Message from @The Electric Lizard

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2019-09-03 22:36:28 UTC  

This country is not used to strong leadership - you're all too young to remember Thatcher

2019-09-03 22:36:35 UTC  

It's already off the table, Agonizes

2019-09-03 22:36:42 UTC  

Or is going to be, by the end of tomorrow

2019-09-03 22:37:25 UTC  

eh minority government, those are not common in Britain I take it?

2019-09-03 22:37:46 UTC  

Not really

2019-09-03 22:38:05 UTC  

It has generally been completely led by Lab or Con

2019-09-03 22:38:16 UTC  

They're inherently unstable, but recently they passed a "fixed term parliament" act which means they can't easily be fixed

2019-09-03 22:38:19 UTC  

It has only been Lab or Con PM's for the last hundred years or so

2019-09-03 22:38:28 UTC  

you guys aren't really fond of coalition governments too right?

2019-09-03 22:38:48 UTC  

in Britain?

2019-09-03 22:38:51 UTC  

coalitions are more likely with a proportional representation system

2019-09-03 22:39:01 UTC  

ye true that

2019-09-03 22:39:06 UTC  

Coalitions are awful

2019-09-03 22:39:13 UTC  

well, more like necessary lol

2019-09-03 22:39:19 UTC  

Nothing ever gets done in them

2019-09-03 22:39:22 UTC  

meh, just a lot of compromise

2019-09-03 22:39:23 UTC  

read that as october revolution lol

2019-09-03 22:39:32 UTC  

FPTP 2-party leads to stable government, but also intransigence and incompetence

2019-09-03 22:39:37 UTC  

The last time someone other then the Con or Lab were in power was in 1922 with the Liberals

2019-09-03 22:39:48 UTC  

Look at Mays coalition with the DUP, nothing got done

2019-09-03 22:39:59 UTC  

Wasn't the coalitions' fault, James

2019-09-03 22:40:08 UTC  

Look at the lib dem Conservative coalition

2019-09-03 22:40:17 UTC  

Well that was just shit

2019-09-03 22:40:20 UTC  

But it was funcitonal

2019-09-03 22:40:20 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/613769782461857813/618576035373514760/1024px-UK_popular_vote.png

2019-09-03 22:40:24 UTC  

Coalitions are useless

2019-09-03 22:40:33 UTC  

you're just inexperienced as a country at forming coalitions, NL has a four party coalition rn😂

2019-09-03 22:40:46 UTC  

Were used to being a two party state

2019-09-03 22:40:58 UTC  

Like the US really

2019-09-03 22:40:59 UTC  

true true, fptp and all tht

2019-09-03 22:41:03 UTC  

Though we wish we could get rid of labour

2019-09-03 22:41:19 UTC  

to replace with who? Lib dem?😂

2019-09-03 22:41:21 UTC  

It would be much better to have the old days of the Conservatives against the Liberals

2019-09-03 22:41:32 UTC  

actual liberals

2019-09-03 22:41:36 UTC  

Although i mean the old Liberals not the current Lib Dems

2019-09-03 22:41:43 UTC  

and not the US definition of liberal

2019-09-03 22:41:45 UTC  

They have been awful ever since they merged with the SDP

2019-09-03 22:41:49 UTC  

There are no liberals in the UK