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Yacht - Psychic City
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WordAll #840 completed in 1m 27s (I had two wrong answers lined up in my head. The danger of early mornings)

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Wordle 1,111 3/6*

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#Worldle #895 (04.07.2024) 1/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #910 5/6 (raspberry)

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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #907 💀/6 (double raspberry)

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Framed #846 (I have watched it but not intensely. Bond films were often shown as repeats on British TV, usually on Sundays, and were often background noise with occasional attention. There has been a lot of stuff on TV which I really didn't want to comment on*. The self imposed embargo is over. I've been watching S2 of The Boys, One Punch Man & The Victims Game.)
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* The UK, in a general election, is divided into districts called constituencies. Each constituency is represented by a single member of parliament - an MP. When the election is finished whichever political party has the most MPs forms a government. In the UK the Prime Minister is from whichever political party gains a large enough majority in parliament. Support for a prospective MP who doesn’t get elected does not count towards the national result. A vote for a prospective MP with little chance of been elected in a constituency could be regarded as a protest vote or a way of registering support for a political party and its policies, but it will not count towards the total of MPs in parliament.

It is possible that an MP does not have the majority of votes within a constituency but is elected. For instance, if there were five potential MPs, I’ll refer to them as ABCDE, and ‘A’ got 24% and won, it means the remaining 76% of votes were distributed between BCDE with none getting more than 24%. In other words ‘A’ didn’t get 76% of votes but was elected because they were the MP that got the most. The benefit of such a system is that it tends to favour the big, established, political parties and exclude the less popular ones - meaning that complicated governments, formed from political parties with different policies, are unlikely to be formed. There have been counter examples during wartime or more recently with a coalition between the Conservative party and the Liberal Democrat party when the Conservative party failed to get enough votes to form a government. The downside is obvious - minority voices or popular political parties are excluded, although, obviously junior members of a coalition don't matter as much unless they have the deciding votes.

UK voting can be tactical for maximum effect. Sometimes person can vote for the party they want, with no realistic chance of that party gaining power, which does register inasmuch as the percentages of votes that party got nationally does indicate people support the policies of that party, it’d be wrong to suggest that the vote is entirely wasted, or a vote for a party that is more likely to be elected that most closely aligns with their personal politics. I’m loath to tell people which way to vote because politics is the art of people with half a clue or more, often well meaning, selling simply presented policies to people whom, often, not always, have less than half a clue and a great deal of strongly held opinions. The good ones try to explain rather than appealing to common sense or platitudes - magicians and confidence tricksters love common sense.