General Election 2024

As is tradition, let's get the GE thread for the forthcoming election up and running.

Frist post!

https://youtu.be/V6QhAZckY8w?si=_QhKj1k4qkN8v45s

As others have said I await with glee the various opinion polls, result predictions and eventual final results.

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Anyone hear Sunk on the Today programme this morning? When are journos going to start pulling him up on his lies? This morning the classic 'Labour bankrupted the country' FFS.

He's abysmal. Tetchy, petulant, fake laughter. God I fucking detest them...

So, polling suggests a possible extinction level event for the Conservative Party as they have successfully managed to blow apart their 2019 election winning coalition with a litany of poor decisions, unforced errors and serial incompetence.

I thought this was a pretty accurate analysis of how they've alienated a large swathe of their previous support:

https://nicktyrone.substack.com/p/this-week-in-brexitland-may-23-2024

Guys.
You're all getting fizzy.
The Tories are Real Madrid.

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Rishi Sunak is no Carlo Ancelotti.

Grifter not running to go and grift more shocker:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/23/nigel-farage-says-he-will-not-stand-in-uk-general-election-reform

he got pulled up about his claims that britain has higher growth than the US. sunak's numbers are from a single quarter. nick robinson quoted the numbers for the last year and for the period since the start of covid (some thing like 8% for the US, 0.5% for UK) and it was deliciously excruciating.

Madrid are still in Europe though.

On my daily catch up (big bank/ops side) a couple of the older people, clearly aren't relishing an incoming Labour Govt due to taxes for higher earners, school fees, interest rates.

I couldn't keep quiet over interest rates and had to call that out. But I thought it was interesting.

Admittedly most of my peers who share my views are in a different salary bracket from these particular people, but many of them are on high salaries and want the Tories out.

Still regardless of how much you earn I struggle to grasp the idea that you'd view getting rid of the current perpetual shit show as a negative. Guess it shows it's good to get out of your bubble.

He really is the most skilled politician of our generation isn't he.

If only he could have found a way to use his powers for good.

Yes. I get this.
I think they'll get beaten but extinction level would mean the views of people in the UK change over night. We are still a very divided, horrible opinion owning, bunch of cunts.

Rishi Sunak is no Carlo Ancelotti.

This election will be his Everton moment characterised by massive overspending on wasteful contracts and they'll end up with Frank Lampard in charge in two years.

a couple of the older people, clearly aren't relishing an incoming Labour Govt due to taxes for higher earners, school fees, interest rates

But, obviously, fuck those cunts.

We are still a very divided, horrible opinion owning, bunch of cunts.

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Good point. I'll tell them. I'm sure that'll be the argument that brings them round.

interest rates.

How did they think Labour were going to effect interest rates?

We are still a very divided, horrible opinion owning, bunch of cunts.

My theory that most threads are answered within the first few comments lives on.

I think they'll get beaten but extinction level would mean the views of people in the UK change over night.

True that. My local area is full of crusty old Tories who will vote Tory regardless, because they always have.

Last time I remember turning up at the same time as a coach from a local retirement home, where they were being Sheparded in, most likely without a clue of what's going on judging by their faces.

Still regardless of how much you earn I struggle to grasp the idea that you'd view getting rid of the current perpetual shit show as a negative. Guess it shows it's good to get out of your bubble.

I was thinking about this last night, and how there's that old thing of people getting older supposedly starting to swing more right (not sure if this is just made up mind). But even if it's true, how can anyone swing as far right as the government has gone and look at them and think 'I used to be quite lefty/centrist but as I've got older it's all started to make more sense to me'.

Ofwat announces how much water bills go up to pay shareholders soon, that’s going to help the tories shed some MP’s.