Notices by Arima Koudai (detectivehyde@freezepeach.xyz)

These electoral results are absolutely hilarious.

Honestly, this might be the best thing that could have happened. Perhaps THIS TIME (UNLIKE THE LAST TIME WE HAD A "HISTORIC AND UNUSUAL" HUNG PARLIAMENT A WHOLE SEVEN YEARS AGO) we can have a serious discussion about electoral reform.

I'm glad that the Tories didn't get the gigantic majority that I once wanted them to have, because it means May can't get any of her more pantomime villain policies through. I'm also glad that Corbyn doesn't have the mandate to deliver ISLAMIC GOMMUNISM.

Really, I only have two regrets from this process:

#1: Brexit. This is the most important issue in British peacetime politics for the last several centuries, and it'll be the most important in my lifetime. No clear majority government means a weak and uncertain negotiating position.

#2: UKIP. They lost their way somewhat after OUR NIGE left, but to anyone who still paid attention to them, they eventually came right. UKIP's manifesto was positive and, while a little unsound, reflected "common sense values" (this does not translate to "meme ancap values") best of all the parties. And yet they've been abandoned. That makes me really, really sad.

My main worry is that politics is heading further into the era of wacky, dogmatic ideology ("durr marx" vs "ABOLISH ALL GOVERNMENT" vs "muh social justice" vs... well, Islam.) My worry is that ordinary people will be forgotten yet again.

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Notices by Arima Koudai (detectivehyde@freezepeach.xyz)

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