No, It Isn't.

[Captain Nemesis]

Lets not forget that our electoral system distorts the picture

BJ - 43.6% of the votes, 56.2% of the seats
JC - 32.1% of the votes, 31.1% of the seats

However you slice it and dice it, Labour lost, but there is something rotten about a system where the win:lose is so artificially skewed. More people voted to not have a Tory government than did, so a thumping absolute majority of seats for them does not reflect the wishes of the country.

 

[SirGalahad]

That illustrates the point exactly but it means something.

It means the voters didn't vote for the 'best' policies so presumably they were not the 'best' policies except that you agreed with them. Does the candidate therefore pretend to change these 'best' policies in order to trick the voters so he can implement his 'best' policies on the sly or accept that the voters don't want that and lose honourably?


It is their turn.


...and yet you know this.

You must be saying the voters are ignorant and stupid so perhaps democracy is not the wonderful system it is held up to be. After all, as the saying goes: "If voting made a difference, they wouldn't let you do it." - check the next referendum.

If the country is in a mess, it must be because of how the voters voted and what they thought were the 'best' policies.

Good post and points.

You are assuming the public is rational and there is no cognitive dissonance or Dunning Kruger effect.

The same public that want high quality public services baulk at tax rises to pay for them. The same public that would benefit from LVT will stop its introduction. The media via their owners have manufactured consent. It's why you can have poor republicans, without healthcare, jobs or even prosptects defend tax cuts for the ultra rich because they see themselves as temporarily embarrased millionaires.

It's not enough to give facts when the public does not have enough comprehension to understand the facts. Case in point the belief that Government finances operate like personal fiances and we had "run out of money" or there was no "magic money tree", yet now the Government has increased public spending by hundreds of billions.

 

[Captain Nemesis]

there was no "magic money tree"

There will be - it will be where the QE chickens come home to roost.

 

[Takelitterhome]

the public does not have enough comprehension to understand the facts

But you do.And yet you are not a Politician..just all noise from the sideline.

 

[SirGalahad]

But you do.And yet you are not a Politician..just all noise from the sideline.

Perhaps I am trying to inform simpletons.

 

[SirGalahad]

 

[Takelitterhome]

Perhaps I am trying to inform simpletons.

Perhaps you just have an inflated idea of your intelligence more like.Get into politics if you are so much better than the current ones.

 

[SirGalahad]

Perhaps you just have an inflated idea of your intelligence more like.Get into politics if you are so much better than the current ones.

I want to shout at the sidelines like the Brexxers, they never got into politics and look at what they achieved. Lovely Brexit Unicorns.

 

[transam]

I want to shout at the sidelines like the Brexxers, they never got into politics and look at what they achieved. Lovely Brexit Unicorns.

join the Labour Party
Do some canvassing
Knock on the doors of traditional labour voters and explain the policies

last time around the in vogue subject was transgenda rights