• Tryptaminev@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    Are you for real? This is hilariously absurd.

    Forming a government takes much more than just a weekend if you are serious about it and in a democracy there should be a peaceful shift of power from the prior government so having that one run the day to day business until the new one is in place, should be no issue.

    British democracy is even weaker than i thought it was.

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      1 month ago

      I didn’t design the system. It’s just how it works.

      Obviously they don’t actually form the government over the weekend they know who they’re going to have in various positions because they’re already in the shadow cabinet positions. It exists because historically the MP who are now cabinet members, and therefore required to live near the capitol, may very well actually be in completely different parts of the country and it would take them a few days to get back to London.

      Especially the government suddenly called an election like they’ve just done.

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        1 month ago

        I know you didn’t design it, or come up with that “reasoning”. To me it sounds like it is just some excuse to have votes on a working day to disadvantage working class people from voting.

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          1 month ago

          I know it sounds like that but it’s been like this for hundreds of years. It’s just a holdover, it made sense back then.

          The problem with conspiracy theorists is sometimes they don’t know when to stop. Sometimes there isn’t actually a evil sadistic reason, it’s just a thing.

          Anyway the polls are open for like 10 hours. Somewhere in there you’re going to find an opportunity to vote. I mean I didn’t vote in the last local elections until about 6:00 p.m.