The reality of Labours General Election vote share

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Starmer wins a supermajority, a landslide and becomes Prime Minister, but the foundations of his premiership are built on quicksand. • Right, so perhaps you might be thinking as you watch this video that here is a chagrined rotten leftie, bitter and twisted that Starmer won where Corbyn failed when he was Labour leader, giving Starmer a landslide win and the Tories their worst defeat ever, but actually what we’ve observed is the complete and utter failure of First Past the Post as an electoral system. Sure, it has delivered one party into power, a supermajority, almost as big as Blair’s in 1997 – not quite though – which is supposedly the point of that electoral system, but when you dig into the results, when you look at where Labour did well and where it didn’t, because it had it’s share of seats that clearly didn’t go it’s way and when you look at the national picture and overall vote share and then compare that to other elections, for as much as you might cheer a Labour victory, cheer the Tories being decimated and I certainly share that sentiment, I hope by the end of this video you are asking yourself how the hell we’ve arrived at this result, because frankly it’s bonkers. • Right, so Starmer is Prime Minister, we knew he would be. We knew the Tories were toast as well, perhaps we hoped they’d have been cooked even more than they were, but it is still the biggest defeat handed to that party in their history, a party that has existed since 1832 and they just lost 250 seats, at time of writing there are two seats to go still. We’ve seen the back of Liz Truss, Grant Shapps, Penny Mordaunt, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Johnny Mercer, Gillian Keegan, Alex Chalk, Therese Coffey, Damian Green, Michele Donelan, Mark Harper, Robert Buckland and so many more that we truly can celebrate that fact and yes, for as much as I hold Starmer and Labour feet to the fire on this channel because I do not like the way the party is now run, do not like the authoritarianism and dread this now being inflicted on the country, I look forward to Starmer no longer being able to go back on his words, when his actions will finally now be held accountable and what he chooses to do and will he do anything different or will ,as the manifesto implies, it just be business as usual for the status quo. I am not getting my hopes up on that of course. All of this is stuff Starmer’s Labour now need be mindful of though. • That said, the how he got there, how the results have paned out how they have, is worth discussing, because you might be shocked to know to begin with, that Labour’s vote share barely moved from the last General Election in 2019, which of course the Labour right love to point to as proof that rotten lefties and socialists cannot win elections. I’m not joking. Labour’s vote share for this General Election compared to 2019, rose by 1.6%. Labour got 33.8% of the national vote share in this election, compared to 32.2% of the vote in 2019, which saw Labour lose 60 seats indicating a great many polls in the run up to this election were overestimating the Labour vote share. • **Subscribe to the channel here** https://www.youtube.com/KernowDamo?su... • ►ABOUT ME: • Hi, I'm Damien Willey. I'm a former welder, but now I'm a writer, blogger, vlogger and presenter and interviewer with Socialist Telly (Please do go and visit what we all get up to on / socialisttelly ) • I'm an unpaid carer for my disabled wife and daughter and as such we know all too well the difficulties that associated with that living in Tory Britain and I personally believe the answer lies in socialism. • This channel, along with my other social media act as outlets to push back against that, to demand better of our politicians and leaders, to pull apart the media spin that supports them and the way the UK is run and to give a voice, loud as mine is, to the voiceless. • ►CONTACT: • Email: [email protected] • ►SUPPORT: • If you appreciate the importance of alternative media in the UK and enjoy my work please consider financially supporting it. Various options to suit all budgets, please visit linktr.ee/KernowDamo to find out more. Please support Independent Media. • ►SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS • Alternatively please share this video on your favourite social media if you'd like to see what I get up to elsewhere, yoy can also find links to my presence elsewhere at linktr.ee/KernowDamo • Damo Rants Kernow Damo starmer,keir starmer,labour,general election,keir starmer labour,labour party,uk election,uk politics,reform uk,keir starmer lies,keir starmer election,keir starmer integrity,kier starmer,keir starmer prime minister,keir starmer wins,first past the post,keir starmer problems,green party,independent candidates,kernow damo,damo rants,starmer bangladesh,damo,jeremy corbyn,andrew feinstein,praful nargund,khalid mahmood,leanne mohamad,nigel farage

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