Charlie Stross on Nostr: The whole point of democratic elections is to allow for a peaceful transfer of ...

The whole point of democratic elections is to allow for a peaceful transfer of power—without violence—when a government embodying one type of policy has become widely unpopular.

The problem we've gotten into in the UK (and also the USA) is that extremists have seized control of one of the regular incumbent parties, and the other parties have responded perversely by moving towards them. Removing the ability for a course change after an election.

Labour or Tories, they're still neoliberals.