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Almost correct, but frankly we're not even funding the military. We just have a bunch of leeches at the top who take money away from public services, give fat bonuses to their friends using contracts and/or telling government institutions that they MUST buy from only approved suppliers (the approved supplier is owned by their friend and sells things that they bought from regular suppliers and marked up by 1000%).
Also the bastards pulled us out of the EU at Putin's request, so we effectively do not have a future anymore. We have no realistic avenue to pursue profitable international trading, our science and research sector is hemorrhaging and direly underfunded, and frankly, we are out of meaningly natural resources to sell (although I know damn well our current government would not use the money gained from selling resources to set up a sustainable national income for the future).
Which is why the surge in young people voting Lib Dem or Green who have both been consistently offering a rejoin option can be seen in the polls.... Oh 😳.
I think this is down to FPTP really.
I would love to vote Plaid or Green, but I would rather prevent the climate change-denying, homophobic, racist Tory from keeping his safe seat by voting Labour.
It is, of course, exacerbated by FPTP. But I don't think we can just dismiss voting for other parties because FPTP favours Labour and the Conservatives.
My point is that people feel strongly about rejoining the European Union, with so much passion, with so much conviction.... just not enough to vote in anyone that has promised to do anything about it 🤷. I don't get it.
Imagine if in 2017 we had a bigger swing to a hung parliament more tipped in the Lib Dem or Green favour. You could argue neither would have won outright, but they could have been King makers in a hung parliament. Both would have been in a position to seriously put the brakes on a fledgling hard Brexit, maybe even demanded better scrutiny or reversal? Instead we got these anuses hell bent on destroying any good faith the UK had with the world and years of Tory infighting with Labour saying nothing in order to appeal to the Brexit voting Labour contingent in the North.
Of course the alternative is that rejoining the EU isn't top on people's priorities after all?
Yes we can ignore all other parties, voting for a third party is a wasted vote.
Yes I agree, rejoining the EU seems to come up quite high in opinion polls when that is the sole question, but the parties that are supporting this are not.
Apart from FPTP, I reckon another factor is that people are just sick of hearing about Brexit. It has been in the news cycle continuously for years. I don't think it is enough of an issue to be a vote winner compared to Lab/Con focusing on generically growing the economy and talking about migrants etc. I just think back to that clip of Brenda from Bristol after news of the Theresa May snap election and reckon that is where most people are at in terms of Brexit.