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[email protected] appears to have vanished! We can still see cached content from this link, but goodbye I guess! :'(
Here's the thing. Reform got as many seats as the Greens and the Lib Dems haven't had this many MPs since the coalition. But let's see who the media give all the coverage to...
LDs have never had this number of seats before.
Reform will get more because they came third in the vote share.
I am very happy in a sense that Reform only got 5 seats, compared to the Greens 4 and Lib Dems 72, but combined, Lib Dems and Greens got about 15% of the vote, and Reform got 15% too. So it's clearly undemocratic. We got lucky this time, but it could easily have been the other way around.