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Looks like it, but Brown and May did a better or less bad job than the other successors of dealing with crisis moments and I'm not sure Labour are up to that 😬

I recently blocked someone who said 'look at France if you want an example of how something other than FPTP doesn't work' because I didn't have the energy to say 'look at Britain since 2010 and especially since 2016' lol

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That's spot on. It was daft Labour won so handily on 33.7% of the vote last time and it's daft Electoral Calculus has Reform just short of a majority on this recent poll when only at 25% of the vote. FPTP is stupid and increases public anger at top-down politics. We can take back (some) control

No, my life has been utterly mad recently so too preoccupied with other things - I'm only killing time here this morning whilst waiting for news about Personal Stuff...!

Yes fair. Clegg is so culpable in the country becoming dissolute I get more repelled by his 'look at me being soft-spoken and reasonable' self-degradation at each turn

The 2011 referendum was bloody awful and a sign of things to come. No mendaciously campaigned on 'keep one person one vote' (which FPTP blatantly isn't), Clegg allowed himself to be played by Cameron, Clegg should have shared a platform with Miliband and vice versa...it doesn't work as a template

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Yes fair. Apologies

Lol fair enough - apologies, no slight intended

Exactly. The media *can* be unreliable but if you do this kind of signposting you shouldn't be surprised at the conclusions they derive from it

Yes, but that's the curse of politicians putting the national interest first (see also Callaghan and Healey 1976-9 and Brown and Darling 2008-10). At some point these maligned figures need to be rehabilitated because although they are clearly flawed they are not Johnsonian charlatans

Yes, and now he is advising putting income tax up. Not every politician can be flying-by-the-seat-of-the-pants, don't-give-a-fuck in the way he is, but his decisions were governed by logic and the wider national interest, not poisonous Johnsonian vanity

Because the argument is no longer freer market smaller state vs more regulated market larger state. The political battle is now just really social policy and the right’s is incoherent with their supposed economic beliefs as are the lefts. So it’s all just a mess.

Or Bulgaria with seven elections in the last four years and politicians who clearly hate each other forced to do trade-offs but EU membership the one constant

It was quite startling hearing Lord Clarke recently talking about the political choices he made from 1993-7 as Chancellor because however unpopular they were they were governed by logic (and gave New Labour foundations to work on). Now incoherent populist anger and vibes seem predominant

It is such a no-brainer thing: the existing obsolescent system is part of the reason the country feels so angry and fucked up now anyway. It really would be a genuine way of taking back (some) control