The 2024 UK General Election - news, speculation and updates

[redsquirrel]

Where are these 'huge reported turnouts'?

 

[strung out]

Chris Grayling has just been nominated for the Lords in Sunak’s dissolution honours

 

[Bingoman]

Chris Grayling has just been nominated for the Lords in Sunak’s dissolution honours

What really

 

[moochedit]

Chris Grayling has just been nominated for the Lords in Sunak’s dissolution honours

He's announcing them already?

 

[strung out]

What really

 

[moochedit]

Where are these 'huge reported turnouts'?

We'll find out in half an hour (if true).

 

[redsquirrel]

We'll find out in half an hour (if true).

Well exactly, I wondered if there were any reliable early reports it was just twitter bumph

EDIT: I'd be very surprised if turnout was higher than 97, I'd be quite surprised if it was higher than 2017.

 

[moochedit]

Well exactly, I wondered if there were any reliable early reports it was just twitter bumph

Can't see anything on google news. I don''t know if major news orgs are allowed to report turnout before 10pm? I know there are some reporting restrictions during polling hours.

 

[hitmouse]

Yeah, not convinced that a party that gets 70%+ of the seats on 39%of the vote is going to that hard on PR - the Tories might become converts, but I don't see much sympathy for them in the body politic.

Big thing is that quite simply, the quasi-Fascists are going to get 0.5-1% of the seats on 15+% of the vote. There's going to be a very large slice of that body politic who think that any unfairness to the LD's or Greens is a reasonable price to pay for not having 90+ Faragist MP's in the commons.

Yeah, fwiw, as far as I'm bothered either way, I suppose I'm vaguely in favour of PR because it's a more democratic system, if 15% or 30% or whatever proportion of people are supporting the far-right then that's a problem that you can't just magic away by not giving them enough seats, I don't think you can say that democracy's bad because people might make the wrong choice... but also, fundamentally, PR would destroy the Labour and Conservative parties in their current incarnations, and so I'm not going to hold my breath for a Labour, or indeed Tory, leader to go "alright everyone, I'm going to introduce a reform that will immediately cause our party to split and never be able to rule again except as part of a coalition."

 

[Bingoman]

Smelling salts and tissues at the ready form Laura K

 

[two sheds]

Are you effing serious?

I like that he didn't question adoption of tory austerity policies, abandoning environmental commitments, support for genocide, weaponizing antisemitism accusations while taking no action against party employees who actually caused the problem, expelling thousands of labour members for no good reason including Black and Jewish ones ...

 

[Kaka Tim]

Nervous as fuck... Just how fash is the UK?

 

[skyscraper101]

Here we go... come on

 

[belboid]

Alright, I'm at my mates. I have (clearly) sorted out the wifi.

Here we fucking go

 

[tommers]

Jesus christ. Channel 4 has Dorries, Kwarteng and then cut over to Alastair fucking Campbell. Its not a great start.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

Margaret Hodge given a peerage ffs.

 

[Karl Masks]

Chris fucking Grayling?

I can't take much more of normal island

 

[Sue]

Reform13 Ffs.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Been down the pub, just checking for the exit poll - LOL.

 

[planetgeli]

SNP crushed if that's right.

 

[two sheds]

Jesus christ. Channel 4 has Dorries, Kwarteng and then cut over to Alastair fucking Campbell. Its not a great start.

yeh I can't watch that. Trying BBC but I may have to turn the sound down and watch Father Ted instead. .

 

[Lord Camomile]

13 for Reform.

Christ, this country...

 

[belboid]

Referendum 13 Ffs.

that and 131 for the tories looks a bit contradictory

 

[planetgeli]

Fuck Refuck.

 

[Dogsauce]

Too many cunts still elected by look of it. And reform in double figures ffs.

 

[Bingoman]

131 for the Tories could be worse later

 

[Sue]

that and 131 for the tories looks a bit contradictory

Corrected to Reform. Bloody autocorrect.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Referendum 13 Ffs.

Take with a pinch of salt ATM, the exit poll is not geared up for a minor party popping up.

 

[bluescreen]

that and 131 for the tories looks a bit contradictory

How so? RefUK will have replaced Tory in places like Louth & Horncastle and maybe even Truss's constituency in Norfolk

 

[Lord Camomile]

"Sir Kier Starmer has done something extraordinary"

Has he bollocks. He's done fuck all! He's lucky if 410 votes are down to him, letalone 410 seats.