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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Personally, I'll be voting to get the Tories out. I'd vote for a rabid badger whose one policy was that he was going to come round and eat my face (which is refreshingly honest).

My ideal solution would be that Labour get in but without a large enough majority that they can wave bills through parliament and have to do deals that mean proper electoral reform. I'm not quite sure how to engineer such an outcome, so (this side of him surprising us with a raft of secret radical policies he's been hiding so as not to give the media a stick to beat him with) I am hoping he underperforms to such an extent that someone like Andy Burnham has to intervene and challenge him.

However, as long as my main aim (Tories Out) is accomplished then things will be better than they are now. That's a really low bar but it's a base to build from.