General Election July 2024

[ChocolateFrog]

philv said:

2 days until the uk votes in a far left socialist government with such a majority they can transform this country in a way not seen for a generation.
For good or bad.
Because people are pissed off with the tories.


Absolute nuts.

Every protest vote is a vote for socialism.

Do you actually believe that?

God help you

[Rufus Stone]

Last day of campaigning. Tories have all but admitted defeat. I am hopeful Sunak and Hunt lose their seats.

[Speed 3]

philv said:

2 days until the uk votes in a far left socialist government......

You don't really understand politics do you ?

[blueg33]

philv said:

2 days until the uk votes in a far left socialist government with such a majority they can transform this country in a way not seen for a generation.
For good or bad.
Because people are pissed off with the tories.


Absolute nuts.

Every protest vote is a vote for socialism.

Far left?



You actually sound terrified it’s sad.

We are likely to have a slightly left leaning centrist government.

I don’t think you have the first clue about what socialism is.

[sim72]

philv said:

2 days until the uk votes in a far left socialist government with such a majority they can transform this country in a way not seen for a generation.
For good or bad.
Because people are pissed off with the tories.

Absolute nuts.

Every protest vote is a vote for socialism.

I remember people saying the same thing in 1997. No-one believed it then, no-one believes it now.

[p1stonhead]

sim72 said:

philv said:

2 days until the uk votes in a far left socialist government with such a majority they can transform this country in a way not seen for a generation.
For good or bad.
Because people are pissed off with the tories.

Absolute nuts.

Every protest vote is a vote for socialism.

I remember people saying the same thing in 1997. No-one believed it then, no-one believes it now.

Because it didn’t even remotely happen then and won’t now?…..

[911Spanker]

There's quite a few left wing nutters in the Labour party.

No doubt can't wait till they get their hands on power..

[shed driver]

911Spanker said:

There's quite a few left wing nutters in the Labour party.

No doubt can't wait till they get their hands on power..

As opposed to the right wing nutters who have had power for the past 14 years?

JRM, Braverman, Patel, Truss.

Who do you fear so much?

SD.

[MiniMan64]

911Spanker said:

There's quite a few left wing nutters in the Labour party.

No doubt can't wait till they get their hands on power..

As opposed to the absolute bat st asylum candidates we’ve had for the last decade?

Can’t believe people still think like this.

[shed driver]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/...

You're only pretending to be blind for the sympathy vote.

Not a word yet from party HQ.

SD.

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shed driver said:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/...

You're only pretending to be blind for the sympathy vote.

Not a word yet from party HQ.

SD.

“ The comments were said to have been made by a Tory doorknocker calling at the house of an unnamed elderly couple in recent days.”

Must be true.

[BigMon]

philv said:

2 days until the uk votes in a far left socialist government with such a majority they can transform this country in a way not seen for a generation.
For good or bad.
Because people are pissed off with the tories.


Absolute nuts.

Every protest vote is a vote for socialism.

Take off your blue tints and apply a smidgen of rational thought rather than hysterical shrieking. You sound like an Express columnist.

[Gary C]

pingu393 said:

vaud said:

Gary C said:

Hummm

We have no poll cards yet...

You don't need one.

The only thing the polling card tells you is where you are registered to vote. As long as you know where your polling station is, all you need is valid ID.

Yes, well aware of that

just hope they haven't missed us off the list.

[emicen]

Zad said:

A question for people who know things... Maybe...

Is it possible for (say) the LibDems and SNP to form a coalition and so, because of number of joint seats, become the opposition? Because I seem to recall that there is legally no such thing as the official opposition.

LibDems aren't generally a threat in Scotland, so wouldn't need a deal not to contest seats there, and I'm sure they would agree to supporting Scottish independence, if it gave them a seat opposite the government in the chamber.

I would hope the LibDems have learned their lesson when it comes to entering Faustian pacts.

The SNP are poisonous, aligning with them to form the official opposition to fight against a super majority would seem very poor judgement.

In a great number of areas north of the border, Labour and the LibDems are going to be gaining seats because people are just as sick of the SNP (possibly more) than the rest of the country seems to be with the Conservatives.

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Gary C said:

pingu393 said:

vaud said:

Gary C said:

Hummm

We have no poll cards yet...

You don't need one.

The only thing the polling card tells you is where you are registered to vote. As long as you know where your polling station is, all you need is valid ID.

Yes, well aware of that

just hope they haven't missed us off the list.

Our cards had a login for us to go online and register even though we were registered.

Not sure what that’s about.

[Hub]

This has felt to me like a fairly short and subdued election campaign - possibly because the result is already known and there isn't that much to say. I haven't had a huge amount of time to engage in it though, so that might be part of it, but it feels like none of the real big issues facing us have been satisfactorily addressed by either side either. The parties all all seem fairly circumspect in most areas

I am disillusioned!

[S600BSB]

Here comes the sun:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/...

[blueg33]

S600BSB said:

Here comes the sun:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/...

Labour has always been good for my industry - housebuilding and real estate investment (aside from PPG3)

[JagLover]

Mr Penguin said:

CraigyMc said:

It's not won until it's announced.

For me the graph is more interesting in terms of the error bars around the libdems and the tories; either could wind up being the opposition.

The error bars show how useless the MRP polls are in this election. This is one of the clearer ones but it still has Conservatives between 34 and 99 and Reform between 1 and 16 and the SNP between 3 and 21. One company had Labour anywhere between scraping a majority through Sinn Fein not taking their seats and winning nearly 500 seats - at that point they may as well not have polls at all. Different companies best estimates are all over the place.

They sort of get away with it because they all predict a comfortable majority but the polling post mortem will be an interesting read.

I think that is a bit unfair to the pollsters. In reality so many seats have become 3 or even 4 way battles that small movements, even of as little as 0.1% of the vote, can affect dozens of seats.

This is not a normal election.

[bitchstewie]

Looks like Sunak and co have put up the white flag.

Johnson out campaigning to try and draw the racists and frothers back from Reform and ministers on TV this morning not making the case for the Conservatives but asking people not to give Labour too big a majority.

Desperate stuff.