2024 Election thread
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BBC website?
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
As has been explained to you ad infinitum, nobody else has any issues criticising the party they voted for.
- Genesis Croix de Fer
- Dolan Tuono0 -
Just heard that old Terry Jack's song on the radio. Somehow reminded me of what I heard a while back 😀
"We had joy, we had fun, we had lefties on the run, but the joy didn't last, 'cos the bastards ran too fast"
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Let's see what the reaction is when I point out all the leftie screw ups and stupidity that is going to follow soon.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
I'm not looking for an alternative result. Just highlighting that Tory + Reform is still very popular combined. So some kind of merger between the two would be very scary in terms of what that might mean for the country as a whole, with that much support for a single "unpleasant" party.
Labour and the LDs are not going to merge in any circumstances, which risks - as is often the case in the UK - a split of the "progressive" vote to the benefit of the "swivel-eyed loon" faction in future GEs.
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yes, lack of representation is corrosive, extremism increases over decades
fptp was designed to tend to keep power with the people who created it, not represent the electorate
both labour and the tories benefit from it, doubt they'll fix it as it'd mean diluting their power
low turnout just makes things worse, there's no real mandate from 'the people', hasn't been for a long time
my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny0 -
The "Balls Out" moment was 2015. Simpler times then!
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That may be a necessary evil to get the lefties out next time.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
It's a hunch, but I don't think that, in the absence of reform, much more than 50% of reform's voters would have voted Conservative this time.
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In normal times, getting / keeping the lefties out would be well up my list of priorities. But in recent years, I've discovered that honesty, decency and some sort of interest in public service rather than self-enrichment etc. are more important than mere leftiecontainment.
Starmer has his faults, no doubt, but I doubt he'll be trying to sting the taxpayer for gold wallpaper or whipping his MPs to vote against censure of his mates amongst his MPs if they fall from grace.
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A fair amount of people laughing at your hypocrisy I imagine 😃
- Genesis Croix de Fer
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Fair point.
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The last London seat to declare was Hendon, taken by Labour by 15 votes.
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Majority dropped from over 20,000 to under 6,000 though so not a great success. Any idea why turnout was so high there? It was well above the national average and not exactly a key marginal.
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I still think politics is just the face of chaos. Whoever was in you'd still of had the financial crisis, Brexit, COVID, Putin, inflation and consequential MASSIVE can kicking debt.
The elected are just a face to hang your frustrations on.
I'm glad the Tories are out just for the contempt some of them showed the general public during Covid.
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"Do as I say not what I do" seemed to be their agenda. That ain't right or on.
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119 + 4 < 326
And Hell will freeze over before Farage joins the Conservatives.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
As I said earlier I suspect it's a sign of people voting tactically although it does seem that Reform created the scale of the defeat. Ultimately the vote share is overwhelmingly in favour of 'leftie' parties though, if we had PR it would be a strongly left-wing coalition.
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It'll be interesting to see how voters migrated.
Both Labour and Conservative losing to both their left and their right.
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
I hear Holden won in his new seat by about 20 votes.
So not all good news
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Did the Tories sell off the River Thames?
Just for consistency on the Cake Stop graphic whinge, are they the same scale? I know there's been boundary changes but they look vastly different.
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Great to see the separatists lose a lot of representation in parliament - if it's the SNP or Tories.
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It's true, but comparatively.... look at these two.
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Beat me to it!
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Weirdly when I was looking for my first place young people were having to move away from more rural areas as they were more expensive.
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I'm sure there'll be plenty of the famous leftie hypocrisy to point out.
Anyway, you never answered my question about what you'll be making smartarse comments about now 😉
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Would be a decent coalition too potentially. The Greens could push for their core policies but without their loony economic policies.
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A wins a win.
No idea why the high turnout.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition3 -
I'd disagree on Brexit, we would only ever have got that under the Tories, and that was the single biggest factor in their downfall. Brexit gave us Johnson and a host of talentless MPs that would tow the party line, he eroded all political standards which gave us the disastrous Covid response. His downfall gave us Truss who exploded the economy and contributed massively to inflation, etc. etc.
There is a clear thread tracing all the way back to Brexit, it fcuk'ed the Tories and the country as a whole.
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