The main issue is more funding won’t help; all it does is patch things up, and the root causes of the issues never get solved.

With reform, you could remove bureaucracy where it causes issues and add it where there’s breakdowns in communications instead of just adding more funding to improve capacity in one obvious area and expose a bottleneck immediately before or after it, making the majority of the extra funding wasted

Now let’s see by class… Chances are it turns out to be yet another class or even regional divide that’s had the focus shifted to race as that keeps the tensions and fighting amongst the poors

Anarchist and Anti-Capitalist aren’t universally agreed with among reasonable people, and when you throw all those together you know you’re just going to get a bunch of angsty shitstirrers who are anti-establishment for the sake of it but like to paint themselves as heroes

I guess “government getting 340 million more from monarchy this year” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it

“The conservatives and lib dems look pretty proportional to me. 10/10 voting system” /s

Personally I know more people who’ve moved away from Labour than to it, I just acknowledge that people outside of cities exist and that I live in something of a bubble.

Refusing to accept that is the sort of thinking that gets Reform so many votes as many people in large cities forget that the majority of the population don’t live in cities, and so don’t suffer from the problems there so much (higher cost of living and lower labour availability than rural areas) and so don’t care so much about progressive or socialist policies.

EDIT: sorry, it’s late, I misread, I’ll keep this up and maybe edit again later because I’m too sleepy to respond to what you actually said right now

Nobody thinks we’re going to have a truly left wing government, as for whatever reason vanishingly few people want to vote for that.

It’d make it simpler if they skipped the shortlisting part and just treat the ones you added to the shortlist as “agree” policies though; it also would vastly increase the usefulness of the tool as well.

Their summaries of all parties stances but Reform are close to identical for the vast majority of issues; how can they write them and think “yes, people will be able to pick exactly one of these, and that should have as much weighting against the identical policies to the ones you picked as the ones you actually disagree with”

It’d be so much better and probably easier to not have the shortlisting/final pick system and just let you say “I agree with this” or “I disagree with this” and leave it at that

If he retains his Wycombe seat

Big if, Electoral Calculus is putting it at a 15% chance

I mean fingers crossed both Labour and Tories are

If Lib Dems get opposition it’ll hopefully give people the idea they can vote for who they want instead of tactically, so vote share of Reform, Lib Dem, Green and whoever else increases

Docker fan mindset

What OS doesn’t do that, even linux has xdg dirs

The issue there is it benefits the current largest party

A system where all parties with >1% vote share get a fixed budget, with parties lower than that being required to source their own funding but not being allowed to spend more than the budget would be better as it’d allow for any realistic contender to not be as corrupt

Update:
I realised this would screw over regional parties like plaid & all Northern Irish parties… A system where funding is given per-seat but with a threshold of 5% of votes in that seat (same as to get your deposit back) would be better

Wow after all the lying and disinformation spreading the Tories have been doing (even compared to usual) I was really starting to think that Reform were the more reasonable and mature right wing party but I guess there are none… There’s a huge gap in the market and it made sense for someone to fill it but I guess we’ll have to wait for someone else

I think that because referendums are so rare and it was such a major issue that people came out in droves to vote even if they didn’t have a strong opinion, and that’d probably still happen for “big things” but one would hope for normal things that you’d only get serial voters, who are likely to be informed given they’re voting all the time, and people who are interested in the subject matter

Also don’t forget both the Tories and Labour variously doing major projects only for the next government to take the credit, while simultaneously criticising the previous govenment for both not investing and spending more than them, as the next government only finished the project and aren’t starting anything new.

“Luckily” the Tories know they have no chance of winning, so they’re cancelling all the major projects and salting the earth so that Labour don’t get to take the credit in a few years.

(representative democracy is a scam give me an absolute monarch or direct democracy only please & thank you)

(or frankly the realistic option of elected people who set the agenda and weekly referendums where people vote on the things they care about and abstain/don’t show up for other things)

Same, my thought process was Khan was pretty much guaranteed to win so why not vote for something worthwhile like helping a guy with a bin on his head beat the “no to immigration” party and I’m so glad to see it

Yeah and in a similar vein he’s a huge contrarian in a huge number of areas - it seems like if he didn’t have a strong opinion on something he just went against the status quo on it regardless of how illogical that was, which in my opinion at least is a pretty poor trait for someone who literally has control over the status quo

I just find the saving mechanism frustrating to use compared to vim’s as an entry level user, and now as a mid-skilled user I dislike how featureless nano is - when I was first learning how to use the terminal I hated having to edit anything as I was pretty much force-fed nano with no alternative provided, but on finding vim and remembering literally 3 things (:w, :q and i) everything became so much easier, but I definitely do have an extra bitter taste left about not being told about something much easier to use which irked me when I saw someone preaching how amazing nano is

I also really don’t get the hate for vim when remembering 3 things gives you as much/more functionality as nano and is a starting point for so much more functionality - intuitive doesn’t mean featureless and don’t try and pretend nano’s shortcuts are the same as 99% of other editors (text or otherwise), in fact they’re totally different, making it less intuitive