• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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      The big gap between Greens and Reform is what makes me happiest. This is an amazing result.

      The Green Party won 40.7% of the vote on Friday in an election triggered when a member of parliament resigned for health reasons. Nigel Farage’s Reform Party came second with 28.7% of the vote and Labour finished third with 25.4%.

  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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    The exact same thing happened in Australia last election. As the Conservative party became more fascist and mentally ill, voters shifted to the Labour party moving it from center-left to more corporate-whore center-right, and the Labour voters in turn shifted to vote for the Greens or other socially/economically left independents.

    This isn’t necessarily a good thing though. The law of averages means the corporate-whore parties maintain a majority, and continue the proto-fascist march and neoliberal economic collapse.

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      Labor have been centre-right for roughly 50 years now. Meanwhile Greens votes decreased by 0.05 and lost 3 of their 4 seats last election.

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    The worthless polical folding chair down, yay. Nigel’s second… wtf.

    Also, this is me not familiar with what parties are of offer.