politics

https://fxtwitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1809064002703573142

He's in

how did the rest go?

they're still coooooonting,

Reform will win 15 according to the exit poll, and somewhere 15-20% of the vote

libdems+reform+independents+welsh might be the minority coalition

did Sunak keep his seat?

probably, idk if they do recounts or military ballots or what

but he's ahead

a 150 seat swing is very weird with our party system as a reference

it's going to be bigger, likely most ever

~420 total

so +250ish

conservatives had 365 last election

and will be at <100 this time

idk brit politics, which ones are the american equivalents

or closest to

Nigel farage is trump

not in policy or anything, but he was backed by Sargon of Akkad during 2016, so it counts

the indian guy currently in charge is jeb bush

i mean, the parties

Labour is left, conservative is right

they have fun parties, and the whole strategic voting thing is kind of accepted as gay so they don't do that (mostly)

their system only works because people don't vote for the "lesser of two evils" like in America

Whats that little sliver of yellow, is that Reform UK but colored incorrectly?

SNP probably (scotish party)

there are like 10 other semi-regional parties

based

ah I see

Wales, N.Ireland, and SNP are the big 3 regional ones

SNP just wants to secede from the UK so they can submit to the EU instead

SNP also lost all their seats this time

Whatever makes a united ireland more likely I'm all for

lol

whoever is likely to invade ireland

I want an independent Gibraltar and Falkland Islands first

Or isle of mann

That'd be funny

Independent Falklands would probably instantly be annexed by Argentina

how about independent Pitcairn

a very moderate politician

you could say that he has a fresh take on current policies

I made that joke for myself nobody else appreciates that as much as I do

What is his tax policy

he doesn't believe in taxes however if you have too much money someone will fight you and take some if they win

digimon kind of live by the unspoken code of "everyone enjoys fighting and whoever is the strongest usually is in the right"

muggings don't happen in digimon cities someone just jumps you and demands honorable combat for the contents of your wallet

I think i'd prefer voting for a third party candidate

I think botamon would be a great president

he'd be a babbling drooling idiot sometimes but it'd be passable because he's a baby and not a senile old man being held together by handlers and drug cocktails

what if it was a baby held together with drug cocktails

I think any baby would instantly be a numemon if they got addicted to drugs

and then you just have another slimeball politician

except it's quite literal because numemon is a slug

oh I get it

That makes sense

the cons were doing so bad and people were pissed

#ZeroSeats!

then reform somehow only got 1%

which I know is due to those 14% being distributed among a bunch of districts

a labor supermaority though... rip the UK

I don't think the UK or Canada have a concept of a supermajority

I think all their voting only requires 51%

well there can't be a successful coalition opposition

Either way, this is deserved though, conservatives did nothing for the last decade of being in power unopposed

Will be interesting to see what labour even does in government, the UK is falling apart rn

I mean, I guess that's most of the world, but anywhere that heavily relies on social services is going to be hardest hit

we do have an idea of supermajority

it is "enough seats so that you can form the government without a coalition"

Since you can form coalition gocernments (i. e, liberals do not have enough seats so they partner with bloc quebecois to form the government)

labour has a supermajority. Having a non coalition government is not common

they will have more power than is typical

when we use it, it's because the US has different majorities needed for different kinds of legislation 50%, 66%, and 75%

I see

labour can pass anything they want with that many seats

if that helps