London is handing out free meals for all primary school children

Re:London is handing out free meals for all primary school c... by vidarh on Monday February 20, 2023 @01:37PM (#34871182)

For all the flaws of UK democracy, the majority who votes for parties supportive of current immigration levels is vast. So even if you were right nobody explicitly voted for this, opposition to it is weak enough that the vast majority does not see it as a sufficient priority to change their voting patterns.

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Re:London is handing out free meals for all primary school c... by red-iron-pine on Monday February 20, 2023 @02:54PM (#34872130)

The English deserve to get what they voted for -- and will get it good and hard.

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Re:London is handing out free meals for all primary school c... by kcartlidge on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @12:16PM (#34883708)

We get what our political system allows. Without first-past-the-post our politics (and our relationship to the EU over the last four decades) would have been very different.

And what you imply we get would be fine if we had voted for it. With the low turnouts and the aforementioned first-past-the-post, in reality far less than a majority actually did.

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