The 2024 UK General Election - news, speculation and updates

[petee]

Yep, this was a shrewd strategy

i'm watching from across the ocean ...
but reform had been painted as the Party On The March, leading the way to the rightwing future, and so far it's labor 127, reform 2, and the LD and tories neck-and-neck (per Bloomberg).

 

[Kid_Eternity]

 

[JimW]

Another Reform gain, Great Yarmouth

 

[oryx]

Jeremy Corbyn's time isn't up

I was really moved by his speech, and his getting emotional at the end.

 

[cupid_stunt]

On Sky they had Jeremy Corbyn come on stage and then cut to Farage as soon as he'd said thank you. No double screening like when Starmer won and someone else was on screen, they just cut Corbyn off in a way that seemed very pointed. Neither Corbyn or Farage are leaders of a major party, but one of them was, and that usually means more time. Nup, cut away mid-sentence.

Farage gets as long as he wants. Most of it seems to be him saying he did it without any financial backing.

Aaah. There goes my happiness, drained away by the media's obsession with Farage.

Sadly, Farage is big news, because of the Reform vote share nationally.

 

[Calamity1971]

yeah. us non rich people can afford a wank room.

We just settle on the shower. or maybe an Onănïstool from IKEA if your lower middle class

It was you all along! Sorry Epona .

 

[JimW]

Fabricant apparently gone, where's my footage. How will he feed the wig?

 

[Humberto]

Jeremy Corbyn's time isn't up

and it's important!

 

[philosophical]

We have to put up with that cunt Farage even more.
Utter cunt, and Labour stopped their guy from calling him out every day. Bollocks Labour behaviour even if they were never going to win.

 

[PursuedByBears]

BBC forecasting SNP to hold only 6 seats

 

[strung out]

Another Reform gain, Great Yarmouth

Ex Southampton FC chairman, Rupert Lowe

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Hope this means he’s starting a new party?

 

[Epona]

Don't forget the turnout was 59 percent. Clacton has plenty of good people who are just completely disconnected from any of this.

Oh I know, but there are a few hotspots in Essex where the vote tends to go quite right wing.
There are good people everywhere, but I still would be unsure of moving anywhere Farage could win with that sort of majority.
Where I live at the moment is a shithole, but I think it's been Labour since 1905, which feels a good bit safer and more stable.

 

[oryx]

Confirmed that Ashworth has lost his seat.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

Peernoally, I'm in shock about

Don't forget the turnout was 59 percent. Clacton has plenty of good people who are just completely disconnected from any of this.

is it possible to be truly good and politically disconnected?

 

[Elpenor]

BBC are down rating Labour majority so looks like Tory seats may be nearer 150?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Yep

 

[hash tag]

Looks like badnoch (sp?) won

Next Tory leader,?

 

[moochedit]

Bbc's latest reform estimate is down to 4

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

1999; I got sent on a 3 month placement at the Clacton campus of Colchester Tech College. Lived there from September to December - a tourist seaside town, out of season.

It's not hard to figure out why it's the perfect place for the resentment and hopelessness that drives the far right vote. The whole place was just desperate, and nobody in power has ever given a shit.

 

[JimW]

Ex Southampton FC chairman, Rupert Lowe

Could he spend his own money on the campaign? Presume he wasn't short.

 

[scifisam]

Never been to Clacton. Never want to go.

I went a few times as a kid when it had a good funfair. It was kinda dying then and has been slightly dodgy for a long time. It's mainly interesting for photographers viewing the decline of the coast. It just has no jobs, basically.

 

[Humberto]

BBC are down rating Labour majority so looks like Tory seats may be nearer 150?

Wow that' amazing!

 

[Kid_Eternity]

 

[hash tag]

Ex Southampton FC chairman, Rupert Lowe

Hes no saint

 

[Epona]

It was you all along! Sorry Epona .

You know Shippy has that manga

 

[kenny g]

Badenoch's politics are shite but she can actually speak like a human which is always refreshing.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Mogg lost??

 

[kenny g]

Mogg lost??

He's on c4 looking pleased..

 

[JimW]

BBC are down rating Labour majority so looks like Tory seats may be nearer 150?

Sky seemed to be showing their vote bombing where they needed to hold but holding up or rising where they had no hope, so reckon that might be pessimistic.