General Election 2024

UK Reform Party - let’s save Britain from entitled pr#cks like Hugo Miller 😂

What a despicable man, equally despicable party and these white enclaves they choose to represent also disgusting.

Right now the title of this thread couldn't be more apt.

"General Election 2024"?

Yep.

But huh?

Maybe you thought you were in the "Fall of the Tory Party" tease fest?

Imminent merge requirement is getting very real....

Words are failing me.

You're right, it was late.

Reform candidate concerned about migration...
... after being shocked to see queues at border control in an airport

https://x.com/ChrisPa00061749/status/1799172773480173574

Just cycled past a house with a Vote Green placard in the garden. Beside the van, motorbike and 2 big cars.

Let's have some sober statesmanship from Johnson:

Where does he get the money to keep standing for stuff.

Garry Sutherland (“
@Reforminator
” on Twitter), Reform UK Ltd’s parliamentary candidate for Exmouth & Exeter East, kicks dogs:

https://x.com/2primates/status/1799337034747928765

So, “schnorrer” is Yiddish for beggar and scroundrel, what chance is there that Johnson doesn’t know that Starmer’s wife is Jewish and it’s just a coincidence?

Zero chance.

He will plead ignorance knowing full well the intent.

If he was just going for boring he wouldn't have used the ch.

Had my cricket 1-1 coaching session this morning; it’s a well known spot for a lot of professionals to have a hit because it’s just one batting cage and there’s an element of privacy to it. England players, folk from Surrey etc often pop in.

Ask the guy who runs it all if he’s had anyone in recently - he goes behind his front desk and instead pulls out a Polaroid of Sunak being there, and said he also pops in regularly for 1-1s. Had a small laugh and he said he’s had to keep it off the socials…

Add it to the list

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XzAujyzN9JxpUl9rN7EIIX0AlgaXL8rE/view?usp=sharing

Nearly a decade missing from most of those lists now!

Also WAFC - it's not even as if Starmer sounds vaguely like schnorrer, even for the pun to attempt a landing.

Absolute cunt of the first order, likely trying to launch a variant of his ‘witty’ nickname for Starmer at PMQs, Captain Crasharooney Snoozefest.

Why did so many people think that he was pleasant and/or very intelligent? And why do so many still believe that?

.

Rumours of Sunak resigning and being replaced by Cameron…

(Just rumours though…)

If I were Rishi I’d be off to California.

It would be so incredible to call an election and not make it to polling day. Would outdo Cameron, May and possibly even Truss in the self-sabotage hall of fame.

The editorial board will also have known

Maybe he'll run on a platform of offering a referendum to create a perfect loop

It would be so incredible to call an election and not make it to polling day.

Here's how the cynic in me thinks...

He probably only called the GE because he was warned that there was a threat of enough letters going in to the 1922 committee and he considered being ousted as leader a worse fate than the GE.

Once that was done, and after a few disastrous events for the Tories (not least the return of Farage to split the right vote) he knows the Tories are going to lose heavily in the General Election and therefore he doesn't want to be at the helm when that happens or, more importantly, still at the helm for the start of the next Parliament.

So, what is his choice:

• Be leader for a historic defeat? - doesn't want that and still leaves him as an MP
  
• Give up, resign and not stand for re-election as an MP? - doesn't want that either - that's losing too much face
  
• Do something bad where he is kind of forced to resign and also not stand for re-election? Such publicly terrible such as prioritise a recorded TV interview over the 80th anniversary of D-Day?
  
  

I think it's a calculated exit move that is the least terrible option out of a selection of terrible choices.

Great article on this week's chaos, sounds like David Lammy played a blinder getting Starmer at the D day commemorations and in front of Macron and Zelensky
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/infighting-on-the-beaches-behind-the-scenes-of-the-d-day-debacle-6rlvt8nr6#Echobox=1717872360

interesting article. I haven't read anything in the times for a while and I enjoyed their seething at the way it's going for them.

also enjoyed this:
“Labour used to make the argument that the pie ought to be more equitably distributed. But the Tories have eaten all of the pie and burned down the kitchen.”

although obviously it's very shit for all of us that this is the case