The 2024 UK General Election - news, speculation and updates

[emanymton]

He’ll raise taxes and push the money into public services, while nationalising some key ones to raise performance and reduce cost.

What I think you meant to say was he will increase taxes on the poorest, but not the wealthy, while public services continue to deteriorate.

 

[SpookyFrank]

He’ll raise taxes and push the money into public services, while nationalising some key ones to raise performance and reduce cost.

Quoted for posterity.

 

[_Russ_]

He’ll raise taxes and push the money into public services, while nationalising some key ones to raise performance and reduce cost.

I still sometimes harbour a feint hope (delusion) that all this Conservative cuntified shit he is displaying is in fact part of a cunning plan to get into power Trojan Horse like and once installed show his true socialist colours.....then I wake up

 

[two sheds]

Well his fellow right wingers at Labour HQ did call themselves The Stasi when they were shafting the left of the party so there's precedent

 

[Pickman's model]

I still sometimes harbour a feint hope (delusion) that all this Conservative cuntified shit he is displaying is in fact part of a cunning plan to get into power Trojan Horse like and once installed show his true socialist colours.....then I wake up

I've long wondered if you were woke

 

[PR1Berske]

The FT has declared for Labour.

 

[JimW]

The FT has declared for Labour.

Capital news!

 

[pbsmooth]

I’m sure Labour are worried about people getting out and voting. The Euros and even the French election has pushed it quite a long way down the news schedule. Maybe this week will change that but could almost forget it’s happening.

 

[moochedit]

I’m sure Labour are worried about people getting out and voting. The Euros and even the French election has pushed it quite a long way down the news schedule. Maybe this week will change that but could almost forget it’s happening.

And how many will realise at the last moment they have no ID.

 

[tim]

And how many will realise at the last moment they have no ID.

No idea? They won't worry; they'll do as the whips tell them.

 

[Rob Ray]

them this is about replacing the tories with the aim of taking power at the next election in 2029

If only the left were so willing to break stride with Labour.

 

[PR1Berske]

I’m sure Labour are worried about people getting out and voting. The Euros and even the French election has pushed it quite a long way down the news schedule. Maybe this week will change that but could almost forget it’s happening.

In the "old days" election news was always the lead, and parties held daily press conferences to keep in the new cycle. Another world compared to where we are now.

 

[PR1Berske]

James Cleverly to the BBC:

The reason that this is so important is because Labour have already said they are going to gerrymander the system, they have said they’re going to pack out the House of Lords, they’ve said they’re going to get votes at 16, they’re going to get votes for foreign nationals, they’re probably going to get votes for criminals.

They are determined to have a permanent Labour government and they are quite willing to distort the British political system to get that – that is what is at stake. This is not an election which is about giving the Conservatives a bit of a telling off, and many people might think that is legitimate …

[Labour] have said they’re going to distort the political system and I think there’s a real risk, there is a genuine risk, that they take a majority if that is what they get to try and lock in their power permanently, because they don’t really feel confident that they’re going to be able to make a credible case to the British people at the next general election.

 

[Dogsauce]

Unlike the tories, who stuffed the House of Lords and redistricted political seats in their favour based on dodgy data which excluded many people from the population count.

I’m going to enjoy watching Cleverly’s defeated face at the count.

 

[MickiQ]

James Cleverly to the BBC:

They don't do irony do they?

 

[andysays]

James Cleverly to the BBC:

Is there anything of substance behind the suggestion that they'll give votes to foreign nationals, or is it pure fantasy on Cleverly's part?

 

[tommers]

My stepmum yesterday was telling me how Labour are going to make toilets single sex and "rewrite human rights laws to attack women" or something.

But then she believed that bus.

 

[PR1Berske]

Is there anything of substance behind the suggestion that they'll give votes to foreign nationals, or is it pure fantasy on Cleverly's part?

It's pure invention. Scare tactics. As Dogsauce says, the Conservatives could do well to reflect on Voter ID, giving a peerage to Evgeny Lebedev, and forcing through changes to mayoral voting systems before coming for Labour.

