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Regardless they are the 3rd largest party in the UK by membership and by number of current seats. They'll lose significant ground to Labour imo but they'll still be 3rd in the commons.
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It's ostensibly a deterrent like you describe, but imo it started as a 'red meat' policy in other words signalling to the further right elements of the tory party so as to keep them from voting for a more extreme party.
Unfortunately for Sunak he needs those votes so badly that he's having to double down on a patently absurd (expensive also) idea and publically defend it. He's inherited the populist mess left in the wake of Johnson and Truss and he doesn't have the charisma required to fix it.
It goes to show how little actual power party leaders and prime ministers really have (which is a good thing imo)
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@U Picciriddu how are things looking after the PVV win?
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It's ostensibly a deterrent like you describe, but imo it started as a 'red meat' policy in other words signalling to the further right elements of the tory party so as to keep them from voting for a more extreme party.
Unfortunately for Sunak he needs those votes so badly that he's having to double down on a patently absurd (expensive also) idea and publically defend it. He's inherited the populist mess left in the wake of Johnson and Truss and he doesn't have the charisma required to fix it.
It goes to show how little actual power party leaders and prime ministers really have (which is a good thing imo)
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@U Picciriddu how are things looking after the PVV win?
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Wilders won’t become president, but his party will govern and they’re still in the process of formation. We don’t know who will become the president as of now.
Is formation fails and if we’ll get new elections (what I don’t expect) Wilders will have a historic victory, he’s at 50 of the 75 seats now in the polls.
Huge shift to the right for the Netherlands, perfectly in line with the rest of the Western world I guess.
Is formation fails and if we’ll get new elections (what I don’t expect) Wilders will have a historic victory, he’s at 50 of the 75 seats now in the polls.
Huge shift to the right for the Netherlands, perfectly in line with the rest of the Western world I guess.
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Yes, partly due to the NSC (center-right) doing stupid things during the formation which scared people off.
The PVV didn’t miraculously became big because everyone here somehow got racist. It’s due to the other parties just destroying the voters confidence in the past ~6 years. I know perfectly rational and intelligent people who went for PVV just because all the previous options destroyed the voters confidence in them.
We can only guess what it will mean for the bigger global picture.
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The PVV didn’t miraculously became big because everyone here somehow got racist. It’s due to the other parties just destroying the voters confidence in the past ~6 years. I know perfectly rational and intelligent people who went for PVV just because all the previous options destroyed the voters confidence in them.
We can only guess what it will mean for the bigger global picture.
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Every day there is a new case: the police and justice no longer have any authority, educational system in free fall, parents resigning, young addicted to tictoc and all this bullshit.
Even today there was a 15-year-old boy who was stabbed to death by an Afghan who tried to steal his phone. The suspect had been indicted a week earlier for “aggravated theft with violence”. But he was released under judicial supervision given his age.
Even today there was a 15-year-old boy who was stabbed to death by an Afghan who tried to steal his phone. The suspect had been indicted a week earlier for “aggravated theft with violence”. But he was released under judicial supervision given his age.
Parents who have children but don't take care of them.
It is not normal to see kids outside at 10 p.m. instead of being at home, many single-parent families with a father who does not assume his responsibilities and leaves the mother to fend for herself, parents who prefer to have their kids watch TV or play on their cell phones (at least while they are quiet) rather than investing in their education..
The problem is that these problem kids will become adults, and will behave like their parents.
It is not normal to see kids outside at 10 p.m. instead of being at home, many single-parent families with a father who does not assume his responsibilities and leaves the mother to fend for herself, parents who prefer to have their kids watch TV or play on their cell phones (at least while they are quiet) rather than investing in their education..
The problem is that these problem kids will become adults, and will behave like their parents.