Lol - electoral calculus site is very slow...
Im worried for the lil’ guy tonight. If he kept that suit on and it shrinks he’s basically in a straightjacket.
If his suits shrink the only thing they will fit is an action man
No excuses for not getting a vote in, ignore the nonsense SNP are spouting about holidays https://www.gov.uk/apply-postal-vote
He's just had security manhandle a Sky News team out of one of his events. It really has been a PR masterclass today.
I'm hopeful this will be Sunak's campaign in a nutshell.
How long till he's shouting at babies?
Anyone sweating about being away when postal vote arrives. You can phone your local election office and check when being sent out and if needs get them to send it to a different address.
https://twitter.com/Number10cat/status/1793337370202247372?t=QpVLbVDA6kW90GVZhIyInw&s=19
Twitter is actually back on form at the moment.
Joyous watching that vid of Sky News guy being ejected. First day of campaigning and it's going to shit already! 😂
Sitting at home thinking “oh they’ll get smashed, I won’t bother to vote”
Brexit - Trump - Sunak 2024?
I know Drac already posted something similar, but I appreciate the refinement of this version.
https://twitter.com/Nick_Pettigrew/status/1793335112123261356
My local Tory MP has posted something nice on Twitter about the Labour member for Halifax who is standing down. He has made no mention of the upcoming election. This was about an hour ago. Read into it what you will, but I suspect that the Tories are going to have to find quite a few new candidates in a hurry.
For all those worrying about being away on the day and not getting a postal vote, don't forget you can nominate a proxy to vote for you. As for the house move conundrum: check the rules as it has previously said you voted based on your registered address a certain time before the election date.
I've just read a short piece suggesting that as NI and Scotland are on school holidays, many of the polling station buildings are closed and most of the (usually council) staff needed to oversee an election have holiday booked. This could cause real issues...
Announcing something that hasn’t been properly thought through?
Surely not?
Anyone sweating about being away when postal vote arrives.
Nope. They don’t need signing for so the postman can just stick it through the letterbox.
Anyone else relishing ‘chatting’ with any Tory canvassers with the brass neck to knock on their door?
In the 25 years that have lived in this house, we have never had a Tory canvasser,( nor labour or lib dem to be fair) and only rarely any Tory literature. That’s because it was a very safe blue seat ( 24500 majority) and we live a little out of the main village and I suppose it wasn’t worth their while.
Since the local elections last year where our ward overwhelmingly voted for a green councillor we have had five or six visits from the local green candidate’s canvassers and if their polling is anywhere near correct then it could be close in the general election. I am expecting visits this year from the tories.
How far in advance do postal vote papers arrive? We're away on holiday from the 22 June for 2 weeks, and want to make sure my vote counts to try and oust the current Tory. It's a long shot in our constituency, but worth the effort.
Proxy vote might work better?
I've never hated a government as much as I hate this one (by extension, the people who've been in charge since May 2010). I live in a true blue part of Kent, but Brexit has had a profound effect on local businesses and many local farmers are less than happy, for the Conservatives to have lost these people is a major blunder.
In all honesty, I hated the Labour government under Blair. Fourteen years on an I'm a Labour Party member...
Been onto my kids this evening who are both away at university and have never voted before. Said we would all go up to the booths together. Great news as we were talking about postal votes previously.
Genuinely excited for them as I know they will be after change too, and now, finally, have an opportunity to influence this.
Electoral calculus currently predicts
Labour 472
Tories 85
Lib 50
Snp 19
That would be a fantastic start, but still 85 too many for my liking - remember that some real horrors like John Hayes, Christopher Chope, Sue Ellen and Priti Patel are in relatively safe seats. The next leader of the party is going to be someone quite awful.
Reform are having a press conference in the morning to confirm the nicotine-stained man-frogs involvement in their election campaign.
I’m sure Rishi will be delighted to see his return.
Labour will be ecstatic if he’s going to front Reforms election campaign
jeffl
Full Member
Well in good news my polling station is at the pub.
