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It's time to see if the polls are right.

Previously: the voting megathread

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I do like that Farage tries to call himself "centre-right".

On the other hand, I unironically do like that he calls out how shit FPTP is.

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The one thing i can agree with reform on is electoral reform. unfortunately all the racism, homophonia and general goose-stepping made it so i couldn't vote for him.

Plus lib dems are better placed to actually make it happen.

unfortunately i was one of the absolute tools that voted no on the AV vote back in 2010ish

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago

Honestly I can hardly blame you. It was set up to fail the moment Clegg agreed to let it be about IRV instead of a proportional system. That meant it was under assault from both sides which meant it never had a chance.