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Date: July 5th, 2024 11:25 AM Author: purple turdskin
They do, in fact, have much less money in elections. Parties and candidates are both statutorily limited in the amount they may spend per each seat they intend to contest. However, they have their own PACs (known as "non-party campaigners") and while those are also limited, largely the only thing preventing one individual or group of individuals from creating several entities and reaching the spending limit with each is the administrative regulatory compliance burden.
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.
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Date: July 5th, 2024 9:12 AM Author: purple turdskin
which is also insane to me -- locals immediately have such an advantage when trying to beat one of these carpetbaggers
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!
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Date: July 5th, 2024 8:31 AM Author: buff theater
Labour got a smaller share of the vote than the last election, which they lost, but this time a massive landslide. It does mean their majority is on weak foundations and susceptible to a reversal in five years' time. Much weaker than Tony Blair's landslide.
However, given the Tory fuckup and failures I am not weeping for them.
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Date: July 5th, 2024 9:11 AM Author: buff theater
UK governments collapse when the MPs turn against the party. It would only happen when majorities are razor thin or in a hung Parliament. Neither applies to Starmer. He has a full five years to work with. I suspect he'll be in power for a solid 10 years.
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=5310880",#47811356)
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Date: July 5th, 2024 8:33 AM Author: aphrodisiac double fault
there was a Boycott of the Tories from the anti-cuck right. #ZeroTorySeats
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/
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