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So much noise about #Reform today…it just shows you the nasty right-wing bias of our media.
Labour won by a stonking landslide and have a majority currently of 174 - that’s more than TWICE Johnson’s majority in 2019. It’s huge.
But not only that, Lib Dems got the most seats they’ve had since 1923 - 71.
Green Party quadrupled their number of MPs to 4.
This election was won resoundingly by progressives. Let’s celebrate 🎉
The rightwing media deliberately talked up a potential Labour ‘super-majority’. This was to encourage rightwing voters to come out and to make any result look smaller than they expected.
As it was, the Labour landslide was very real.
Did it match public expectation? I think we’d been lulled into thinking even Sunak as PM could lose his seat by the end. That it didn’t happen was perhaps a disappointment to some, but that expectation was driven by rightwing media.
Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools.
Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.
https://disconnect.blog/generative-ai-is-a-climate-disaster/
#ai #tech #datacenter #generativeai #climate #climatechange
Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market shareParis Marx (Disconnect)
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In a result that has left voters wondering if they’ve somehow missed a crucial memo, the Labour Party has secured a record majority in the 2024 UK General Election, despite gaining fewer votes than…NewsThump
So, the Greens have got as many seats as Reform with a fraction of the media coverage.
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and money is something people invented.
neither of these things is a supernatural force, a requirement for life to persist, a deity, or any other immutable-by-mortals facet of reality.
Fantastic news that the #Greens won all 4 of their target seats!
Same number of seats as Reform UK, but only one of those parties achieved that through good old-fashioned grass-roots campaigning, while being largely ignored by the media instead of being bigged up by them at every turn, and without dirty Russian money backing them.
I know which I find more impressive.
That the less evil big party won #ge2024 shouldn’t mask the problem: this result is a democratic scandal. More so than general elections before.
It’s going to be the lowest vote share for a single party government ever.
Turnout overall likely down as well.
Greens + Reform that together will be 20% of votes will have just 1.2% of seats.
STATE OF THE PARTIES AT 07:30:
Labour has won an overall majority with the lowest vote share ever recorded in the UK.
#ukpol #UKElection #Election2024 #StateOfTheParties
![UNITED KINGDOM
SEATS DECLARED [639 OF 650]
LABOUR: 409
CONSERVATIVE: 118
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS: 70
SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY: 8
SINN FÉIN: 7
INDEPENDENT: 5
PLAID CYMRU: 4
GREEN: 4
REFORM UK: 4
DEMOCRATIC UNIONIST PARTY: 4
SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC AND LABOUR PARTY: 2
SPEAKER: 1
TRADITIONAL UNIONIST VOICE: 1
ULSTER UNIONIST PARTY: 1
ALLIANCE PARTY: 1
326 SEATS FOR MAJORITY
POPULAR VOTE
LABOUR: 34.3%
CONSERVATIVE: 23.9%
REFORM UK: 14.5%
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS: 12.3%
GREEN: 6.9%
SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY: 2.4%
PLAID CYMRU: 0.7%
OTHERS: 5.1%](https://floof.org/photo/preview/640/516202 "UNITED KINGDOM
SEATS DECLARED [639 OF 650]
LABOUR: 409
CONSERVATIVE: 118
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS: 70
SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY: 8
SINN FÉIN: 7
INDEPENDENT: 5
PLAID CYMRU: 4
GREEN: 4
REFORM UK: 4
DEMOCRATIC UNIONIST PARTY: 4
SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC AND LABOUR PARTY: 2
SPEAKER: 1
TRADITIONAL UNIONIST VOICE: 1
ULSTER UNIONIST PARTY: 1
ALLIANCE PARTY: 1
326 SEATS FOR MAJORITY
POPULAR VOTE
LABOUR: 34.3%
CONSERVATIVE: 23.9%
REFORM UK: 14.5%
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS: 12.3%
GREEN: 6.9%
SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY: 2.4%
PLAID CYMRU: 0.7%
OTHERS: 5.1%")
#Democracy won in the UK! ... ?
... "Democracy won" is generally code for "our side won", or even "we replaced something bad with something somewhat better"
The third ranked party, with 14% of the votes got 1% of the seats, green, with their 7% got 1%, while libdems with 12%, got 11% of the seats.
Insane...
"So, would you prefer that Reform UK go<interrupt here>" - no but democracy isn't about my preference. Nor do we even know WHAT the percentage could be if people were not given the "we better vote labor, or else..." gun to their head.
There really should be massive demonstrations...
Based on the % votes, I assume a labour / libdem / green coalition government. Many peeps worry "this would give green too much power" but that would be all up to labour. Pushed too far, they could say "nah, you insist that, we'll step down and you rule try to rule with conservatives instead". Small parties "unfair power positions" is generally nothing more than blocker for "abusive changes from larger parties".
