The 2024 UK General Election - news, speculation and updates

[GarveyLives]

Reform UK Party Limited has dropped three of its candidates following reports they had made offensive or racist comments:

Edward Oakenfull​

Edward Oakenfull, who is standing for Reform UK Party Limited in Derbyshire Dales, posted on X that 'importing loads of sub-Saharan Africans plus Muslims that inter-breed' had created a 'gene pool decline'.

Robert Lomas​

Robert Lomas, who is standing for Reform UK Party Limited in Barnsley North, reportedly said that 'black people of Britain' were 'grifting the race card' and should 'get up off your lazy a*ses' and stop acting 'like savages'.

Leslie Lilley​

Leslie Lilley, who is running for Reform UK Party Limited in Southend East and Rochford, said he would 'slaughter' migrants arriving on small boats and have their families 'taken out'.

"Asked what Reform would say to voters in the constituencies where the candidates had been dropped, the party spokesman said he would “encourage them to vote for the party, by voting for these people on the ballot paper".

This way, he said people could still vote for Reform's "policy platform".

Reform UK Party Limited drops three candidates over offensive comments

 

[ChrisD]

Has anyone seen a vote conservative poster??

Seen a couple in fields in East Devon….none in towns.
Even Topsham ( the posh bit of Exeter) has several Labour posters up but not a hint of blue…

 

[Balbi]

That's the future health secretary saying the parent of a non binary kid should apologise for saying he wishes a transphobic government minister who's crowed about making things worse for his kid and their friends.

In an exclusive interview with The Sun.

That's a Labour MP.

 

[Lord Camomile]

The Labour MP future Health Secretary who dismissed those who don't want private companies in the NHS as "middle-class lefties".

Apparently he's made transphobic remarks himself, but I can't remember what it was he was supposed to have said.

 

[MickiQ]

Reform UK Party Limited has dropped three of its candidates following reports they had made offensive or racist comments:

Edward Oakenfull​

Edward Oakenfull, who is standing for Reform UK Party Limited in Derbyshire Dales, posted on X that 'importing loads of sub-Saharan Africans plus Muslims that inter-breed' had created a 'gene pool decline'.

Robert Lomas​

Robert Lomas, who is standing for Reform UK Party Limited in Barnsley North, reportedly said that 'black people of Britain' were 'grifting the race card' and should 'get up off your lazy a*ses' and stop acting 'like savages'.

Leslie Lilley​

Leslie Lilley, who is running for Reform UK Party Limited in Southend East and Rochford, said he would 'slaughter' migrants arriving on small boats and have their families 'taken out'.




Reform UK Party Limited drops three candidates over offensive comments

Oakenfull is the candidate in my constituency but the leaflet was all about Frog Lord, the only place Oakenfull's name appears is typed in a box at the bottom

 

[A380]

I'm afraid no matter what happens there will be huge disappointment on the night, especially if you expect that Starmzy is about to actually change anything.

No, I think the night will be great seeing the Tories smashed. It’s the next five years that are going to be disappointing.

 

[T & P]

Can’t be bothered to post screenshots but the Mail and Express have chosen to use their front pages to reproduce an apparent warning by Sunak that Starmer will ‘wreck the UK in 100 days’

Bizarrely specific prediction, though given that Lettuce Truss managed that in about a third of that time, I am unsure whether it’s meant to be taken as a compliment or criticism.

The increasingly batshit Telegraph goes further and reproduces another stark warning from Sunak claiming that a Labour victory will ruin ‘every generation’. Are they suggesting every generation in our lifetime, or until the end of human civilisation as we know it?- I think we should be told.

Surely even the fully on-message bootlicking chief editors of those papers must be starting to feel embarrassed by the desperate shit they are printing at the moment? Different media but we’re reaching Fox News territory now…

 

[belboid]

100 days seems to have become a fairly typical thing now - ' what can you do in the first..' three months...the things that dont need a change in law, that can be changed by diktat.

