[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

Whether it is or isn't is irrelevant; clearly people get so caught up in the politics that they're blinkered to the real-world effects of the discourse itself.

Exactly. No one on this forum (or maybe 1 person - Maru?) is going to be voting for any of them so I don't get where these party loyalties even come from

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Exactly. No one on this forum (or maybe 1 person - Maru?) is going to be voting for any of them so I don't get where these party loyalties even come from

I mean, there's been a suspicious uptick in the focus on US politics (which appears to be trending towards Republican at the moment) since the UK voted Labour and all of the Reform hoohaa died down post-General Election.

Same reason when I was a young 'un in Ayrshire, Scotland, we had kids declaring themselves passionate Manchester United fans (who were at the time coincidentally, dominating the English Premier League) . Funnily enough it was immediately following Ranger's infamous "9-in-a-row" when they stopped winning everything in Scotland . All coincidental probably.

tl;dr people like to be on the winning side, but politics is so partisan these days that people won't do a "polar flip" (Rangers fans could never stomach a flip to Celtic, 'cos sectarianism) to feel like a winner... they'll just find a different team to suckle for those winning-warm-feelings. They don't have to think about a Labour landslide if they can celebrate by latching onto a Trump win across the ocean.

We called it "glory hunting" I think .