The 2024 UK General Election - news, speculation and updates

[Pickman's model]

Ian Paisley was even worse. He was a Euro MP, a Westminster MP and a member of the NI Assembly all at the same time.

He had enviable time management skills

 

[Sue]

How did he split his time with all 3 then?

No idea.

 

[moochedit]

How did he split his time with all 3 then?

They don't actually have to show up to get their wages.

 

[gosub]

How did he split his time with all 3 then?

Managed his time by giving one word answers. "NO!"

 

[stavros]

Remember the good old days when the Tory party could run an election campaign? What on Earth has happened to this odd bunch of clowns?

They're keeping to one of the great political theories of our time.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

He had enviable time management skills

His self-help book 'Achieve More by Saying No!' changed my life!

 

[PR1Berske]

A candidate for Reform UK claimed the country would be “far better” if it had “taken Hitler up on his offer of neutrality” instead of fighting the Nazis in World War Two.

Ian Gribbin, who is aiming to oust the Conservatives in Bexhill and Battle in East Sussex, also wrote online that women were the “sponging gender” and should be “deprived of health care”.

The BBC reported that in posts made in 2022 on the UnHerd magazine website, Mr Gribbin said wartime prime minister Winston Churchill was “abysmal” and praised Vladimir Putin.

Mr Gribbin declined to comment when approached by the BBC but a Reform spokesman said the comments were not “endorsements” but “written with an eye to inconvenient perspectives and truths”, while his remarks about women were “tongue in cheek”.

In July 2022, Mr Gribbin reportedly posted on the UnHerd website: “Britain would be in a far better state today had we taken Hitler up on his offer of neutrality…. but oh no Britain’s warped mindset values weird notions of international morality rather than looking after its own people.”

The same month he wrote: “In Britain specifically we need to exorcise the cult of Churchill and recognise that in both policy and military strategy, he was abysmal.”

Reform UK is hoping to take votes from the Conservatives and has seen a boost in the polls since Nigel Farage became leader last week.The BBC reported that Mr Gribbin is also said to have criticised women, writing on UnHerd’s message board: “Do you think you could actually work and pay for it all too like good citizens?

“Men pay 80 per cent of tax – women spend 80 per cent of tax revenue. On aggregate, as a group, you only take from society.

“Less complaining please from the ‘sponging gender’.”

He added that women are “subsidised by men to merely breath (sic)” and in January 2022 he also posted: “Men pay 80% of tax. Women take out 80% of expenditures.

“Square that inequality first by depriving women of healthcare until their life expectancies are the same as men, fair’s fair.”

Two months earlier, in December 2021 he wrote female soldiers “almost made me wretch (sic)” and were a “total liability” and in the run-up to the invasion of Ukraine, he praised Putin, writing in January 2022 that he had “shown a maturity of which we can only dream of”.

He “understands the bonds that create more stable societies; the hypocrisy of the West is preposterous as we stare in the face daily the enormous economic equalities created by our deluded neo-liberal ideas”, he wrote.

In February, Mr Gribbin wrote, “if only the West had politicians of his class”.

 

[Fedayn]

If there’s a worse reform candidate than this one for Bexhill and Battle i am yet to encounter them.

Loves Hitler, Hates Women.

Reform UK candidate apologises over Hitler neutrality comments

Ian Gribbin says his grandparents were "Russian Jews fleeing persecution" and his comments were taken out of context.

www.bbc.co.uk

He better be careful, if he wins Starmer would invite him into the Labour Party to keep Natalie Elphicke company.

 

[cupid_stunt]

He better be careful, if he wins Starmer would invite him into the Labour Party to keep Natalie Elphicke company.

That would hard, as Natalie Elphicke is no longer an MP, nor is she standing the GE.

 

[MickiQ]

This guy got rinsed during the divorce didn't he?

 

[Louis MacNeice]

How did he split his time with all 3 then?

He never surrendered!

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[Dogsauce]

He “understands the bonds that create more stable societies; the hypocrisy of the West is preposterous as we stare in the face daily the enormous economic equalities created by our deluded neo-liberal ideas”, he wrote.

In February, Mr Gribbin wrote, “if only the West had politicians of his class”.

Doubtless he will get sacked by Farage for giving a shit about economic inequality. Cant be having such woke nonsense in the Reformed party.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

The Reform arsehole's comments on WW2:

"Britain would be in a far better state today had we taken Hitler up on his offer of neutrality…. but oh no Britain's warped mindset values weird notions of international morality rather than looking after its own people."

These were 'taken out of context' - OK then cunty-balls, add some context to that which will make it better, off you pop...

 

[brogdale]

lol...who are they suggesting might fill that role?

 

[TopCat]

Workers party standing in my constituency

 

[Dogsauce]

Greens are the only vaguely left-of-centre option here in Bristol Central, which is surprising for what is supposedly quite a radical city. We have (what is now) the usual five plus some bigot from the Party of Women.

 

[teqniq]

Yuk. Well we'll just have to see how rat-boy's pledges goes today:

Rightwing Tories plan ‘rebel manifesto’ if Sunak’s policy launch falls flat

Party figures including Braverman and Jenrick waiting to see how public responds to pledges, insiders say

www.theguardian.com

 

[tim]

Ian Paisley was even worse. He was a Euro MP, a Westminster MP and a member of the NI Assembly all at the same time.

And the leader of his own denomination.

 

[The39thStep]

Show me the way to the next whiskey bar

 

[ska invita]

Show me the way to the next whiskey bar

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i'd like to get behind this pub crawl but he comes across as a loner with a drink problem - theres never a picture of him with anyone anywhere near him.

 

[philosophical]

Somebody takes the photo. Presumably a companion, might ask a random passing person I suppose.

 

[The39thStep]

i'd like to get behind this pub crawl but he comes across as a loner with a drink problem - theres never a picture of him with anyone anywhere near him.

Things were different on the front line in Ukraine

 

[brogdale]

Things were different on the front line in Ukraine

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Well I was dancing at a night club one Friday night
And that night club bar was a little uptight
Yeah, I was dancing all alone a little self conscious
When some kids came up and said, "for dancing come with us."
And soon....

 

[PR1Berske]

i'd like to get behind this pub crawl but he comes across as a loner with a drink problem - theres never a picture of him with anyone anywhere near him.

The older you get, the more appealing being left alone in a decent pub becomes. I'm 44 and will happily drink alone for the rest of my days.

 

[BusLanes]

Greens are the only vaguely left-of-centre option here in Bristol Central, which is surprising for what is supposedly quite a radical city. We have (what is now) the usual five plus some bigot from the Party of Women.

Does it feel like the Greens could win over Labour?

 

[ska invita]

The older you get, the more appealing being left alone in a decent pub becomes. I'm 44 and will happily drink alone for the rest of my days.

That's fine but it's not much of an election strategy!

 

[kebabking]

That's fine but it's not much of an election strategy!

Oh I don't know: * 'vote for me, I hate other people too..'*

/landslide

 

[lazythursday]

I'm sure he thinks this is all very man-of-the-people relatable stuff but why would you put him in Parliament with all those subsidised bars? That's going to go well for him and his constituents.

 

[weepiper]

It's fucking tedious. The obligatory politician with a pint photo that proves he's just like us. He's just taking it to extremes. Who gives a fuck if you like a beer or not, I want to know what you're going to do to get housing, employment and public services working. Piss off.

 

[Orang Utan]

Is it cos the LibDems think their only chance of getting the media to pay attention to them is through photo opportunities, cos otherwise they have no chance of getting their message through?