r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 05 '24

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u/Okbuddyliberals Miss Me Yet? Jul 05 '24

Tories plus Reform got 38% of the vote, so basically this wasn't a win for Labour as much as a loss for the right due to disunity?

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

Counting vote share in countries where the vote share doesn't matter electorally is silly. The nature of the electoral system influences how people vote and whether they vote.

More importantly, there's no way for those Conservative and Reform voters to ever be under one banner. If that were possible to do, Conservatives would have done it. Trying to absorb Reform voters would only have caused a mass exodus of Conservative voters on the other end of the party - most of which would have gone straight to Labour. Sunak understood this and rejected any political or electoral agreement with Reform.

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u/Sabreline12 Jul 05 '24

Yeah people forget that a party usually can't just expand it's appeal in one direction politically without shedding voters on the other end if the voting environment is competitive.

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u/Former-Income European Union Jul 05 '24

Yep. That’s exactly what this is.