I cannot see a way out of this for Starmer. Extremely poor judgement or a willingness to turn a blind eye. Either way it’s bad.

  • ModCen@feddit.ukEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

    I’m not sure it will do much good, the numbers are very close when it comes to CON + “reform” , compared to LIB + LAB. (~10mil v ~12 mil, favouring left).

    Fair point. The latest YouGov poll shows 44% of British voters favouring Reform and the Tories so I guess a majority are against the Tories and Reform. But yeah, due to being split between different parties, Reform look likely to win the next election. We really should have proportional representation.

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 days ago

      We really should have proportional representation.

      good luck getting anything when the blackshirts are in power

      • ModCen@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        If Reform do win the next election then sure, I strongly doubt they would introduce proportional representation. But if the UK did have proportional representation then Reform would be nowhere near a majority in parliament, since their share of the vote (in current polling) is about 33% at most.