2024 General Election Thread

[pr0sl0]

Interesting to see the online and media analysis over the past 24 hrs. As soon as Labour win, lots of commentators are pushing how their win was actually a bit shit and the system must be broken to allow such an abberation and the most important item to discuss is how the Tories reshape their party now and how Farage fits into all of this

Rewatched the 97 election night in the run-up to Thursday and it was exactly the same kind of dynamic. Vast majority of the chat wasn't about Labour's win (other than to go "shit it's enormous"), it was about who would be left to rebuild the Tories, what the different wings of the party would be pushing, the role of the EU (lol), etc.

Takes a long time for the press to get their heads around the fact most of their contacts list is now irrelevant.

 

[pr0sl0]

That started at 22:01 on Thursday. On the BBC they had some preposterous toff from Reform haranguing Mandelson about how he’ll feel when his racists win in Hartlepool as part of the ‘more than 13 seats for sure we’ll win’. All in the place of looking at what a landslide Labour government will look like and do. I see that, in Hartlepool, twice as many people ended up voting for Labour as Reform in a seriously comfortable hold. The coverage was a real disgrace.

ITV and Sky were miiiiles ahead in their coverage all night. (Channel 4 was better too, but only for the pure entertainment value of Nadine Dorries going off the deep end.)

BBC was obsessed with Reform all night. They kept missing declarations - not even acknowleding some big ones had happened - because they were running interminable discussions about Reform over and over again. Alex Chalk was the first cabinet minister to lose his seat and they didn't even mention it!

 

[pr0sl0]

On the flip side. Who would be in charge? How does anything get done?

PR is the norm in most democracies (in various forms) and it works just fine. This idea that coalitions gum things up and nothing gets done isn't based on anything other than outliers like eg Israel or Italy.

 

[The Bear]

Rewatched the 97 election night in the run-up to Thursday

 

[Templeton Peck]

John Curtice: Labour’s strength in Commons is heavily exaggerated

Voters have rejected the Conservatives, but they failed to embrace Starmer’s party. Nevertheless, thanks to the electoral system, it still won a landslide

www.thetimes.com

 

[Tredman]

Huge fan of this:

 

[Templeton Peck]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1809309389049983083

Such a beautiful tweet

 

[leedswolf]

 

[pr0sl0]

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Mate, I rewatched 1955 as well. Got 1966 on iplayer to look forward to as well when I have a spare evening.

When my parents and teachers warned me of the dangers of doing too much acid and ecstasy in my youth, I assume this was what they were worried about.

 

[Lupo]

...

 

[BillyDee]

Finally, the last seat has declared, Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire goes to the Lib Dems...

 

[Kenny]

Finally, the last seat has declared, Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire goes to the Lib Dems...

SNP guy conceded very early this morning, before the recount. Had shit to do this afternoon and couldn't be nobbing around with all this bollocks with the returning officer.

 

[Jack Regan]

Saturday obviously his big shop day.

 

[AndyWolves]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1809571305739407742

 

[Donegal Wolf]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1809571305739407742

First party to call for passports for animals & commercial radio stations so you never know.

 

[Keef]

I did go and read their manifesto, some of the pledges where yea actually that’s not stupid, and that’d work

 

[ROVERT47]

Just been catching up on the disgraceful treatment Jess Phillips received at her count, she’s been a fantastic MP and and a champion of women’s rights, the sooner fucking Galloway’s mob fuck off the better.

 

[Kenny]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1809877350781239369

 

[Sniffer]

Why Kenny, why!

 

[Kenny]

Why Kenny, why!

I clicked on it and suffered...so all of you lot can do the same.

It's 6 minutes long ffs!!