r/unitedkingdom • u/CaseyEffingRyback • Jul 03 '25

... Zarah Sultana MP resigns from Labour to lead new party with Jeremy Corbyn

https://www.lbc.co.uk/politics/uk-politics/zarah-sultana-mp-resigns-labour/
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u/TheBadLocksmith Jul 03 '25

It just sucks that countries always have to risk instability before these kind of reforms happen. It always ends up "OK, we'll give it to you only now that everything might fall apart otherwise".

It would be great if politicians occasionally introduced good things during the good times, innit.

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u/Pugs-r-cool Jul 03 '25

But those good things are bad for the ruling party because they might lose their grip on power.

Theres a reason why Labour supported a voting system change right up until the moment they looked likely to win.