recall, too, Brat's primary win over Cantor -- it can happen here too, just much more rarely due to size of district and consistency of electorate.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550683&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310690",#47811296)

daschle losing his seat is perhaps a better example.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550683&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310690",#47811320)

These orgs, while nominally prohibited from coordination with parties or candidates, can act just as PACs do in the US and functionally do just that. They typically focus on leadership races and important seats.

Furthermore, in-person canvassing has a much greater role than ads do because of financial limitation,s so often campaigns rely on rallies, in-person candidate visits and door-to-doors. This has much greater effect than it would in the US because they have much smaller districts -- there are 650 seats in the Commons, districts are designed to contain roughly 75k constituents, and in many places that means they are only a few city blocks.

This all means the money goes much further than it would here, and targeted races are still very possible.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550683&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310690",#47811810)

the whole UK political charade is much better circus kayfabe than ours, with even less effect:

-- rotating districts, so you have to work to even know who your reps are

-- elections can be called at bizarre intervals on a whim, and the entire government reshuffled

-- once "your" monkey is elected, they then sometimes hold another great circus to decide leadership

and even less changes there than here!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550683&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310690",#47811359)

However, given the Tory fuckup and failures I am not weeping for them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550683&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310690",#47811284)

The Tories are facing an existential crisis because it's clear they need to decide to be either pointless centrist Tories or right wing Tories, not both. The latter fared better in holding on to their seats so it's probable the next leader will be either Braverman or Badenoch. That's right, the face of right wing conservatism in Britain will be a brown woman. Ironic to you but not necessarily to the British.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550683&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310690",#47811356)

people are fed up. we should follow suit in the US.

that's why Labour won so big.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tories/comments/1bnc628/zero_seats/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550683&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310690",#47811287)

may very well end up being a case of ruining your nose to spite your face.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5550683&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310690",#47811299)