• stringere@sh.itjust.works
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    Whoah there, that’s three political parties you named. Us here in the US of A can’t count past two politcal parties.

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      That was four (Cons, Labour, Greens and Reform) and even then I simplified. There are two more small nationwide parties that I didn’t mention (Restore, for the voters who don’t think Reform is fascist enough) and the Liberal Democrats (a centrist party that has hung on for decades, but seems increasingly irrelevant lately). Then there are the Scottish National Party (SNP) and Plaid Cymru (the Welsh nationalists).

      It’s effectively a two-party system in the UK. In England, that has been Labour and the Conservatives, but the Conservatives’ support has collapsed and been replaced by Reform. In Scotland, the two major parties are the SNP and Labour. In Wales, it’s now Labour and Plaid.