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Labour also respected it for the Tories.
It doesn't apply to general elections, so it can't extend a lawmakers term beyond when an incumbent would've faced re-election.
"Try this one weird trick for your party to win every election unopposed!"
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Hunter
@StatisticUrban
Replying to @EmmersonWit
It doesn’t apply to general elections, so they would just be contested as normal. It can’t extend a term beyond when the original incumbent would’ve had to face re-election.
Well we can’t do THAT because Republicans would 100% start ritualistically murdering incumbents in swing districts every 2 yrs
GIF
It doesn’t apply to general elections, so they would just be contested as normal. It can’t extend a term beyond when the original incumbent would’ve had to face re-election.
Cobra Effect. Leftists would just keep killing Dems to keep Reps out of office.
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Hunter
@StatisticUrban
Replying to @EmmersonWit
It doesn’t apply to general elections, so they would just be contested as normal. It can’t extend a term beyond when the original incumbent would’ve had to face re-election.
Well not always. Conservative Ian Gow was assasisted by the IRA and the Libdems won his seat.
You don't actually believe this, you wouldn't support it if it was a MAGA republican.
I might apply if the killer is from the outside.
But what if from the inside?
Oh wow this is a very good tradition
But I doubt this would happen in the US under this climate
This is cool but it should remain a precedent/tradition
Something like this shouldn’t be writen into law
There's no mechanism of party discipline to enforce that here though - US parties cannot prevent people from running
It is a bad idea because it usually means some fringe party still goes for it anyway and gets an all-time high result
In the U.S. two-party system where there are much wider differences between different factions within the same party, though, this would create an incentive for members of a different faction of the same party to murder politicians.
What’s to stop the party from just killing the person in office so they can run someone new unopposed. Check and mate liberals
Why don't you just include an alternate on the ballot?? (like in the plurinominal system)
This only works because they don’t have guns and much harder to Jill someone. In the USA it’d be SO easy to kill someone for power
Maybe in more hornorable times but sadly the dem they replace them with would be a bitcoin in a suit otherwise. s m h i.
I hadn’t thought there were sufficient lawmakers killed for a tradition to have developed.
So you propose that a Dem who got shot by a Dem should be certainly replaced by another Dem? Idk sounds like a strong purge incentive.
So true the US should really be taking notes from how the UK government works!!1
Wouldn’t work in the US because we’ve had too many assassinations/attempts on presidents
Demsoc kills moderate dem candidate.
Gop candidate doesn't run.
Demsoc candidate runs unopposed as dem.
If a Dem or GOP rep is hated by their own party, couldn’t they exploit this and killed them to get a better rep?
in turkey they arrest the opposition mayor and elect their own candidate instead
This encourages intra-party violence.
Like what happened in the US.
Today.
Booo contest that shit. Someone didn’t go out of their way to blow a hole in their chest for that
Unfortunately, a fundamental law of humanity is that eventually, violence can and will change the balance of power by any means necessary if the conditions that caused that violence aren’t appeased
Except a Democrat was killed by a leftist. So replacement with a more conservative Democrat or a Republican would be a strong deterrent. If a further left Democrat takes the seat it would be an incentive. Could lead to a run on more Moderate representatives.
For that to work the would have to be against political violence. Given their standard bearer pardoned the J6 insurrectionists, there's no reason to believe that.
