The fall of the Tory party

I used to be similarly pure, now I’ll pick whoever fucks the tories the most. Fuck the tories, it’s the only way.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/conservative-mp-tom-hunt-photo-id-elections-dyspraxia-b1155272.html

This pillock appears to only be concerned with himself, rather than the fact that his party have made voting more difficult for other sufferers of the same condition.

Lab 44% con 18% Ref15%

https://twitter.com/lara_spirit/status/1785894700496388140

Cllr Ross Armour
@RossArmour346
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35m
Just confirmed on
@LBC
that Labour has gained Washington South ward on Sunderland City Council from Reform UK. A similar result at the general election involving one Mr Lee Anderson would be very welcome indeed

Was going to pop this in the memes cracking you up thread, but somehow it seemed most apt here

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4ZqL3aSznm

Have a great weekend people

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Labour have taken a seat in my Council area (Fareham- Braverman Land) for the first time ever as far as I can see. Lib Dem also plus 4+ for a total of 8. The Tory chairman was just on Sky bigging up the result which is just bizarre, this place is quintessential nasty racist tory town, you could put a blue rosette on my cat etc...

Absolutely, he's trying to bring back that HIGNFY 90's idiot popularity

In the absence of a deluge of results, keep your pecker up by reading this rather buoyant early analysis from the swear master general:

https://iandunt.substack.com/p/elections-2024-the-tory-day-of-reckoning

What's happening with the Tees Valley mayor?

Tories seem quite confident in holding it but I wouldn't have thought it was a big Tory area and there's been loads of scandal around it. How come there is such a big Tory vote there?

Is it a rural area outside of Middlesborough
Where the bosses and farmers live?

Ah ok it includes the cities…probably full of Brexits

Yarm. Thornaby. Guisborough. Stokesley.

10p millionaires

Quintessential example of a northern Brexit-voting left behind area. The flag bearing industry - Teeside steelworks - shutdown in 2015 leaving a lot of discontent with local and national Labour which was seen in having failed to grasp the precariousness of the steel industry in Redcar (which had been on the chopping block for over a decade).

Tories planned it to be the pioneering levelling up project, but then Ben Houchen decided he would rather spread government cash for developing the steelworks (a genuinly very valuable industrial site) to local cronies and now it's a major scandal ready to blow. The Private Eye has some great coverage.

They got 73% of the vote last time, so it’ll take a monumental swing for Labour to win it.

Woke up after couple hours kip. Thought I'd check how things are going. I don't need to look any further....

https://twitter.com/Vince_Evans1/status/1786233759806734698

This. He’s so pathetic, he’ll do anything for attention.

Got my vote.

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Who was Peter Wardlaw?

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I can see why the Tories won it last time but all those red wall areas are swinging back (look at Blackpool). I wouldn't have thought Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, etc were particularly Tory nowadays.

I'd recommend not taking a trip to any of then.

My gran was originally from Hartlepool, and never spoke fondly of it. My Mum decided to have a pilgrimage there after gran passed away, and she managed four hours before deciding it wasn't for her.

I think I've been to them all over the years. None of them struck me as Tory heartlands.

It’s a fucking shithole.