 

[Cloo]

Bit concerned by having seen a set of all the polls on my constituency. Annoyingly saw it scrolling somewhere and didn't save it, but basically it was about 7 different pollster outcomes - all but one said Labour win, but mostly fairly close and on 2 or 3 the top 3 parties were sufficiently close that just a small % more Lib Dem votes could let Tories in, though some other polls suggested a much lower Lib Dem vote

 

[marty21]

I was listening to Farage on the radio this morning - he was asked about the candidates who'd proved 'unsuitable'. He said he only took over the party a month ago, has no previous knowledge of them, and that they removed support when he did find out. So, basically he threw Tice under a bus - claiming deniability. A cynic might say that of course they all knew - and they are using I've only been here a month to get away with it.

 

[PR1Berske]

Bit concerned by having seen a set of all the polls on my constituency. Annoyingly saw it scrolling somewhere and didn't save it, but basically it was about 7 different pollster outcomes - all but one said Labour win, but mostly fairly close and on 2 or 3 the top 3 parties were sufficiently close that just a small % more Lib Dem votes could let Tories in, though some other polls suggested a much lower Lib Dem vote

The next door constituency to me is being cited as a Labour gain for the first time, though the LD vote is the crux here, not Reform. Under our ridiculous voting system there may be a handful of Tory holds where voters chose "the wrong opponent".

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

It's pure invention. Scare tactics. As Dogsauce says, the Conservatives could do well to reflect on Voter ID, giving a peerage to Evgeny Lebedev, and forcing through changes to mayoral voting systems before coming for Labour.

Accuse your opponent of exactly what you're doing yourself has become standard right wing practice hasn't it. Trump loves it.

 

[Leafster]

Bit concerned by having seen a set of all the polls on my constituency. Annoyingly saw it scrolling somewhere and didn't save it, but basically it was about 7 different pollster outcomes - all but one said Labour win, but mostly fairly close and on 2 or 3 the top 3 parties were sufficiently close that just a small % more Lib Dem votes could let Tories in, though some other polls suggested a much lower Lib Dem vote

Was it from this webpage: https://inglesp.github.io/apogee/

The next door constituency to me is being cited as a Labour gain for the first time, though the LD vote is the crux here, not Reform. Under our ridiculous voting system there may be a handful of Tory holds where voters chose "the wrong opponent".

My constituency is very much like that. Some pollsters have Labour as the mostly likely to remove the Tory and others say the LibDems. I was hoping to see some alignment in the polls but it's not happening so my vote will be still be a stab in the dark.

 

[PR1Berske]

From another forum, the finally all agreed and certified candidate numbers this year.

