Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "The Conservatives are headed for a "superdefeat" | Election 2024 | The New Statesman" video.

  1. Are people taking notice of the tactical voting campaign yet? People just want to punish the Tories at the polls. They’re gravitating to the most likely candidate to defeat the Tories. It’s only the hard right fools who are smelling the coffee and who want to get in on the ground floor of the new right wing party that’s going to replace the Tories. But normals are looking to the Greens, Lib Dem, Labour, whomever stands a chance.
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  2. Why would people NOT want their government to have a super majority? Surely they want to see the policies enacted with as few obstacles and delays?
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  3.  @-V-K-  : Of course you’re right about that, though I don’t know if 90% is as plausible as it is theoretically possible? Yet, if this Labour party reforms the voting system, “because,” of their supermajority? We know the Tories will do anything to try to stop them and it may be our only chance to see it done. Labour’s manifesto doesn’t promise this, not outright. But I think they may just be trying not to spook the horses here. They do promise a raft of voting reforms regarding devolved UK parliaments, including the mayoralties. We saw how the Tories got away with changing the mayoral races into first-past-the-post and, when criticised, pointing to the obscure wording of a sub-paragraph in their manifesto and calling that their, “mandate.” It’s cheap tricks like that which have alienated so many erstwhile conservative voters recently . . . along with their appalling track record for fraud, incompetence and corruption. But Labour has a whole bunch of clauses in their manifesto that could be carried through to complete reform of the voting system, married to their plans to overhaul the Second Chamber? This is not my idea: I picked it up from a reliable pundit whose YouTube channel is called A Different Bias. But the more I’ve looked into it, the more I see how much Labour (and all of the minority parties) stand to gain, making the Tories and the fringe right movements (perhaps the mainstream soon?) the biggest losers, permanently.
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