The 2024 UK General Election - news, speculation and updates

[kenny g]

Result not out yet

 

[Elpenor]

I hate Farage but he knows how to do a stump speech which will be all over the news tomorrow

 

[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.

If the turnout figure the Guardian feed has just posted - 57%, lowest ever - is correct then the share of electorate that voted Labour will be lower than 2019, 21.1 vs 21.6%

 

[MickiQ]

Greens have won Bristol Central it seems

 

[scifisam]

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

Yes, but so is Corbyn. They did double-screening for when Keir Starmer won so could have given Corbyn a few more minutes.

It's deliberate.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

 

[Kid_Eternity]

He's on c4 looking pleased..

His first reaction came off like a loss.

 

[JimW]

Tory on Sky saying "there's a human side to this too" like we give a fuck about their unemployed spads and candidates

 

[Ted Striker]

Gullis gone!

 

[moochedit]

When's mogg's seat due?

 

[oryx]

Tories have won Leicester East from Labour.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

The Tory bloke was head of the council here until the Tories spectacularly lost to the LibDems.

He helped to fuck up RBWM and leave them on the brink of bankruptcy.

So, so glad he's lost!

 

[skyscraper101]

Fabricunt is out!! Yes!

 

[Epona]

Fabricant has been defabricated

 

[strung out]

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.

Was listening to a podcast episode from Clacton recently. Some Labour supporting long term Clacton residents were quite resentful of retirees from London who had moved there to get away from the multicultural city. Didn't see Clacton as being a particularly racist/anti-immigrant place until people started bringing their resentments from elsewhere. (Pinch of salt obviously, as just an interview with a couple of people)

 

[moochedit]

Looks like all 3 coventry seats are labour holds. Don't know detail.

 

[two sheds]

haha fabricant

 

[moochedit]

He's on c4 looking pleased..

Nooooo!!!!

 

[kenny g]

Yes, but so is Corbyn. They did double-screening for when Keir Starmer won so could have given Corbyn a few more minutes.

It's deliberate.

JCs result is spectacular. In 2019 he delivered very large numbers of votes but due to the labour org labour completely failed to act tactically so won few seats. Starmer has won massive seats but not got out the vote in the same way.

 

[MickiQ]

Gillian Keegan has lost to LD by massive margin

 

[emanymton]

Yes, but so is Corbyn. They did double-screening for when Keir Starmer won so could have given Corbyn a few more minutes.

It's deliberate.

He really isn't. Reform are shapping the result on a national scale, Corbyn is pretty insignificant.

 

[moochedit]

Braverman

 

[JimW]

Braverman back, bah.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

JCs result is spectacular. In 2019 he delivered very large numbers of votes but due to the labour org labour completely failed to act tactically so won few seats. Starmer has won massive seats but not got out the vote in the same way.

The latter is deliberate strategy

 

[Calamity1971]

Braverman still in. Ffs

 

[kenny g]

Keegan is toast.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Braverman

Good news, means a real fight between her and Badenoch with Farage throwing grenades from the sidelines.

 

[Epona]

Was listening to a podcast episode from Clacton recently. Some Labour supporting long term Clacton residents were quite resentful of retirees from London who had moved there to get away from the multicultural city. Didn't see Clacton as being a particularly racist/anti-immigrant place until people started bringing their resentments from elsewhere. (Pinch of salt obviously, as just an interview with a couple of people)

The thing is, there is an issue with people having to leave London because they can't afford to live here any more, people getting priced out and having to move - but it's who do you blame for that? Is it immigrants or is it greedy developers and investment type landlords buying up London properties and forcing prices up with seemingly no brakes on the amount of damage they can do to the amount of affordable housing available?

 

[PursuedByBears]

Greens win Bristol

 

[kenny g]

So the Tories who have kept their seats are the worse of the worst.