Comment on Zack Polanski declares two-party politics dead after Hackney mayoral win
thomasshikari@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As an american, I am genuinely curious: are there really that many people in England who are looking over here and saying, “That looks good. Let’s do that”? I don’t understand why Reform is making such huge gains.
We just had a by election here in Australia for a vacated aeat and our Reform aka One Nation Party also won.
I am not sure why they hate the country, other people and the.environment so much and it’s appalling but it is what it is.
The party leader was just gifted a private jet the other day from one of our truly repugnant billionaires and apparently this means she’ll be able to connect with the everyman.
Farage has been a thing since the mid 1990s. Orange idiot has little to do with it.
The UK has leaned right for 40 0+ years.
The onry reason Labour won under Tony Blair is because the party adopted conservative socio-economic policies that appealled to the right leaning mainstream press and thus large swathes of population.
You then had a decade of neo-con Labor followed by neo-con Tories. Then Brexit and now this, more right-wing popular politics. Nothing has changed.
nialv7@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
so there’s the first past the post system. reReform is able to make huge gains despite polling at around 25%
but also yeah, of course there are people like that. like, about a third of Americans think Trump is doing pretty well. of course there will be people like that on this side of the pond as well.
thomasshikari@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, I live in a neighborhood full of trump signs. Bizarre trump or 1776 bumper stickers. I’ll never understand it. Luckily with petrol prices being as high as they are now, he has lost some of his base/cult members but, as you stated, there seems to be roughly 1/3 of people who are just going to stay aboard no matter what.
We had local elections where I live this week too and the candidates who performed best are ones who campaigned solely on “I’m a trump supporting republican” and that was the entire campaign. No talk of policy or plans or wants. Bizarre times.