General Election 2024

The problem with eliminating the Tory party is that something worse may appear in its place.

Eradicating a party doesn't get rid of all of its voters, there will still be a significant number of right-of-centre people in the country and many of them vote.

The danger is that without a just-right-of-centre party to vote for they end up voting for something further right.

Labour's danger is that moving too far left will mean that people who can't stomach voting that far left stop voting Labour or, even worse (for Labour), vote for a party right-of-centre.

Thankfully, and as previously cited somewhere in this thread, the Tories are losing members/voters to death from old age at the rate of 25k per day, which aren't being replaced by those who would choose to vote Tory.

I for one align with our fixeh overlord’s pedantic view of decimate (but also concede that language evolves to a point where the original meaning is completely lost) but nonagintinate is a fucking mouthful and a poorly made up word!

Per month, not per day. Sadly.

Cheers, some of the new seats appear to be weird hodge-podges of Labour inner and Conservative outer London so was wondering how they would be forecast.

Lots of spreadsheets can only be a good thing.

I had an ancestor survive an actual military decimation in the 1830s.

/csb

But if the school offers a prepay then they are offering to fix at that price.

Schools aren't offering that. They reserve the right to increase their fees and then more top ups will be required.

Apparently, I don't send my kids to private school but that is what the tax website thing linked up thread says.

Do builders offer fixed prices on 5 year long projects?

The Conservatives will never win another election crew seem to be missing a few things, such as Boris Johnson was elected Mayor of London twice. A city not full of old people. Jeremy Corbyn suffered a near record loss to the Conservatives in the last election. If they're not under the mad wing in a couple of elections time, I'd bet they'll be back in power.

And I recall that when Obama was in power commentators stating that due to the demographic changes in the USA the Republicans will never win the White house again. But the city of Miami votes Republican.

Yes, but like Greenbank says if the Tories are gone something else might take their place and be more attractive to the young. I think the younger generation are going to be more right wing, like in the rest of Europe.

If we are derailing from private school funding to non-original word usage, can I throw my hat in with my OUTRAGE at the awful misuse of the word "exponentially" in all sorts of media commentariat.

I am so offended by the general misunderstanding of medium advanced mathematical language.

Grrrrrrrr.

Fuxkers.

Decimation is still alive and well in many corporations.

If they're not under the mad wing in a couple of elections time, I'd bet they'll be back in power.

There's the crux of the matter. What form the Tory party takes after the election remains to be seen, but the pandering to the insatiable demands of the right wing of the party has taken them to a place where electoral wipeout is more likely than not.

The make up of the parliamentary party after the election will be key; if it's mainly centre-right MPs then they might correct their course enough to win another election, but if it's the right wing nut jobs in the majority, then oblivion will beckon, even if they merge with Reform.

medium,

mean, mode and average all get tortured and confused too

The problem with eliminating the Tory party is that something worse may appear in its place.

What, the LibDems?

I have no qualms about wiping out the Tories in retribution for the last 14 years. It’s the only way they’ll learn.

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What, the LibDems?

Surprisingly they're very slightly left of Labour at the moment: https://www.politicalcompass.org/uk2024

(Left Libertarian myself so much more likely to vote Green if I wasn't voting tactically.)

Thanks for the clarification, I skimmed the words and went straight to the chart.

How’s he actually being paid, he’s not an MP

Seen Farage get the raving hump?

https://x.com/implausibleblog/status/1802988220210155661

"Your tax proposals help someone who is richer more than someone who
is poorer"

Ed Balls calls out Nigel Farage who then has a meltdown

Oh dear:

@TiceRichard Our vetting firm was paid six figure sum to vet
candidates

They delivered nothing but promises

https://x.com/TiceRichard/status/1803025704952508470

How many times, it's the first bleeding rule of wanting to be an MP, delete all the stuff in your Twitter account about Hitler.

Just saying but we've been without a government for a few weeks now and we're doing fine .....

The average Tory MP has a tendency to be mean. They are in survival mode and are confused by the constant policy changes of their leadership. All Tory MPs deserve to be tortured by live non-Keunnsberg interviews.

Am I doing this right?

Yes but they get to live. Not do much with the gun guys.

I’m in what was Bromley and Chislehurst, but seems to be have carved into perhaps more balanced constituencies.

Anyway my Con MP

When his Saturday afternoons aren’t taken up with politics or sport, he loves enjoying the abundance of green space locally with his partner and daughter.

Nice to know he only likes his family when he has nothing better to do.

To be fair that is a shit interview. Balls started talking about percentage terms and then shifted to absolute terms and it is absolutely no surprise, and doesn't tell us anything, that someone earning lots more money will have a higher absolute benefit from a tax cut.

He is the director and largest owner of the company (not political party) where all the Reform membership fees go though ...