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[Ryuu96]

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Ryuu96 said:

Well done Donald Trump for helping to blow Canada's Conservatives 25 point lead only a few months ago into a Liberal minority. I actually think a Liberal minority with NDP in coalition is the best case scenario, I wish Labour in the UK were forced to make a coalition with the Lib Dems instead of their outright majority because I feel the current Lib Dems are more left wing than Starmer.

In other hilarious news, Pierre Poilievre lost his 20+ year seat.

Didn't the same happen to Liz Truss in the last election?

Yeah, I think 14 years, then fucked off to be a grifter in America but Idk where she is now.

Jumpin said:

Ryuu96 said:

Well done Donald Trump for helping to blow Canada's Conservatives 25 point lead only a few months ago into a Liberal minority. I actually think a Liberal minority with NDP in coalition is the best case scenario, I wish Labour in the UK were forced to make a coalition with the Lib Dems instead of their outright majority because I feel the current Lib Dems are more left wing than Starmer.

In other hilarious news, Pierre Poilievre lost his 20+ year seat.

A Liberal minority, but a de facto majority since (from my understanding) the Bloc Québécois generally don't show up when the issues covered in the House of Commons don't pertain to Quebec. So subtract their 11.5 seats from 172, and that line moves back to 161 for the de facto majority... most days! They have a few slippery floor tiles to walk around, they just have to make sure they don't piss off both the BQ and NDP.

That's a bit of a shame

But at least they still have BQ and NDP keeping them in line in some manner, I hope. I have a automatic distrust of a lot of centrist parties, Lol. A lot of them seem to think the solution to the increasing far-right is to move further to the right to appeal to people who won't ever vote for them in the first place, I would prefer centrist coalition with left wing parties to pull them back.