"Underlying Reform UK’s dismantling of the historic two-party system in Westminster is a much more troubling trend: the growing numbers of voters detaching completely from politics."

" “I don’t see any point in any of them. They really are all horrible. Once they’ve been voted in, they forget about us”... "
"...in Murdishaw, a 1970s housing estate in Runcorn... barely one in four voted in Thursday’s contest"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/02/runcorn-byelection-voter-displeasure-disengagement-reform-uk
🔸Like watching a slow-motion train wreck...
#DyingDemocracy

‘They really are all horrible’: political anger marks Reform UK’s Runcorn win

Many voted for party as protest against government, while there is a growing trend of people detaching completely from politics

The Guardian
Life in an Occupied Country

letter from a reader

Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum
The Washington Post and LA Times refused to endorse a candidate. Why?

There’s no way to see this decision other than as an appalling display of cowardice and a dereliction of their public duty

The Guardian
@City_Rabin
Now you see, the problem is you forgot the hashtags, essential for connecting here.
#bitterness #negativity #DyingDemocracy. :\