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So the press likes to tell us every day. I'd really think it was more down to the fact that a lot of people actually thought Boris Johnston was a good idea at the time (in the 2019 election) - compared to in 2024, when a lot of Tories/Undecideds (for a variety of reasons) voted for the UKIPs instead.
If you'd put Keir in the 2019 election, he would have done even worse.
These are first-past-the-post problems really, and problems of how boundaries are drawn.
Anyway, it's all theoretical anyway - as you say, it's hard to compare one election to another in this way - and it won't change anything, we've got a right-wing Labour Prime Minister for a few years, whether we like it or not.
Yeah, Boris had that Trump factor.
Somebody people recognise from the TV and for some reason assume that means they're suitable to run a country.
Losing against Theresa May, on the other hand...
The real issue is that we don't really have democracy. We just sort of gesture in a direction every 4 years based the colour tie they wear, and then they do whatever they want and we get no say in it.
So your argument to explain Corbyn’s historic loss is…. The entire country temporarily went insane?
Jezza, is this you?
Hahaha, I guess you must be Keir then.