🧵 1/4 Thoughts on the UK 2024 general election
Of course I hope that Labour wins, and that the Tories lose badly, but I am also hoping to see this brought about by some tactical voting that will bring in some Green MPS and Lib Dems where Labour has no chance.
Aside from those purely tactical considerations , it would be good to have Greens in parliament speaking out from the left of Labour on certain issues and the Lib Dems breaking the silence on the EU.
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🧵 4/4 Thoughts on the UK 2024 general election
Even though I am happy to see Reform take enough votes away from the Tories to let Labour, Green, or Lib Dem candidates win, I am praying that they fail to win any seat in the Commons. I don't want them given any more opportunities to spout their poisonous rhetoric.
I am particularly hoping to see Farage lose in Clacton. If he does, then maybe the BBC will at last recognise that there is no reason whatsoever to give this man a platform week after week.
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If Labour come first, Reform come second (and sit opposite) and the Tories are given a small miniority in the Commons, it may be the best thing that could happen in decades. I feel it will be a MASSIVE wake up call to the political elite as to what could happen at the next general election of labour mess up and don't deliver.
But I do actually agree with you, about their rhetoric.
We have the far right gaining ground across europe and other countries, we need to be very careful
@zleap @jemmesedi
That would be terrible, what are you thinking? That would mean a significant fraction of the English electorate had embraced far-right xenophobic populism, and Reform would be able to sit there stoking hate and offering stupid, dramatic soundbites in answer to all the complex problems left by the Tories while Labour inevitably disappoint the electorate for 5 years by not changing anything. Then fascism. That's how it happens. Fuck that.
A progressive opposition, please.
I agree, but this is what I fear is going to happen or be close to happening, We are seeing this in the US with the GOP and Trump.
Truly terrifying.
@zleap @petealexharris @jemmesedi
#USPolitics is very different to #UKPolitics in this regard. Trump is the leader of one of the two see-saw parties. This is not the case for Farage.
Farage isn't even a minority *third* party, and U.S. experience should indicate how well such parties do under First Past The Post.
#ReformUKLtd will not be HM Opposition. That will be the CUP, unless #TacticalVoting in a sizeable fraction of the U.K. makes it the #LiberalDemocrats.
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