LAB: 54% (+9)
CON: 21% (-7)
LDEM: 7% (-2)
GRN: 6% (-1)
As far as polls go, this is pretty crazy. The left-wing parties have 2/3 of the vote - more than three times what the Conservatives have.
However, this proves that this is all about economics. England is in an economic free-fall thanks to the incompetent Truss (according to some people because women are trying to crash the economy).
I agree. I just worry rather what Labour may do, when they get in, and how it may push the Cons to the left as a wedge…
The Spectator has written about this way better than I ever could, but you see that phenomenon across the (non-US) Anglosphere, with the left currently in power in Canada, Aus, Ireland, Scotland and NZ, and the opposition… Not doing a very good job of “opposing” anything…
Which says a lot about parliamentary “democracy”, frankly…
I honestly thought the (weak, corrupt, vaxx-worshipping) neoliberal “conservative” government losing in Aus back in May might at least shake things up a bit, but honestly, the rate we are going, here, under Labor now, I’m actually not sure we’ll even still have a democracy to vote in, by the time of the next election (hyperbole, but… See: “The Indigenous Voice”, for what I mean), so…
Be careful what you wish for, i guess.
Sadly, Labo(u)r can always fuck it up even more than it already is…
Cons tend to move right in opposition and left in government. They need to fool people into 'voting' for them when they are in opposition, so they have to pretend to care about what people think - or the system will lose even more legitimacy.
It's not better in presidential 'democracies'. Or any other system. It is a universal law that any system will be an oligarchy, no matter how 'democratic' or dictatorial it is on paper.
I do not fear that, because we certainly do not have a democracy, and our elections are a farce where we can choose between Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. And insofar as they make noises about being different, they always betray these promises in office.
But at least there will be a chance of getting to choose between good and bad. Now it is between bad and worse. That is never enviable. It's like choosing between Obama and Romney.