The 2024 UK General Election - news, speculation and updates

[BusLanes]

I have no idea what the Chair is meant to actually do but he does seem to do a lot of media, or at least till today and presumably helps run their national operations. So having him in a shit storm as well as PM seems like it'll have a negative impact on their abilities to make decisions

 

[Wilf]

I worked for Manchester Council when he was leader. Used to avoid him in bars in the City centre after work, always half cut.

Aye, I remember him when I worked in Manchester 1986 to 88, regularly pissed with his team of acolytes.

 

[The39thStep]

Aye, I remember him when I worked in Manchester 1986 to 88, regularly pissed with his team of acolytes.

Oh. Where did you work?

 

[Elpenor]

I saw these people today at a local event

Let's be clever and vote together

A fair & transparent way to choose one progressive candidate to unite behind at the next general election, and stop the Conservatives winning on a minority vote.

www.newtonabbotprimary.org

Based on the South Devon Primary (trialled in Totnes, Monbiot wrote about in the guardian) it’s about getting a consensus of the best candidate to take on the Tories locally. I believe the Totnes outfit got as far as endorsing a candidate (whether anyone pays any attention is another thing). But Newton Abbot wasn’t as far down the road before the election was called.

Anyway the recommended outcome is to vote Lib Dem where I live The Labour candidate is apparently 19 years old!

 

[Wilf]

Christ almighty!

What a filthy fucking racist.

 

[Wilf]

Oh. Where did you work?

At the Poly so, technically, I worked for the council too.

 

[ska invita]

Adults are back in the room humour .

The Magical Shit-Tory Tour Is coming to take you away ....

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Christ almighty!

A woman was arrested and charged for carrying a banner calling Sunak a coconut at the pro-Palestine marches. Perhaps the police should explain what the difference between the two cases is.

 

[ska invita]

Haha yeah so you can't afford to hear your home, my son wears a onesie too ha ha.

This has set me off, he's such a piece of shit

 

[Weller]

Prick .

I love that the ch4 interviewer quoted Caroline Aherne's / Mrs Merton "What first attracted you to the Millionaire Paul Daniels" line at the end

What first attracted you to the 20000 majority Basildon and Billericay

So far He is the Portillo moment Id like to happen now most

 

[smokedout]

and Party of Women which is apparently a TERF split from Women's Equality Party.

Keep seeing this and don't think it's correct. It's Posie Parker's lot, who herself recently called for trans people to be excluded from housing and employment and who's supporters have just caused a big row in GC circles by attending Tommy Robinson's last rally, just to give an idea of what they're about. Much more virulent than a terf break off from WEP.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I saw these people today at a local event

...

Based on the South Devon Primary (trialled in Totnes, Monbiot wrote about in the guardian) it’s about getting a consensus of the best candidate to take on the Tories locally. I believe the Totnes outfit got as far as endorsing a candidate (whether anyone pays any attention is another thing). But Newton Abbot wasn’t as far down the road before the election was called.

Anyway the recommended outcome is to vote Lib Dem where I live The Labour candidate is apparently 19 years old!

TBF, the LDs are best placed to beat the Tories down there, so it's logical to recommend them.

 

[cupid_stunt]

The 'i' has published an interesting survey, which is fairly well matched to my own thoughts, I have high hopes that things will improve with a Labour win, and low expectations that they will, but I do feel there's a good chance they will not make things worst, which I think would happen under the chaotic Tories.

Despite Labour’s large polling lead, and the expectation that the party will lead the next government, there appears to be little optimism from the public that Britain will improve significantly with Sir Keir in No 10.

On each of four crucial issues – the economy, public services, immigration and crime – no more than two in five voters said they expected a Labour victory would make the UK’s performance more impressive. On the economy, 35 per cent said it would improve and 33 per cent worse. On public services, 38 per cent predicted improvement and 26 per cent thought the opposite, while 29 per cent thought immigration would improve and 35 per cent said it would deteriorate. On crime, 26 per cent expected Britain to get better with 28 per cent saying it would deteriorate.

If the Conservatives do manage to be re-elected, the public tends to expect the UK to become worse in all four of those areas, with no more than a quarter predicting an improvement on any front.

Bit puzzled that 17% of people think the Tory campaign is doing well, I mean, WTF.

Voters expect Labour victory but not for UK to improve

Although most of the Conservatives' policies have proven individually popular, the public believes the party is not running a successful general election campaign

inews.co.uk

 

[Artaxerxes]

The 'i' has published an interesting survey, which is fairly well matched to my own thoughts, I have high hopes that things will improve with a Labour win, and low expectations that they will, but I do feel there's a good chance they will not make things worst, which I think would happen under the chaotic Tories.





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Bit puzzled that 17% of people think the Tory campaign is doing well, I mean, WTF.

Voters expect Labour victory but not for UK to improve

Although most of the Conservatives' policies have proven individually popular, the public believes the party is not running a successful general election campaign

inews.co.uk

Personally I'm absolutely thrilled with now the conservative campaign is going

 

[MickiQ]

Personally I'm absolutely thrilled with now the conservative campaign is going

Best thing on the telly, we're talking classic Monty Python levels of funny here.

 

[brogdale]

Wonder if rat-boy will engage with the media today?

 

[two sheds]

Probably lost in the maze somewhere.

 

[brogdale]

Probably lost in the maze somewhere.

Certainly lost...somewhere

 

[cupid_stunt]

Wonder if rat-boy will engage with the media today?

I expect so, because avoiding them over the weekend has turned into a fairly big story now, he's got little choice but to grow up and deal with.

 

[eatmorecheese]

I didn't have high expectations, but this election campaign is proving to be both completely dismal and totally hilarious at the same time.

Have the Daily Mirror brought back the guy in the chicken suit to harass Sunak yet?

 

[tony.c]

Wonder if rat-boy will engage with the media today?

I expect so, because avoiding them over the weekend has turned into a fairly big story now, he's got little choice but to grow up and deal with.

BBC Radio 4 Today program reported that Conservative HQ says that he will be reducing interviews. After the weekend's fiasco.

 

[moochedit]

BBC Radio 4 Today program reported that Conservative HQ says that he will be reducing interviews. After the weekend's fiasco.

Very Trumpian But won't work for Sunak.

 

[tim]

Very Trumpian But won't work for Sunak.

More Biden than Trump. Sunak's problem is that he can't talk bollocks with confidence.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Douglas Ross has announced he'll resigning as the Scottish Tory leader after the GE, so that'll two of their leaders going.

 

[PR1Berske]

General Election 2024

Week One: The Farce of Rishi Sunak
Week Two: Labour vs Labour
Week Three: The Rise (... again) of Nigel Farage
Week Four: D-Day Crash Landings

Three to go, folks, stay strapped in.

 

[Pickman's model]

3.5. and it's the last half week that'll likely be the worst

 

[Pickman's model]

BBC Radio 4 Today program reported that Conservative HQ says that he will be reducing interviews. After the weekend's fiasco.

tbh they seem to have given up any hope of remaining as a political force in the next parliament

 

[Dogsauce]

The long version’s even better!!

That is straight out of Chris Morris’s Day Today isn’t it? Especially the way he speaks to him almost contemptuously when demanding he answers. I kind of love that some in the media aren’t treating them with undue respect anymore.

 

[xenon]

Dross. I don’t understand these fucking people. What is the point of standing if he’s going to resign if he wins. is he just trying to shaft his own party?

 

[Elpenor]

He must have some side bets going on