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They lost so many seats to the SNP that they are unelectable for at least a generation.
I'll never vote Tory but to be honest we've done great under a Tory government so I'm not worried for myself.
If I was a unemployed/disabled/on a low income I'd be extremely worried.
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They're politicians.
They didn't resign on principle, they resigned out of self-interest. They realised that with Corbyn as leader, most of them would be jobless come the next election. So resign, get a new leader, maybe keep the job.
I'm aware that I'm generalising, and it's just the 98% of politicians that get the rest a bad name.
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It's no surprise that the New Labour has-beens have no principles though. Why do they think Corbyn is now leader, and will win this time too?
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He's the Stuart Lancaster of Politics.
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Corbyn (aka Napolean, Animal Farm) is doing a pretty good job at ruining the LP. He's buildling himself a nice little club there.
TBH Labour aren't capable of running a piss up in a pub, never mind being worth paying attention to.
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And this would be enabled by proportional representation, I think.
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Sadly, PR will never happen as long as the ruling party has a winnable position through first-past-the-post. The referendum on Alternative Vote was a cynical way of presenting a flawed PR system that no-one understood the the point of or wanted, so it was rejected - allowing opponents to claim the country had rejected PR. A bit like saying (insert team name here) are rubbish, so all football is rubbish.
In order to have what are effectively all independent MPs who vote on each issue on its own merits alone, you need a constituency-based system.
That is why STV is the best system because it's the only one which can properly accommodate both requirements.
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Some of the Corbyn supporters are attacking those resigners out of self-interest. That was patently clear at the Bristol rally last month when a local councillor, Hibaq Jama, absolutely tore the shit out of Thangam Debbonaire. That attack was all about self-interest under a lofty load of banners proclaiming the principles of Momentum.
Our current Lab/Cons tribalism is based on the outdated us v them social divisions that probably came to an end - with a few notable exceptions - sometime in the 80s/90s. That divide dates from the origins of UK politics as we'd recognise it, with the industrial revolution and the introduction of factory workers vs factory owners. To be fair, the workers needed to unions and needed sensible representation of their interests.
Be interesting to debate what signalled/caused the end of that nice & simple us v them arrangement (perhaps when unions stopped representing the reasonable interests of their workers, perhaps when union power was dismantled with Thatcher, perhaps with the rise of globalisation and the remoteness of "them"), but that's another thesis.
Unfortunately, whilst I agree that tribal politics is pretty ineffective now, I can't see it being replaced with anything better until we (the electorate) stop thinking in those terms. Chicken/egg?
The risk is that our dissatisfaction with the existing arrangement allows an alternative arrangement to become more appealing & popular. It's the "vote for me, just because I'm not them" campaign banner. That's what Trump has done in the US. And - not drawing any parallels with their policies/values/etc - it's similar to what Hitler did in the 1930s. For a while (and still not making any comparisons of policies/values/etc) it looked like Farage (or BJ) might do something similar here, but clearly not.
anyway...i think we're supposed to be run by cabinet government...and i think "leaders" like Blair and Thatcher might have been better advised to have operated under just such a system...rather than seeing their parties as their own personal toys
The other curiosity i find is the guesswork that Corbyn couldn't win a general election...bearing in mind that two out of our last three Prime Ministers didn't win one either...
And the fear that Corbyn would be a disaster...i can't personally remember a non-disastrous British Prime Minister.
I think Corbyn might be able to perform better in PMQs against May, which could gain some ground, but i think the damage has already been done.