The Observer & the Express both go with a picture of Cyndi Lauper, weirdly

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[belboid]

That is a great cover from the Mirror.

 

[JimW]

For now we see through Cyndi Lauper, weirdly; but then face to face.

 

[gosub]

 

[JimW]

Further evidence that if spunking cock stood, he'd be in with a chance: 'You wouldn't believe the amount of dicks': Secrets of a ballot counter

 

[Lord Camomile]

'You wouldn't believe the amount of dicks': Secrets of a ballot counter

We might...

 

[AnnaKarpik]

Further evidence that if spunking cock stood, he'd be in with a chance: 'You wouldn't believe the amount of dicks': Secrets of a ballot counter

 

[PR1Berske]

Quotes here from Tories suggesting that the Supermajorities claim is cutting through with voters:

Tories cling to hope that wipeout polls are wrong as gallows humour kicks in

Party hopes to limit damage by warning of ‘supermajority’ while thoughts also turn to aftermath of defeat

www.theguardian.com

 

[AnnaKarpik]

The Sunday Times have come out for Labour! Heard it on R4 just now.

 

[Pickman's model]

The Sunday Times have come out for Labour! Heard it on R4 just now.

Well it's not really the st have come out for labour, murdoch's told them to

 

[Steel Icarus]

The Sunday Times have come out for Labour! Heard it on R4 just now.

If further proof were needed, etc

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Reform UK Party Limited has dropped three of its candidates following reports they had made offensive or racist comments:

Edward Oakenfull​

Edward Oakenfull, who is standing for Reform UK Party Limited in Derbyshire Dales, posted on X that 'importing loads of sub-Saharan Africans plus Muslims that inter-breed' had created a 'gene pool decline'.

Robert Lomas​

Robert Lomas, who is standing for Reform UK Party Limited in Barnsley North, reportedly said that 'black people of Britain' were 'grifting the race card' and should 'get up off your lazy a*ses' and stop acting 'like savages'.

Leslie Lilley​

Leslie Lilley, who is running for Reform UK Party Limited in Southend East and Rochford, said he would 'slaughter' migrants arriving on small boats and have their families 'taken out'.




Reform UK Party Limited drops three candidates over offensive comments

Christ, just look at them. If you had to imagine the kind of racist pub bores who'd stand for Reform Ltd. they'd look just like that.

 

[The39thStep]

Socialist Standard have called on voters to write "world socialism" on their ballot

 

[Artaxerxes]

Tory student group held black-tie dinner two weeks ago where members sang German marching song used by the Nazis in WW2Warwick Uni Conservative Association sorry after dancing to “Erika” — used by SS and Wermacht and today white supremacists Tory student group apologises after members ‘danced to Nazi song’

 

[kebabking]

We need a facepalm reaction emoji...

 

[danny la rouge]

Lovely people.

 

[Silas Loom]

The smart thinker saying “don’t film” at the end of the clip will presumably be PM eventually.

 

[lazythursday]

So Sunak has just said in an interview with Laura K that the country is a better place to live in now than 2010. That has made me more angry than anything the jumped up prick has said or done the entire campaign. I can't think of a single metric where you could make a decent argument for that.

 

[two sheds]

length of time the tories should be in power?

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

We need a facepalm reaction emoji...

 

[A380]

So Sunak has just said in an interview with Laura K that the country is a better place to live in now than 2010. That has made me more angry than anything the jumped up prick has said or done the entire campaign. I can't think of a single metric where you could make a decent argument for that.

That’s because you don’t have over £10m in the bank…

 

[nino_savatte]

TBH, the Tories have form. Remember this?

 

[A380]

There is something about young conservatives. I often dealt with older local Tory politicians professionally and whilst disagreeing with their politics I felt many were relatively sane people doing what they felt was best for their community.

Every single YC I have ever met was a puffed up inadequate cunt however.