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Going to the UK polls today? Remember, Labour is the party that just greenlit Palantir being in charge of all the health data in our NHS:
While the Greens are the party that has put Palantir on notice that all of its contracts will be torn up and the company will be ejected from the country after the next general election:
@pluralistic Wonder how much they paid him??
@pluralistic local elections in England cannot influence this. Parliamentary Elections in Scotland have no English & Welsh Green candidates. In Wales Plaid Cymru are the ones to vote to remove a Welsh Labour Gov
@pluralistic my house in Wandsworth received some crazy propaganda from the conservatives that basically said if you want to prevent reform from winning and you want to vote against Labour, you have to vote conservative (I interpreted this as them saying voting green will give reform a win).
I'm new to the UK so this is my first encounter with council politics, but this felt a little bonkers.
@purplelotus13 @pluralistic the problem is that all votes that dont go to the winning party are completely lost if i understood the system correctly.
One party gets the majority, and thats it.
No matter if 75% wanted something different, if one gets 20% and all others 19% the 20% win the election.
please someone correct me, this is only what i remember from school, and its been a while... :)
@mavu @purplelotus13 @pluralistic
Well, kind of. They don't influence the election outcome, but they do influence the policies of the people who want to win next time. The rise of UKIP (and now, Reform Ltd) is a big part of why both of the major parties moved to the right.
Voting for a far (or, at least, further) left party may not get them into power, but it sends a signal the leftmost major party that they've losing votes to the left and need to swing back there or they'll lose elections in the future.
@david_chisnall @mavu @pluralistic interesting. Another reason we should all move toward ranked choice voting perhaps?
@purplelotus13 @pluralistic I really wish we would make fliers with dodgy bar charts and tactical voting recommendations illegal. The bar charts in particular.
@pluralistic Good as any other reason not to vote for Labour
@pluralistic green is the only vote at the moment.
@pluralistic Give Greens the green light!
#GreenUK
@sinabhfuil @pluralistic Pretty lame that you have failed to note that the UK Liberal Democrats in both England and Wales are amongst the most vocal opponents of Palantir in the NHS - but then I can see why across the pond its only the populist noise from the Greens that penetrates...
https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/04/20/uk-weighs-break-clause-in-palantir-nhs-deal/5222486
@robertklaschka @sinabhfuil Anyone who trusts the Libdems after the Coalition government needs their head examined (but not by an NHS therapist who has entrusted their medical records to Palantir).
@pluralistic really... that old chestnut still. Yes they were naive then, but since then they have proved at a local and national level they have a level headed approach and are likely to have the largest representation of any party at local level, if not this year with the next two. This is because they get on with the job.
If you look at the way the Greens have conducted themselves here in Winchester any semblence of a different kind of politics from the Greens has been swept away.
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