The 2024 UK General Election - news, speculation and updates

[Humberto]

Nothing personal meant about the woman either way, but is Rachel Reeves a bit sinister and intimidating to anyone else?

 

[petee]

Bit of a digression but during the HUAC hearings during the 40s / 50s, being seen as someone who was anti-Fascist too early was a quite common accusation thrown at people

The Confessions of a 'Premature Anti-Fascist'

I first heard the remarkable phrase "premature anti-Fascist" in 1946 when, fresh out of the U.S.

www.latimes.com

quite a read.

 

[edcraw]

Glad someone’s asking this - so if you’re self employed you’re still going to pay NI but at 0% so you qualify for the state pension!? Sounds like unnecessary bureaucracy to me.

 

[redsquirrel]

Oh joy, Leeds Central and Headingley has a Workers Party candidate.
No socialist candidate so it comes down whether I can be bothered to vote Green in the vain hope of screwing Labour

I was wrong, there is a TUSC candidate, Louie Fulton, standing so will waste vote there.

Leeds Central and Headingley (UK Parliament constituency) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[weepiper]

What even is this pathetic bollocks



'the only party on the side of drivers'

 

[Silas Loom]

What even is this pathetic bollocks



'the only party on the side of drivers'

There is a huge amount of campaigning locally in London about overturning the ULEZ extension and stopping the evil Khan from charging drivers for every mile. It’s worth Labour saying something to stop that from resonating with voters who aren’t interested in pollution or climate change arguments. And potholes really do annoy people.

 

[two sheds]

well as long as he's got a plan, I suppose that's one step down from a commitment and another down from actually doing anything about it.

 

[Silas Loom]

well as long as he's got a plan, I suppose that's one step down from a commitment and another down from actually doing anything about it.

“Up to” adds another step down, of course.

 

[brogdale]

Of course, that won't stop rat-boy from continuing with his mantra that the UK has the "fastest growing economy" in the Universe.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

Focus groups have shown that 50% of people want more ULEZ cameras to be installed for a greener Britain, and 50% of people want ULEZ cameras to be burned to stop the War On Motorists.

Labour have listened, and will be installing over 3000 pre-burned cameras.

 

[kebabking]

well as long as he's got a plan, I suppose that's one step down from a commitment and another down from actually doing anything about it.

I always liked challenge - beautifully indistinct and unpindownable(word?), and of course there's a ready made excuse when you fail - it was, err... challenging.

 

[Silas Loom]

Of course, that won't stop rat-boy from continuing with his mantra that the UK has the "fastest growing economy" in the Universe.

The plan is working! Hopefully a lot of that prerecorded on tonight’s interview.

 

[Elpenor]

Pot holes should be dealt with by taxing cars by weight - all these heavy suvs and electric vehicles I suspect are the cause and

And frankly fuck Londoners who have the best public transport in the country - and its dirt cheap - getting in a strop about Ulez

 

[Silas Loom]

Pot holes should be dealt with by taxing cars by weight - all these heavy suvs and electric vehicles I suspect are the cause and

And frankly fuck Londoners who have the best public transport in the country - and its dirt cheap - getting in a strop about Ulez

Commercial vehicles are so heavy that larger cars make almost bugger all difference. Potholes are caused by starving local authorities of funds.

 

[maomao]

Not wanting to stick up for Kieth but fixing potholes resonates with cyclists too. Potholes give drivers punctures but they've been known to kill cyclists.

 

[The39thStep]

well as long as he's got a plan, I suppose that's one step down from a commitment and another down from actually doing anything about it.

Fully costed and well thought out plan

 

[kebabking]

Pot holes should be dealt with by taxing cars by weight - all these heavy suvs and electric vehicles I suspect are the cause and

And frankly fuck Londoners who have the best public transport in the country - and its dirt cheap - getting in a strop about Ulez

Sadly not correct - potholes/road disintegration are overwhelming caused by water ingress. Building a road that will withstand water - both coming from the surface and from the sides/underneath - is expensive and time consuming. Building a road that will will withstand it for much less time is cheap and quick - which do you think gets chosen?

