The 2024 UK General Election - news, speculation and updates

[spitfire]

And TBH I'll be checking out before all the big ones hit.

So I'll leave this here for everyone's use after I've gone to bed.

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Although if someone could send me some STAY AWAKE drugs I'll go all the way through.

Just putting it out there...

 

[ddraig]

Reeves with the hymn sheet meh

 

[Elpenor]

Reeves with the hymn sheet meh

Starmer with a bob haircut

 

[Voley]

Double espresso you're going to be up til at least 3.30 and gazing at the swingometer like it's the bestest sparkly thing you've ever seen

I think I'm due another. Might get a dawn walk in then, an all.

 

[Epona]

Although if someone could send me some STAY AWAKE drugs I'll go all the way through.

Just putting it out there...

If we're making requests, I prefer an avenue into the surreal and some shrooms wouldn't go amiss

 

[YouSir]

Sadiq Khan talking about winning over Reform voters. Starmer's going to come out in a full SS uniform.

 

[two sheds]

And it's suddenly 2 o'clock

I've been watching other stuff though and tuning out the boring triumphal labour's 'Change' speeches. I have to say though that tonight I am finding pure joy in the tories losing.

Tomorrow I'll be concerned about what labour's going to do .

 

[JimW]

Time difference was ideal here, up at six to get breakfast on, wake kids and pack off to school then settle down to massacre of the Tories.

 

[tommers]

So Tories haven't gone to Labour. They've gone to reform. All that shit wasted.

 

[redsquirrel]

I doubt that, but anything in the mid 30s shows there isn't much appetite for Labour and shows up starmer's line about getting the trust of the country as absolute bollocks.

Not that mad but probably not going to happen, Share of electorate in 2019 was higher than in 2015, 2010 and equal to 2005. So this time around turnout would probably need to be <60%.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Sky doing a piece saying similar just and also pointing out Tory vote done better than exit poll in the NE seats, though obviously bit different where they're the challenger.

Vote share is something losers love to talk about but this system of voting means winning seats matters more…

 

[Kid_Eternity]

So Tories haven't gone to Labour. They've gone to reform. All that shit wasted.

In the north and east by the look of it but to LibDems in other seats?

 

[miktheword]

Worst defeat since 1935, reality’s calling. Time to face it.

Not on share of votes, not on number , but can make stats show what you want. Centrist dads are gonna centrist dads

Your storm is coming, probably deliver fascism to us like the rest of your cohort in Europe.

 

[YouSir]

Local news reporting turnout down 10% round my end, surprising it's not more really.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

 

[Voley]

And it's suddenly 2 o'clock

I've been watching other stuff though and tuning out the boring triumphal labour's 'Change' speeches. I have to say though that tonight I am finding pure joy in the tories losing.

Tomorrow I'll be concerned about what labour's going to do .

Yeah I'm enjoying it just now but with the reservations you've got.

Reform are genuinely concerning me too.

 

[Epona]

And it's suddenly 2 o'clock

I've been watching other stuff though and tuning out the boring triumphal labour's 'Change' speeches. I have to say though that tonight I am finding pure joy in the tories losing.

Tomorrow I'll be concerned about what labour's going to do .

This is why I'm watching, I have no illusions that Labour is going to do anything amazing (or anything much at all), but I want to see the tories getting trounced.
The Reform gain is not something to celebrate however, that's concerning although IMO not that unexpected.

 

[JimW]

That is a slight discrepancy.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Not on share of votes, not on number , but can make stats show what you want. Centrist dads are gonna centrist dads

Your storm is coming, probably deliver fascism to us like the rest of your cohort in Europe.

The voting system is what it is, you either accept reality and work with it to win power or you don’t…this is why we need it changed.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

That is a slight discrepancy.

Just a little…

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Telford gain produces the biggest ever swing to Labour.

 

[editor]

It turned out that the bar I DJ at had been chosen for the local Labour party's celebration night. It was a ticket only affair but seeing as I'm pretty much staff there and volunteered to take care of any tech problems, I figured no one would mind if I snuck in for a pint and lurked quietly at the bar.

Except two two councillors immediately recognised me, and the one said to to me, "people have paid to be here so if the bar fills up you'll have to leave." The place was nowhere near full, neither was it ever likely to be,

 

[JimW]

Ooh, Vale of Glamorgan making a bold hat challenge
ETA No, that was somewhere else

 

[YouSir]

The voting system is what it is, you either accept reality and work with it to win power or you don’t…this is why we need it changed.

How does it change when you accept it and work within it?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

 

[Epona]

The voting system is what it is, you either accept reality and work with it to win power or you don’t…this is why we need it changed.

Bollocks is it, it's like changing a lightbulb on the Titanic while it goes down.

 

[redsquirrel]

Vote share is something losers love to talk about but this system of voting means winning seats matters more…

Why Reform, the RN, AfD, etc are winning votes

 

[JimW]

Disappointed to see a Winstanley standing for the Tories

 

[Kid_Eternity]

How does it change when you accept it and work within it?

I said accept reality and work with it to win power.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Bollocks is it, it's like changing a lightbulb on the Titanic while it goes down.

Ok.