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).
Not sure what your argument is. That stealing your neighbors' land is OK if you pretend to pay them like the USSR pretended to pay its employees?
Rather funny that you do not recognize the ironic echoes with the Ukraine nonsense.
It wasn't pretend. We actually gave them the money. Got a receipt and everything.
Crimea is slightly majority Russian, 58% but every other oblast is well under half, including in the Donbass. Most of Ukraine it's under 10%. Kherson is only 14% and yet Russia is occupying it.
Great, so if you occupy a country's capital, get a 'receipt' for some pittance, you get to steal their land? To Kiev then.
Oh, so you recognize that Crimea is Russian then?
It wasn't a pittance. 1st round was $10 million [a lot of money back then] and 2nd round was $15 million and didn't even involve a war.
Occupation and annexation by conquest is still a thing, and not "stealing" by definition, though in modern times we tend to regard naked conquest as having less legitimacy and recognition than when there is consent.
No, national boundaries are not defined by ethnic simple majorities. If that were the case, Russia would lose Chechnya and Dagestan and some other places.
The Russian presence in Crimea makes Russia's claim stronger than otherwise, obviously, and Ukraine is better off without Crimea from a voting perspective. This notion of holding land with colonists is why China pushes Han into Xinjiang, and why Israel pushes its colonists into the West Bank.