@Andrzej
@lemmy.myserv.oneOk, I guess this is a matter of opinion, but 'cops going around asking people about some purple rocks' just doesn't pass the sniff test for me
Surely the point is that the OP couldn't possibly have known what the authority thought about their painted stones, unless:
or
Ime they're often profoundly ignorant on anything outside the US, but I hear there's now a Lat Am franchise that is much better
In the case of UK Labour, they got fewer votes in absolute terms this time than under Corbyn, and only marginally improved on his vote share in 2019's wipeout— what really got them into power was Conservative discipline collapsing as soon as Corbynism was dead and there was no longer any threat to the political consensus, combined with the quirks of a constituency-based fptp electoral system. Veering right is a 'vote winner' for a nominally left/centre party only in that it buys you the right to participate in the first place.