Elections in Britain: Readings from The Fringes
Source:Thuppahis
A: From Tea Plantation Country in Sri Lanka, 7 July 2024
One third the votes for two thirds the seats
The change was long on the cards but gosh with such a low
vote base ?
B: From Jane Russell who has one foot in Kurunegala, 7 July 2024
In the middle of marking 3 different A-levels — Critical Thinking, Political Ideology and Global Politics. No time to breathe! So what follows is it :-
Just delighted to have someone to (relatively) trust and respect in No. 10. Sunak did his best but his party was a broken and tattered umbrella flapping in the winds of change. He could barely hang on to the handle.
Now Labour has a huge majority in parliament with Conservatives and Liberal Democrats also giving ballast.
On the fringes, however, there are the Greens (4 seats), whom I voted for: they are the coming force and the hope for the future.
Beside them are Reform, a violent, xenophobic, misogynist and homophobic bunch of money-seeking careerists who seek to pull UK as far right as they can (5 seats), Scottish National Party – the rump of the Scottish Nationalists (7 seats), Independent, pro-Gaza Muslims, (all political neophytes) elected from what should have been middle-England Labour constituencies (4 seats) and the motley of Northern Irish MP’s, minus Sinn Fein (Irish Nationalists -7 seats) who refuse to take their seats as they don’t recognise Westminster’s sovereignty, (about 10 seats?). These minor parties are the ones who will try to fill the social media with noise and kerfluffle, fights and threats, bigging themselves up in the face of a solid mainstream of centre, centre-right and centre-left MP’s.
The Conservative Party will become even more of a soap opera, filling the mainstream media over the next few months, with a tortured process of fighting over its ‘soul’. Meanwhile a tough centrist government with a massive majority will try to fuse this archipelago of big cities, industrial estates, ancient cathedrals, market towns, rural villages and coastal resorts into a cohesive nation that possibly knows where it’s going and half believes it might get there. But as ever in politics, it all depends on “Events, dear boy, events!” ……. best wishes
