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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/61038991

The Green Party won 40.7% of the vote on Friday in an election triggered when a member of parliament resigned for health reasons. Nigel Farage's Reform Party came second with 28.7% of the vote and Labour finished third with 25.4%.

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[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 10 points 22 hours ago

They're using the Morgan McSweeney playbook of modelling yourself on your opponent and then just differentiating by one or two "easy win" points. It makes you paletable to your opponents voters.

You can only do this against one opponent though. If the greens are in play, they are an existential problem to a labour party employing this strategy against reform. You can't mirror two paries that are diametrically opposed to each other.

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