The 2024 UK General Election - news, speculation and updates

[PR1Berske]

They call it Making the Eight these days PR1Berske

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

Wonder why not

 

[cupid_stunt]

Here's the fun bit -

The scale of the rout under this projection means many of the Tories' biggest cabinet figures are now under threat in this campaign.

Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, Grant Shapps, the defence secretary, Penny Mordaunt, the Commons leader, Victoria Prentis, the attorney general, Alex Chalk, the justice secretary, David Davies, the Welsh secretary and Johnny Mercer, the armed forces minister in the cabinet are all on course to lose their seats under this projection.

Twelve of the 26 members of the cabinet who are running for re-election are at risk in total. In addition, the future of Steve Baker, Cabinet Office minister, and Bim Afolami, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, and Lee Rowley, housing, planning and building safety minister, are all hanging in the balance, the projection suggests. Twenty-two of the 45 ministers of the government confirmed to stand are at risk.

Labour could be on course for 194-seat Commons majority - YouGov poll

Keir Starmer could be heading to Downing Street with a majority of 194 seats - the biggest for 100 years - according to the first polling projection by YouGov since the election was called.

news.sky.com

 

[ruffneck23]

This is the funniest election ive ever had the misfortune to watch

 

[tim]

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!!"

I don't think Stuart Hall is criminal or sleazy enough the party of Jeremy Thorpe, Cyril Smith, and Clement Freud

 

[MickiQ]

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)

Oh Noes how terrible, I suspect it will be less than than that but I can't imagine it being less than a 100 now. What I would like to see based on those figures is those 2 Green MP's being elected. A Green led Govt would be an unmitigated disaster but the one thing the Greens have done is to bring home the point that people are concerned (albeit to different degrees) about climate change and all major parties have a got a little bit more green tinged as a result. Driving this point over a bit more will be a good thing though I still suspect they might get pipped at the post.
I'm drawing up a list of things to check on Election night and will add count Green MP's and check Clacton to see if the Frog Lord wins to that list.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Wonder why not

Its because you just had a quote in your reply.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Shapps just called one of the presenters live on Sky News, he answered asking what Shapps thought about this poll, and that he would be losing his seat, Shapps just hung up.

 

[Lord Camomile]

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)

A real man of the people.

Well, the people who happen to be wherever he fancies his chances at the time.

 

[PR1Berske]

Its because you just had a quote in your reply.

Aaah got you

 

[spitfire]

Shapps just called one of the presenters live on Sky News, he answered asking what Shapps thought about this poll, and that he would be losing his seat, Shapps just hung up.

lol



(can people not on twitter still see videos?)

 

[cupid_stunt]

lol



(can people not on twitter still see videos?)

I have a twitter account, but no twitter posts on here are showing up today.

 

[Serge Forward]

I've never had a twitter account but can see the video on here.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Shapps just called one of the presenters live on Sky News, he answered asking what Shapps thought about this poll, and that he would be losing his seat, Shapps just hung up.

Oh, even better, Shapps is due to be interviewed by Sophy Ridge on her Sky 7pm show, I wonder if he'll turn up.

 

[Bingoman]

Oh, even better, Shapps is due to be interviewed by Sophy Ridge on her Sky 7pm show, I wonder if he'll turn up.

Could be interesting to watch

 

[SpookyFrank]

This is the funniest election ive ever had the misfortune to watch

The stupidity on all sides can only escalate from here. And soon the candidates will all be locked in so even if (when) one or more of them goes off the deep end they still end up on the ballot.

 

[_Russ_]

Blow it up with high explosives pulverise into brick dust, load the brick dust into a rocket and fire the rocket into the heart of the sun

Essex owes me at least a little fun after all these years of accepting its existence

 

[philosophical]

 

[Lord Camomile]

Oh, even better, Shapps is due to be interviewed by Sophy Ridge on her Sky 7pm show, I wonder if he'll turn up.

I have to assume he'll be announcing he's standing down, and actually made this decision weeks ago but wanted to tell his staff first, and Alice was on annual leave for a couple of weeks, then Gary was off sick...

No, none of the staff are available for comment, please respect their privacy at this difficult time.

 

[brogdale]

I genuinely hope that Farage's Clacton campaign matches the high-flying feats of his Buckingham one.

 

[Dogsauce]

I genuinely hope that Farage's Clacton campaign matches the high-flying feats of his Buckingham one.

Bit higher, bit faster. Fingers crossed.

 

[brogdale]

Bit higher, bit faster. Fingers crossed.

Instantly gave me a Daftpunk ear worm

 

[stavros]

I have to assume he'll be announcing he's standing down, and actually made this decision weeks ago but wanted to tell his staff first, and Alice was on annual leave for a couple of weeks, then Gary was off sick...

No, none of the staff are available for comment, please respect their privacy at this difficult time.

Photos below, of Alice and Gary, along with Michael, Corinne and Sebastian:

 

[nottsgirl]

Do you think this will mean he has to fly in any more small planes?

 

[brogdale]

Do you think this will mean he has to fly in any more small planes?

Oh, go on then...

 

[Kaka Tim]

Do you think this will mean he has to fly in any more small planes?

Clacton Airfield: Pilot comes to abrupt halt into hedge

The pilot miscalculated his approach to the runway and ended up in foliage, a report finds.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Mation]

Fair play to the LibDems...



For some reason twitter posts are not appearing for me, so here's a screen grab for anyone else having this problem.

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Can't really tell from that pic... Exactly how happy were they?

 

[stavros]

Keep in mind that Clacton was briefly UKIP, when Douglas Carswell defected from the Tories. He won the subsequent by-election, and the 2015, but didn't stand in 2017, when UKIP were dumped to third, with the Tories retaking it.

That suggests Carswell the man may have been more popular there than either of his parties.

 

[Flavour]

I reckon farage will win that seat and I reckon reform will around the same share of the popular vote as the LDs if not more.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

I don't think Stuart Hall is criminal or sleazy enough the party of Jeremy Thorpe, Cyril Smith, and Clement Freud

I think you'll find he is.

Stuart Hall pleads guilty to child sex abuse

Former BBC presenter Stuart Hall is branded an "opportunistic predator" as he admits indecently assaulting 13 girls, the youngest aged nine, between the 1960s and the 1980s.

www.channel4.com

 

[ruffneck23]

I have a twitter account, but no twitter posts on here are showing up today.

Yeah, I've been trolling like a right fucker, but posts not showing up either.

Thanks space Karen