Post by TonyPost by Rich80105The first is that clarity is important - The Comservatives purged
their party of those that disagreed with Brexit and pushed it through
slogans, determined not to allow any details to emerge.
Party Seats Votes('000) Ppl*
Cons 365 13,966 294
Lab 203 10,295 209
SNP 48 1,242 25
LibDem 11 3,696 75
Dem Un 8 244 5
Sinn Fein 7 182 4
Plaid Cym 4 153 3
SocD&Lab 2 119 2
Green 1 867 18
Alliance 1 134 3
Brexit 0 642 13
Ind 0 197 4
Change 0 10 0
Other 0 264 5
* Ppl - proportional, is the number of seats if these were allocated
on the basis of total votes for the party - similar to our MMP system.
We happily talk about one person one vote, but the reality is that in
the UK, on average each Labour seat required 50,700 votes, whereas on
average each Conservative seat requires 38,200 seats, and the Green
party with 865,000 votes got only one seat!.
Third: The Lies
https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/10/investigation-finds-88-tory-ads-misleading-compared-0-labour-11651802/
Here we do not have a system of independent fact-checking and
assessment of political statements and advertising - we need one, with
significant penalties for those involved (political parties and
media).
Brexit is the choice of the electorate, whether knowledgeable or misguided is
irrelevant, the leader of the opposition has been called a racist with good
reason, the new PM has been called a buffoon equally validly. But the facts are
simple. Parliamentary democracy produced a valid and fair result.
Or wre you saying that the United Kingdon parliamentary system is corrupt?
It wasn’t really even about democracy per se. The outcome was down solely to which of the two main parties had the **least** coherent and persuasive message, and the numbers do not lie, viz:
Johnson and his lot gained approx 300,000 more votes than Theresa May’s lot in 2016. Microscopic. But Johnson’s lot had got the message loud and clear - “Get Brexit done!” (Trump and “Make America great again!)
Corbyn and his lot had **lost** approx **2.4 million supporters** since the last general election. Apocalyptic. Vacillating incoherence.
But even so, no one can yet solidly confirm whether or not the electorally pivotal ‘red wall’ north of London collapsed simply because Labour heartlands were at the end of their tether with both a vacillating, incoherent Corbyn **and** the Brexit impasse; or whether, and way more crucially, their support for the Tories was only a temporary one-off “vote-leasing” just to get the “fucken deal” done once and for all and out of their hair.
From Thatcher’s time and right up until this election result, the north of England has been a wasteland of economic stagnation and social deprivation, poverty and decay. But since the days of Thatcher’s slash-and-burn 40 years ago, somehow and unaccountably(?), the Tories could never manage to find a way of sufficiently funding the North's regeneration caused solely by the destruction they had wrought upon it.
However, on the very first day after this election, the lifeless Tory money tree has somehow, unaccountably sprung to life and born fruit to the tune of a whacking £80billion, this if you please, to fund that very same purpose!
My, what price charity! What a fertile ground an election makes, eh? And every single penny of it will have to be borrowed or printed, this, mark you, when the UK is already drowning in already insupportable and increasing deficits and public debt. This is known mockingly as, "Strength through exhaustion".
And if this isn’t Politic’s short-term expediency laid bare, then tell me what is. So why has this happened this time? For the same time-worn reason that - Tory or Labour and/or their global equivalents - the electorate is invariably bought, and today more blatantly than ever before. Hence the Tories are gonna need to hold on to that “red-wall” majority up to and well past the **next** general election, hoping desperately that their charitably indulgent out-of-thin-air £80billion will do the trick.
Again, we hear a chorus of triumphal brayin’ and inane high-fivin’ greeting Sterling’s instantaneous post-election stellar ascent from its pauperish £1.00 = E1.10 to a decidedly limp-wristed £1.00 = E1.20.
In 2000 it stood at £1.00**E1.733**. (Over the same period it has declined from cNZ$3.00 to cNZ$2.00.) Way to go, Blighty!
Quite so, so be assured democracy has f..k all to do with it. For this you can thank the likes of Reagan, Thatcher, Friedman and Greenspan and their grand-larceny licensing of the City Laundry which has been turned into a global thieves’ kitchen of Russian kleptocrats, hedge fund spivs, tax-dodgers and embezzlers, being every one of ‘em one and the same.
But it’s good news down-under. This UK election essentially secures a free trade deal between the UK and New Zealand, previously mutually agreed in outline principle between the UK and Ardern; and, eventually, with the world’s largest trading bloc - again Arden with Barnier/Merkle, the duo who effectively control the EU agenda.
Finally, here in the South Pacific, we enjoy a peaceful unchallenged relationship with New Caledonia. Up there in the cold, dark North, Johnson now faces an doughty, implacable New Catalonia north of Hadrian’s Wall, and with it the potential and ruinous risk of a constitutional crisis on his hands. Meanwhile, resentful, sectarian Northern Ireland continues to simmer away...
So, for now, you can take it that the Post-Truth bluebird on Johnson’s shoulder tweeting sweet nothings in his ear may well enjoy a rather shorter life than nature would have otherwise have intended.
Yup, it ain’t over by a country mile, and then some.