If it only cost £500 pa per household to un-* this country, that’d be a ****in bargain
Absolutely , but I'd have to be paying £1000pa, my ex's parents £2k and my ex nothing extra to not * the country up more.
This £2000 claim, is that on top of the extra taxes I'll already be paying because of Sunak freezing the allowances to 2028?
And Sunak talking about "unfunded/uncosted etc", did no one point out that his Govt 'borrowed' £20bn just in May 2024, to add onto the +£100bn they borrowed in the previous 12 months?
Yes, damn the leftie BBC for denying the government the right to a rebuttal:
A Treasury minister is rejecting Labour claims that Rishi Sunak lied about the party's tax plans.
Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Laura Trott, denies voters have been misled and insists independent analysis had identified a black hole in Labour's spending plans.
She tells reporters: "What is absolutely clear is that due to independent analysis Labour have a £38bn black hole in their policies.
"That will lead to £2,000 in extra taxes for every family up and down the United Kingdom.
"This is underpinned overwhelmingly by Treasury analysis so if people think Labour are going to win this election they need to start saving."
Must be Double-Down Wednesday.
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And Sunak talking about “unfunded/uncosted etc”, did no one point out that his Govt ‘borrowed’ £20bn just in May 2024, to add onto the +£100bn they borrowed in the previous 12 months?
Everyone knows that it's a different kind of borrowing when the tories do it.
No one like Richard Holden latest....
https://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1798265905622684010
Its very interesting that the SPectator has come out so hard against Sunak on this
https://twitter.com/spectator/status/1798335581623091652
Sunaks best friend & advisor is James Forsyth, ex- political editor at the Spectator and its his ex Boss Fraser Nelson leading this attack, he must know that Forsyth was advising Sunak last night
https://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1798265905622684010
this election is quite the culture shock, these once ultra safe "vote for a pig with a blue rosette" east anglian seats are going need solid campaigning to retain for the tories. A bit of glad handing and a baby kiss aren't going to cut it. How will they cope out on the stump! 🙂
@Klunk Ipswich has been marginal at best for the last 20 years. Prior to that we were the People's Republic of Ipswich and solid red. I don't think it matters which constituency Hunt stood for he will likely lose (Labour in Ipswich and either Lib-Dem or Green in Central-Suffolk).
@kimbers Very few here like Tom Hunt either nasty dog-whistling racist that he is.
I actually meant to post the this instead of the Tom Hunt thing
https://twitter.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1797973102527443258
Tor canvasser saying they wont bother with it for these parachuted in MPs (tbf Labour ones saying it too) could be a very big problem in even safe seats if there are reform candidates out there gobbling up Tory votes
Campaigning in east anglia is easy.
They need a prosthetic finger and some webbing, then wander around saying 'gimme six'
I feel I should clarify
Graham is from east Anglia
@grahamt1980 Just in Norfolk! Here in Suffolk they limp or have some other impediment!
Fair enough. I made a joke to a mate when I was at college. I asked about his webbed feet as he was from whittlesea. The silly bugger just took his shoes and socks off to show his joined up foot
It looks like the rats in a sack has extended to rats leaving their sinking constituencies and demanding safer ones, but there aren’t any
And even the Tory party can no longer find mugs who are desperate enough to receive an electoral punishment beating in a few weeks
Brilliant! I’m planning on doing nothing on July 5th as I’ll be stopping up all night as the ‘Portillo Moments’ come flooding in and we can wave them all goodbye, one by one. I’ll be saving a glass of something fizzy for when my own useless Tory MP is given his marching orders 😃
An election / Tories out drinking game sounds like a brilliant idea binners.
Unfortunately we're departing for holiday early the next day and I need to be in a fit state to drive...
First post frogface return poll has reform almost over taking tories (yougov have changed methodology, under old one they'd be level)..
https://twitter.com/sundersays/status/1798389639738446029?t=8J3Xr3jmTVRcUXGMgbUeYQ&s=19
Both would see Tories 3rd party and under old methology so few MPs that theyd probably all fit into Angela rayners renovated kitchen
Unfortunately we’re departing for holiday early the next day
I'll already be on holiday having left on the 4th. First day of the holiday might be more of a right off than normal. Postal votes confirmed today.
The polls really aren't tightening as predicted, getting worse for the Tories if anything.
So, on a practical note.
How do you get 546 Government MP's one one side of a Chamber that can't fit all 650 in at once even evenly distributed?
Anyone know how Gullis is predicted to do in his seat?
I'm not entirely sure he wont get a bit punchy if some pundit rubbed his nose in a defeat on election night. 😉
Seeing him getting dragged away in cuffs screaming F bombs at the cameras would be absolutely epic.
(I can't help but think he might defect to Reform over the next couple of weeks though, he's made for the party...)
I think that fits in the nice problem to have category. Maybe Labour could have left and right (should satisfy some of the grumpy lefties on here seeing Labour embrace both wings of the party) and all the rest up the end with the remains of the SNP, the Tories would love that.
Anyone know how Gullis is predicted to do in his seat?
Latest polling:
https://Twitter.com/pollingreportuk/status/1798246123108467104?s=46&t=1lK7Dw1b6RqGJyvufO-trQ
^^ Cheers! Well, I'm a little surprised, for some reason I could have sworn he was holed up in some "safe" seat. Whatever that means for the Tories these days.
He must be eyeing up a move to reform? No doubt they would willingly stand down their present candidate for him to move over.
Our local mp is apparently leading by 3.5%, with a bit of tactics that would be a true blue tory gone.
Come on North beds people, let's get shot of them
I’m having trouble believing it’s going to be quite that brilliant
Yeah but even if they ate 50% out and the cons get around 100 seats it's going to be brilliant watch. I really hope they do get wiped and future party's remember the downsides of populism, but they probably won't.
Treasury Minister Bim Afolami has just been absolutely torn a new one on channel 4 news about Rishi’s made up figures/blatant lies. I almost felt sorry for him. 😂
But you really didn't...
Nah. They reap what they sow. It was actually a joy to watch. He’s almost as smug as Rishi. He didn’t look too smug by the time Krishnan was done with him.
An absolute car crash of an interview. It’s almost like they’re making it up as they go along and their figures don’t stand up to even the most cursory analysis
Stoke is proper 'red wall' territory. Tory first time in 2019 (one of the 3 actually went in 2017 by a few hundred votes).
There's Gullis the human ape who I will be there in person to wave off. Jack Meredith, an utter half wit, who inexplicably graduated from the politics department at my uni. Then someone who is about 90 and has a majority of a few hundred. She's standing down though. They'll all be labour id imagine, with a massive Reform vote too.
The Tory party political broadcast at the end of Channel 4 news tonight was truly beyond parody.
Whoever is doing their comms during this campaign must have the mother of all crack habits ! 😳
Check out this absolutely unhinged nonsense…
I looked at my constituency on that pollingreport.uk web site. I was quite surprised - Labour and SNP are apparently neck-and-neck, Reform are in 3rd place (sigh) with the Greens, Tories and LibDems all in the 5-7% range. It was very comfortably held by the SNP in 2019, and the Tories were in 2nd place back then.
https://pollingreport.uk/seats/S14000081
That PEB is just bonkers! It's like the Tory comms team have watched The Thick Of It and Starship Troopers and regarded them as training videos.
I genuinely don't understand how that might appeal to anyone.
Few things in the YouTube rules I could report this for:
- Deceptive practices
- Encouraging harmful or dangerous acts
- Content produced by or praising criminal organisations
- Fictional content where the viewer is not given enough context to understand that it is fictional
Good lord that is laughably shit.
