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Originally Posted by denphone
Amazing the Conservatives are changing the tone of the election campaign because they are worried about a Labour super-majority.
With a 80 seat majority nearly five years ago and hence 5 years of catastrophic governance since many voters l suspect will close their ears to your plea.
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It’s amazing isn’t it how the campaign has morphed into ‘well … will you give us just a few votes at least, just so we can keep our hand in? Pretty please, we’ll be good!’
Of course the term ‘supermajority’ has no constitutional meaning in our parliament and is pretty much irrelevant. Once a governing party has a comfortable working majority it is going to get its business through regardless of whether the margin is 80 seats or 200. In fact there’s some evidence that governing parties with very large majorities have more trouble keeping their back-benchers on message, because the back benchers realise there will never be enough government jobs to go round and there is therefore less incentive to toe the line and be a good little minion.
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Blair lied as did Johnson - and then some! He even got fired in a previous job for lying. No Party has a monopoly on lying.
Starmer's not going to lead us into the EU in the next Parliament. Or the one after that. But the Conservatives' policy is to save £12bn from the benefits bill by the end of the next Parliament. Is this not a concern to you as someone on benefits?
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Plenty of rejoiner pundits and politicians have pointed out how little anyone in Tory, Labour or even Lib Dem circles wants to talk about Brexit this time around. I don’t understand why they’re so surprised - whatever the arguments on either side, it is a major constitutional change that has dominated almost 10 years of our political discourse. We simply have to leave it alone at some point and concentrate on working with what we have, not least because there is plenty else going on in national life that requires more immediate attention.
However, an intriguing thought occurs to me - more than one recent poll has suggested the Lib Dems might come out of this, by a whisker, as the second largest party. You would then have a Euro-federalist party as the official opposition, with all the opportunities for soapboxing that represents. You would have to wonder what that might do to the national discourse over the next 5 or 10 years.