The Financial Times reports that the UK Political Elite feels completely stunned

Maurice Duverger’s Law, one of the most important law of political science, may be on the verge of failure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger’s_law

I think Farage is a clown, but it’s good to see this silly political system finally under pressure.

Most democratic nations don’t have only 2 ruling political parties for a century.

  • Saleh@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    Given how the Tories were eager to usecBrexit to destroy public services and funnel more money to the rich and how labour is just continueing the neoliberal course happily…

    Farage is useful to them by normalizing extreme ideas and making the Tories and Labour look moderate with Farage being the extreme.

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      1 day ago

      Badenoch’s policies (to the extent she has any) are increasingly indistinguishable from Deform’s.