Hi FTN....b fab*
OK....haven't a lot of time so haven't read many posts, so, as ever, apologies if what I say's been said/covered.
1 Total voting public against TCC** = 66%
2 %age of total votes available in support of TCC = 25%
3 A non-vote (34%) is a vote against TCC (If they wanted him, they'd have voted for him)
So - on 25% of the possible vote, TCC can wreak his inhuman onmishambolic frackwittery, completely untroubled by needing to 'do any detail' or take any responsibility.
We are governed by consent.
I no longer give my consent.
Vote reform now - and by now, I mean now - today....not tomorrow, next week or the year 2020 - too many people will have died by then and it is too important.
I am aware that a system of PR would throw up 83 UKIP MPs - whatever I may think of them and their (MiliLabour-lite) policies, as with the BNP et al - if they receive votes their participation is valid and counts (and, they have a certain amount of actual media clout (Daily Excess/Desmond) ditto the Greens - large numbers (I suspect) of newly politically-active students (recently registered and now 'doing the math' as Tory Blur would've said)...but...as has been mentioned - the 'Left' (or 'us', as I prefer to refer to anti-TCC, anti-Murchydochian anti-neoliberals) needs a single issue to focus on - and I believe
(TM) that this is it ...the enemy of my enemy is my friend and all that.
This bastard administration will try to make the boundary changes in double-quick time. The opportunity for campaigning for a fair voting system starts right there - if you (the 'Government') are changing the terms of elections, we demand to be consulted (and that consultation WILL include voting reform) - again, a clued-up and active youth on social media, backed by @rustyrockets and the like, will add strength.
On possible Labour leaders...
Burnham - I'm surprised some here don't want him - on Mid-Staffs, CunTNHS (sorry - couldn't resist
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) etc, all anyone has had to do is stand up and say 'read the reports....they're here look....now tell the truth...because we are'....then Burnham goes for the jugular on his specialist subject, the NHS'...agreed, lack of detail my hold him back, but I see his support for the NHS as positive, not negative.
Dan Jarvis - hmmm - not sure if I'm the only 'old soldier' on here, but I hope you can accept that I served (with pride) in the military but also hope that I've demonstrated a 'left of centre' outlook...it is possible to be both (When I joined in the late 70s, the great hope was that we would turn into a peace-keeping force, in support of the UN...and Britain was, at that time, a Socialist Paradise)
He would, without doubt, be the best candidate for undermining the pomposity and superiority complex of Clouncy and his Murkydochian Monsters....the best outcome I can think of would be Dan Jarvis continuing the Milibandian march to the left. (On another note, losing Balls has a silver lining - the new Shadow Chancellor will not have been anywhere near (tin-foil hat on) the Bilderberg Group (as has every Chancellor and PM since it's inception in 1956) (tin-foil hat off) so should understand actual economics, not the pretend version that's been shoved down our throats for 40 years....and start quoting Krugman, Stiglitz (and possibly Marx, just to make them realise that far from being 'outdated', Marx describes the current situation accurately (and indeed, Marx was just extending evidence-based theories from throughout history)) et al.
I really don't know enough about the other potential candidates (Lammy/Umunna too Blairite? Eagle v. good as is Creasey from what I've seen, which, as I say, ain't much!)
There was going to be more, but you'll be pleased to hear I've got to go....suffice to say, 48 hours of extreme self-medication has (as it did in '92) restored a little glimmer of hope (and that's all you need to start with). I'm very close to joining a political party, but am torn. Greens really say what I want to hear and have, against all the odds, managed come out of this election absolutely in tact (helped, within the MSM by the 'anti-Labour party' tag assigned to them by TCC and his useful idiots) and with reputation enhanced....yet with Labour I can influence the selection of the next PM (who may take office way before 2020) and join the anti-banskter agitation from within....it'll take a bit more thinking though, I think (seriously - apologies for lots of stuff but mostly for that tautology).
I live in hope for a rainbow coalition (that includes the Purples - it is not unreasonable to want their MSM support) actively campaigning for change the voting/electoral system immediately. The poor, disabled, sick, retired, the Police, the Firefighters, the NHS and its' staff, the badgers and other wildlife, the legal profession, students - in fact anyone who did not vote Tory (
75% of the population) need it to happen...and never, ever give up...hope!!
...and again, THANK YOU FTN, for being here and helping to ease the pain.
(Unbeleivably, I pressed preview, saw something from RR2 re electoral reform and Caroline Lucas, so will press submit and then read it
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*back for a bit
** that c**t Cameron