The 2024 UK General Election - news, speculation and updates

[Epona]

Dont be daft. Cats dont have thumbs.

Clearly you have never woken up short of breath and there is a sleeping cat on your throat or across your face

 

[Ground Elder]

Cornwall now have no fekkin Tories,

Devon, however...

 

[two sheds]

I liked the look on Truss' face, somewhat bemused but determined to smile through the tears

 

[Epona]

I liked the look on Truss' face, somewhat bemused but determined to smile through the tears

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Has no-one photoshopped a Cos lettuce over her face yet?
U75 photoshoppers, you disappoint me

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Has no-one photoshopped a Cos lettuce over her face yet?
U75 photoshoppers, you disappoint me

mildly disappointing the monster raving loony party didn't put up someone dressed in a lettuce costume against her (although it might have split the vote)

 

[two sheds]

cos tume?

 

[Nine Bob Note]

I haven't watched the Lizzy Lettuce count yet (I was at work by then) - I was skipping through the BBC footage when I got home, recording the Portillo moments with plans to create a super cut that I could upload to PornHub, but soon fell asleep. I doubt she was crying, I think her mind has long ascended from our plane of conciousness.

 

[sptme]

Very welcome news.

Why is violating women's boundaries and enabling rapists good news, you misogynist cunt.

 

[krtek a houby]

Why is violating women's boundaries and enabling rapists good news, you misogynist cunt.

What are you on about?

 

[kebabking]

I liked the look on Truss' face, somewhat bemused but determined to smile through the tears

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It was a superb performance by Our National Idiot - she spent the whole declaration with this fascinating, unfocused, interested but perplexed look on her face, while looking the wrong way.

Truly remarkable, and an iconic image of its genre.

 

[Artaxerxes]

It was a superb performance by Our National Idiot - she spent the whole declaration with this fascinating, unfocused, interested but perplexed look on her face, while looking the wrong way.

Truly remarkable, and an iconic image of its genre.

She was properly smashed on something to an amazing degree

 

[rubbershoes]

She was properly smashed on something to an amazing degree

Her belief that she's right and everyone else is wrong

 

[Voley]

Her belief that she's right and everyone else is wrong

This hasn't left her yet has it? At some point it has to, doesn't it? Doesn't it?

They way she acted, I'm wondering if she's actually realised she's out of a job yet. She looked totally bewildered throughout. Couldn't even get on to the podium on time.

I can see them ushering her out of the office door on Monday. "But Liz, you don't work here any more"

 

[Lord Camomile]

"Yes, of course, I understand that, but what you don't seem to understand is that I need to get into the office so I can do my job.

I'm going to be the next Prime Minister, you know"

 

[andysays]

Interesting piece about the discrepancy between numbers of votes and seats

Biggest-ever gap between number of votes and MPs hits Reform and Greens​

The gap between the share of total votes won by the winning party in the 2024 general election and the share of Parliamentary seats won is the largest on record, BBC Verify has found.

This disparity has prompted renewed calls for reform of the electoral system, with Richard Tice of Reform UK complaining on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday of the “injustice” that his party had received millions of votes but only five seats in Parliament. He said: “That is blatantly not a properly functioning democratic system - that is a flawed system. The demands for change will grow and grow.”

The Green Party’s co-leader Adrian Ramsay said he wanted to see a “fairer system” to ensure that “every vote counts equally”.

The Electoral Reform Society claimed it was “the most disproportional in British electoral history”.

 

[two sheds]

This hasn't left her yet has it? At some point it has to, doesn't it? Doesn't it?

They way she acted, I'm wondering if she's actually realised she's out of a job yet. She looked totally bewildered throughout. Couldn't even get on to the podium on time.

I can see them ushering her out of the office door on Monday. "But Liz, you don't work here any more"

"Say goodnight to the troops, Gracie"

 

[stethoscope]

Actually, fuck it....

 

[TopCat]

zzz

 

[TopCat]

What are you on about?

Harry potter

 

[Lord Camomile]

Interesting piece about the discrepancy between numbers of votes and seats

Biggest-ever gap between number of votes and MPs hits Reform and Greens​

It'll be interesting to see if there's any kind of alliance on this between Reform, the Greens and possibly other small parties.

Curious as to whether there's any way they could find to work together.

Although, would obviously benefit Reform the most, and that might dampen the enthusiasm of the Greens, et al.

 

[Silas Loom]

Interesting piece about the discrepancy between numbers of votes and seats

Biggest-ever gap between number of votes and MPs hits Reform and Greens​

Discrepancy is a question-begging term. Why should they correlate?

 

[maomao]

Why should they correlate?

Because that's what any reasonable person would understand a democratic vote to result in before it had been explained that it doesn't.

 

[PR1Berske]

Why is violating women's boundaries and enabling rapists good news, you misogynist cunt.

Oh boy.

 

[Silas Loom]

Because that's what any reasonable person would understand a democratic vote to result in before it had been explained that it doesn't.

If a reasonable person had a reasonable understanding of democracy, that understanding would presumably extend to the basics of representative democracy.

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Discrepancy is a question-begging term. Why should they correlate?

It takes you a while to wake up in the morning, doesn't it?

 

[andysays]

It takes you a while to wake up in the morning, doesn't it?

From what I've seen, Silas is quite happy to post shit like this at any hour of the day or night

 

[Silas Loom]

That’s not even well observed. I don’t post nocturnally.

 

[planetgeli]

Smallest margins​

Hendon (Lab) 15
Poole (Lab) 18
Basildon & Billericay (Con) 20

 

[Silas Loom]

Hendon is a weird one. It was Labour in 1997, and it was a tight marginal most of this century, including the Corbyn era in an area with a strong Jewish vote. On paper, you’d have expected a secure Labour win this time round.

Barnet Conservatives were hitting the Khan/ULEZ stuff for all it was worth, maybe that just plays well in Hendon for some reason.

 

[maomao]

If a reasonable person had a reasonable understanding of democracy, that understanding would presumably extend to the basics of representative democracy

No. I've had to explain it both to UK teenagers and adults from a country where they don't vote recently and while they've all understood the literal meaning of democracy they've all struggled with the idea that the majority of the voting population end up with votes that don't count.