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Vulnerable people will die but that's ok for reform
Vulnerable people will suffer and still continue to put a cross by their far right candidate of choice.
Complete misrepresentation of events. Reform and the Tories can club together 40% of the vote on a good day, of those that even go out to vote. Of those voters, they are overwhelmingly arrogant small business owners and wannabe millionaires - the very same people who have always backed fascism, the precarious middle classes both terrified of proletarianisation as a result of the actions of big business and capital, and of labour clubbing together to make it unaffordable to run their businesses.
Of course some vulnerable people make up those groups, and other ladder puller old folks who are technically vulnerable people also make up a chunk of the vote share. But let's not pretend that every impoverished or disabled person backs the far right. That's quite the insult and infantalisation of those demographics which I'm sure was not your intention.
Excellent point. One of the great sleight-of-hands of parliamentary democracy in the UK is to convince people that a system where the candidate who a majority of voters don't want is a legitimate winner. Then make a lot of noise about "landslides" and "victories" for governments elected by barely 30% of the electorate.