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Calm down. If the Greens get more than a dozen seats at the GE it would be insane.
At by-elections, the punters whip the government. It’s how it’s always been.
In this case it was a vote against Starmer and Farage rather than a vote for the Greens. Tactical voting was big in this election, and observers have reported higher than normal coordination amongst voters in the polling stations (so-called family voting, which is illegal).
So let me get the "family voting" accusations straight. An unaccountable "monitoring group" have been observing elections for over 10 years. Not once have they seen more than 1% of votes be possibly affected by family voting. On this one instance they manage to see it affecting 12% of votes but neither report anything to the electoral officers on duty, whose job it is to enforce this regulation, or make any of their observations public?
And it just so happens to give Farage another anti-muslim, anti-leftist talking point.
Hmm.
Also voter coordination is not illegal. Ballots themselves must remain confidential but it is not against the Ballot Secrecy Act to tell someone how you're going to vote or who you should think they should vote.
Voter coordination is illegal within the polling station.
Is family voting "the election was rigged?"
Literally the first I've heard of it is in this Lemmy thread.
The greens are polling at the same number as labour, consistently for the past couple months. Labour is as unpopular as they’ve ever been.
Labour won the last election, but now all their support is jumping ship. Reform are losing support. The next election is the Green's to lose.