Should be mandatory. 😁
John Curtice has just suggested on BBC that it is questionable that Nigel Farage might want to give up his generous GB News salary to return to frontline politics.
Andrea Jenkins is on Peston saying that quite a number of them have put letters in about a VONC in Lil Rishi, yet they’re now going to have to campaign for him
@steveb speak to you local election office.They will redirect you postal vote if needs. Mine was really helpful in past when unexpectedly had to be away during an helpful.
Pjm I'd have thought from your name you'd be old enough to remember thatcher and her cronies. You hate this lot more? Wow.
ernielynch
Full Member
John Curtice has just suggested on BBC that it is questionable that Nigel Farage might want to give up his generous GB News salary to return to frontline politics.
He'll only have to give up the gig for 6 weeks though?
Hell, he might as well head Reform and still keep on appearing on his show. Ofcom wont even get around to investigating it till after GB News disappear onto a YT only channel to escape and form of regulation.
you’d be old enough to remember thatcher and her cronies. You hate this lot more? Wow.
Yep, I find that attitude strange too.
Edit : If the user name is a clue PMJ was only five when Thatcher started her onslaught on British society, doubling unemployment, destroying industries, redirecting wealth to the wealthy elite, selling the family silver, and generally screwing up the country until the Tories were forced to sack her.
Pjm I’d have thought from your name you’d be old enough to remember thatcher and her cronies. You hate this lot more? Wow.
Yup, I do remember the Thatcher years - the cruel and sneering politics that sought to blame a productivity malaise on single mothers while our assets were sold off. I hate this lot even more for the fact that they want even more of the same economic vandalism that only serves to enrich their donors.
Andrea Jenkins is on Peston saying that quite a number of them have put letters in about a VONC in Lil Rishi, yet they’re now going to have to campaign for him
And Rory Stewart suggesting more than a few will quit rather than stand and lose.
https://twitter.com/RestIsPolitics/status/1793366280852078967?t=v00z-b5qMSLmPldVOaxS-g&s=19
when Thatcher started her onslaught on British society,
She began it but ever since then its been double down time including on stuff she wouldnt touch with a bargepole.
If she was alive now the ERG, common sense and other of the five inbreds would be attacking her for being a bit of a leftie.
stuff she wouldnt touch with a bargepole.
Not the subject for this thread but I can't think of anything currently that would be too extreme for the woman who talked about not being "swamped" by foreigners, brought in Section 28, and called the Poll Tax her "flagship policy".
PJM1974
Free MemberThat would be a fantastic start, but still 85 too many for my liking – remember that some real horrors like John Hayes, Christopher Chope, Sue Ellen and Priti Patel are in relatively safe seats. The next leader of the party is going to be someone quite awful.
I dunno, I take your point but at the same time I'd be quite happy to see the tories both absolutely humiliated at the polls, and then reduced to being just the absolute worst of the party so that all we see of them for at least a while is absolute arseholes screaming at the bins.
you’d be old enough to remember thatcher and her cronies. You hate this lot more? Wow.
We have paid the price for the shit Thatcher did ever since, she was the start of it. The difference now is that the PM and MPs are more blatant about it and don't care about the consequences.
Bojo comeback in the next 5 years?
Son’s 18th on Tuesday, election announced Wednesday. He already knows who he’s not voting for.
Bojo comeback in the next 5 years?
Depends if he can afford the pay cut.
You know it's bad when the deputy editor of the Conservative Home website writes a piece in the Guardian saying all the MP's are peeved at the timing.
My concerns remain twofold.
A: That the Conservatives have long known that they were going to lose this election and have therefore managed to smash things up and left such a mess that Starmer will be a 1 term PM as the voters will expect him to turn it around unrealistically quickly.
B:Simultaneously the Conservatives in opposition finally morph fully into a post-truth Populist party in the Trump vein. With GB News as their Fox to bang the drum for them.
These are likely to be the two biggest forces in UK politics for the next 5-10 years.
