UK Politics
General Discussion for politics in the UK.
Please don't post to both !uk_politics@feddit.uk and !unitedkingdom@feddit.uk .
Pick the most appropriate, and put it there.
Posts should be related to UK-centric politics, and should be either a link to a reputable news source for news, or a text post on this community.
Opinion pieces are also allowed, provided they are not misleading/misrepresented/drivel, and have proper sources.
If you think "reputable news source" needs some definition, by all means start a meta thread. (These things should be publicly discussed)
Posts should be manually submitted, not by bot. Link titles should not be editorialised.
Disappointing comments will generally be left to fester in ratio, outright horrible comments will be removed.
Message the mods if you feel something really should be removed, or if a user seems to have a pattern of awful comments.
!ukpolitics@lemm.ee appears to have vanished! We can still see cached content from this link, but goodbye I guess! :'(
view the rest of the comments
Just checking it against the Merseyside predictions and they are pretty solid still. The whole region goes red (thanks to a big swing in Southport) with the Greens the main opposition in most places and the Tories often finishing in 5th.
As an election nerd, I would hate to live in Merseyside because it's the most boring place electorally. ๐
Oh indeed. My constituency was at least once Tory but I have friends in an adjoining one that's one of the safest seats in the country. It doesn't really encourage much electoral enthusiasm.
As an election nerd I would hate to live anywhere in the UK because FPTP is just ๐คฎ
And I don't just mean that from the perspective of what's best democratically (though that's true too). I mean figuring out how preferences are likely to flow and which candidate is going to end up in the 2CP (or, as was the case in my particularly close and exciting electorate, the 3CP) is so much nerdy fun.