The 2024 UK General Election - news, speculation and updates

[Zapp Brannigan]

8th gear. 8th time lucky?

 

[cupid_stunt]

Farage has now announced he's standing after all.

 

[skyscraper101]

He's standing. Clacton. LOL.

 

[cupid_stunt]

In Clacton.

Launching his campaign from the end of the pier tomorrow at midday.

 

[Bingoman]

So will him standing help make the Tories excint

 

[Karl Masks]

Keir starmer better get his clacton shit together then

 

[Karl Masks]

I wonder how many tories thois will pull over? Possibly even Truss perhaps? Bravermaniac maybe?

All aboard the SS Sunak!

 

[Callum91]

Farage positioning himself to become leader of the second biggest party once the Tories eat themselves into extinction.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

"On every level the national debate has shifted hugely to the left since Cameron and Osbourne in 2010"

This is fundamentally one of the most dishonest statements I've ever heard, even by that cunt's standards. May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, Brexit, the Labour Party, Trump, everything. Far right.

 

[moochedit]

Tice has invited Farage to become leader of Reform, Farage has accepted.

Tice was always just keeping the seat warm for Farage anyway.

 

[moochedit]

In Clacton.

Launching his campaign from the end of the pier tomorrow at midday.

Let's hope for a gust of wind

 

[Pickman's model]

Let's hope for a gust of wind

with farage the flatulent a gust of wind is guaranteed

 

[skyscraper101]

Brexshit champion Nigel banging on about how the country is in decline and nothing works. Not enough facepalms.

 

[Pickman's model]

"On every level the national debate has shifted hugely to the left since Cameron and Osbourne in 2010"

This is fundamentally one of the most dishonest statements I've ever heard, even by that cunt's standards. May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, Brexit, the Labour Party, Trump, everything. Far right.

he's also lying when he talks of pledging himself to ruk for the next 5 years, the moment someone waves a cheque under his nose he'll be off

 

[cupid_stunt]

I would love to be a fly on the wall in the Tory HQ, they will be gutted.

 

[tim]

Keir starmer better get his clacton shit together then

This is a job for Luke Akehurst; a surprise attack on the sleazy toad from the right.

 

[Artaxerxes]

"On every level the national debate has shifted hugely to the left since Cameron and Osbourne in 2010"

This is fundamentally one of the most dishonest statements I've ever heard, even by that cunt's standards. May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, Brexit, the Labour Party, Trump, everything. Far right.

Its a wild paranoid fantasy and its just mindboggling that anyone would even remotely take him seriously.

 

[Pickman's model]

This is a job for Luke Akehurst; a surprise attack on the sleazy toad from the right.

that's not how you spell turd

 

[Pickman's model]

He got badly and I mean badly stung whilst working with Hope Not Hate on a Panorama documentary about Tommy Robinson. He was set up to have lunch with Lucy Brown an on-and-off ally ( now totally off) of Robinsons. Sweeney was after some dirt and his lunch with Lucy Brown was covertly recorded by her. The footage released in Robinson’s video ( if you remember he toured with it showing on a huge screen) had Sweeney running up a drinks bill of over £200 , slurring badly and comparing working class people to cannibals from the Amazon., making racist and homophobic remarks and trying to get her to make accusations of sexual assault against Robinson.

He was gutted like a kipper. Panorama ditched him.

i see hope not hate have decided to make a quick buck of nf standing in clacton - they've already launched an appeal for money

 

[Serge Forward]

is it lib dem campaign policy that all their candidates wear stupid hats and dick about on water slides, inflatables and obstable courses like they're in some cutprice reboot of "its a knockout"? They just need stuart hall to do the comentary on July 4th "And here come the lib dems, .. they've played their joker! oh - but they're stuggling through the crazy castle .... AND ITS A LOST DESPOSIT!!"

What will they do in the mini marathon?

 

[PR1Berske]

Nothing has changed then.

Something has changed. Farage will now be on the leadership debates. The Tories won't like that.

 

[agricola]

Its a wild paranoid fantasy and its just mindboggling that anyone would even remotely take him seriously.

It is about as far away from a paranoid fantasy as it is possible to be; the whole structure of right-wing (and centrist) politics has been set up over some years / decades to push this narrative of someone else being to blame for the decline that people are starting to experience more and more.

They've spent billions setting up the means by which this can be done, with thousands of people in the media, think-tanks, grift-influencers, commentators and so on having pushing that narrative as their actual careers.

 

[redsquirrel]

Vote Lee Anderson to keep the Tories out

Of course this strategy has worked long term wonders across Europe, the US, hell even the UK in 2019.
After all the PD in Italy and SDP in Germany are absolutely benefiting from the hard right taking votes from the centre right.

 

[PR1Berske]

Nigel Farage has failed in seven previous attempts to be elected as an MP, having contested these elections …

1994 Eastleigh byelection (Votes 952, vote share 1.7%, 4th)
1997 Salisbury (3,332, 5.7%, 4th)
2001 Bexhill and Battle (3,474, 7.8%, 4th)
2005 South Thanet (2,079, 5%, 4th)
2006 Bromley and Chislehurst byelection (2,307, 8%, 3rd - Rachel Reeves was 4th)
2010 Buckingham (8,410, 17.4%, 3rd - running against speaker John Bercow. 2nd was John Stevens representing the Buckinghamshire Campaign for Democracy)
2015 South Thanet (16,026, 32.4%, 2nd)

 

[tommers]

Oh christ, more of that prick on my fucking telly.

 

[Serge Forward]

Bumping it up to Eleven!

Is it a push bike with derailleur gears? How very woke

 

[Artaxerxes]

They call it Making the Eight these days PR1Berske

(I can't quote your post so tagging you)

 

[Artaxerxes]

Glad he's changed his mind and will now be enjoying Clacton on a Friday night though (from a Times article in Feb)

 

[cupid_stunt]

Just announced Sky News/YouGov MRP poll result -

Labour maj. 194 seats.


Labour - 422 (+221)
Tories - 140 (-232)
LDs - 48 (+40)
SNP - only 17! (-31)
Green - 2 (+1)

 

[philosophical]

He was elevated to the leadership from an electorate of, errr, one.