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Conservatives take the UK elections, leaving them in charge of ‘the democratic crater at the heart of British politics,’ according to RT
by Asthaa Chaturvedi
The United Kingdom election last week brought some unexpected results and many flurries of political analysis. Even before the results were in, RT was ready to declare UK politics a disaster zone; this story warns of “a black hole in the heart of British democracy” at one point, while elsewhere saying that “the democratic crater at the heart of British politics” is “dismantling the welfare state.”
RT doesn’t offer much in the way of hard numbers or concrete examples to bolster its hyperbolic abyss images. But for the record, here are three reasons why UK parties are failing their electorate, according to RT:1. A corrupted and broken system is the top reason the parties no longer serve their constituents, says RT. The “tainted political funding system that allows gilded tycoons and firms to buy a system tailored to their interests has been sorely lacking.”
Who are the firms and gilded tycoons that RT is referring to? Hard to tell based on this piece.