Quote Originally Posted by Mossdog View Post
Rather like Labour in this country, the Democrats no longer represent the interests of 'ordinary working people'. Rather, like Labour the cancel culture, cosmopolitan 'liberals' show contempt for ordinary folk....(
Under the first past the post system in the U.K. (and the electoral college in the US) no party can just represent working class people and expect to win an election. Working class in both places is also split racially which often means that being say representative of immigrants rights might make you less appealing to working class people who resent immigrants.

The name of the game is proportional representation, where a government has to be formed most often on compromise and respecting alternative points of view. That’s the answer going forward and you might argue that voting for Keir Starmer next time round might afford a slight chance of getting that