2026-05-08 09:58 UTC
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us People talk about our two-party system, but since the '80s up until recent events, I've always thought of England as basically a one-party system: Conservative is the default party of government. Occasionally, when the Tories are too busy infighting to run the country they let Labour have a quick go. This has led to Labour constantly triangulating between the values of their own support base and the soft centre right. This worked for Blair but has utterly failed for Starmer. 1/-
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@kbm0@mastodon.social 2026-05-08 10:06
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us Now the old party affiliations are all in flux. But if anything the centre of opinion has shifted right in England. On here people are optimistic about the Greens, but I don't see how they are going to fare any better with the rump of English voters. There are such huge ideological gulfs opening up and we're retreating into a safe space where everyone broadly agrees, but from which we're never likely to see a government. 2/2