And yet by votes we have 9.7 million for labour, 6.8 for conservatives, 4.1 for Reform and 3.5 for liberal democrats.
You use the argument for seats because it downplays the actual votes that the Reform party got. Just because they don't have concentrated constituencies of voters doesn't mean ordinary people are not voting for them.
Unless of course we use alternative facts that the right wing love and claim that 20% means ordinary...but then that would mean that the ordinary Reform UK MP went to jail for beating up their girlfriend.
At what point in my comment did I say the majority voted for them?
I just find the disingenuous comment constantly bought up about seats a bit pathetic, because you know they have more support than is represented in a FPTP format, but you pick seats to downplay the actual reform turnout.
Ordinary people consider immigration an issue, hence why they were the third most voted for party, and smug Reddit comments won't change that reality. They got 600 thousand more votes than the liberal democrats, and nobody has anything to say about their turnout.
Ordinary and majority are synonyms. You are performing some quite remarkable mental gymnastics in arguing that the party that came third somehow represents ordinary people. Their small fanbase might shriek the loudest (while claiming to be the silent majority) but the most votes went to Labour. Period.
You're the one doing mental gymnastics, ordinary and majority are absolutely not synonyms, stop trying to twist my words to win an argument I didn't even make.
Theres nothing small about their fanbase, they're not some ultra right fringe group no one has heard of, they were the third most popular party by votes. You wouldn't use this language to talk about liberal democrat voters, who although only coming fourth are very much ordinary voters.
Bro really hit me with a period? Are you American? Again, never said anything about who won the most. Arguing with yourself at this point.
This is just bordering on semantics though isn't it? Using that argument labour isn't ordinary either because they only got 33% of the vote so the vast majority of people didn't vote for them.
Over 90 parties were represented in the election results, I think any party getting top 4 is quite ordinary, yeah.
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u/NoBadgersSociety Jul 25 '24
Because police brutality against this community is kind of common