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@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

SarahATX

@purplelotus13@mastodon.social · 12 hours ago

@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.

Alien software, human hardware

@mavu@mastodon.social · 10 hours ago

@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... :)

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange · 8 hours ago

@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.

SarahATX

@purplelotus13@mastodon.social · 2 hours ago

@david_chisnall @mavu @pluralistic interesting. Another reason we should all move toward ranked choice voting perhaps?

Connor Cadellin

@cadellin@mastodon.gamedev.place · 12 hours ago

@purplelotus13 @pluralistic I really wish we would make fliers with dodgy bar charts and tactical voting recommendations illegal. The bar charts in particular.

Sku_te

@sku_te@mastodon.gamedev.place · 14 hours ago

@pluralistic Good as any other reason not to vote for Labour

Nine Stones Close

@NineStonesClose@mastodon.social · 14 hours ago

@pluralistic green is the only vote at the moment.

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@sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie · 17 hours ago

@pluralistic Give Greens the green light!
#GreenUK

Robert Klaschka

@robertklaschka@mastodon.online · 16 hours ago

@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

theregister

Palantir's NHS future in doubt as ministers eye contract break

: £330M deal leaves service with no ownership of software built to connect trusts to the platform

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 15 hours ago

@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).

Robert Klaschka

@robertklaschka@mastodon.online · 15 hours ago

@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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