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But I've yet to hear a rational explanation of why this is the case. There's one really obvious one - 'we' don't like people who aren't like 'us' - but politicians seem very quick to dismiss the idea that that's what's behind this.
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I'm finding more and more that I'm not even an expert on the podcast I just listened to.
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It makes it effectively pointless to vote in safe seats/wards, and in marginals it forces us to guess who will be first and second, and compromise accordingly. The present system isn't even helping the Tories and Labour any more, it just favours the largest minority, presently the Faragists.
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Really disappointed in today's result, not least because I would have preferred ANY candidate to Reform. However, it surely is time to accept that the misnamed first-past-the-post system (what post?) does not work in a 5 or 6 party environment.
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And my first use of Android's Gemini resulted in it refusing to turn itself off, giving me an interminable spiel about Google policy, and interrupting my response at the first hint of a comma, for another corporate rant.
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"Coward"? Honestly?? I'm not sure anyone in the UK begrudges Martin taking a break to spend time with his family. I'm aware that probably sounds like communism to some in the US, but it's entirely mainstream here.
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Thin picking here so far...
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Because Scottish Britons voted for unity? (Don't blame the rest of us: nobody cares what we think.)
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And yet it's well known that Keith had a close relationship with former UK Prime Minister James Hacker.
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And if someone in a position of power could just remind everyone - once in a while - just how much we've lost from the act of self-harm that is Brexit, that would be nice.
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Honestly, what is the point of voting for a party that seems only interested in further impoverishing the poorest and weakest, both at home and abroad. In pursuit of what? A handful of misanthropic voters in the potteries?
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That's a big stick.
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Nice, if it happens. Can you just remind us: Just how much Comic Relief etc will have to raise to plug the gap in this latest frankly sub-Johnsonian move.
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As if cutting aid to impoverished people is something neither of them is ashamed of.
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'Ow much!!!
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Remind me. When do we get a vote on leadership of the free world?
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Americans are...different... aren't they?
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I think the bar for being hate-worthy is pretty high this week.
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Apparently they've already had Kaspersky removed from the Google Play store, worldwide. BTW, Google didn't feel the need to mention that it's stopped updating my antivirus on the instruction of a foreign (ie USA) government.
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So they're American? (I find the Manchester Guardian can be so confusing these days)
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Sorry, that was accidental and totally meaningless: it looks like I left my phone unlocked in my pocket.
Please ignore.
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I should like to make it clear that I do not wish to own any of these items.
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