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In light of the result; do you think we're FINALLY going to see a major change in election campaigning? Two things have been proven unequivocally here with the Tories performing so far below expectations;

1) The politics of fear doesn't seem to be working. They pushed "security concerns and terrorism" heavily throughout this campaign and if anything it seems to have turned many people off rather than rallying them to the Safe Mummy Theresa cause.

2) Smear campaigning doesn't seem to work anymore either. Jeremy Corbyn was essentially branded a threat to national security and a proxy-terrorist by the mainstream UK press, probably one of the most seriously aggressive smear campaigns in a long, long time and yet it appears to have had no effect... potentially even the opposite effect (The Underdog Effect).


So... a rare moment of optimism here... do you think going forward we might start to see POSITIVE election campaigning in future, with parties focussing on their hopes for the future rather than the "vote for us to avoid certain doom!" campaigns we've had all around for the last decade+?