politics
Friday, July 5, 2024
I want an independent Gibraltar and Falkland Islands first
That makes sense
the cons were doing so bad and people were pissed
I don't think the UK or Canada have a concept of a supermajority
I think all their voting only requires 51%
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
yeah, they're similar
Labour likly hold parliment for 10-12 years before it flips again
majority gov tends to be followed up by a minority, so two terms is likely
unless they do very bad or very good
Conservatives have been in power with either an outright majority or essentially one since 2010
365 seats last election in 2019
326 is the 50% line
so that lines up with the 12 year thing
yeah, its how it works here more or less
I know its not 1 to 1, but its probably like 80% similar to our system
The funniest thing knowing how the system works is reform having 3rd place in votes but 1% of the seats
reform 100% stole votes from the cons, which causes all their ridings to either flip to labour, or cons to win still but narrowly
I think if reform did not exist, labour would have had a majortiy, but smaller (like 50-53% of the seats)
I think people would have just voted None of the above in that case
Conservatives didn't deserve anything this election
Its not as polarized as US politics is, but most people will still vote along party lines or just not vote
and I like your countries, that don't vote gay and strategically
Canada's system worked much better in the Harper era, when we were an actual 3 party country
NDP nuked themselves by having the seihk guy in charge who everyone hates
so they lost all their support
We usually got either liberal minority or conservative minority governements, which tend to work out the best because it forces the party to play ball with the other parties
I just dislike the idea that "you have to vote" and think the UK is much more into the idea of protest voting or not voting
Australia is the most known for this
but I think UK (and Canada to a lesser degree) do this too
Yeah there is not really a "if you do not vote for X, the country will fail" mentality here
yeah
Even if people hate Trudeau, you do not hear people save you have to vote for your conservative guy or else
also, it helps that you are not voting for the party leader directly, you are voting for your regions representative
so you can like your local guy even if you hate the party
Which allows more fluid voting than the US where you have to stick to party line
While I have a lot of problems with my country, I really do like the parliment system of elections
Saturday, July 6, 2024