[Margaret Pilkington]

Yes More Joe…I visit regularly and I thought there might be something about the election to post to, but there was nothing.
You are right it IS Stanley and only Stanley….and if you do not follow the team then there is nothing here for you.

As to the Math of the ‘landslide’…it is not a landslide if those who are elected to govern get less share of the vote.
And this election resulted in a lower turnout….so this means only about 20% of the population will be pleased with the incoming government.
The Liberal Democrat’s polled 3.5 million votes and have 72 seats in the house(it was 71but a recount resulted in another Lib Dem getting a seat)….Reform polled 4 million votes and have just four seats…this is because of the undemocratic ‘first past the post’ system.
Reform and the Conservative Parties together polled more votes than Labour…..so the government we have now is one that was elected by default….it was not a real choice.
The only way we will ever get the government we want is if the system is reformed to Proportional Representation….and there is no will for this reform.


As Mark Twain observed ‘if voting changed anything, they would not let us do it’.

I feel very gloomy about the future because I do not think the Labour government has any idea how to solve the problems we are beset by….and it is reported that the migrants waiting in Calais to take to the boats were delighted with this result.