The 2024 UK General Election - news, speculation and updates

[Artaxerxes]

If I wanted to see Twitter feeds I’d be on Twitter

 

[SpookyFrank]

Useful

I'll tell you something useful. The ignore function.

Comes second only to the deeply underrated 'shut the fuck up' function.

 

[The39thStep]

Of all the shit Starmer is going to pull a levelling up minister is something that I can't fault.
Sure there are parts of the North that are very well off, and deprived parts of the South - but there is a gap and it is immense. And from a sheer electoral point of view if makes sense, people up here feel (whether fairly or unfairly) neglected by London/Westminster.

Best way to tackle the influence/threat of Reform would be to tackle regional and constituency inequalities. The Northern municipalists et al will get something out of it , simply to repay for not rocking the boat and of course Burnham has Rayner as his eyes , at least for the present.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Very pleased to see this

 

[Petcha]

If I wanted to see Twitter feeds I’d be on Twitter

It's 'X'

 

[Kid_Eternity]

I'll tell you something useful. The ignore function.

Comes second only to the deeply underrated 'shut the fuck up' function.

You familiar with the world’s smallest violin?

 

[Wilf]

Do you really think she's the 2nd most powerful person in Britain?

 

[Artaxerxes]

It's 'X'

No I’m not changing it, I still keep calling outlook Hotmail and starburst opal fruits, I’m not going to give the racist man baby the satisfaction of indulging his edgy cyberpunk hardon by calling it X

It’s Twitter and it’ll stay Twitter, or occasionally it’ll be twatter

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Very happy with this change

 

[PR1Berske]

I think the country could use a bit of a middle management boring as fuck government for a while tbf. After the last 5 years of white knuckle mentalness.

That's my view. We've had chaos. We now need boring.

 

[danny la rouge]

Do you really think she's the 2nd most powerful person in Britain?

No, that would be Maya Jama.

 

[Wilf]

Very good news

Will this stop when you hit the vinegar stroke?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Something that never really came up in the campaign will be a big feature of our new Labour government…

 

[Petcha]

No I’m not changing it, I still keep calling outlook Hotmail and starburst opal fruits, I’m not going to give the racist man baby the satisfaction of indulging his edgy cyberpunk hardon by calling it X

It’s Twitter and it’ll stay Twitter, or occasionally it’ll be twatter

I do quite enjoy the way broadcast journos are still referring to it as 'X, formerly known as Twitter'. How long has it been? Worst rebrand ever?

 

[tim]

Interesting

Oh no, it isn't!

 

[redsquirrel]

Will this stop when you hit the vinegar stroke?

<followed by KE Blair clip>

 

[alex_]

Something that never really came up in the campaign will be a big feature of our new Labour government…

He’s not wrong the nhs only phased out fax in 2020.

Christ, I missed the bit about AI what a load of bollocks

Doctors in the NHS can’t get modern laptops and surgeons have to supply their own surgical, but AI will fix things.

 

[Wilf]

'Where were you on the historic day Labour won back power after 14 years?'
- watching some idiot reposting twitter crap on Urban.

 

[Dystopiary]

<followed by KE Blair clip>

I thought that might be what they'd started posting since I gave up clicking on their spammy twitter links.

 

[Hotel Chocolate]

The thing I take away from this election is:

The Tories are still with us and they will rebound by the next election, they haven't been wiped out.

 

[YouSir]

Something that never really came up in the campaign will be a big feature of our new Labour government…

This is the opinion of someone who doesn't really understand AI or what it does but has been to a load of flash events thrown up rich tech grifters where they've told him a load of hyped up bullshit. All his version of tech-solutionism will ever amount to is private contracts to harvest data from public bodies and a firm kicking for anyone on the user end of them.

 

[Wilf]

The thing I take away from this election is:

The Tories are still with us and they will rebound by the next election, they haven't been wiped out.

The amusing thing is the ones who won and are stuck in Parliament. Can't see the lobbyists wasting too much on these irrelevance when there will be all those greedy Labour MPs to bribe.

 

[Silas Loom]

Something that never really came up in the campaign will be a big feature of our new Labour government…

Says the massive luddite who had all emails printed out for him when in office . . .

 

[Silas Loom]

Anyway, what the blistering fuck is happening in South Basildon? Third recount?

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Very happy with this change

Though not in the cabinet as he's a LibDem our new MP went to the same comprehensive school my son goes to.

I'd voted for him, tactically, to get the Tories out but it was also interesting that for many voters, like me, it was also important to vote for someone local who grew up in and knew the area.

 

[Weller]

Very happy with this change

Well yes at least its its a nice change
but whos going to give work to the unemployable from the special needs school now
Some of them from Eton after short notice will now be left with no sky TV , just a months severance pay to clear out an office of 14 years of tat , boxes upon boxes of untouched work folders ,unopened mail and with addictions still to feed etc

 

[teqniq]

This pretty much sums up my feelings for the incoming Labour administration and I for one intend to hold my newly elected and parachuted candidate Alex Barros-Curtis's feet to the fire over a range of issues:

Richard Seymour, Majority Without a Mandate — Sidecar

Elections in the UK.

newleftreview.org

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[gosub]

The thing I take away from this election is:

The Tories are still with us and they will rebound by the next election, they haven't been wiped out.

Not so sure...looks more like an SDP moment with Reform...a decade of Labour easy

 

[danny la rouge]

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And in a way, he is.