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For some perspective from the UK, only about 30-35% of the UK electorate actually support ReformUK, the party this fascist scumbag currently owns.
And a considerable portion of that % are only supporting because they're being lied to consistently by him, his cronies and a sizeable portion of our news organisations.
35% support would likely be enough to deliver that ass clown into power though as our archaic voting system is shit.
FPTP could easily give us fascists who will do to UK democracy what they have to the US.
Yeah that's what I mean about our horrible system of voting. It's pretty fucking tragic. Our current government promised voting reform but they've been wholly untrustworthy when it comes to the majority of their claims thus far so I don't know if we'll see it.
30% is enormous for something that should be so obviously wrong.
I agree completely, I just think it's important we contrast this insane information with facts, whilst 30% is a sizeable chunk, 70% of the electorate view him as the complete clown that he is.
30% agree with a complete clown. It was 0% before. I think that's much more alarming.
You may not be familiar with UK politics so I'll be fair here when I say that there has -always- been a section of the general electorate that have supported this kind of complete bullshit being peddled by Nigel.
Previously it was peddled by UKIP, or the Conservatives, or the Brexit Party, and even in some cases certain fringes of the Labour Party.
Can I assume that having another big right-wing party will just divide the conservative electorate? This has happened a couple of times in Canada.
Our other big right-wing party basically committed suicide, and most of their non pensioner voters have since fled to ReformUK, as well as a fairly consistent trickle of politicians defecting from the Conservatives to ReformUK.
If the Conservatives hadn't gone completely insane they may well have split the vote between them, but it all seems to be coalescing around ReformUK at the moment.
It's worth keeping in mind that a large proportion of Conservative voters are pensioners.