2024 General Election Thread

[YoungWolf]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1803427399872233805

Seems like a good time to do a video about gambling

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

That is just moronic. I think they are just trolling now as they know they are fucked.

 

[BillyDee]

That is just moronic. I think they are just trolling now as they know they are fucked.

I think so...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1803364858022281700

#releasetherussianreport

 

[Sniffer]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1803691882041483649

The party's campaign director is now on a leave of absence. I couldn't give a toss if the Gambling Commission are independently looking at all of this but Sunak should suspend all involved until such time that any investigation is concluded. Piss poor and weak leadership not to.

 

[leedswolf]

I think so...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1803364858022281700

#releasetherussianreport

Nigel Farage and an 'Extraordinary Lack of Curiosity' from UK Government and Intelligence Services Over Possible Russian Interference in Brexit

"It did strike me as ridiculous that, given the overt nationalism of the Leave.EU campaign, it was involved in discussions with representatives of the Russian Government"

bylinetimes.com

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I would imagine Bristol North West would already be a bit of a Labour spot as I think it contains deprived areas like St Pauls I think, but to be absolutely sure, Starmer is calling for the Conservative candidate to be suspended and therefore effectively out of the race.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1803427399872233805

Seems like a good time to do a video about gambling

And now they have deleted it.

Do you know who I really pity here? Armando Iannucci. There is literally no point in ever thinking about writing another episode of The Thick of It

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

I wonder why they deleted? What changed?

 

[lemonjelly]

I wonder why they deleted? What changed?

it became a major news story, and we now have at least 2 tory MPs who placed a bet on the date of the election, potentially having inside information.

 

[lemonjelly]

the role of independents may be interesting in this election. This fucker seems to have a lot of traction, yet has history of posting doctored footage alleging racism (that was proven to be false), and now seems to being highlighted as a mysoginist fuck;
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...ction-hopeful-joked-domestic-violence-podcast

He had a lot of traction in the mayoral election.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

it became a major news story, and we now have at least 2 tory MPs who placed a bet on the date of the election, potentially having inside information.

Candidate and MP.

Note 2. And yet the CCHQ response says "a small number"

If it was 2, you would say two as it limits it to the smallest bar 1 and none.

There's more pigs in that trough out there expecting to be found.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Saw the Labour election broadcast last night. Not only was it properly produced unlike the Tories 24 hours earlier using what seemed to be shaky mobile footage of some speech from months ago at a fringe conference event (zero effort at all, even ignoring the obviously awful content) and they got Gary Neville on board which is a shrewd move given he's an excellent communicator, recognisable and respected by many...

A message in there, which is an easy thing to say but an important one, was that whether you vote Labour, Tory or otherwise, we want to get everyone on board to make the country a better place to live. What a refreshing change from the messaging that we've had particularly since 2016, which has been "ha, fuck you, you lost, you big fucking loser, your views are now completely irrelevant and we will spend time actively fucking you over and rubbing your nose in the fact that you lost, loser boy". Incredible (not in a good way) that we've had our country run in that fashion for nearly an entire decade.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I wonder how different this country would be if Nick Clegg had told Call Me Dave to get fucked over coalition plans and at most agreed to a confidence and supply, or preferably have thrown in with Labour in 2010 hoping to govern with minority party assistance.

And I voted for Call Me Dave then. I thought One Nation centrist Conservatism was okay. 14 years have really proved me sooooooo wrong on that as One Nation Centrist Conservatism no longer exists like the dodo.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Labour would have needed full LD support I think AND they needed another 11 seats on top to form the most marginal of marginal coalition majorities (the SNP would have been off the table I think). In all likelihood I don't think that Government would have lasted more than a couple of years before we ended up back at the polls, especially as while he's a very decent man and a political titan compared to a lot of what we've had since, Brown simply wasn't a natural PM and couldn't connect well with voters, and the Labour Party was in flux, struggling for a direction.

2010-2015 and ruinous austerity was of course a dismal period, but the real kicker was D-Cam winning outright in 2015 when he didn't think he would (he had no right to as they'd been shit), meaning that all of a sudden pledges - especially on Europe - he made in the event of a win and had no expectation of ever having to fulfil (because any coalition partner would simply say no) had to be acted on.

 

[AndyWolves]

I found out today who the Tory campaign manager is, can't say I'm surprised at some of the content

 

[pr0sl0]

Labour would have needed full LD support I think AND they needed another 11 seats on top to form the most marginal of marginal coalition majorities (the SNP would have been off the table I think). In all likelihood I don't think that Government would have lasted more than a couple of years before we ended up back at the polls, especially as while he's a very decent man and a political titan compared to a lot of what we've had since, Brown simply wasn't a natural PM and couldn't connect well with voters, and the Labour Party was in flux, struggling for a direction.

2010-2015 and ruinous austerity was of course a dismal period, but the real kicker was D-Cam winning outright in 2015 when he didn't think he would (he had no right to as they'd been shit), meaning that all of a sudden pledges - especially on Europe - he made in the event of a win and had no expectation of ever having to fulfil (because any coalition partner would simply say no) had to be acted on.

Yeah it would have required some mutant Labour-Lib Dem-SDLP-Caroline Lucas minority coalition which still needed the support of most of Plaid Cymru and the SNP combined to get anything barely over the line. Total non-starter.

And for whatever good it's worth, the 2010-2015 coalition is the only government since 1935 to actually represent a majority of the popular vote in a general election - it had a clear democratic mandate - but that's also why it's so infuriating that the Lib Dems got in and rolled over repeatedly whenever they wanted to push for something in exchange for their support of the Tories. They were very naive, and could have done a lot more with their leverage.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Obviously with my background I'm no opponent of coalition administrations - in fact I think they can be better than a one party system in many ways. But ours was a sham, Dave says jump, Nick asks how high.

 

[Sniffer]

Osborne and Cameron were also astute in putting a LibDem at the forefront of any situations whereby they’d be flak flying around. As a result, on top of the policies that the LibDems gave up on in coalition, they were also blamed by the public for shitter elements of government decisions.
I forget the tall Scottish guy at the treasury but he was the one in front of the cameras defending austerity.

Edit: Danny Alexander.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

Yep, Lib Dems got hammered at the polls as a result in 2015 while Dishface won a majority. Classic Tory cuntery.

 

[Stan Hullis]

This is the best I’ve seen Starmer perform so far in this campaign.