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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jul 5, 2024 6:45:49 GMT
Truss too
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jul 5, 2024 6:46:25 GMT
Good riddance....
Dead Sheeran - Good Riddance
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Post by zeopold on Jul 5, 2024 9:50:04 GMT
lol
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Post by personunknown on Jul 5, 2024 9:52:15 GMT
Slight concern that Reform got 15% of the national vote, more than the Lib Dems, PR would see them with 70 plus seats instead of 4. Question for Politician maybe, could the right of the Tory Party elected MPs start defecting to Reform, sitting as independents or triggering by elections?
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Post by politician2 on Jul 5, 2024 10:47:16 GMT
Question for Politician maybe, could the right of the Tory Party elected MPs start defecting to Reform, sitting as independents or triggering by elections? It's certainly possible. What would be more worrying from Labour's point of view would be the Tories and Reform merging into one party. The scale of Labour's victory in seat terms has obscured its dismal performance in terms of vote share. It won 33.7% of the vote – the lowest winning vote share in history, even eclipsing the 35.2% with which Blair held power in 2005. The Tories won 23.7% (the first time they have ever fallen below 30%) and Reform 14.3%. Between them, they took 38% of the vote and would have defeated Labour as a single party. Astonishing as it sounds to say, Labour could conceivably be a single-term government, even with their majority of 170-odd. |
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Post by stu77 on Jul 5, 2024 11:49:54 GMT
Turnout at the General Election is on track to be the lowest for more than 20 years.
After 630 of 650 results had been declared, the turnout figure stood at 59.8%.
This compares with an overall turnout of 67.3% at the last election in 2019.
If the figure stays around 59.8%, it would be the lowest turnout at a general election since 2001, when it was 59.4%.
Were the figure to fall below 59.4%, it would rank as the lowest turnout at a general election since the Second World War
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Post by zeopold on Jul 5, 2024 13:56:21 GMT
Question for Politician maybe, could the right of the Tory Party elected MPs start defecting to Reform, sitting as independents or triggering by elections? What would be more worrying from Labour's point of view would be the Tories and Reform merging into one party. Throw the BNP into the pot for good measure. They're all bigots  |
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jul 5, 2024 13:59:41 GMT
It’s now possible to walk from Brighton to Berwick-upon-Tweed without setting foot in a Tory constituency
Planning to do it to raise funds for a new charity which helps displaced Tory MPs find work in the real world
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jul 5, 2024 14:05:08 GMT
Considering the scale of Labour’s defeat in 2019 the extent to which the Tories squandered that goodwill is extraordinary
It is also the result of strong leadership from KS that began with sorting out the party’s internal problems. The targeting of seats seems to have been particularly successful, if you look at the 5% swing away from Labour in non-target seats like Hove v the 19/20 per cent swings from Tory to Lab in other seats.
Some people lent their votes to Labour and would prefer more radicalism but the early legislation will be Rwanda/railways/fair work agency/onshore wind/housing etc so let’s see how that goes down
The millions who voted Reform is a result of the growing ineqality under Tories and the cutting of public services to the bone. Reform voters are the left behinds and easy meat for opportunists like Farage. Got to give them hope and a stake in the future
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Post by zeopold on Jul 5, 2024 14:30:48 GMT
The millions who voted Reform Easy fix: Deny access to polling stations to anyone with more than 10 fingers |
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Post by politician2 on Jul 5, 2024 14:35:37 GMT
Easy fix: Deny access to polling stations to anyone with more than 10 fingers Bit unfair on the people of Norfolk. They wouldn't have any parliamentary representation at all. |
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Post by zeopold on Jul 5, 2024 14:45:54 GMT
Easy fix: Deny access to polling stations to anyone with more than 10 fingers Bit unfair on the people of Norfolk. They wouldn't have any parliamentary representation at all. Ever visited the Somerset Levels? Makes Norfolk look like Studio 54 |
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Post by smogquixote on Jul 8, 2024 19:44:30 GMT
This Reform phantom candidate stuff is interesting, I knew they’d attract some headbangers given the lack of vetting and the politics of the party itself but fronting candidates that don’t exist is almost unfathomable and very, very illegal.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jul 8, 2024 20:00:18 GMT
Very very weird
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