• Dultas@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    It’s symbolic more than anything. Just like rearranging chairs on a sinking ship isn’t going to save the ship.

    Just a new face on the same policies so the party can pretend they changed. The current leader knows they have no chance to win a vote so it is better to save a little face and resign.

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      22 hours ago

      I’m familiar with the analogy. It means it’s a futile effort. But it didn’t explain anything about the UK in particular like the second sentence of this comment did.