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[–] 139 points 2 years ago (16 children)

I think there's something fundamentally wrong with British culture. How do they keep electing such garbage politicians? It's like every decision they make looks awful to everyone but Brits only realize it after the fact.

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  • [–] 134 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    While you are not wrong it's worth noting he was not elected by the public and even worse before he was basically handed the job he ran (internaly) on a platform of fixing the economy he fucked as chancellor of the exchequer

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  • [–] 63 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Well someone keeps voting in the fucking tories. If they didn't, he wouldn't be PM right now.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    While true, the Tory party that won the last election looks a bit different to the gobshites that are in government now.

    Don't get me wrong, I thought the last lot were assholes as well, but while technically legal, swapping out basically all of the government several times seems like a bit of a bait and switch.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    No it's the same gobshites. Boris was leader at the last election, Sunak and co are part of the same group. The anti-conservatives conservative party. All the conservatives were culled from the party. The people in the party causing trouble for Rishi are those further to the right and people who believe Boris can turn it all around again.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    A minority voted for them, and not even a large one.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I hate this excuse, everyone knows how parliaments work. You vote for representatives that form a government. Everyone votes for their own constituency only but not everyone ends up with dickheads so consistently.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Sure, but Sunak wasnt even the second choice for the Tories during the last election. He's in the Gerald Ford grey zone where no one feels like they voted for him, making him seem illegitimate. The British public voted for the Tories in 2019 (because they are morons) with the expectation that Boris Johnson would be in charge. Now the head of the party has resigned twice since then. In theory it'sall standard procedure for Parliament, but it's a clearly unstable government and viewed as a farce at this point.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    with the expectation that Boris Johnson would be in charge

    I'm not sure this make it any better. It's not like Boris Johnson hid the fact that he was a Tory. At a certain point I'm just going to stop saying "I told you so" and start calling you an idiot.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    It's still possible to be unfair to idiots, though.
    If an idiot believes he can face down a speeding freight train, but only if it's yellow then, in his eyes, it's just not cricket if the one that turns him into jam is in fact blue.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    In what way was Johnson better than Sunak?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    He wasn't better, he just had more legitimatacy since he was the party leader during the last election. Hell, Sunak resigned from said government before Johnson resigned. That's why there were calls for a new election after Truss resigned, but the Tories refused because they knew they would get clobbered at the polls.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    everyone knows how parliments work.

    I think you vastly over estimate the knowledge of your average love island watching, down the pub every night after work, get their entire worldview from Facebook, British person.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    It's not an excuse. While you correct in that's the mechanics of how it works here very few could even tell you the name of the representative they are voting for they just base their vote on the team and or team leader.

    Hell. I remember my mum discussing how she couldn't vote for kinnock because she can't stand him. In her Scottish constituency

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    He lost the only party member leadership vote he took part in. He lost to someone completely detached from reality, that immediately sought to destroy the value of most people pensions that only benefitted a few hedge funds looking to profit from the UKs demise.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Your preaching to the choir. If it were up to me the whole party wouldn't get a wiff of power from the first time I was old enough to vote.

    Instead "I got my way" once with these asshats running this shithole even further into the ground ever since

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Another commenter said this but the last two prime ministers were only chosen by the conservative party membership, not by general election. So about 30,000 people have decided the ruler of the country for the past couple of years. You can argue about PMs before then but First Past the Post voting also has a lot to answer for.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    We didn't vote for him, and i did not vote for his party at the last election. Now i get to take it in the butt by his policies.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It bugs me when they say that they are doing this and that “for the will of the people” when the majority of the people didn’t vote for them. And even if they did, it might have been for a different reason than the thing that they are talking about at the time.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Idealistically, you'd hope that the leader of the country would be looking out for their people and doing things that help the people primarily.

    Usually when they say that though it's when they're quietly handing out huge contracts to their friends and family to do the thing they're talking about, for example Sunak corruptly giving his wife's company allocations from the national budget.

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