Self Indulgent Political Map: September
I do this thing where I do a quick jot down of what my politics are. I've been doing it for years, mostly when I'm bored in meetings. Recently, I've decided to map them. Because shut up. My first one was in
July.
Green: 53% (+26%) 433 seats (Spokespeople: Tamsin Omond & Amelia Womack)
Libertarian Socialist: 17% (-15%) 73 seats (Spokespeople: Russell Brand)
Liberal: 10% (+6%) 69 seats (Leaders: Kavya Kaushik & Dom Ellis)
Libertarian: 9% (-5%) 46 seats (Leaders: Tim Aker & Felix Bungay)
Socialist: 6% (-8%) 20 seats (Leader: Lisa Nandy)
Primitivist: 2% (+1%) 3 seats (Leader: A small lady who doesn't speak much but she does howl sometimes we don't know her name)
Pirate: 2% (-6%) 4 seats (Leaders: Loz Kaye)
New Age: 1% (+1%) 1 seat (Leader: Phil Hine & Halo)
The Black-Yellow-Teal coalition proved rather disunited. While they achieved some wins on de-Esperanto-fication and limiting government regulation, they were plagued with internal disputes. Particular low points were a fist fight in cabinet, and the Prime Minister picketing her Deputy Prime Minister Douglas Carswell's conference speech. The Greens were able to take back government with a ridiculous majority. They are planning to implement LVT, local currencies. and green social credit, along with local government reform.
The Liberals, who gained 63 seats, are the other big winner of the election, and are pushing for a greater constitutional role for third parties, as well as PR, which is a Green policy that strangely they aren't prioritising. Perhaps because they have just over half the votes and almost three quarters of the seats.