The 2024 UK General Election - news, speculation and updates

[ska invita]

usual general election party night.

Party? What kind of a sadist are you? Drowning sorrows I can imagine....

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Fucks sake. I am separated from my work laptop till Saturday and I need to use it to request leave. I bet July 5th will be fully booked off by the time I can make the request.

I'm heading to my work calendar now!!

 

[Elpenor]

By chance I have the week of July 4th off work

 

[Wilf]

Music playing as Sir Kieth walks up Downing Street the day after the election: Things Can Only Get Better Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss...

 

[Lord Camomile]

Sky News have a helicopter pointlessly circling Westminster. I note they've stopped calling it the Skycopter.

"I've heard rumours that Kieran Trippier has been spotted on the Jubilee line, Jeff. We'll be first with the news if anything develops from that"

 

[Maggot]

 

[Kaka Tim]

any sign of the lecturn of doom yet?

 

[QueenOfGoths]

I'll be performing in "Merry Wives of Windsor" on 4th July so finish at 10.30ish...couple of drinks... back home for some Portillo moments, hopefully!

 

[Karl Masks]

This could be the biggest anticlimax of the year

 

[Silas Loom]

July 4 means dissolution on Thursday week. That should allow time for a VONC if the awkward squad get their collaborative skates on.

 

[skyscraper101]

5pm statement

 

[cupid_stunt]

Sky expecting Sunak to make a statement at 5pm.

 

[skyscraper101]

5th July booked off already.

 

[A380]

Sky News have a helicopter pointlessly circling Westminster. I note they've stopped calling it the Skycopter.

You won’t say it pointless when Rishi climbs out on the roof of Number 10 and starts hoying slates down at the copers.

 

[Wilf]

Sky expecting Sunak to make a statement at 5pm.

'I'll be supporting Keir as the continuity candidate, safe in the knowledge that he's set the labour movement back by decades'.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Yes, there's a scheme where you can go voluntarily for £3,000 and someone took it up.

But a planefull probably isn't going to happen.

One way fare Kigali to London:




Anyone spot the business oppertunity here?

 

[Karl Masks]

I dunno, the more certainty i hear that the Tories will lose, the more I worry they will win

 

[Silas Loom]

You won’t say it pointless when Rishi climbs out on the roof of Number 10 and starts hoying slates down at the coopers.

Tough on barrels, tough on the causes of barrels.

 

[Sue]

I've scheduled a 'WFH' day for my team on 5th July.

Fixed that for you.

 

[MickiQ]

I've scheduled a WFH day for my team on 5th July.

The thought of the Army working from home never fails to crack me up

 

[Santino]

Might put a quick £1 on a surprise abdication.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

The thought of the Army working from home never fails to crack me up

Just leave your drone flying round and round in circles while you nip to get a cup of tea.

 

[cupid_stunt]

any sign of the lecturn of doom yet?

Speakers & cables are out, but no lecturn, as Sky is suggesting he'll make the statement from inside No. 10, because of the rain.

 

[Karl Masks]

This could just be Rish resigning. Apparently letters have gone in to the black hole of democracy called the 1922 Committee

 

[SpookyFrank]

I've scheduled a WFH day for my team on 5th July.

How does that work? Do you get them to invade the garden shed or something?

 

[Raheem]

Battle spirit.

 

[not a trot]

Speakers & cables are out, but no lecturn, as Sky is suggesting he'll make the statement from inside No. 10, because of the rain.

Shout out his announcement through the letter box.

 

[seeformiles]

Battle spirit.

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As my old man would have said “Is the bugger made of sugar?”

 

[Lord Camomile]

July 4 means dissolution on Thursday week. That should allow time for a VONC if the awkward squad get their collaborative skates on.

This could just be Rish resigning. Apparently letters have gone in to the black hole of democracy called the 1922 Committee

I still don't really understand the logic of this scenario, from a Tory POV*. Wouldn't the best thing for them to be to let Sunak go down with the ship, take the flak, and then start 'fresh' after the election. Wouldn't chucking Sunak just make them look even more out of control at this stage?





*I know, I know, but generally they'll act with at least some self-interest...

 

[Sue]

Battle spirit.

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Has he not got a hood? He's not going to melt. (To paraphrase my Mum.)