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This is a normal post won't happen

(Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff, Sr., Sun 15 Dec 2019, 11:22, Reply)
This is a normal post place your bets then!

(I helped save b3ta! colmcq2, Sun 15 Dec 2019, 11:32, Reply)
This is a normal post It's a Mirror article quoting a Times article
Which, as far as I can read without subscribing, doesn't give a source. Fingers crossed it's not genuine.
 (I helped save b3ta! tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Sun 15 Dec 2019, 11:34, Reply)
This is a normal post idgaf about sources, I'm off to share it a million times on social media

(97800, Sun 15 Dec 2019, 12:12, Reply)
This is a normal post We don't have any rules to stop this from happening anyway
This is not the USA. A party will stay in power as long as they get the votes. The leader of that party is usually then the PM.
 (I helped save b3ta! Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Sun 15 Dec 2019, 11:57, Reply)
This is a normal post You don't have to worry about getting the votes if you stop holding elections

(97800, Sun 15 Dec 2019, 12:21, Reply)
This is a normal post Fancy trying to even out the number of voters in each constituency. What evil scum.

(I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 15 Dec 2019, 12:28, Reply)
This is a normal post Is anyone here paid up to be able to read the Times article?
I can't see down beyond "is expected to be" and "is likely to be" which on their own are nothing but hollow clickbait. And as ^she said, no sources. Is the full piece nothing but speculation?
 (97800, Sun 15 Dec 2019, 12:35, Reply)
This is a normal post Yes.

(I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 15 Dec 2019, 13:04, Reply)
This is a normal post Great journalism

(97800, Sun 15 Dec 2019, 14:02, Reply)
This is a normal post *sighs*
None of this is news, or at least new to anyone who takes even the vaguest interest in British politics.
The basic facts, truths and reality are indisputable.
Metropolitan urban constituencies are smaller in terms of numbers of people eligible to vote than small town and rural constituencies. This is a fucking fact.
This means that under FPTP you need less votes to win a metropolitan urban seat than you do to win a small town or rural seat. Fucking fact.
For ages the Tories have been murmuring about reorganising constituencies so that they have a much more similar number of eligible voters. This would make a vote of more equal value wherever it is cast.
This is, of course, a terrible assault on democracy.
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 15 Dec 2019, 16:30, Reply)
This is a normal post It's just the fixed term parliaments act.
We ran parliament without it for centuries, while it has existed for less than a decade, and the only difference it has made in that time has been in contributing to the constitutional deadlock of Brexit.

All parties love to gerrymander the boundaries, so that's nothing new.

Basically, the sky isn't falling in (or at least, if the sky is falling in, this is just a sideshow).
 (eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Sun 15 Dec 2019, 12:35, Reply)
This is a normal post ^ This
It was put in place initially to help prop up Cameron's coalition government. I'd have thought given that and that all it seems to have done is create the absurd situation where a dead government was forced to limp on for months, most people would be glad to see the back of it.
 (I helped save b3ta! evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sun 15 Dec 2019, 14:28, Reply)
This is a normal post Actually it was Clegg who insisted on it or he wouldn't prop up the Tories.
His fear was that, if things went well for the Tories, an election could be called at any time, and the Limp Dems would be kicked out of the coalition as they would no longer be needed to prop up a Tory minority government as the Tories would have a majority on their own.
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 15 Dec 2019, 16:36, Reply)
This is a normal post
Whoever suggested it, I don't think it'll be missed if it goes.
 (I helped save b3ta! evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sun 15 Dec 2019, 17:54, Reply)
This is a normal post I think the electorate are rightly and understandably sick of votes, so anything that reduces their frequency is probably welcome.
The exception is the Scots of course. How they think they will be able to 'rejoin' the EU if/when the rest of mainland Britain has left is beyond my ken. The EU now requires any new joiners to adopt the Euro, this is non-negotiable, but their economy, even including their oil, is basket case. The open border, which has never been a real border since Hadrian, will be even more problematic than the Irish border. But an aggrieved sense of nationalism is one hell of a drug.
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 15 Dec 2019, 19:17, Reply)
This is a normal post alright michael rimmer

(I helped save b3ta! artifus is doing it all wrong, Sun 15 Dec 2019, 20:05, Reply)
This is a normal post After googling that, and discounting the middle distance runner, I want to see that film.

(I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 15 Dec 2019, 21:43, Reply)
This is a normal post lazy fucker
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT_prfYb6DE
 (I helped save b3ta! artifus is doing it all wrong, Sun 15 Dec 2019, 21:52, Reply)