No. on register	Registered party	Candidates	Withdrawn/Invalid	Valid candidates
12653	Abolish The Welsh Assembly Party	3		3
12700	Alba Party	19		19
10288	Alliance for Democracy and Freedom	9		9
67	Alliance for Green Socialism	2		2
616	Animal Welfare Party	4		4
3902	Ashfield Independents	1		1
6342	Blue Revolution	1		1
1765	British Democratic Party	4		4
2834	British Unionist Party - B.U.P.	2		2
2883	Chesterfield And North Derbyshire Independents (CANDI)	1		1
2893	Christian Party "Proclaiming Christ's Lordship"	2		2
79	Christian People’s Alliance	22		22
12958	Climate Party	13		13
375	Common Good	1		1
17412	Communist Future	1		1
12791	Communist League Election Campaign	2		2
78	Communist Party of Britain	14		14
12939	Confelicity	2		2
14170	Consensus	1		1
51	Conservative and Unionist Party	633	3	630
12685	Count Binface Party	1		1
14064	Democracy for Chorley	1		1
12881	English Constitution Party	4		4
17	English Democrats	13		13
17415	Fairer Voting Party	1		1
17509	Freedom Alliance	5		5
63	Green Party	575	1	574
10327	Hampshire Independents	10		10
12550	Heritage Party	41		41
11433	Independence for Scotland Party	2		2
6839	Independent Alliance (Kent)	1		1
1951	Independent Network	5		5
17505	Independent Oxford Alliance	1		1
6662	Independents for Direct Democracy	1		1
6302	Kingston Independent Residents Group	1		1
53	Labour Party	582		582
90	Liberal Democrats	631	1	630
54	Liberal Party	12		12
684	Libertarian Party	2		2
733	Lincolnshire Independents Lincolnshire First	2		2
14103	Liverpool Community Independents	1		1
1931	National Health Action Party	1		1
12918	New Open Non-Political Organised Leadership	1		1
17713	Newham Independents Party	1		1
15315	One Leicester	2		2
17545	Party of Women	16		16
77	Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales	32		32
10253	Portsmouth Independent Party	1		1
12731	Propel	1		1
6655	Psychedelic Movement	1		1
12493	Putting Crewe First, Independent Residents Group.	1		1
2674	Rebooting Democracy	1		1
7931	Reform UK	611	2	609
11423	Rejoin EU	26		26
6712	Save Us Now	1		1
6380	Scottish Family Party	16		16
130	Scottish Green Party	44		44
15208	Scottish Libertarian Party	4		4
102	Scottish National Party (SNP)	57		57
46	Scottish Socialist Party	2		2
1912	Shared Ground	2		2
243	Social Democratic Party	122		122
17454	Social Justice Party	1		1
633	Socialist Equality Party	2		2
73	Socialist Labour Party	12		12
12670	South Devon Alliance	1		1
12666	Sovereignty	2		2
12793	Stockport Fights Austerity No to Cuts	1		1
6730	Swale Independents	1		1
6615	Taking The Initiative Party	1		1
2117	The Common People	1		1
15293	The Mitre TW9	1		1
17515	The North East Party	1		1
66	The Official Monster Raving Loony Party	22		22
133	The Peace Party - Non-violence, Justice, Environment	2		2
110	The Socialist Party of Great Britain	2		2
17452	The Yoruba Party in the UK	1		1
804	Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition	40		40
12596	Transform Party	2		2
12922	True & Fair Party	4		4
85	UK Independence Party (UKIP)	25	1	24
9053	UK Voice	1		1
8009	Volt United Kingdom	2		2
2755	Women’s Equality Party	5	1	4
11382	Workers Party of Britain	153	1	152
184	Workers Revolutionary Party	5		5
2055	Yorkshire Party	27		27
17 and 85	English Democrats and UK Independence Party (UKIP)	2		2
53 and 119	Labour Party and Co-operative Party	49		49
103	Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland	18		18
7968	Aontú	10		10
51	Conservative and Unionist Party	5		5
4037	Cross-Community Labour Alternative	1		1
70	Democratic Unionist Party – D.U.P.	16		16
305	Green Party	11		11
773	People Before Profit	3		3
55	SDLP (Social Democratic & Labour Party)	18		18
39	Sinn Féin	14		14
680	Traditional Unionist Voice – TUV	14		14
83	Ulster Unionist Party	17		17
	(Blank)	41		41
	Annibynnol / Independent	1		1
	Independent	408	3	405
	Independent / Annibynnol	10		10
	Independent Candidate	1		1
	Representing the people. Not a party†	1		1
	The Speaker seeking re-election	1		1

[tbody] [td colspan="5"]GB Register[/td] [td colspan="5"]Joint candidates[/td] [td colspan="5"]NI Register[/td] [td colspan="5"]Other candidates[/td] [/tbody]

NB: Does not take account of candidates whose endorsement was withdrawn
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[kebabking]

I saw my first 'vote Tory' poster in my constituency that wasn't in the window of the MP's office this morning.

Amusing/interesting/whatever titbit:

The two poshest streets, in the poshest of the three towns in the seat, are festooned with Labour posters - and I mean 100+ houses between those two streets, with more houses having Labour posters than not. There's a smattering of Green, one LD, but I've not seen one Tory poster in the whole town of 10k. The one Tory poster I've seen on someone's house was in a much less affluent street, in the much less affluent town next door.

I'm going to be really interested to see who is voting Tory in this election, and why...

 

[Cloo]

Not seen a single Tory poster in Finchley. We and 2 door down have Labour placards and the neighbours opposite a poster and that makes me laugh a bit as we're all people who go to our synagogue (where the candidate is also a member). It's a Jewish conspiracy!

 

[tommers]

 

[emanymton]

He is just using their elections funds to work though his bucket list isn't he?

 

[tim]

Is there anything of substance behind the suggestion that they'll give votes to foreign nationals, or is it pure fantasy on Cleverly's part?

Commonwealth and Irish nationals already have the vote.

 

[PR1Berske]

The News Agent goes to Ladywood to find the independent candidate who is threatening Labour. His candidature is, to be polite, somewhat controversial

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@TheNewsAgents: We went to Birmingham Ladywood to meet Akhmed Yakoob - a TikTok star and defence lawyer - who's in a two-horse race with Labour to become the constituency’s independent MP. Mr. Yakoob has courted con...…

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