing but a bloated bureaucracy. The sooner they get out, the better.

  15. The EU is very good on human rights issues. The EU forced Britain to let ex-felons become voters. Most of the EU members use proportional representation, unlike Britain. Academic research shows a greater fit between voter preferences and actual policy, in countries with proportional representation. In Britain more voters voted for parties that want to remain in Europe, or at least have another vote, relative to the popular vote for parties that want to leave. So once again, an absence of proportional representation or ranked choice voting means that the government will do one thing but the majority of voters want something else.

  17. CL – that KY USA Sen MONSTER running again in 2020 — news item today.

    Put on armor – front and back.

    Move H Clinton to KY now ???

  19. @ Richard Winger:

    I notice that, altho the Conservatives won a majority of seats, they only got about 44% of the popular vote, less than Trump’s 46% in 2016. So, it would appear that if the UK used the proportional system in use in much of the EU, the Brexit deadlock would have continued. Note that the Labor Party is itself divided on the matter, and Corbyn essentially chose to evade the Brexit issue.

  23. MAJOR UN-EQUAL voter votes per EU Parl member in various nations.

    EU is one more socialist super-mess — like a major defective olde USA 1777 Art Confed.

  27. @DR, CL,

    Legislation providing for an election was passed in the Commons on 28 October, and given Royal Assent on 31 October. Parliament was dissolved on 6 November. Nominations were due by 14 November. The election was 12 December. The parliament met on 17 December for swearing in of members, The state opening was on 19 December.

    Nomination in Britain requires 10 signatures on a petition, and the consent of the candidate, and a deposit of £500 ($652). The deposit is returned if a candidate receives 5% of the vote.

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