Just when you think it can't possibly get any more fucked-up .....
Opposition to Theresa May is fragmentated. There is the Labour party (who, if you listen to the media, are apparently doing really badly under Jeremy Corbyn -- although a lot of ordinary people do actually seem to want him as PM). There are the Lib Dems (who are the only party actually pledging to attempt to reverse Article 50 -- although they ill-advisedly got into bed with dirty pigs seven years ago, and still haven't managed to get rid of the stink of shit). And there are the Greens (most of whose policies everyone thinks are wonderful, until they find out whose policies they are).
Now, for the benefit of our Continental cousins, British elections work on a "first past the post" system; which means you just have to get one more vote than everybody else in one single round of polling. So every vote for anyone except the eventual winner is wasted, as is every vote for the eventual winner above the magic figure. If, out of 10000 people, just 100 vote for minority parties, then that leaves anybody else needing only 2476 votes (assuming four candidates; 3301 with three, 1981 with five) to win. With 7524 (6699; 8019) votes against them. And, since people tend to care more about the little things because they just naturally assume everyone feels the same as them about the big things, the vote gets split to many ways. The Nasty Party get in by default because too many people refused to believe anyone would actually vote for them.
If the Greens play this right, they could gather some serious support for themselves, just from voters who think what the hell, may as well -- after all, there's no way they could be worse than any of the others. All they have to do next, is not repeat exactly what happened to someone else, seven years ago .....
So we have Labour saying only they can beat the Tories, the Lib Dems saying only they can reverse Article 50 (but -- breaking news -- they sound like they might have just blown the LGBT gig. Seriously, guys, how hard is it just to keep your damn trap shut?), the Greens saying everyone can have a pony and you'll wish you hadn't sold it, when the cost of driving goes up to pay for it, against the Tories. And a hefty dose of vote fatigue, what with the Scottish Independence Referendum, the 2015 General Election, the Brexit referendum, the Local Elections in May. The Conservatives are basically going to asset-strip the country and leave the carcass to rot. Under their new leader, whoever that may be, they will proceed to dismantle the welfare state, privatise the NHS and the education system, then it's got to be either the fire brigade or the police next. After all, there should be exciting opportunities for partnerships with insurance companies, and competition will allow prices to be inflated because the supply of customers is fixed, and they have all got to pay one of you drive down prices. As for Brexit, the rest of Europe are most probably going to agree to give us even better trade deals than when we were members of the EU impose punitive trade tariffs against us, as a warning to any other nation thinking of leaving; and much of the rest of the world, who were taking advantage of our own easy trade links with Europe, will suddenly start revising (as they always say on the buses; REVISED FARES IN OPERATION, they are never honest about it, they've even stopped referring to us as passengers and demoted us to mere customers. Thank you for travelling with Bloggs' Buses, like you had any choice in the matter since none of the other bus companies even cover the same route) their prices.
Things are about to get very fucked up indeed .....
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