The fact that Kier Starmer has on track to get fewer votes than Jeremy Corbyn is both infuriating and hilarious to me (in a laugh so I don’t cry kind of way).
That Starmer is being held up as the great, dynamic politician who “saved” Labour through centrist politics and catering to the right while Corbyn was derided as a kook who cost Labour elections for a generation really gets my goat.
Starmer just happened to be standing by as Reform and the Conservatives stab each other to death while Corbyn was dealing with a Reform Brexit party which didn’t run against Conservatives and the right and far-right were merged to one.
36% of the vote isn’t as impressive and doesn’t fit the “historic landslide” narrative.
This is your reminder to send love to trans people in the UK right now after the general election. You might think just because the Tories are out of power it will get better right? Wrong it will stay the same might even get worse. Keir Starmer, current leader of the labour party, has said abhorrent things about trans people running up to the election in the past few weeks, including that men have a penis and women have a vagina and that he doesn’t want trans women to use the women’s bathroom. See article below as source. Sorry to put a damper on anyone’s day but it feels important to talk about.
Some really awful MPs like Jacob Rees-Mogg and Liz Truss lost their seats. Rest in piss.
A bunch of transphobic MPs across various parties also lost their seats.
The Green Party put their whole pussy into campaigning for 4 specific seats, and they won all of them! The news of course doesn’t care but this is really cool!
Wales now has 0 tory MPs.
5 independents were elected, all of them pro-Palestine.
The overtly transphobic party “Part of Women” got about 5000 votes across the 14 constituencies they were standing in. Their leader Posie Parker (big pal of Joke Karen R*owling) got less than 200 votes. So cringe.
Obviously there’s a lot to be pretty upset about in this election. Keir Starmer run on a platform barely different from the tories, pandered to the right when he probably would have won without throwing immigrants and trans people and actual left-wing party members under the bus. The racist Reform UK party also won 4 seats and had about 14% of the vote.
But Rishi is resigning, they lost over 250 seats, and hopefully we can continue to put pressure on the new government to become more progressive.
Watching the UK results roll in and seeing the voter turnout and just how many votes the Reform party is getting like:
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Jesus Christ.
THANK YOU. This is legit giving me fits bc sure, they only got 4 seats, blah blah, but if you look at the actual breakdown of voters, they’re literally the third highest voting bloc:
And if you look at the vote tallies of individual constituencies, especially ones that flipped CON>LAB, you repeatedly see where it’s obvious that if there hadn’t been a schism between the Tories and Reform, Labour wouldn’t have even remotely had the votes to succeed. Examples:
Everyone celebrating Labour sweeping really needs to analyze this for what it actually is and plan/act accordingly before the pendulum swings back again!! The evil hasn’t been defeated by a long shot!!
Christ, I hadn’t seen the final numbers yet. 4 million people voted for the fascist party. I’m not even being hyperbolic. The Reform party ran on the platform that the Tories/Cons were too liberal.
you sit down at the plastic table because your partner likes being outside at the bar even though it’s 90 degrees and 60% humidity at 10pm and you thought this corduroy dress was soooo cute but now youre all sweaty and so one of your balls has escaped your panties but youre wearing fishnets so your loose nut is now dying like a sea turtle in a six pack ring and youre the desperate diver trying to save it but blind and one handed and stone faced cause you can’t draw attention to the fact that youre doing a high stakes wildlife rescue on your stupid scrotum in public because it might turn into a six month news cycle and desantis might fly out to personally bulldoze the bar. and its a thursday
i dreamt this post got 19k notes overnight and everyone i knew had disowned me for for my cat 5 Sack Slip event
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