2024 General Election Thread

[Kenny]

Has the Sun flipped yet so they can do their "won because of us" shite?

 

[Tredman]

We’re not this lucky

https://twitter.com/x/status/1796633036395622814

 

[Sniffer]

You’ll love it. Patronising prick.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1796557327002402864

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Laura K shilling for the Conservatives again in her column today.

 

[Sniffer]

Surely there should be a rule against this sort of thing. Isn’t it basically trying to buy votes in marginal seats?

Prime minister Rishi Sunak has pledged cash to 30 more towns as part of a bid to try to capitalise on the party’s levelling up agenda.

Tamworth, Preston, Corby, Halifax, Bognor Regis, Newtown, Flint, Perth and Newry would be among the places to benefit.

 

[Tredman]

They’d be talking about ‘banana republics’ if it were elsewhere.

 

[Del Woppio]

Surely there should be a rule against this sort of thing. Isn’t it basically trying to buy votes in marginal seats?

Prime minister Rishi Sunak has pledged cash to 30 more towns as part of a bid to try to capitalise on the party’s levelling up agenda.

Tamworth, Preston, Corby, Halifax, Bognor Regis, Newtown, Flint, Perth and Newry would be among the places to benefit.

What's the betting they're all key marginal seats. Fucking wankers

 

[Templeton Peck]

Grim

 

[pr0sl0]

Would dispute the placement of the SNP on that, for one thing...

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

bollocks is the word you were actually looking for.

 

[Tredman]

Could also look for context, source and a reference

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Who commissioned that piece of work?
Who carried out the research?
What questions were asked of each party and on what issues to place the dots?
How is authoritarian defined and measured against?
Same for left, centre. ,and right?
What evidence is used to back up the dot positions?

There clearly is a case for the left feeling out in the cold with Starmer pushing Labour more central but that sort of half-arsed (if I am being kind) effort does nobody any favours

 

[Templeton Peck]

Are Labour not where you expect them to be?

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

The centre isn’t either.

It’s shite. I know it. So do you

 

[Templeton Peck]

Is this cos Starner is centrist?

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Any answers to my questions about this research ?

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Just arrived in Huthwaite..

 

[Tredman]

God loves a trier.

Whisper it, but Rishi Sunak is making an extraordinary comeback

With Starmer floundering, Farage flailing and Ed Davey acting a fool, a Tory revival is now on the cards

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[leedswolf]

Who commissioned that piece of work?
Who carried out the research?
What questions were asked of each party and on what issues to place the dots?
How is authoritarian defined and measured against?
Same for left, centre. ,and right?
What evidence is used to back up the dot positions?

There clearly is a case for the left feeling out in the cold with Starmer pushing Labour more central but that sort of half-arsed (if I am being kind) effort does nobody any favours

"Pushing Labour 'more 'central'"?

 

[Tredman]

So I google image searched it and it appears to have come from here:

The Political Compass

The Political Compass: a 2-dimensional typology of political opinions

www.politicalcompass.org

With the startling clear and transparent metric of:

Our chart has been compiled with reference to speeches, manifestos and, where applicable, voting records. Should significant policy changes be announced during the campaign, the chart will be updated accordingly.

That’s alright then.