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  • Good debate going here. Just a point of order re Hugo 7:

    but given that the majority of the population voted Tory...

    The Conservatives' 11,300,109 voters in the last election actually made up

    36.8% of votes cast, around 25% of those able to vote and just 17% of the population.

    Labour actually put on (increased over last time) more votes than the Tories did, but more people voted overall.

    Even the Tories were surprised to have won; it's largely a result of our mad voting system. It did for UKIP and the Greens. And it was the Greens (and UKIP) that first lit the fuse on the reaction to two-faced-platitude-spouting-we're-entitled-to-it politicians that Corbyn is now making hay with.

    Give him a few years … it could go either way!

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