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Labour wins majority in UK General Elections as Tories lose two-thirds of seats (www.theguardian.com)
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The Labour party has won over 400 seats (out of 650) in the 2024 UK General Elections, and Keir Starmer is expected to replace Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister. The Conservatives, in power for the last fourteen years, have suffered a rout, losing over two-thirds of their seats. The SNP has collapsed in Scotland, mostly to Labour, and the Liberal Democrats have gained over sixty seats.

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[–] rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Sure thing, chief.

Neoliberal economics (low corporate taxes, weak regulations, privatization, weak welfare system, government intervention is used to facilitate further market expansion and prop up big businesses).

Large budgets for the army and the police without much external oversight, while still maintaining some level of restraint on what they can do.

Making it harder to get a visa and even harder to get a citizenship.

Hard-line stance against what are considered vices by the society the conservatives in question inhabit.

A preservation of the monarchy in countries which have them.

Incentives to give birth.

[–] northmaple1984@lemmy.ca -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Not a bad lisy actually, although I heavily disagree with the military and police budgets line... Authoritarian left regimes are known for very high police and military budgets even with heavily states controlled economies.

Edit: police and military spending tends to relate more to the libertarian-authoritarian spectrum rather than the socioeconomic left-right spectrum

[–] rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Conservatism is tends towards some degree of authoritarianism.

There are no policies that are uniquely conservative, or uniquely anything for that matter. When taken together, however, you can see conservativism form before your eyes.

[–] northmaple1984@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Eh, so does Western Liberalism and basically every other government for the last hundreds of years, I'd argue that they are even authoritarian to very similar degrees but about different things.

[–] rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

Right on the money about liberals not being too different from the less cooky conservatives, but there have been much more authoritarian systems and much less authoritarian systems in the last few hundred years.