The 2024 UK General Election - news, speculation and updates
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Silas Loom
Man with glasses
It’s not exactly a donation, though, is it? It’s partly a payment for ministerial access as insurance against sudden and unhelpful changes in GP software procurement advice. You don’t get that when you write cheques to a donkey sanctuary.
Elpenor
a clown’s heart and a mandolin
10th October apparently
www.independent.co.uk
Expected general election date revealed after Rishi Sunak rules out May poll
The prime minister is planning for the country to take to the polls in mid-October, narrowly avoiding the US presidential election and clashing with party conference season
www.independent.co.uk
cupid_stunt
Merry fecking Christmas.
The LDs like their silly little stunts, but this hits a new low IMO.
Labour has been bigging up a May GE, which was always highly unlikely, just so they could call rat-boy a chicken when it didn't happen, and this shit is their high point.
Labour has been bigging up a May GE, which was always highly unlikely, just so they could call rat-boy a chicken when it didn't happen, and this shit is their high point.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
The LDs like their silly little stunts, but this hits a new low IMO.
Labour has been bigging up a May GE, which was always highly unlikely, just so they could call rat-boy a chicken when it didn't happen, and this shit is their high point.
The tied, old Lee Cain performance.
Jimmy Don't
Well-Known Member
The LDs like their silly little stunts, but this hits a new low IMO.
Labour has been bigging up a May GE, which was always highly unlikely, just so they could call rat-boy a chicken when it didn't happen, and this shit is their high point.
Yup, this is pathetic. There's another one with Truss and Sunak as a chicken burger, her the lettuce, obvs. I'm all for ripping the piss of these arseholes, but a Government in waiting, with 14 years of unbelievable mismanagement, corruption and lunacy to undo, should be a serious organisation.
Labour shouldn't be sinking to the Tories level, treating politics, the business of running our lives, like a school playground 'roast' session. What next, "your Mum's so fat she..."?
Rob Ray
Weight is meaningless
Some good stuff from Caroline Lucas talking about dysfunction in Parliament amidst a lot of otherwise meh waffle. Graun news sense working overtime as per putting her at the bottom:
www.theguardian.com
‘This place is utterly dysfunctional’: MPs on why they’re leaving parliament
Almost 100 MPs will stand down at the next election – and for many it won’t come a moment too soon. Here, Harriet Harman, Charles Walker, Caroline Lucas and others talk about what life inside Westminster is really like
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
A few hundred grand would be plenty enough for that. 15m is ideological.
Silas Loom
Man with glasses
I did say “partly”, and the levels of access for Tory donors are tiered. Once you’ve exceeded formal tiers, goodness knows what you can ask for.
But yeah, donors are odd. They are ideological, certainly, and sometimes, as with Hester, there’s plenty of self-interest at work, but there must also be some intrinsic thrill of power from stuffing banknotes into the thong of a gyrating supplicant statesman.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Hester seemed to be on the 'getting the prime minister come to your office in person' tier which seems like an appropriate thing to have in a democracy.
Silas Loom
Man with glasses
You get discounts if your workplace provides good photo opportunities, though, like Bamford’s at JCB.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
when working for sainsburys in 2021 i did a delivery to Hesters office . Crate after crate of booze - like 3 dozen . Asked the glum looking receiptionists if they were having a party "no - its for guests" and they said they said it was a regular thing. Thought it was odd then - especailly as it was still during covid restrictions. Still - good to know public money was being spent well.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Labour attack ads are getting worse
Silas Loom
Man with glasses
Is that even the McDonalds slogan any more?
cupid_stunt
Merry fecking Christmas.
FFS, I wish they would all grow the fuck up.
teqniq
DisMembered
This could be interesting:
www.theguardian.com
A revolution in the way Britain does politics has begun in Devon. Tory MPs should be afraid | George Monbiot
There’s an urgent need for a fairer electoral system – and if politicians won’t make it happen, the people will, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Silas Loom
Man with glasses
This could be interesting:
A revolution in the way Britain does politics has begun in Devon. Tory MPs should be afraid | George Monbiot
There’s an urgent need for a fairer electoral system – and if politicians won’t make it happen, the people will, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Looks like the LDs are snookering it, which is unlikely to be in their interests. I am currently rather a fan of Moonboot, because one of the causes he’s adopted is important to me, but he does normally choose doomed ones.
ska invita
back on the other side
"Of the 15 wealthy nations surveyed by the ParlGov project, voters in the UK are the most left-leaning, yet suffer the most rightwing governments"... Interesting fact if true...I wonder what the 15 nations were in the surveyThis could be interesting:
A revolution in the way Britain does politics has begun in Devon. Tory MPs should be afraid | George Monbiot
There’s an urgent need for a fairer electoral system – and if politicians won’t make it happen, the people will, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Elpenor
a clown’s heart and a mandolin
They are trying to get the primary to work just down the road from Totnes here in Newton Abbot too. But some parties don’t want to play
It’s a fair point, but really the problem is the electoral system itself which neither party likely to win a UK election are interested in changing, and of course there are lolz available for calling Labour “progressive”
It’s a fair point, but really the problem is the electoral system itself which neither party likely to win a UK election are interested in changing, and of course there are lolz available for calling Labour “progressive”
ska invita
back on the other side
I didn't understand in the article how a lib dem won the example primary ( I'm guessing Totnes) yet they've been told if they take part they get booted out?
andysays
Love and solidarity
The word "revolution" has let itself goThis could be interesting:
A revolution in the way Britain does politics has begun in Devon. Tory MPs should be afraid | George Monbiot
There’s an urgent need for a fairer electoral system – and if politicians won’t make it happen, the people will, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
This could be interesting:
A revolution in the way Britain does politics has begun in Devon. Tory MPs should be afraid | George Monbiot
There’s an urgent need for a fairer electoral system – and if politicians won’t make it happen, the people will, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
It's based on that very Guardian-y assumption that there's a load of 'progressive' parties lined up against the Tories isn't it. You'd think that the fact the answer it's come up with seems to be 'vote Lib-Dem' might give them something to think about there.
emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
I think they won then the warning went out? That was the impression I got
It's a load of bollocks that won't go anywhere anyway.
And he does that shit thing of calling anyone other than the tories progessive. The fact that a Lib Dem won says it all doesn't it?
Monbiot writes some good stuff occasionally, but this is just drivel.
Bus Honeygun
This week the score draws are plentiful
Yeah, saw that. A mate of mine who's in the bit of Paignton sliced off into the Totnes constituency went to it. I was surprised at the level of engagement, to be fair. I also wonder a bit if the gerrymandering to cut off Paignton's big council estates and more working class Brixham from Torbay is going to backfire on the Tories. Hope so. Don't care who wins as long as they're not Tory.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
and it seems to have taken place without any Labour Party involvement. Which considering they are the next government and were often runners up in the constituency, makes it completely pointless.
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
Totnes as well, which is a worthless sample. I say this because last time I visited the place, you couldn't move for craft shops, woo merchants and weirdo hippy crystal shaggers. It proper peturbed me.
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