2021 January 25th General Election

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2021 February General Election -> The 2021 January Early General Election was the third modern Virtual United Kingdom general election. This was also the first modern VUK election to elect a Labour government of any kind. It was also the only election to have the premiership change during the campaign period (though in the March Snap GE Prime Minister Jean Valat resigned just before the campaign period). It also led to the formation of a new political grouping called 'The Independent Group' led by Former Prime Minister Robert Rockstar, and the last electoral showing of the Free People's Party.

Events during the 2nd VUK Parliament

During the 2nd VUK Parliament, a significant amount of events happened, despite it being a shortened parliamentary session due to both the Referendum on EU membership and the then Prime Minister Patel calling an early GE. The most significant event that happened in the parliament, was the referendum on Brexit. The result of the referendum was a very slight win for the Leave.EU campaign. However, this was far from the end of the Brexit saga, the Patel administration called an early general election due to fundamental differences between the Conservative & Liberal Democratic Coalition ,12 years old at that point, in regards to Europe. This quickly passed, and the games then began.

Election Campaign

After the triumph of Leave.EU Prime Minister Patel was sure that she could win a parliamentary majority to Get Brexit Done and secure the future of the Kingdom. However, the people told a different story. The Conservative government, was at best holding on a ledge of power. After 12 years of austerity, privatization, what some described as 'Reactionary' social policy, and Terrorism in Yorkshire and from ISIS; the public had had enough. And so too it seems, did Priti Patel. Apparently, the Prime Minister, after a couple months of campaigning had personal issues to attend to, that were more pressing then the election. This led to, for lack of a better word, chaos, in the Conservative party. Many announced there retirement with the Prime Minister, and others, like the Cabinet Minister went for the PMs title (despite the title technically being held by Mariah Rose Faith due to them being the Deputy Prime Minister, despite being a Liberal Democrat, though still technically being our first Liberal Democrat Prime Minister). This combination, along with a more revitalized and organized opposition led to a golden opportunity, the first of a decade, for the then Leader of the Opposition David Lammy. He, along with notable subordinates such as Jean Valat, and Indendent Grouping Ally Robert Rockstar, led the vanguard against the Conservative policies. Valat and Lammy authored a Manifesto called 'Labour 2021: A New Deal ' [1 ] detailing Labour's plans for a 'Peoples Brexit', 'A New Economy', and various forwards from the leader, talking about Labour's education policy, social policy, and various other broad policy topics. This election is seen as the last, and by some the first, triumph of Socialists, and Socialistic politics in VUK.

Aftermath

The Election is rarely referred to today (especially after 30 years of broadly successful Conservative rule), it can demonstrate two things to different people. The first, the hypocrisy and lies of the left. A talking point of the right is that Labour flipped thrice on Brexit, the original position being remain, then a 'People's Brexit' in election campaigns, and then Ignoring Brexit and disavowing it as an idea completely. In fact this is only a half truth, it comes from Chancellor, FSOS, and Prime Minister Jean Valat's many takes on Brexit, and his original backing of the policy with his infamous "People's Brexit" campaign line, however, was disavowed by David Lammy publicly and in campaigning during and after the election, who insisted that a Labour government would result only in the reversal of the idea to leave the European Union. The latter policy won out due to Lammy's higher position in the Labour Leadership, and wrought criticisms from a pro-brexit Working Class Labour base. The Second type ,peddled by some Nostaglic Leftist commentators, is that this election brought along swathes of Leftists to government and brought Britain to an era of Prosperous Socialism, this is also a 1/2 truth. The truth in reality lies somewhere in the middle, a Social Democratic Government riddled with problems and inaction, but still what brought along what most would consider an acceptable level of propserity and equity, despite their recent voting record showing otherwise.

The Resulting Government was a Coalition between Labour, the Greens, and the Independent Grouping.