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LeftishBrit

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8. Interesting

Reply to T_i_B (Reply #7)

Tue Jan 23, 2018, 06:59 AM

Jan 2018

It may then be not due to considering the seats as not worth bothering about, but to the increasing tendency of people to vote for the party leader, rather than the MP. Our politics is getting more and more like American politics in certain ways.

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