The 2024 UK General Election - news, speculation and updates
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Silas Loom
Advanced. Forthright. Signifficant.
They still have to pick from the approved candidate list. Not that this has previously been a bar to picking maniacs and swindlers and sex pests.
Kevbad the Bad
Amiable Bowel Syndrome
I think his main plan has been to destroy the left in the Labour Party. Mission accomplished!
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
We need to remember that no party has published their manifesto yet, I heard a report yesterday that Labour's is all drawn-up, and it just needs approval before publication, this is done by calling a Clause V meeting, so we should soon know what their policies are going to be.
tommers
Fuck it, it's fine.
Tough on immigration
Tough on benefits
More austerity
Meaningless platitude about the NHS
Reducing energy bills, some vague stuff about being "greener".
They need one more... Youths on quad bikes late at night. Oh, more police! Of course.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
moochedit
I'm not feeding seagulls
They are not wrong tbf.
emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
Exactly my thought.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Does he even plan to get elected? Or was/is his function simply to prevent a left-wing (Palestinian rights-supporting) politician getting elected?
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Yeah, pretty much.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Mishal Husain put Starmer on the spot this morning on Today's 08:10h slot, asking him specifically about the two-child benefits cap and he mealy-mouthed platitudes and tap-danced around it, but refused to commit to do so, even when Husain made repeated references to child poverty.
He's a scumbag.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Oh yeah I think he really really wants to be PM.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
He didn’t simply refuse to commit, he said he wouldn’t. Unaffordable supposedly (& the NHS is the priority)
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
wonder what effect that will have locally.
might reduce the anti-tory vote unless they find a complete twat to put up. in general, constituency is fairly middle class, and was majority remain (although the latter may have been borough rather than constituency - the boundaries never quite matched, and will match even less this time round)
refuck have got a candidate lined up to take the loon vote - don't think they stood against redwood with him being a euro septic.
moochedit
I'm not feeding seagulls
Yeah probably but at the time they didn't know rat boy would fuck up so badly.
ska invita
back on the other side
Anarchist Carne Ross is having a go
Big news from me. I'm standing for Parliament in Islington South for
@TheGreenParty
. As my friends know, I basically hate today's politics and don't believe in the current system. I'm doing this to get rid of the system of 'elective dictatorship' and replace it with bottom-up people's democracy. I'm really going to try to avoid those boring campaign-y messages. Two days into the campaign, I for one have already had enough of hearing them. (Btw, it's an old portrait of me. I didn't have a more recent one of me greyer and fatter.)
Big news from me. I'm standing for Parliament in Islington South for
@TheGreenParty
. As my friends know, I basically hate today's politics and don't believe in the current system. I'm doing this to get rid of the system of 'elective dictatorship' and replace it with bottom-up people's democracy. I'm really going to try to avoid those boring campaign-y messages. Two days into the campaign, I for one have already had enough of hearing them. (Btw, it's an old portrait of me. I didn't have a more recent one of me greyer and fatter.)
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Absolute shambles.
www.belfastlive.co.uk
Captaining a sinking ship - The Prime Minister's shambolic visit to NI
From press being sent to the wrong location to confusion around when interviews would take place, the writers of The Thick of It would have had plenty of material to work with
teqniq
DisMembered
I'm shocked, shocked i tell you.
Meanwhile in a move which should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone, our broadcasters intend to give little or no airtime to smaller parties:
Smaller parties may be squeezed out of UK election TV leadership debates
Lib Dems, Greens and SNP could lose out as broadcasters focus on head-to-heads between Sunak and Starmer
Bingoman
Well-Known Member
Who in charge of his campaign it not going to well
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Depends if they're doing it for a bet.
So far: a brewery, the Titanic, and now this. In the 'make the boss look like a twat without noticing' stakes, there's a ruthless, fabulously persuasive operator out there, and I salute him.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Or her.
PR1Berske
Alligator in chains by the park gates.
It is starting to look deliberate:
1. Stand outside in the rain
2. Throw out Sky News live on camera
3. Go to a brewery (as a teetotaler)
4. Ask the Welsh about looking forward to a football tournament they didn't qualify for
5. Stand outside the Titanic Quarter
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
He's a year late to show his intrepidity
Raheem
Well-Known Member
We're gonna need a bigger list.
I think he's really cracked that 'man of the people' vibe. (Guess he avoided the 'looking massively awkward holding a pint' thing which is a shame.)
Any guesses on the next one? It's surely got to involve something awkward in hi-viz.
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
6 get tory councillors in hi vis pretending to be workers to ask a question
Questioners at Sunak warehouse speech turn out to be Tory councillors
First campaign day marked by concerns about ‘plants’ in audience and PM putting Euros foot in mouth in Wales
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