Yeah, its like waking up from a bad dream, only to realise you weren't dreaming.
People are forgetting the fact that labour have had the grand total of 4? depending on how you count them, majority governments since the turn of the 20th century, with 1 universally beloved and successful one post ww2 under Atlee establishing the nhs and a host of economic reforms, Social reform Under Wilson in 64, and a centre right platform under Blair/brown. this is with a smattering of minority government terms dotted around, but the grand narrative ultimately is that the conservative party is pretty much the most successful political entity in the western world, the reason for this being its alignment with big capital interest groups like large media conglomerates, private business investment and the sole purpose of consolidating power to destroy the labour party at every turn.
We are a democracy in name only really, with just how impossible it is for any opposition to the Tory's. The structuring of the elections under FPTP isn't fit for purpose, and the groupings for the electoral boundaries only benefit them. having a party system the way we do, a vote for any party than isn't the largest opposition is a vote for the conservatives which is just insane, considering every other party is an opposition to the tory platform.
The only demographic that majority turnouts for the Tory's are retirees, but this is also the largest voting bloc as although most young people, and educated people are left wing, young people don't turn out to vote. its just a clusterfeck really, i dont expect people who work 9-5 to be up to date on political matters and philosophy, there's no time for that, but the fact that time and time again people are voting against their best interests is just further evidence for our democracy not functioning.
TLDR: the deck is stacked against everyone who aren't the Tory's, the public aren't voting in their interest, Britain is fecked in terms of a democracy.
