Oooooooh, how many seats has Labour got in Scotland?
🥈 two
Does that make them a smaller party?
Or do we just not like democracy.
Oh, 😱😱😱 I forgot, not for Scotland
😆😆😆
According to the article, Labour wants a format that is solely a head to head debate with Sunak.
Which is ridiculous, and a further ‘Americanising’ of our politics. Sure, there’s a defacto two party system, but the other parties do matter and will be important. I don’t understand why they would just want a Sunak-Starmer debate.
Will wait to see confirmed reports to see how true this is.
I imagine I’m not alone in having absolutely zero interest in what starmer or sunak have to say. They’re both trash.
If the TV companies hosting these debates want an audience larger than half a dozen people then they will need to add smaller parties. I sure as hell won’t be watching without them.
If tv execs cave in to this request I’d be disgusted. No wonder nothing changes when the two (current) largest parties think they can make demands like this.
Starmer desperately wants to avoid talking about Scotland in case he contradicts what his puppet has said.
Maybe there should be a separate debate in Scotland?
A misleading title that implies that the SNP in particular are being targeted rather than all of the smaller parties that their blurb immediately clarifies.
This shouldn’t be done – we are a multiparty parliamentary democracy and the increasing attempts from several corners of the political spectrum to turn our system into something more Presidential is seriously unhealthy.
Not even mid way through June, Labour already acting like a circus on fire. Instead of giving any reason to go vote SLAB, There trying to shut down the SNP saying anything.
It almost like there Tories wearing a red tie or something?.
Well yeah, can’t have pesky Other Parties getting in the way of God King Starmer, Saint of Centrist Electability’s Coronation.
Extremely disappointing. UK media just cannot wrap their wee heads around a democracy beyond the red and blue teams
Who gives a shit? These debates are panem et circum and ultimately achieve nothing substantive.
They aren’t even a tradition in the British state with the first televised party leader’s debates occurring in 2010.
Since then, the parties with no electoral advantage to be gained by participating in debates have tried everything they can to either wriggle out of participating in them or having them structured to neuter any potential electoral harm.
Labour have agreed to the debates because they don’t fear any harm can occur when Starmer is up against Sunak. But they want the national debate to be framed as a choice between those two and won’t want anything that particularly distracts from that.
Nothing like being outflanked from the left to show how far you’ve fallen.
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Oooooooh, how many seats has Labour got in Scotland?
🥈 two
Does that make them a smaller party?
Or do we just not like democracy.
Oh, 😱😱😱 I forgot, not for Scotland
😆😆😆
According to the article, Labour wants a format that is solely a head to head debate with Sunak.
Which is ridiculous, and a further ‘Americanising’ of our politics. Sure, there’s a defacto two party system, but the other parties do matter and will be important. I don’t understand why they would just want a Sunak-Starmer debate.
Will wait to see confirmed reports to see how true this is.
I imagine I’m not alone in having absolutely zero interest in what starmer or sunak have to say. They’re both trash.
If the TV companies hosting these debates want an audience larger than half a dozen people then they will need to add smaller parties. I sure as hell won’t be watching without them.
If tv execs cave in to this request I’d be disgusted. No wonder nothing changes when the two (current) largest parties think they can make demands like this.
Starmer desperately wants to avoid talking about Scotland in case he contradicts what his puppet has said.
Maybe there should be a separate debate in Scotland?
A misleading title that implies that the SNP in particular are being targeted rather than all of the smaller parties that their blurb immediately clarifies.
This shouldn’t be done – we are a multiparty parliamentary democracy and the increasing attempts from several corners of the political spectrum to turn our system into something more Presidential is seriously unhealthy.
Not even mid way through June, Labour already acting like a circus on fire. Instead of giving any reason to go vote SLAB, There trying to shut down the SNP saying anything.
It almost like there Tories wearing a red tie or something?.
Well yeah, can’t have pesky Other Parties getting in the way of God King Starmer, Saint of Centrist Electability’s Coronation.
Extremely disappointing. UK media just cannot wrap their wee heads around a democracy beyond the red and blue teams
Who gives a shit? These debates are panem et circum and ultimately achieve nothing substantive.
They aren’t even a tradition in the British state with the first televised party leader’s debates occurring in 2010.
Since then, the parties with no electoral advantage to be gained by participating in debates have tried everything they can to either wriggle out of participating in them or having them structured to neuter any potential electoral harm.
Labour have agreed to the debates because they don’t fear any harm can occur when Starmer is up against Sunak. But they want the national debate to be framed as a choice between those two and won’t want anything that particularly distracts from that.
Nothing like being outflanked from the left to show how far you’ve fallen.