The 2024 UK General Election - news, speculation and updates

[Brixton Hatter]

Dehanna Davidson on the BBC, yet another tory blaming their loss on "disunity in the party" rather than the fact they've screwed the country into the ground for 14 years

 

[belboid]

Lowest turnout since 2005

 

[planetgeli]

Anyway this is great and I'm really looking forward to Starmer introducing his policy on...er......erm.

Fuck it.

 

[T & P]

Lowest turnout since 2005

Ultimately, who gives a flying fuck though?

 

[weltweit]

Had a quick second sleep, no more results so didn't miss anything.

Come on counters get counting .. !!

 

[Calamity1971]

Dehanna Davidson on the BBC, yet another tory blaming their loss on "disunity in the party" rather than the fact they've screwed the country into the ground for 14 years

Deheena who resigned due to migraines and not a rat leaving a sinking ship.

 

[Yata]

dan jarvis about to lose his seat to a bloke who was too racist for nigel farage hahah from mayor to this. what a plonker

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Was that Kinnock on Radio 4, talking about how Starmer is "a gutsy radical", because "he's not afraid to be pragmatic. It's only shallow thinkers who are afraid of pragmatism"?

He’s right, pragmatists cope with reality far better than ideologues.

 

[Elpenor]

Ultimately, who gives a flying fuck though?

A lot of the electorate clearly

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Ultimately, who gives a flying fuck though?

Never really matter much tbh. The voting system makes turnout hard to get to really high levels.

 

[T & P]

A lot of the electorate clearly

Far more clearly don’t.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Backboneless centrists cosplaying at being Bolsheviks is the least sexy of all the political kinks

 

[Gerry1time]

Could Yvette Cooper really lose?

Oh my god please yes. Although if she did lose I'd suspect she would then propose banning losing. Because banning things is her answer to pretty much anything ever.

 

[The39thStep]

Never really matter much tbh. The voting system makes turnout hard to get to really high levels.

yup

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Having a specific wank room must be how the other half live

Some have minimalist open plan homes that have wank zones.

 

[Idaho]

Rumours of corbyn holding his seat?

 

[hitmouse]

He’s right, pragmatists cope with reality far better than ideologues.

What, like the reality that Kinnock lost two elections? Proper sage pragmatism that. I'd love to hear more of his advice.

 

[Epona]

Does anyone else think that the outfit and hat were presented to the returning officer with a "this is traditional for you to wear" in the same way that sometimes apprentices are sent to go and get sky hooks and tartan paint?

 

[Silas Loom]

Just woke up after lights out at 19:45, not sure how much sleep I actually got. Hope exit poll doesn’t account fully for tactical voting and Tories go below 100, but Curtice probably knows what he is about,

 

[Bingoman]

Reform doing well in the north east

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Rumours of corbyn holding his seat?

Mix of winning with 1500/ too close to call from what I keep saying. Think we’re 1-2 hours away from declaration…

 

[ddraig]

Never really matter much tbh. The voting system makes turnout hard to get to really high levels.

How?
there was a graphic on beeb just now and it was 80%+ thatcher era and 70odd% for a while then dipped after bliar

 

[DaveCinzano]

BREAKING:
Binface being interviewed by Kearney in Richmond

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Looks like Galloway has lost (YAY)?

 

[ddraig]

Another hat!

 

[moochedit]

Rumours of corbyn holding his seat?

Bbc says "labour sources" reckon its close so that he does it.

 

[The39thStep]

Mix of winning with 1500/ too close to call from what I keep saying. Think we’re 1-2 hours away from declaration…

You mean ‘hearing ‘ rather ‘saying’ surely .

 

[Kid_Eternity]

How?
there was a graphic on beeb just now and it was 80%+ thatcher era and 70odd% for a while then dipped after bliar

In this era I should have said. In the broadcast age FPTP and higher turnout all go hand in hand. We live in a new political and media age and it’s harder now…

 

[Kid_Eternity]

You mean ‘hearing ‘ rather ‘saying’ surely .

Sorry that should have been seeing

 

[Hotel Chocolate]

Kinnock the bloke who lost two general elections to the Tories ?

"Well all right, Well, all right! Well, all right! Well, all right!"