• ReCursing@lemmings.world
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    Give us a decent voting system and maybe people would vote. I do vote but I know my vote counts for basically nothing as I live in one of the safest seats in the country - I’ll get a labour mp and three labour councillors every time!

    • RobotToaster@mander.xyzOP
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      My constituency switched from tory to lib dem in the last election, first time in like 100 years. Of course it’s had zero effect on anything, since the lib dems don’t actually do anything except occasionally prop up the tories.

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    1 month ago

    So even big media are fed up with labour.

    Edit: clarity, mainstream news had miniscule coverage of voter turn out. Sp, tusc and other leftist orgs reported on this less than a day after the count so now that we are seeing mainstream coverage of what is now old news is a concerning sign for labour may even been the election comes sooner than expected.

  • hexbee [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    This is such an under discussed point in general:

    And it points out that around five million tax-paying adults resident in Britain do not have the right to vote at present, because they are not citizens. They should be considered for enfranchisement, it said.

    I don’t think most english people even know about this

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      Honestly, I think they have to become citizens first. Giving the vote to non-citizens would be a disaster in the current political environment and personally I don’t think it’s a good idea anyway.

      Now, is it worth reviewing the requirements for citizenship? Sure, but enfranchisement of foreign citizens, no.