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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 09:11:50 JST clacke

   Seven parties? Are all of these represented in Parliament? Or am I right in assuming that current Parliament is all Tory/Labour/SNP/LibDem?

   bbc.com/news/articles/clddkpy6…

   So that's:
   - Labour
   - Tories
   - LibDems
   - SNP
   - Reform (Brexit/Farage)
   - Plaid Cumry
   - Greens

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 09:12:02 JST clacke

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     I'm wrong! Except for Reform, they all have MPs, and these parties do too:

     - DUP
     - Sinn Féin (but abstain)
     - SocDem and Labour
     - Alliance Party of NI

     en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Uni…

     That's pretty impressive for a FPTP system. They're all miniscule compared to the top 3 though. All smaller parties together have fewer seats than the SNP.

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     derle@framapiaf.org's status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 22:51:35 JST derle

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     @clacke You have 4 states with differents party. Neither Labour nor conservative exist in Northern Ireland and Scotland and Wales have somehow popular nationalist party

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     vam103 (vam103@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 22:51:39 JST vam103

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     @clacke
     Reform did have a sitting member of parliament for a while (7 months). The MP for North-West Leicestershire is Andrew Bridgen and was voted in as a Conservative, got kicked out because of COVID stance, became a Reform member and now has left to be an independent. https://abridgen.uk/

     Now he is fighting a libel case with someone too.

     Of course this random fact brought to you by being a voter in the constituency still.

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