2024 General Election Thread

[Tredman]

I wouldn’t be surprised if there was actually a true story about a Tory MP fingering a dead badger tbf.

Is that worse than fucking a pig's head?

 

[Del Woppio]

 

[Sniffer]

I know I’m biased but Sunak is just an unlikeable prick. Lies, grins as he’s doing it like it’s some sort of game, talks over people and is a condescending prat.Hopefully he’ll be given his marching orders next week whereby we won’t have to see him in public life again.
Rant over.

 

[Tony Towner]

I know I’m biased but Sunak is just an unlikeable prick. Lies, grins as he’s doing it like it’s some sort of game, talks over people and is a condescending prat.Hopefully he’ll be given his marching orders next week whereby we won’t have to see him in public life again.
Rant over.

If you believe what you read he's already enrolled his daughters into a Californian school

 

[Sniffer]

We won’t tax your state pensions but Starmer and labour will. Sorry…….?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1806055753918132347

 

[Del Woppio]

I think this is probably Sunak's best performance tbf. He's been interupty and tetchy, but what he's managed this time is to leave hanging questions or points that he knows Starmer can't/won't answer.

Biggest miss from Starmer for me is that he's said quite a few times 'this is nonsense, this is ridiculous' etc, when what he actually needs to do is wait for him to stop and then just calmly say 'we thought the lies had left downing street with Johnson, but he's just looked in your eyes and lied to you. Literally made things up because he thinks you're stupid'.

 

[Tredman]

I'd laugh but they are just an absolute bunch of corrupt grifters. They sneer at the developing world and cite corruption as an excuse to keep people in poverty. These cunts are even shit at being corrupt.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1806205861603213340

 

[prawnking]

I think this is probably Sunak's best performance tbf. He's been interupty and tetchy, but what he's managed this time is to leave hanging questions or points that he knows Starmer can't/won't answer.

Judging by a lot of the snap polls post-debate, I don't think Sunak's rude, hectoring style goes down particularly well with the electorate.

The kind of guy people like less the more they see of him

 

[Del Woppio]

the snap polls were 50/50, but in the context of c20pt poll deficit, being level is a massive achievement, I'm right you're wrong neh neh neneh neh

 

[Mel Evo]

They cited one on Newsnight that had it 56/44 to Starmer. If it follows the trend of the previous one, the immediate verdict which favours Sunak (I.e. makes it seem even) seems to come round to Starmer the longer people have to reflect on the actual answers. Maybe we should appreciate his ‘boring’ performances - he’s meant to be running the country, not a circus. Not that you’d know that was the actual job given the last decade.

 

[Wellen Wolf]

Judging by a lot of the snap polls post-debate, I don't think Sunak's rude, hectoring style goes down particularly well with the electorate.

The kind of guy people like less the more they see of him

Hopefully it will energize the floating voter babby boomers who will then feel the need for Starmer's 'Change' and give the country as a whole a boost with a fresh government under Labour.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1805612710161174711

 

[Sniffer]

Looking into the snap polls in more depth, Starmer seemed to do better on the issues rather than who won the debate. Something like 80% of Conservative voters from 2019 supported Sunak in the winner poll which is still 20% of people moving away from him.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1806068008407683294

https://twitter.com/x/status/1806068861692715292

 

[pr0sl0]

Judging by a lot of the snap polls post-debate, I don't think Sunak's rude, hectoring style goes down particularly well with the electorate.

The kind of guy people like less the more they see of him

Focus groups are only anecdotal but this is pretty much what people have been saying in them too.

Sunak appears to do "well" in the sense that he does actually manage to get Starmer into a corner sometimes where he won't give a clear answer - and people do seem to be giving Starmer the benefit of the doubt rather than actually trusting him as a result - but it's not a "debate" method that reflects well on Sunak. Pyrrhic victory at best.

 

[The Saturday Boy]

Sunak is shouting at a minority of voters - traditional Tory don't knows and Reform voters. He is in damage limitation mode, like on a games console against a boss level...he is furiously hitting all the buttons in the hope of inflicting some damage before the inevitable defeat.

 

[Kenny]

People..

https://twitter.com/x/status/1806244331746931027

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

he is furiously hitting all the buttons in the hope of inflicting some damage before the inevitable defeat.

You've seen Paddy play video games then?

I did see a poll yesterday that had the Lib Dems slated to win 71 seats and the Tories 60. I don't think that'll happen for a second but they're nearer an extinction event than anything respectable.

 

[The Saturday Boy]

Condoms are already taxed...

 

[Tony Towner]

People..

https://twitter.com/x/status/1806244331746931027

File it in the things that didn't happen folder

 

[Kenny]

File it in the things that didn't happen folder

We live in a world where everything is possible these days, Margaret