Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party

gedhrel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• RomulusAugustus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  With this kind of a swing, and the opposition leader losing his seat, it does seem that way, at least in part. But many people don’t like Dutton either I think.

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  • gedhrel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just wish the Labour party in the UK would learn from this rather than triangulating with Farage’s fucking racist bullshit.

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    • Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If Labour take anything from this election its that Starmer should walk into his cabinet room tomorrow/this morning and put all his chips on electoral reform.

      Top of the list, ‘soft mandatory’ voting. He’s surely got the numbers in Parliament, he’s already quite unpopular, and he’s probably someone you could trust to deliver electoral reform that represents what the people in a given election want, not skew ot to what a Party wants.

      The Conservatives would never do electoral reform, and if they did, theres no-one there that could be technocratic enough to be reliable. So it could be the UK’s best chance in a long time.

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      • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Top of the list, ‘soft mandatory’ voting

        Absolutely not. Mandatory voting is great, but the number one two and three thing is voting system reform. They had an IRV referendum a few years back and it failed. Maybe they could take MMP to the people in the future and get more support, and leapfrog is into having an even better system.

        But with the rise of Reform over there, I’m not sure they’d want to risk giving smaller parties a path to electoral success.

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    • RomulusAugustus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe with their second term. Plenty of time for the Trump effect to happen.

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• null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Our progressive party probably would have creaked through to a minority victory but this is a historic victory and we have brutalised the conservatives, and that’s due to Trump.

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• GiovanniBruzzolini@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think Trump was a contribution. The conservative opposition were leading the polls but lost their mojo in the last couple of months

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• eureka@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Looking at the Wikipedia page of election polling over time, just like Canada, there is a strong clear drop after the US inauguration.

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