Very enjoyable and reinforced all my prejudices about the Tories, but strange to be reading a book about how extraordinarily electorally successful they have been just as they were getting wiped out in a landslide. There's no doubt that the Conservatives lost the election rather than Labour winning it, with Labour's vote share only increasing slightly, and, due to e reduced turnout, actually getting fewer votes than they did in 2019 (which was of course, the most electorally disastrous result for Labour since 1931). the conservatives have lost their reputation for competence and their coalition has fractured. If the Reform voters had voted conservative they would have had a majority. Let's see what happens now - Labour has 5 years to build their own coalition - which will be helped by extending the vote to 16 & 17 year-olds, and hopefully showing what a good job they can do managing the economy. I can't see them doing too much to win back the muslim and left-wing voters they have lost; those in power in the party don't feel either group should be made welcome, sadly. I stayed up until 5 watching the results and a victory out of any proportion to Labour's mediocre vote count. that's the perversion of FPTP though. Will Labour look to change a broken system that dissuades many from voting and produces result that don't match what the country has voted for? Or do they continue with a system that they have benefitted so much from this time?
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