The 2024 UK General Election - news, speculation and updates

[Chz]

Labour seems to be doing the usual "not bothered" strategy in my constituency. Everyone else, bar Reform, is local and Labour parachutes in a candidate from Ruislip into Carshalton and Wallington. Even the Reform candidate is closer (Reigate) than that. I realise they're not going to win this seat, but it's just a poor showing to not bother finding a local candidate. It's not like there aren't Labour members on Sutton council.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I think most decent people can make their own minds up on how cuntish Sunak is without resorting to posters like that, in fact I think that sort of crass exploitation can turn people off whoever decided to post it..well it does that to me anyway

Yeah, but TBF, you're a bit 'special'.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

One of our local candidates is on their third party locally, having failed to get elected as either Labour or Tory in local elections he's now having another go for the Workers Party.

 

[cupid_stunt]

No surprises in Worthing West - Sir Peter Bottomley is defending his seat, I'll be voting for Dr Beccy Cooper (Labour), other choices - LDs, Greens, and Deformed.

 

[brogdale]

Labour seems to be doing the usual "not bothered" strategy in my constituency. Everyone else, bar Reform, is local and Labour parachutes in a candidate from Ruislip into Carshalton and Wallington. Even the Reform candidate is closer (Reigate) than that. I realise they're not going to win this seat, but it's just a poor showing to not bother finding a local candidate. It's not like there aren't Labour members on Sutton council.

I think the problem is that after being moribund and almost completely inactive for years, the CLP that flourished post 2016 was Corbynite; London Regional saw them as simultaneously irrelevant and untrustworthy. Added to which they are so incompetent that, through schism within the Labour Group of 3 in a recent by-election they recently lost one of their councillors to the vermin!

No wonder Regional imposed a rookie loyalist.

 

[kebabking]

 

[cupid_stunt]

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# _Russ_

 

[Serge Forward]

Leicester East has been blessed with not one but two ex-Labour MP expellees on the ballot, as well as the actual Labour candidate.

Keith Vaz trying to make a come back, plus Claudia Webbe the current independent MP since she had the whip removed this parliament.
Galloway must be feeling left out.

Disgraced Keith Vaz expelled from Labour as he stands for One Leicester party

Exclusive: Vaz to run in Leicester East, infuriating Labour candidates who have campaigned for his eviction for years

www.theguardian.com

Some comments on Vaz from a local socialist Cynical, Divisive and Self-Serving: Keith Vaz Returns to Electoral Politics and He Hasn’t Changed One Bit

 

[MickiQ]

No surprises in Worthing West - Sir Peter Bottomley is defending his seat, I'll be voting for Dr Beccy Cooper (Labour), other choices - LDs, Greens, and Deformed.

Electoral Calculus gives Labour a 65% chance of winning Derbyshire Dales which is my new constituency as opposed to a 76% chance of winning Derbyshire South from which I have so outrageously been torn so looks like Labour it is.
I've never heard of Sarah Dines but apparently she is a strong right loon who is/was a big fan of Loopy Liz the Lettuce so can't be a bad thing to vote against her.
I have told Eldest Q who still lives in Derbyshire South that she needs to get her arse to the polling station for the first time in her life and vote Labour as well in order to avenge her father and drag her husband with her who will vote for whoever his wife tells him too.

 

[brogdale]

I think I'd prefer it if the vermin could space out their gaffs to one a day, if possible; there's a real danger of some of these falling through the cracks in the news agenda...

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Anyone else watching tonight's mass debate?

 

[brogdale]

Anyone else watching tonight's mass debate?

Nah, still one nil to the Cod people

 

[Silas Loom]

Anyone else watching tonight's mass debate?

Bailed just before the hour mark. Liked the audience, and was slightly irked to agree with Stephen Flynn on pretty much everything. Mordaunt won’t have won any new voters by shoving her finger in Rayner’s ear. More watchable than the Sunak-Starmer horrorshow. Has anything exciting happened in the last 25 mins?

 

[tim]

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Can somenoe please photoshop Sunak from behind onto one of those soldiers?

why are you reposting a Nazi?

 

[kenny g]

Watching it all via a YouTube stream. Infinitely better than the ITV effort earlier in the week.Does piss me off we are subjected to Scottish political imperialism in the form of the SNP being included.

 

[chilango]

Lukewarm applause indeed.

 

[_Russ_]

Absolutely fucked!!

Sunak's inability to read his audience is mind boggling, his life experience must have be within such an incredibly narrow range of society, he honestly doesn't get it

 

[Elpenor]

Absolutely fucked!!

Edit - was making a point about how disconnected Sunak was but the gif I posted was not right so removed

 

[_Russ_]

Yeah, but TBF, you're a bit 'special'.

So you think the poster is great?

 

[Wilf]

Anyone else watching tonight's mass debate?

Saw the last 15 seconds, where falange seemed to have cramp and to be wearing someone else's teeth.

 

[tim]

Ukip running against farage (why do ukip even bothet anymore?)

https://legacy.tendringdc.gov.uk/sites/default/files/documents/council/elections%20%26%20voting/2024/UKPGE%20-%20NOP%20SOP%20SOPN%202024%20Clacton.pdf

Because they hate Farage.

 

[brogdale]

Because they hate Farage.

Nice to see the right-splitting vote split

 

[two sheds]

So you think the poster is great?

I think it's funny enough.

 

[Wilf]

I see Mordor said Ratboy was 'completely wrong' and 'very wrong' for his D Day desertion. With friends like these...

 

[brogdale]

I see Mordor said Ratboy was 'completely wrong' and 'very wrong' for his D Day desertion. With friends like these...

She's gotta win her seat if she's gonna be leader of the oppo

 

[xenon]

Anyone else watching tonight's mass debate?

Where and when? I mean this is how Fridays are now apparently.

 

[xenon]

Sunak is just laughing at the shit joke he could easily pass it off as laughing as if to say don’t be so ridiculous. But it’s not a deaf blow or some massive gotcha either way.

 

[Wilf]

She's gotta win her seat if she's gonna be leader of the oppo

Suspect we might see a few other leading tories distancing themselves out of self preservation. Be a bit difficult for Cunt though. And a larger group just about giving up.

 

[Silas Loom]

Ukip running against farage (why do ukip even bothet anymore?)

https://legacy.tendringdc.gov.uk/sites/default/files/documents/council/elections%20%26%20voting/2024/UKPGE%20-%20NOP%20SOP%20SOPN%202024%20Clacton.pdf

As is Anthony Mack, who was the Reform candidate until Farage parachuted himself in. This is looking very good for Labour - the right will be very split.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Yeah, but TBF, you're a bit 'special'.

I agree with Russ fwiw. Fucking horrible poster and really badly misjudged.

Was it Labour or ReFuck?