Did The UK Just Vote For A Left Wing Landslide??

In many places Labor lost support and won because the Tories lost more

I'm not from the UK, so I may not be picking up all the intricacies of this election, but to me, this election wasn't so much a endorsement of the Labour party, and it was more a rejection of the current state of the Tories.

Fewer people voted for Starmer's Labour Party than voted for Corbyn's Labour Party when he lost in 2019.

almost 20% of the votes and 0.6% representation in goverment is crazy

faiza shaheen was dropped by labour and that's why the vote got so split there, if they hadnt dropped her, they would've definitely won the seat

No. The Labour Party are about ~1 million votes down from the last election. Reform and Liberal Democrat’s have taken a big chunk out of the Conservative vote. First past the post system is so weird and I’m not sure if I am fully supportive of it. Reform got 4 seats from 4 million votes yet the Liberal Democrat’s have 71 seats from 3 million Edit: ok this has started a debate in the replies haha don’t mind me you carry on and I’ll get the drinks and snacks in guys

Keir Starmer is no Jeremy Corbyn - a centrist in fact compared to Corbyn.

The reason for the Greens gaining rural North Herefordshire and Waveney Valley is in part because of the two different types of groups which the greens attract, those being environmentalists (in the cities) and conservationists (in the countryside).

Faiza Shaheen is not a case of racial politics. In Chingford, she was the labour candidate for 4 years, but she is a Corbynist, so Labour kicked her out 6 weeks ago and replaced her with a candidate from Wembley. This split the labour vote and let Iain Duncan Smith win with 17000 when Labour candidates won 24000

Faiza Shaheen was NOT running on a "Gaza" platform. She had been campaigning on left wing policies for years as the labour candidate, before Labour removed her and parachuted in someone the locals didn't choose. It was labour that stole the election from themselves.

My analysis: - Conservatives were unpopular - Reform and Tories split the vote - Labour under Starmer went moderate and centrist under Starmer - Younger Labour voters were disappointed with Starmers handling of gaza, the parties left and Corbyn, unwillingness to raise taxes and some social issues like trans rights - People protest voted cons by voting Reform, while also protesting Labour by voting the more progressive LibDems and Greens (Also thats why Corbyn won his seat by 15% even though he joined the race late) - Thats why Labour didn't gain - SNP ironically had the opposite effect due to people believing they were too progressive for the same reasons people in England thought Labour wasn't progressive enough - However it seems to be more the problem that their previous popular leader Nicolar Sturgeon resigned after various scandals and Neither Hamza Yousseff nor John Swinney could return - Also Labour and not the Conservatives are up in Scotland so it seems to be more internal issues within the SNP In general I think its good to have more options in politics and there needs to be proportional election reform. I still get annoyed looking at the result of the 2011 Referendum.

I still am baffled that the Green Party is rejecting plans for solar and offshore wind farms, like isn't the whole idea of green energy is to build those exact things??? :face-blue-wide-eyes:

The Tories have benefited from FPTP in every election I can remember (and that's quite a few). Now, it worked against them and centrists turned FPTP against them by organising tactical voting. "Tough luck" and more than just a little Karma. But seriously, it's a terrible system and it needs replacing with a proportional system that still preserves the notion of voting for a representative who's a member of your own community.

From what I’ve seen. Labour and the Lib Dem’s have switched positions on the political spectrum. Labour is now the centre party and the Lib Dem’s are now the Centre left party. So I would not call this a left wing landslide. Because Labour right now are much more in the centre. They have purged the left wing of the party. In fact, I think how far Labour have been pulled to the centre, it’s more so a win for the right. If you have 537 out of 650 seats not being centre left or proper left. You can’t really call that a left wing landslide.

I dont rlly think the Palestine protest vote was about overseas issues or just due to ethnic lines. Our govt has continued to support Israel's actions while they have been condemned by the UN. This is a political foreign policy choice, and one which is actively killing family members and friends of people in the constituencies (living in a diverse part of Britain, know people with friends and family in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, facing the crisis in part caused by our govt). Seeing how Labour has changed their stance on this since Corbyn deeply frustrates many people. Independents are being elected as a result.

Now seems a good time to push for ranked choice voting. People of similar ideologies either splitting the vote or tactically voting is the reason certain parties won or lost individual seats, rather than being because their ideas were acceptable enough to the majority of the electorate. Surely that must be obvious to all parties right now that sticking with FPTP is a bad idea?

Turns out, when you mismanage the country, people vote for the other guy 😂

If the British Labour Party is left wing, then I'm Julius Caesar.

Reform have about 4mil votes (14%) and labour have about 10mil votes (34%), but reform only get 4 seats (0.6%) whereas labour gets 412 (63%). This is ridiculous. I know how it all works but it really needs to change.

Its time for Electoral Reform