The 2024 UK General Election - news, speculation and updates
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Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
strung out
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Nope, most polls have them a fairly distant third.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Not on any of the polling I've seen - Falange out on front, Tories behind him (significantly) with Labour behind them.
Part of this is party HQ not being able to make the hard cut at the start of the election and ending up with the worst of all worlds. Had the Labour campaign simply not happened, the Tory would have had a much better chance of defeating Führage. Now they've ensured that Falange will win, and made an absolute pigs arse of it and fucked off a decent candidate and local party activists.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Go on tell us more as at the moment we’ve got a cross between Labour having a shortage of canvassers so need to send them somewhere else , some stuff about bad planning and late selection and Labour abandoning Clacton hoping the Tories get in .
None of which answers the question as to how Labour works with locals to build a base in Clacton against Farage .
ska invita
back on the other side
and crucially stop attacking nigel and making it look like labour are diametrically opposed to reform < THAT was the inciting incident in all this.
Dog_Voodoo
Well-Known Member
Isn’t that Ann Widdecomb in disguise??
Elpenor
a clown’s heart and a mandolin
There was the occasional Emily Thornberry tweet
T & P
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Boris to the rescue! All hail Britain’s saviour
news.sky.com
The Mail’s front page in particular is one for the ages
Monday's national newspaper front pages
Sky News takes a look at the headlines on Monday's national newspaper front pages.
The Mail’s front page in particular is one for the ages
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
Christ he looks older than Biden. Has he been in a fight with Mace Windu?
emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
It's clearly bullshit, as they don't have any safe seats to offer.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
No problem? Maybe ask some French voters (or Italian, Dutch etc) about how well centrist stitch ups work at 'stopping' the hard right.
Tthe RN have polled top of two elections in the last two months and look likely to take a plurality of seats - in part because after ~20 years voters are utterly fed up of voting to 'stop the fascist' only to see things get worse.
To build a real alternative to the hard right means fighting them and creating an alternative, and that is going to result in losses sometimes. But the strategy of the LP, like the strategy of the French Socialists, is one that only provides long term growth for the hard right.
PR1Berske
Alligator in chains by the park gates.
Yes:
Interesting electoral facts | Vote UK Forum
PA News has its list of expected declaration times: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/estimated-declaration-times-general-election-093817984.html Thursday July 4 11.30pm: – Blyth & Ashington
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Farage spent 20 years collecting s cheque for doing nothing as an MEP. Just hoping the problem goes away isn't the way to fight back or win people over that he's shit.
He's a grifter, everything he does plays into his "I'm just fighting the Man" cosplay - a decent charming candidate who's a snazzy dresser and able to work social media seems exactly the kind of candidate who can peel the media and some of the voters away from him.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
The 10pm exit poll is the fun kick off, they are usually bang on the money. Then you have to wait till midnight for the first result.Yes:
Interesting electoral facts | Vote UK Forum
PA News has its list of expected declaration times: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/estimated-declaration-times-general-election-093817984.html Thursday July 4 11.30pm: – Blyth & Ashingtonvote-2012.proboards.com
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
One of the bizarre (and pathetic/disgusting) things about this election is seeing liberals, and working in HE I come into contact with plenty, wailing about how terrible things are - completely avoiding the elephant that they have made the current world.
So despite a succession of liberal governments for 40 years, as well as the power in every institution somehow it is the hard right and the 'far left' that has caused all the problems - never mind that the hard right are a small minority, the real far left a tiny blip, and even a "far left" that includes Corbyn a minority with huge barriers to it.
I had to listen to spiel from a HR director recently about how terrible things were in the UK, the fact that things might be terrible because - even if just a little bit - of the anti-worker, anti-union actions he spent his day doing did not even register.
On Monday I had to listen to a former friend, now member of the Senior Management Team, agree with me about how much harm the marketisation of education is, only to then insist that we can't do anything else but make more marketisation.
I mean to look a the modern world and conclude that the problem is Corbyn, the SWP, the tiny anarchist groups etc is deluded.
So despite a succession of liberal governments for 40 years, as well as the power in every institution somehow it is the hard right and the 'far left' that has caused all the problems - never mind that the hard right are a small minority, the real far left a tiny blip, and even a "far left" that includes Corbyn a minority with huge barriers to it.
I had to listen to spiel from a HR director recently about how terrible things were in the UK, the fact that things might be terrible because - even if just a little bit - of the anti-worker, anti-union actions he spent his day doing did not even register.
On Monday I had to listen to a former friend, now member of the Senior Management Team, agree with me about how much harm the marketisation of education is, only to then insist that we can't do anything else but make more marketisation.
I mean to look a the modern world and conclude that the problem is Corbyn, the SWP, the tiny anarchist groups etc is deluded.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
10pm is the exit poll, and between then and about 11.30-12 nothing happens, it's just chat.
The first seats, up in the north east start declaring on the way to midnight, and they can be very interesting in themselves, but it's a handful of seats. There's then a trickle of declarations until about 2am, at which point there's an avalanche that lasts till 4.30-5am.
Can't decide if I want to stay up for the early bit to enjoy either Tory bluster chat or despair chat, or get a few hours sleep between 10 and 2, and settle in for the main event.
The first seats, up in the north east start declaring on the way to midnight, and they can be very interesting in themselves, but it's a handful of seats. There's then a trickle of declarations until about 2am, at which point there's an avalanche that lasts till 4.30-5am.
Can't decide if I want to stay up for the early bit to enjoy either Tory bluster chat or despair chat, or get a few hours sleep between 10 and 2, and settle in for the main event.
This book is truly amazing for forensically laying out the system that makes this happen
Disciplined Minds
This book details the battle one must fight to be an independent thinker, showing how an honest reassessment of what it means to be a professional in today's corporate society can be remarkably liberating. Poignant examples from the world of work reveal the workplace as a battleground for the...
books.google.co.uk
Forget the bizarre take on it that the Google summary above seems to have. The book actually shows the inevitability of how the education system producing professionals (ie anybody who needs to pass a qualifying exam from some kind of education institution to do their job) will produce people that actively work towards maintaining the systems of dominance that perpetuate inequalities.
I have a copy of it in my Dropbox if anybody wants to PM me for it
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Left leg in , right leg out.
www.independent.co.uk
Labour in position to stop Farage becoming an MP, campaign group confirms
Clacton gave Tory MP Giles Watling a huge majority of 24,702 in 2019 – now it may be a straight race between Labour’s Jovan Owusu-Nepaul and Nigel Farage
www.independent.co.uk
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
Boris to the rescue! All hail Britain’s saviour
Monday's national newspaper front pages
Sky News takes a look at the headlines on Monday's national newspaper front pages.
The Mail’s front page in particular is one for the ages
Daily Star clearly the best one.
The Sun has gone very retro with Andy Carroll getting drunk and having a fight. Quite 2011 that one.
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two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Probe finds 10 X accounts have posted 60k times with 'big influence' on election
The accounts in question have shared more than 60,000 posts on social media platform X, formerly Twitter, since May 22, with those posts estimated to have been seen 150 million times
He's fallen into all the conspiracy holes.
What the hell was the Bud light incident?
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
I think Budweiser in the USA did something or other for Pride, only to find themselves boycotted by twats like Orkney Mussolini there.
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
This, presumably. They hired a trans woman to do some social media promotion stuff and it annoyed Kid Rock.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
The howls of anger of the good folk of Orkney could be heard in Dumfries, that I can tell you.
(I can't...)
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