2024 General Election Thread

[Deutsch Wolf]

Yeah, you’re probably right.

I couldn’t vote in a GE until I was 21. I missed out in 1997 by a year.

It's quite dystopian but I do sometimes think you should have to pass some kind of really basic test to be able to vote. How you'd actually administer that I don't know but it's infuriating at times to think narrow, important votes get swayed by people who haven't got a bloody clue what they're doing.

Maybe make it part of the census or something. Answer these five really obvious questions that you would back anyone who has ever watched more than five minutes of any news channel that isn't GB News to get right. If you get two or more wrong, or don't bother filling it in because you like sticking it to the man, then you can't vote until the next census.

2001 was my first too. And a pointless vote, as I lived in Manchester Gorton. Voted Labour anyway, won with 62% of the vote. Tories didn't even get 10%.

 

[Del Woppio]

Yeah I agree with that one entirely tbh. Not something too strenuous, just enough to demonstrate that you know a bit about the parties and aren't just blindly sticking a cross in a box because of nonsense propaganda. It's important, you should at least know a little bit to earn your say

 

[Del Woppio]

 

[Kenny]

Driving back from Leeds via Bradford and one of George Galloways mob almost wiped me out in his car. Knobber.

 

[leedswolf]

Yeah, you’re probably right.

I couldn’t vote in a GE until I was 21. I missed out in 1997 by a year.

I voted in the two1974 GEs, aged 19yo in the first???

 

[leedswolf]

Driving back from Leeds via Bradford and one of George Galloways mob almost wiped me out in his car. Knobber.

Via Bratford?

 

[Kenny]

Via Bratford?

It's that way or drive via Elland Road from Kirkstall Forge

 

[leedswolf]

It's that way or drive via Elland Road from Kirkstall Forge

I'd personally take that option...

 

[Kenny]

I'd personally take that option...

I like to get home before it gets dark though

 

[leedswolf]

I like to get home before it gets dark though

You would IME.

 

[sycophantia]

I like to get home before it gets dark though

Guess them electric cars might run out of power quicker with the lights on

 

[Dire Wolf]

 

[Mel Evo]

So ends what I think is the last of my volunteering duties, which turned out to be running a pop up campaign office to direct volunteers to go door knocking and make them cups of tea. If nothing else, I got to eat more biscuits in one day than over a normal year. Over to my amazing wife now who has coordinated a campaign out of thin air with no resources or support from HQ. She’ll be at the count for the likely defeat but I’m so proud of what she’s got done. I’ve got a curry in and a fridge full of beer - can’t wait for 22:00.

 

[Lupo]

My dad was turned away. He has been here since the late 60s and always played by the book and owned businesses etc but the last 2/3 elections he has been told he's not eligible. The other week he had a letter saying it was all sorted so he went along today to be told he wasn't on the list

 

[Kenny]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1808935835405820385

 

[Tony Towner]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1808903001244852268

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Place your bets for Tory Armageddon

I am saying:

122 seats

 

[prawnking]

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Genuine question; How exactly did you 'vote the fucking Tories out' today?

 

[Kenny]

368


Just to ruin my mood


#wildcard

 

[prawnking]

Place your bets for Tory Armageddon

I am saying:

122 seats

150 for me