General Election July 2024

[swisstoni]

It’s going to be interesting. A hung parliament or a coalition is a waste of everyone’s time as nothing is easy to get done.

And we need to get things done after years of apparently fk all getting done.

[CourtAgain]

Another long drawn out change of drivers....



but I can't see the bus getting on the move any time soon

[The Gauge]

Not looking forward to GE news dominating the headlines every day up to and beyond 4th July.

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The Gauge said:

Not looking forward to GE news dominating the headlines every day up to and beyond 4th July.

Same here.

These threads will be entertaining though.

[bitchstewie]

This is really good

https://x.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/17933154009370...

[chemistry]

MrBig said:

Teppic said:

Can't vote Tory, won't vote Labour, and everyone else is pretty much a wasted vote.

What a time to be alive.

The very literal definition of self-fulfilling prophecy. Why are so many people stuck in this mindset?

For what it’s worth, I share that mindset. Tories are a busted flush. Labour, amazingly, will be even worse I’m sure (albeit in different ways) and nobody else is close to power (even if they were credible (which they aren’t).

There’s nobody decent to vote for; may as well sit back and watch the country slide further towards oblivion.

I predict a very low turnout. For the first time in my life I don’t think I’ll be voting.

[carlo996]

Barchettaman said:

The corrupt and incompetent Tories are going to be utterly wiped out. This will make the 1997 loss look like a success story in comparison.

Their poll numbers are at rock bottom plus their normal quotient is going to get split off by the Remain numpties.

It’s a great time to be alive.

To make way for the corrupt, completely untested and morally bankrupt right wing Labour party. Open goal for Starmer I fear this election.

I feel you are going to be somewhat disappointed as to the major affect it will have on anything....apart from paying a load more tax

Sort of makes sense to call it. They're fked anyway, and the economy is showing the smallest signs of being less worse. With the defectors making noises better to just strike...oh, get used to that word

Let's see the manifesto's all lined up.

[FiF]

I have no one to vote for really.

However a prediction which is that before very long the likely Labour govt will be very unpopular even amongst some who are currently gagging for one.

[anonymous-user]

How long have Labour had to prepare! First video major blunder. Clowns

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/05/22/la...

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BikeBikeBIke said:

Cobracc said:

Hopefully Labour will actually spend the money

What money?

The UK's economy is about 3 trillion dollars a year. The idea that we can’t afford to have basic things like clean water, working courts, education, healthcare and housing is capitulation to people trying to reduce your expectations for their own benefit.

[Rusty Old-Banger]

FiF said:

I have no one to vote for really.

However a prediction which is that before very long the likely Labour govt will be very unpopular even amongst some who are currently gagging for one.

But they will never admit it

Like you, I can't see me having any vote.

[FMOB]

At least it is a mercifully short run-up to the election.

I think they are all idiots, none are worth a vote but which ever set of comedians get elected I hope the country will be in a better position at the end of their tenure than when they started, fat chance I know but we can hope.

[OutInTheShed]

The Gauge said:

Not looking forward to GE news dominating the headlines every day up to and beyond 4th July.

At least it's not a long time.

But then we'll have a Summer of talking heads analysing the results before anything actually happens in Parliament in October?
Nothing much will actually change anyway.
This time next year for the first challenge to Starmer's 'leadership'?

[MC Bodge]

MiniMan64 said:

Blue62 said:

Hard to believe anyone with an iota of intelligence could still think the Tories are an option.

Justice system is kaput, prisons overcrowded to the extent that criminals are being released early, while the police being asked to limit arrests.

NHS is on its knees.

Our defence budget is so bad that we can’t even pay for a D-Day flyover, with two massively over budget aircraft carriers, both late and without a full complement of aircraft.

The government is expected to spend almost £5bn on post Brexit border controls.

Schools are falling apart, we’ve had ten education secretaries since 2010.

Prices have increased by 20% in the last three years and taxation is at its highest level since WW2.

Immigration has reached record levels directly contradicting government promises and the less said about the Rwanda fiasco the better.

Universities have been hit hard by the reduction in foreign students and practically every local council is in financial difficulties, some facing bankruptcy.

To top it all we’ve had the previous two PM’s resign in disgrace. But Labour……..

This.

In spades.

Blue passports, though.

[philv]

If there are problems in this country it's down to global events and the 70 million halfwits that we are.
But easier to blame the government.

[Downward]

Daz68 said:

What a stupid idea to announce this outside? Complete joke.

If only the tories had spent millions on some kind of room for announcements.

[Downward]

Mr Penguin said:

Rusty Old-Banger said:

Because freedom.

Someone will do similar to Kier, can't imagine what the song will be though.

I hope not. Trying to drown out the PM (or LOTO) because you didn't/don't vote for them is in poor taste IMO. Respect the office if not the man.

It’s that Brexit bloke from Port Talbot. His attention is now all on the Tories.

[bitchstewie]

philv said:

If there are problems in this country it's down to global events and the 70 million halfwits that we are.
But easier to blame the government.

Don't think the mishandling of Brexit was a global event.

Don't think Johnson being crooked as scoliosis was a global event.

Don't think the nutjob membership choosing Truss and her mini-budget after Johnson was a global event.

You get the idea.

[Boringvolvodriver]

chemistry said:

MrBig said:

Teppic said:

Can't vote Tory, won't vote Labour, and everyone else is pretty much a wasted vote.

What a time to be alive.

The very literal definition of self-fulfilling prophecy. Why are so many people stuck in this mindset?

For what it’s worth, I share that mindset. Tories are a busted flush. Labour, amazingly, will be even worse I’m sure (albeit in different ways) and nobody else is close to power (even if they were credible (which they aren’t).

There’s nobody decent to vote for; may as well sit back and watch the country slide further towards oblivion.

I predict a very low turnout. For the first time in my life I don’t think I’ll be voting.

I am also politically homeless right now although feel strongly that we should all excerise the right to vote rather than just abstain. Unless one votes, then imo you don’t really have a right to complain.

Maybe a “none of the above” party might do better!

Unless any of the parties can convince me then it will be a spoilt paper for me

[911Spanker]

I won't vote either. I have never known such a bunch of incompetent muppets in my life.

Some of the new grads I hire have more between their ears than 90% of politicians of all colours.

This country is a mess.