Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "‘Trend towards the right’ in Europe is ‘continuing’" video.

  1. You evidently haven't bothered to look at the voting numbers in recent elections. It is, for good or ill, a fact.
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  2. The Left in France won sufficient seats to become the largest party, but the Right won much more of the popular vote. Similarly, in Britain, the most successful party won only 34% of the popular vote. Like it or not, support for right of centre parties is increasing. Falsely calling them 'fascists' does not alter this fact.
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  3.  @trickyboy1517  I am sorry that you don't understand how 'First Past The Post' actually works. There was a similar situation in 1933, when the nazi party won power with only 43% of the vote. Didn't that work out well? The number of seats does not often represent overall sentiment within a nation, as FPTP was designed for a two party state, and cannot cope properly when there is a greater number of parties. In 1979, the Tories won 13,697,923 votes. Labour & the Liberals won a total between them of 15,846,022 I wonder if, given your fairly clear political opinions, you would have been celebrating the glories of FPTP then? Perhaps when you become a little more mature, you will begin to learn that any FPTP system usually leaves, in many cases, the majority of people in a nation feeling that their opinions are not represented. That comment applied just as much to Thatcher's government in 1979 as it does to Starmer's in 2024.
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