General Election 2024

i am so jealous of people who were in their 30s in this era

Right?!

Banging meow meow on Mare St. and buying cheap flats in Hackney with 100% mortgages.

Suddenly your cheap Hackney flat smells like cats piss for some reason.

I mean if you're doing it properly you pay the fees via a discretionary trust.

I was broke.

Things can only get better then.

I mean that would be a top negging response to the OG WhatsApp.

"doesn't your kid's school offer the option to pay all the remaining years fees upfront from your trust?"

Because you spent all your money on meow meow?

nothing changed then

Yup, bad times ahead for a lot of universities.

Still wearing this same ‘lo sweater.

40%VAT on Vitsœ and cargo bikes.

Reported for bullying

Their response was "oh great, the day that life gets twenty percent less affordable."

Tell them they need to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, work harder, be more successful, and stop living off tax breaks.

I'm not sure the VAT on private schools policy will raise huge amounts, but it would be worth it for no additional tax revenues just to hear the squealing.

Their response was "oh great, the day that life gets twenty percent less affordable."

Perhaps if money is that tight they should have gone to state school.

But they will become 15K a kid richer per year if they no longer spend on fees.

Richard Tice's logic is so batshit that even Cathy from C4News unstitched him. He'd be better off sticking with 50p Lee's racist breakfast tragedy. https://www.channel4.com/news/tories-have-betrayed-britain-on-mass-immigration-says-tice

50p Lee

Cost of living crisis right there

OK, rumours I've heard about why Rishi called the snap election:

• To avoid being ousted by letters to the 1922 committee (better to go out by honourably falling on ones sword after a pasting in a GE than the ignominy of being turfed out)
  
• Catching Reform UK off guard and making them less liable to steal as many Tory votes (e.g. damage limitation)
  
• It's only going to get worse after the recent "good news" of lowering inflation and energy costs
  
  

I guess we'll never know the actual truth but all three are vaguely plausible.

The Beth Rugby and Jess Phillips podcast had them independently confirm rumours that someone very close to Rishi was going to have "issues"

What’s being hinted at there?

Akshata Murty's tax affairs?

Sleaze, bad conduct and inappropriate behaviour

To avoid being ousted by letters to the 1922 committee

Some cunt on GBNooz called Christopher Hope said that's still possible:

"Wow! Extraordinary but true - some furious Conservative MPs are tonight working on a plot to CALL OFF the general election by replacing Rishi Sunak as leader before Parliament is dissolved next Thursday.
One rebel Tory MP tells me he believes “several” more letters of no confidence in Sunak have been submitted to 1922 chairman Sir Graham Brady.
The senior Conservative MP told me: “Today has clearly been an absolute disaster but the election is NOT irrevocable; up until the point of the Dissolution of Parliament - when the writs are moved to begin the contests, it can still be aborted.
“In other words, if enough Tory MPs, who are clearly going to lose their seats in this already utterly shambolic campaign, write to Sir Graham Brady, tomorrow , the election could still be revoked.”

The people of Coventry were the stars of question time last night.

Bridget Phillipson was not great, total fucked the question on water companies and ICC.

she should have been able to deal with the water company one, labour policies on this are good, but she went down the road of "what about the last 14 years" which wasn't a good look.

It was a bit odd she's normally good in these circumstances.