General Election 2024

[doggone]

I'll just leave this here.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd11xxn833yo

[panrider_uk]

Looks like 13 seats for Reform according to the exit poll.

Good result if it happens
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[Easy-X]

Kick in the nuts for the SNP and Plaid Cumrag.
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[Polarbear]

Going to be interesting how quickly Labour have to do things to keep people happy rather than whine about the tories.

I really hope they do well but I think it will turn to rat shit very quickly.
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[tinkicker]

Do not yave a TV licence, so cannot watch live, but it appears that Nigel, Richard Tice and Lee Anderson have all been elected.
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[UncleFester]

I just can't get excited about it one way or the other.

Presuming you do nothing with taxes - then what you have at your disposal to spend remains the same as there's a limit to what you can cut if you want to break free of austerity. So if you want to do 'more' then it's going to cost more, end of.

I'll still have to get up for work and my living costs aren't going to magically go down.

Similar but different might as well have been their manifesto.
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[rpsmith79]

It is rather interesting looking at the proportional representation votes, as Labour haven't really made that much of a gain, as it stands now, they have gained a 1.6% vote share across the UK

Its the Tories that have lost the most, 19.9% down

But its Reform that have made the biggest gain at 12.2% vote share

It does very much look like the Conservatives have performed the greatest self-immolation

Source:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2024/uk/results
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[Nobby the Bastard]

[Freddyfruitba...]

I see Truss has been kicked into touch, but only by a tiny amount...
.... hard to believe that after what she did, that even the most ardent Tory felt she was worth their vote?
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[rpsmith79]

[Polarbear]

[Nobby the Bastard]

The only places that Reform won seats is where the Torys used to have a fucking massive majority so losing 30% to Reform gave Reform a majority. Everywhere else it just split the Tory vote leaving neither in first place.

In 3 out of 4 of the seats the Tories still came second and Labour got roughtly the same percentage as they got in the last election.
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[UncleFester]

Making it rather more of a landslide Tory loss and a minor labour victory
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[Nobby the Bastard]

Apart from the fact that there was a massive swing to Labour in the local elections and at virtually every by election and a large Labour majority as predicted before Reform started to put up candidates.

All that has happened is a load of people have voted Reform or Liberal rather than Laour.
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[Easy-X]

[UncleFester]

Surely you mean Politics and politicians?
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[tinkicker]

No one has any appetite for Labour. They did not get voted in, it was the Tories that got voted out.

Lets face it, Starmer, love him or hate him has inherited an almost impossible task and the public are very keen to see change.

He cannot put any grandiose plans together because he has no money to spend.

He cannot cut jobs in the civil service and local government to ease public spending, because the unions will not allow it. They will continue to be the bloated, inefficient organisations they are currently.

Labours public approval ratings will crash as they just bounce along the seabed, unable to change much of any consequence and knowing Labour, will shoot themselves in the foot by introducing the very policies the public has already told them they do not want.

Starmer will be the scapegoat and will soon be attacked by the more rabid party members and ousted. I give him 18 months.

If ever any party did not want to win an election, it is this one.

I could almost feel sorry for Starmer. I think it will break him.
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[doggone]

EV mandate brought forward again that is going to cause huge resentment it isn't just no ICE after 2030 there is the escalating fines already in place just starting to really kick in.

[Easy-X]

[Easy-X]

Oh, and wasn't the result of this election meant to be yet another "referendum on independence" for the SNP?
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[to v or not to v]

same shit, different day.
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[Nobby the Bastard]

[Easy-X]

That's some good news then. In the event of someone with some balls turning up (say in 5 years time) with the resolve to stop spending money we don't have it'll be much easier to jetson the private sector. No pensions to worry about either.
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