- Re: No Jamie not impossible, as the 2017 Vote proved Archived Message
Posted by dereklane
on December 13, 2019, 7:23 pm, in reply to "No Jamie not impossible, as the 2017 Vote proved"
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That's interesting- 2m votes is a lot and laying it beside last election you might be onto something.. like with the democrats in the us however, I suspect you're not going to get a clear admission of fault from labour supporters on the issue. Like there, the obvious reason is citizens voted trump wasn't because they liked him, or that they hated immigrants, but that he wasn't Hilary, and they were fed up with the lies and bullshit and broken promises. It was less an election than a reaction. I don't think labour voters here spun full circle and voted Tory necessarily (I'd be interested in the stats still), but didn't vote labour, either by voting else wise or by not voting at all. 2 m votes might not have changed the result but they might have changed the balance. It may well have gone higher. I would have voted if they'd stuck to their guns on leaving the eu, and I didn't even vote in that referendum; I just like the idea of straight decorative votes not being ignored..call me old fashioned or call me radical! |