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Alex Potts's avatar

One significant difference between Australia than the UK is that Australia has long had much stronger economic growth - notably it was one of very few western countries that didn't tip into recession in 2008. The fact that the LNC has lost control anyway should be terrifying for a British Conservative government having to contend with the current economic chaos on top of all the underlying frailties in their voting coalition.

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Richard's avatar

The major Anglo-Saxon countries (100% Anglo-Saxon, so not Canada where almost a quarter of Parliament is Quebecois) seem to move in tandem. In 2016, ancestral Labour/Dem working-class voters turning to the conservative and populist platform powered Brexit and Trump to victory. In the US in 2020, Oz in 2022, and likely the UK in the next election, highly-educated ancestral Tory/GOP suburbanites turning away from the conservative party gains a boring safe LOC leader victory.

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