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Old 19th Oct 2020, 13:23
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Ozzy doing a fine job there cheerleading for our dear leader. Sadly glossing over a few minor details.

Johnson has an 80 seat majority indeed, problem is that only 44% of the electorate voted for him and his party. 56% didn’t. So the wants of a minority are riding roughshod over a sizeable majority. But that is our electoral system unfortunately.

On popularity, again it is massively overstated. People might be surprised to know Johnson’s Tories picked up 330k new voters compared to May. That’s only narrowly more than the Greens (310k) but massively trailing the Lib Dems who were popularly labelled failures but gained 1.32 MILLION extra voters. Again, that is our electoral system - nearly 12% of the votes for Lib Dems but 1.7% of the MPs.

Johnson in objective and aggregated polls trails in approval ratings - more are unhappy wihth him than are happy. This is long-running.

Sadly none of this helps out Covid response and the decimation of aviation.
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