@yesterzine I learned about the FPTP setup in the UK several years back, the fact that "other parties are represented" had made me assume it had to be PR, so it was a tad surprising to learn (unlike where for the US, where it is out in the open obvious). So these things come as no surprise, but we NEED to keep addressing them.
UK/US pol matters outside their borders, so their peoples voices matter to us outside.
"What can we do to increase voter turnout", they ask - WELL WHAT DO YOU THINK????
Scandinavian countries keep topping all sorta "good indexes" and people point and say "that is because of... and... and..."
And you look at democracy index scores and no one even match scandinavian countries, but no one stop to think "hey, maybe there is a connection?"
The best way to fight fascism is to make everyone feel like they are included and their voice matters.
I dread to think what Reform UK can get next election if labour keep making people feel they don't really matter because "well, only safe vote"...
Bernard is convinced of the need for local government reform. Thankfully Sir Humphrey is on hand to spell out what happens when democracy works as it ought t...YouTube
It's great that we Brits have had a change of government, and that our new one is likely to be a lot better for people at the bottom of the pile.
But the Labour party are still institutionally captured by transphobes, and we're still being excluded from healthcare. As far as I am concerned then, they're just the same as the Conservatives.
This is the best news to wake up to!
4 Green Party MPs elected…including Adrian Ramsay and Carla Denyer who are the party!s co-leaders.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjr48kpjpk9o.amp
Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsey win in Bristol Central and Waveney Valley with big swings to their party.Kate Whannel (BBC News)
Well what a night. I am exhausted.
For most of my adult life the Conservatives have been disappointing me. I look forward to Labour finally being given the opportunity to disappoint me instead.
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I have to call it night as I’ve got work and kids to get to school tomorrow.
I feel torn. I absolutely wanted the #Tories to suffer this massacre, they deserved to be hit very hard for what they did to the country. And while #Labour are the current beneficiaries, I see a very scary surging Far Right in terms of #Reform coming second almost everywhere so far.
What will Labour do to quell this rampant racism, misogyny, homophobia and climate denialism that is flowing freely in the UK?
Hold your horses - #reformUK has only won one seat - the one they held before in Ashfield
They will win Clacton, but despite the exist poll I doubt they will get 13
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I’m engaged with politics and:
a) I haven’t watched a single one of these tv debates
b) I’m sick of the sound of the lot of them.
Keep your eyes on the prize. As John Oliver said this week, “If a wild badger broke into your home and fucked everything up for 14 years straight, tearing absolutely everything apart, you would think, ‘OK, you know what, we’ll worry about redecorating choices later. Right now, that badger needs to fucking go.’”
The number of us voting for the more progressive parties (I'm including Labour) hasn't actually gone up.
@marjolica
Not all Reform votes would have gone to Tories…admittedly a lot, but not all.
I think turn out was on the poor side. People were rightly disgusted with the Tories and many of their core voters chose to stay at home. Many traditional Labour voters, notably Muslims and those concerned about Gaza equally stayed at home.
But that still left a huge proportion of the electorate determined to support progressive politicians…that cannot be denied.
@marjolica
The Tories are a spent force.
Reform is still essentially a Farage support act. Their position in the polls was rocketed by him deciding at the last minute to stand. If he falls out with any of his party colleagues, which he has a long history of doing, then the Reform vehicle self combusts. Plus Reform’s core voters are dying and they don’t have policies that are in any way functional. Without media support they will wither.
@SonofaGeorge
When the Tories win at FPTP no one in the media bats an eyelid, when Labour do so by a landslide it’s suddenly considered suspect and their success is doubted.
@SonofaGeorge
I personally don’t agree with FPTP, but the bellyaching today from right-wing media about vote share is deeply suspect when looked at it from the perspective of how our political system has always played out.
@SonofaGeorge
PR would likely have given Reform more clout and power in the govt in a similar way to Geert Wilders / PVV in NL (the two leaders and parties are in contact with one another and share tactics), rather than a handful of seats in deprived areas of the region (although there is a genuine core of support for them, particularly in Suffolk and Essex)
@vfrmedia @SonofaGeorge
No doubt if we had had PR at this election Reform…but also Lib Dems and Green Party would have done much better seat wise.
But it was not fought on that basis. Had it been, the tactics of the two main parties would have been considerably different.
It would be hypocritical of me to want PR for progressive smaller parties but not right-wing ones.
I think our political culture would change considerably if we adopted PR. Benefits and risks.
@vfrmedia @SonofaGeorge
I agree that the Netherlands is an interesting place to watch right now.