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Disgraced Prince Andrew more popular than current Labour Government, polls suggest
(www.thenational.scot)
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2025
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Can someone explain to an outsider wtf is going on that labour can storm in with the biggest support base and just completely fall apart within such a "short" timeframe?
They didn't really have the biggest support base, the "first past the post" system only gives that impression. In reality they got 33% of the vote, the lowest vote share of any majority party in British history, they lost the previous election with 32% of the vote.
What happened is the conservative party had it's vote split in most constituencies by the new right wing "reform" party. This allowed them to gain 200 seats despite only increasing their vote share by 1%.
And all labour had to do to ride that to genuine reform was not be a bunch of fascist twats themselves but, you know
English people happened