The 2024 UK General Election - news, speculation and updates

[Pickman's model]

Out of interest, when will the new emails be up and running? There’s a number of matters on which I’d like to educate my new MP

How much of the next 5 years are you prepared to spend on this vain effort?

 

[mx wcfc]

There's this from the final week's polls. Not perfect as the Labour vote dropped in the final couple of days (tactical voting, last minute switchers to Greens/Independents once it was clear the election was in the bag etc.), but gives you a good flavour of how people ended up switching between 2019 and 2024


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Interesting that there's a "too young to vote in 2019" and not a "voted in 2019, but dead by 2024" category.

 

[Cid]

Interesting that there's a "too young to vote in 2019" and not a "voted in 2019, but dead by 2024" category.

There is... last block. Just isn't a voter type.

 

[not a trot]

Some NoID stats

Voter ID rule may have stopped 400,000 taking part in UK election, poll suggests

Exclusive: 3.2% of those surveyed say they were turned away at least once, with minority ethnic people worse affected

www.theguardian.com

More than 400,000 people may have been prevented from voting in the general election because they lacked the necessary ID, with those from minority ethnic communities more than twice as likely to have experienced this, polling has suggested.

Of those surveyed by More In Common, 3.2% said they were turned away at least once last Thursday, which if reflected across the UK would equate to more than 850,000 people. Of these, more than half said they either did not return or came back and were still unable to vote.

Among people turned away at least once, about a third had ID that was not on the relatively narrow list of permitted documents; about a quarter said the name on their ID was different to that on the electoral register; and 12% said they were told the picture on the ID did not match their appearance.

They barely glanced at my brand spanking new bus pass.

 

[tim]

“It will be rather like freshers’ week."

Where will they all sit? Commons welcomes 334 rookie MPs in most diverse parliament

The new house has a record number of women and ethnic minority members, but finding seats could be hard during busy debates

www.theguardian.com

Hardly news as the chamber has always been that size and there are fewer MPs than in the last parliament.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Hardly news as the chamber has always been that size and there are fewer MPs than in the last parliament.

According to google it's still 650 MPs, same as last time, SF doesn't take their seats, but they got 7 in both elections, so that doesn't change the numbers.

 

[danny la rouge]

How much of the next 5 years are you prepared to spend on this vain effort?

Not that much. But as with the previous one, I thought since they are there, they should at least get to hear an anarchist communist perspective from time to time. It’s a hobby.

 

[Sue]

Not that much. But as with the previous one, I thought since they are there, they should at least get to hear an anarchist communist perspective from time to time. It’s a hobby.

I was worried you were going to try to educate them about jazz. Anarchist communism is obvs much more socially acceptable.

 

[CH1]

Apologies if already posted

Reform UK candidate's angry response after voters accuse him of being an AI bot

Mark Matlock was forced to confront accusations that he wasn't real - but did admit he used AI to generate his election image.

www.express.co.uk

Presumably "he" could set matter straight with a simple interview on GB News?

 

[scifisam]

Not that much. But as with the previous one, I thought since they are there, they should at least get to hear an anarchist communist perspective from time to time. It’s a hobby.

Find out if any of them are dogs and go and see them in person.

 

[Dog_Voodoo]

Lord big Dave just resigned.

 

[danny la rouge]

Lord big Dave just resigned.

From what?

 

[Dog_Voodoo]

From what?

The shadow Foreign Minister perhaps

 

[danny la rouge]

The shadow Foreign Minister perhaps

Ah, OK.

 

[MickiQ]

Foreign Secretary I presume since he is in the HoL he didn't stand for re-election. I suspect it's just a formality so Starmer can appoint his own choice

 

[Dog_Voodoo]

Foreign Secretary I presume since he is in the HoL he didn't stand for re-election. I suspect it's just a formality so Starmer can appoint his own choice

I believe so.

 

[Calamity1971]

Richard Holden has fucked off

 

[cupid_stunt]

Foreign Secretary I presume since he is in the HoL he didn't stand for re-election. I suspect it's just a formality so Starmer can appoint his own choice

He's stepped down as Shadow Foreign Secretary, Starmer had already appointed David Lammy as Foreign Secretary.

 

[Bingoman]

Richard Holden has fucked off

Good

 

[Wilf]

Richard Holden has fucked off

He'd better be careful if he fucks off, he won't know his way round his new constituency.

 

[Calamity1971]

He'd better be careful if he fucks off, he won't know his way round his new constituency.

Bollocks. That's what happens when you hear in the middle of Lidl. Give him 6 months and I'll say it again .

 

[SpookyFrank]

The shadow Foreign Minister perhaps

Has Sunak even bothered naming a shadow cabinet?

 

[cupid_stunt]

Has Sunak even bothered naming a shadow cabinet?

Yes, earlier today.

 

[Dog_Voodoo]

They are all officially shadowy bastards now

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Foreign Secretary I presume since he is in the HoL he didn't stand for re-election. I suspect it's just a formality so Starmer can appoint his own choice

Nothing to do with Starmer.

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[PR1Berske]

Meet the UKs Gen Z MPs

Fresh faces: meet the UK’s 10 MPs from generation Z

Among those heading to Westminster are the first MPs to have been born in the 2000s

www.theguardian.com

 

[Cerv]

Why are they having a levelling up sec? Don't they have the imagination to make up their own stupid departments for the achievement of fuck all.

And it’s gone.

Jim McMahon says:

No, it was firmly tippexed out of the department yesterday, so we are now the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.

Why that is important for me is levelling up was only ever a slogan, it wasn’t a thing that people felt in their communities.

RIP levelling up. You’ll not be missed.

 

[moochedit]

Meet the UKs Gen Z MPs

Fresh faces: meet the UK’s 10 MPs from generation Z

Among those heading to Westminster are the first MPs to have been born in the 2000s

www.theguardian.com

Nonsense they'd still be in school..... oh

 

[gentlegreen]

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I hadn't paid much attention to where the fash vote was - all down-market coastal towns (edit apart from 30p Lee)- though if I was intending to be a pretend MP, I would have hoped for somewhere more salubrious - but at least the expenses for a constituency office / pied-a-terre shouldn't be too high...