2024 Election thread
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I wasn't taking it entirely seriousley. 😉
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.1 -
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Love these wee factoids
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
Surely a candidate being disowned isn't a reason for a re-run? So ignoring the reform part she'd still have been a certainty to win?
- Genesis Croix de Fer
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Yet more evidence that right wingers can't count.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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Last week it was "over 2600" or "around 2600".
Would definitely put it into recount territory, so fair to appeal it.
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It's not.
The point is that Reform could run a different candidate in a rerun (assuming this was permitted)
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
Would they want to? They don't need one more MP so they'd have to think she is a threat if she became leader.
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Charts!
Some people know how to work FPTP, others not.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Carnage
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
Are people only just discovering FPTP or something, jfc.
Never seen so much arseache about the vote share and % vote before.
Think they need a Stevo lesson. You voted for it, get over it
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One mad thing about the electoral system is the Liberal Democrats are still underrepresented for their share of votes.
Obviously everyone knew they were voting in a FPTP system, and those voting for anyone other than the Conservatives were well aware this would probably help elect a landslide Labour government. Vote share would be undoubtedly be very different in whatever alternative system were used.
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It appears some reform candidates don’t exist.
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And even the ones that do seem like the figment of someone's perverse imagination!
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Given the choice, I would pick the imaginary ones over the real ones.
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The ref result was quite close, and though many just wanted to leave the EU, there were also many who used the ref as a protest vote against being ignored, and also many who thought the integration process had gone too far. Being allowed to vote against the Lisbon Treaty might have motivate enough who actually voted to leave to have voted the other way. Still, all hypothetical and what's done is done.
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Not, in my experience, so preoccupied that they don't drive or fly somewhere when it's something they want to do. Recycling and not using "single use plastic" isn't going to cut it.
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If Reform have put up make believe candidates what could be the possible implications? Would there be cause to have fresh elections in those constituencies? Could they face legal consequences?
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The Times interviewed the one from Dorset South: “I work for the party, I work in their office in Leicestershire,” Young said. “I can’t really go into too much detail. I have just stood as a paper candidate, so I’m not active.”
She said she had been to Dorset once before, when she took her daughter there on holiday, but has not returned since being placed on the ballot. “Not since the election has been called, no,” she said.
Just as well she exists, as she got 8,000 votes where the majority was 1,000.
Having read a little bit about the candidate in my constituency, they'd be better to pick people without any past online presence, I think.
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Surely even Reform wouldn't be stupid enough to make entirely fictional candidates, I'd like to hope that there is at least a basic check that candidates are eligible to stand.
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You have to have 10 electors who live in the constituency in which you intend to stand sign to say they know you.
As @kingstongraham example highlights, I suspect these were paper candidates. They will exist, just have no connection to the area and they were stood by Reform just to get names of the ballots. Probably just so happens that a few of them have no online presence and did not want their real image used so they are hard to trace and probably have a fake photo on their election literature (which I assume there is no law against).
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It certainly feels like something that needs reviewing and tightening up on. What would have happened had one of those candidates won the seat? It doesn't sound like they had any intention to actually become an MP.
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I'm not sure that 22 year old in NW Cambridgeshire expected to get elected on a 40% swing from the Tories.
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One of the candidates in Scotland appears to have no online footprint whatsoever - the ones I saw being discussed were Helen Burns in Glasgow North West and Morag McRae in Glasgow South West.
The one for Bristol has an address in Gibraltar (but at least seems to be real).
I tend to agree they are probably real people. I find it interesting/unusual that they really can't be found on Facebook etc though, although as KG says it is probably for the best that they don't, based on what some of them have said on social media...
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I imagine day 1 of candidate orientation was "delete your social media!"
- Genesis Croix de Fer
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They're already documented using the photos of dead people as supporters
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