 

[brogdale]

Fully costed and well thought out plan

tbf, it's a brilliantly conceived Starmer/Phillipson plan in which every 100 kids in poverty who agree to forego their FSM pay for 1 pothole fix.

 

[weepiper]

'A million potholes'! It's just such a crappy fag packet pub table soundbite.

 

[Elpenor]

'A million potholes'! It's just such a crappy fag packet pub table soundbite.

Prefer the Take That version tbh

 

[andysays]

'A million potholes'! It's just such a crappy fag packet pub table soundbite.

Welcome to the 2024 GE campaign.

 

[Silas Loom]

Voters get the election campaigns they deserve.

 

[philosophical]

4,000 holes in Blackburn Lancashire alone.

 

[tommers]

So far this morning I've seen Sunak saying he had to go without Sky telly when he was a kid and Starmer talking about cleaning his dad's cortina. When does this fucking end?

 

[Dogsauce]

Dunno really.

Things like this can be spun as 'politicians who live in big detached houses not caring about what happens on the estates where they don't have to live' if they don't show an interest in it.

Exactly this - it’s a common annoyance in more down-at-heel neighbourhoods, along with general ASB. It’s not some curtain-twitcher thing, it goes on at all hours, wakes up babies etc. and generally leads to a lower quality of life. Where I used to live most people (especially older folk) seemed pleased when we started getting PCSOs walking about the place, it did make things better despite the ‘plastic pigs’ sneering. When that got taken away by Austerity things started getting shit again. People need to live peaceful lives for the benefit of their health. The tories have no interest in these areas or the concerns of people living there, so it’s fair game for Labour to stand up for them.

 

[weepiper]

So far this morning I've seen Sunak saying he had to go without Sky telly when he was a kid and Starmer talking about cleaning his dad's cortina. When does this fucking end?

Not having Sky TV because your parents chose to spend £40k a year sending you to Winchester instead doesn't count as going without.

 

[Dogsauce]

Nothing personal meant about the woman either way, but is Rachel Reeves a bit sinister and intimidating to anyone else?

Sinister is a very dodgy term given her religion. Having briefly met her she didn’t seem particularly warm or engaging, but that could just be introvert behaviour and I wouldn’t mark anyone down for that, we need all sorts in a representative democracy, not just loud self-confident types (fewer of those if possible).

 

[CH1]

In case anyone fancies a truly wasted vote of principle in one of these 26 constituencies, the Rejoin the EU Party is standing:

Chipping Barnet – Richard Hewison
Finchley & Golders Green – Brendan Donnelly
Hendon – Ben Rend
Tottenham – Drew Miles
Peckham – Alex Kerr
Kensington & Bayswater – John Stevens
Stretford & Urmston – Jim Newell
Old Bexley & Sidcup – Laurence Williams
Sevenoaks – Elwyn Jones
Sheffield Hallam – Sam Chapman
Oxford East – Andrew Smith
Ealing Southall – Peter Ward
South West Hertfordshire – Victor Silkin
Putney – Jas Alduk
Leyton & Wanstead – Simon Bezer
Tooting – Felix Burford-Connole
Battersea – Georgina Burford-Connole
Cities of London & Westminster – Liz Burford
Hampstead & Highgate – Christie Elan-Cane
Fareham & Waterlooville – Edward Dean
Preston – Joseph O’Meachair
Pendle and Clitheroe – Christopher Thompson
Rutland & Stamford – Joanna Burrows
Melton and Syston – Matt Shouler
Hammersmith and Chiswick – Bill Colegrave
Bury St Edmunds – Richard Baker-Howard

The last one grabbed me by the throat as I originate from Bury St Edmunds, and it seems a typical example of a town that benefitted enormously from EU trade etc and where they all hate the French, despite being "twinned" with Compiègne, where the armistice was signed at the end of World War I. In 2019 there was a pact between the Greens and the Lib Dems whereby the Lib Dem candidate stood down in this constituency in favour of the Green Party. They still came 3rd behind Labour though.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Not wanting to stick up for Kieth but fixing potholes resonates with cyclists too. Potholes give drivers punctures but they've been known to kill cyclists.

I encourage the idea of fixing potholes I resent the language and signaling behind “on the side of drivers”