I met an MP
I got a tip yesterday and got so excited about that, I forgot to share the other bit of news that I reckon is more important. The news is that a labour MP came to the shop yesterday.
For what it's worth, I don't know much about UK politics. I think @talesfrmthecrypt would have more information about this but what I did get is that there are "Toris", there's "Labour" and I think conservatives.
I deduced that Toris are in charge at the moment but labour, who are the rival party, if you may, will be taking over soon. So, if that's the case, the MP that visited our shop will be a big deal as she will be heading.
For people who don't know what an MP is, think of them like Senators and executives. They do the typical "ayes and nays" in their gathering, the represent constituencies and they also head government parastatals and whatnot.
As tempted as I am to name drop because now that I've met an MP, I'm kind of a big deal, I won't. However, I will mention that the MP is a lady and she had a warm and friendly smile.
Meeting such an important person in a clandestine little shop in a corner of the city center was a big culture shock for me. If it were in Nigeria, a senator would require crazy amount of protocol and police protection to even go out of his house. It is rather incredible how different life can be in different parts of the world.
Turkey looks like Nigeria regarding the amount of protocol.
Nigeria has too many unnecessary protocols.
Cool! Maybe you should run to become an MP!
The Conservatives and the Tories are the same thing. Tories is just a nickname for the Conservatives party and yes, they are the party currently in power.
Yes, it looks likely that Labour will win the next General Election but regardless, in Nottingham, Labour will almost certainly win all 3 available seats. They tend to do better in urban environments
The way that General Elections work in the UK is that people vote for their local MP, then the party with the most MPs forms a Government and the leader of that party becomes the Prime Minister.
At this point, it looks almost certain that Labour will win next general election. Regardless of policy failures, Tories are simply a spent force after 13 years in power and, if historical record is any indication, UK voters like to change their ruling party after three election cycles. They did this with Tories in 1997 and with Labour in 2010.
Yeah, it’s more a case of when not if. The only question then is how a majority Labour can get. If opinion polls are to be believed it’ll quite sizeable
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One of the things I like about UK politics, and which makes it so different and arguably better from most European countries, is that MPs, being elected in single districts instead from nation-wide candidates' lists, are supposed represent people in their respective districts. The voters, at least in theory, have someone to turn to and ask some things to be done, with said MP knowing that sometimes few hundreds or thousands of votes necessary for their seat at next election would depend on what they answer.
In most of Europe, including my country, citizens don't have direct representation as citizens in UK. Due to proportional representation, they vote for parties instead of individuals and whoever party bosses decide to put on the list ends being peoples' representative, with those who are particularly loyal having their seat on the top of the list secured whether the said list won 5 or 25 percent of the vote.