General Election 2024

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Greenbank
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.

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nick_h. in reply to @Greenbank

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.”

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