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justforthearticles20 t1_iwrseho wrote

Tories could not be happier.

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eric_ts t1_iwrveqa wrote

Time for some more austerity for the poors.

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justforthearticles20 t1_iwrw9j8 wrote

Yup, I was thinking that too. Assuming they ever allow elections in 2025, I expect that the Liberals will self sabotage themselves and remain out of power.

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Not_invented-Here t1_iwtd4e8 wrote

There is a Liberal party in the UK up until around a decade ago they were actually relevant. Then they joined in a coalition with the tories to get one of their own as deputy pm, screwed the sort of people who would vote for them by letting tuition fees for universities go through, and fucked themselves into irrelevancy by doing so.

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Namgodtoh t1_iwrz9fe wrote

Y'all got liberals too? Are they slightly right wing like in the US?

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Lilybaum t1_iwsghh5 wrote

We do, they’re moderate leftish centrists here (called the Liberal Democrats)

Rarely break more than 10% of the vote share thanks to the FPTP

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Namgodtoh t1_iws4kv8 wrote

I can confidently say US liberals are not left wing due to excessive goalpost moving

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VegasKL t1_iwtenv8 wrote

They're more like centrist on an ideological chart.

Anyone who dares go left is called a socialist commie fascist by Fox News.

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ioncloud9 t1_iwu8r5b wrote

Composting the drones will ensure the survival of the elite.

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Geodestamp t1_iwrvb3k wrote

Why is it that conservatives everywhere do things to hurt most people yet they are elected over and over? Why do they chose to harm so many and why do their victims keep reelecting them?

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justforthearticles20 t1_iwrvvef wrote

Like in the US, Conservatives openly hurt their own voters and then shout, "Why are you allowing the Liberals to do this to you?". It works because Conservative voters are indoctrinated with so much rage against Liberals that they are willing to ignore what they see and hear in order to hold onto the hate.

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blazelet t1_iws0vbt wrote

Yeah, decades of fear is the answer.

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VegasKL t1_iwtetbk wrote

They have the money to be able to privately control specific information sources so they can convince people that it's the other guys.

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oldgeek123 t1_iwsrwzp wrote

Sunk cost fallacy? Once you’ve doubled down so many times its really hard to admit you were wrong.

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WexfordHo t1_iwrwhw0 wrote

Given the polling suggests they’d be the minority party in third place after the SNP as the loyal opposition and Labour in government, I really doubt that they are. They’re profoundly unhappy, but they’ve been riding his tiger for a while and have no clue how to dismount without being totally ripped to shreds.

Greedy and selfish as they are, they’ll drag the country down with them.

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bajesus t1_iwsyi0v wrote

"Finally we get to have serfs again!"

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