Or... (and bare with me here) generations of establishment parties doing fuck all for the people while burning the world, backing a genocide, and insisting that everything was fine because "line goes up".
Support for Labour and the Conservatives fell apart when both parties decided that they didn't care about the same things the electorate do. There's no nuance missing. They gave up and expected us all to fall in line. We aren't, and now they're acting confused as to where their support went.
Not necessarily a net positive with Reform being even loonier right wing than the Tories under Boris, but this definitely reflects a shift from years of the regions being told how world-leading the UK is, but due to the enormous wealth disparity between London and everywhere else they have worse quality-of-life than the poorest red state.
9 Comments
yakko@feddit.uk · 10 pts · 181d
Increasing polarisation under First Past The Post and a media apparatus that systematically destroys all nuance? Say it ain't so.
danielquinn@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 181d
Or... (and bare with me here) generations of establishment parties doing fuck all for the people while burning the world, backing a genocide, and insisting that everything was fine because "line goes up".
Support for Labour and the Conservatives fell apart when both parties decided that they didn't care about the same things the electorate do. There's no nuance missing. They gave up and expected us all to fall in line. We aren't, and now they're acting confused as to where their support went.
yakko@feddit.uk · -3 pts · 181d
No yeah you're right, I don't need a complex explanation for it
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 1 pts · 180d
What, exactly, is more complex about your answer and why would you two not believe all of these factors matter?
yakko@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 180d
I was only trying to cede the point in a sarcastic way, it just didn't come across well. Oops, fuck it
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 181d
Not necessarily a net positive with Reform being even loonier right wing than the Tories under Boris, but this definitely reflects a shift from years of the regions being told how world-leading the UK is, but due to the enormous wealth disparity between London and everywhere else they have worse quality-of-life than the poorest red state.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 181d
Ah yes the uk, where you have 4 parties and all 4 are shit
Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 180d
There are a lot more than 4 parties, and they're all shit
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 180d
True true