2024 General Election

[MrLongbeard]

Thankfully only 6 weeks worth of campaigning.
Apparently we don't have a labour candidate here, so stuck between the tories, lib dem, greens and the reform lot

[KungFooBob]

I've been reading the bottom half of the internet on all the BBC articles about it.

There isn't a single positive comment about the Tories, which I find odd. You'd expect at least a small minority to stick up for them?

[Cousin Jack]

They have been doing an excellent job of proving that politicians should never be trusted with power.

[MrLongbeard]

Well if they need to seed the audiences to get favourable questions asked.....

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/05/23/rish ... ary-voter/

[Mussels]

I've been reading the bottom half of the internet on all the BBC articles about it.

There isn't a single positive comment about the Tories, which I find odd. You'd expect at least a small minority to stick up for them?

They know better than getting into arguments with idiots.

[KungFooBob]

I'm struggling to have an opinion either way.

I'm not very rich or very poor, the Cons haven't really had an impact on my life in an overly positive or negative way.

I doubt a change in political party will effect me much, because all the stuff other people have an opinion about doesn't effect me in my everyday life.

I really struggle to get frothy mouthed about immigration or social care, etc...

I do probably have more then the average pairs of blue shoes/trainers tho', so maybe I should vote Tory?

[Saga Lout]

I've been reading the bottom half of the internet on all the BBC articles about it.

There isn't a single positive comment about the Tories, which I find odd. You'd expect at least a small minority to stick up for them?

The Conservatives have had 14 years to do conservative things and have utterly failed. There's hardly a fag paper between what the Tories do (not what they say, what they do) and Labour. Why would anybody stick up for them?

[Cousin Jack]

The problem for voters is not the Tories. They have proved they are incompetent.

The real problem is Labour, last time around they were obviously bloody dangerous. Have they really changed, or are going to revert to Old Labour?

[Mussels]

I just hope we don't end up with a coalition where some nutty fringe party on either side gets too much control.
The Tories seem to be a big tax and spend party but if Labour get in the unions will be putting placard factories on overtime.

[Yambo]

I just hope we don't end up with a coalition where some nutty fringe party on either side gets too much control.
The Tories seem to be a big tax and spend party but if Labour get in the unions will be putting placard factories on overtime.

A coalition, if one can be formed is just what you're going to get.

Labour have historically been the tax and spend merchants and I don't think that will change, just as they'll continue to tell everyone what they're going to do but not say how much it'll cost (or have Diane Abbott do the sums and get it spectacularly wrong).

The Tories lost the plot a long time ago. Historically the party of lower taxes and smaller government they have forgotten what the Conservative Party stood for.

I know I'm banging the same old drum here but the UK has still got the worst bunch of politicians in Parliament in living memory. This General Election won't change that and the result, a hung parliament won't help. The UK in general is steadily becoming a Third World country. All major institutions have lost the plot - Parliament, the NHS, the police and the Criminal Justice system, education . . . all steadily eroding.

I have the right to vote but as I'll probably never come back to the UK to live, I'll not be voting - I'd be guilty of perpetuating the decline of a once great country into a shit state. As a member of the 'Far Right' (I'm an ex-serviceman, a veteran) I guess the woke wankers in charge of the decline (of
all political colours) will applaud my abstention.

[JamJar]

I just hope we don't end up with a coalition where some nutty fringe party on either side gets too much control.
The Tories seem to be a big tax and spend party but if Labour get in the unions will be putting placard factories on overtime.

A coalition, if one can be formed is just what you're going to get.

Labour have historically been the tax and spend merchants and I don't think that will change, just as they'll continue to tell everyone what they're going to do but not say how much it'll cost (or have Diane Abbott do the sums and get it spectacularly wrong).

The Tories lost the plot a long time ago. Historically the party of lower taxes and smaller government they have forgotten what the Conservative Party stood for.

I know I'm banging the same old drum here but the UK has still got the worst bunch of politicians in Parliament in living memory. This General Election won't change that and the result, a hung parliament won't help. The UK in general is steadily becoming a Third World country. All major institutions have lost the plot - Parliament, the NHS, the police and the Criminal Justice system, education . . . all steadily eroding.

I have the right to vote but as I'll probably never come back to the UK to live, I'll not be voting - I'd be guilty of perpetuating the decline of a once great country into a shit state. As a member of the 'Far Right' (I'm an ex-serviceman, a veteran) I guess the woke wankers in charge of the decline (of
all political colours) will applaud my abstention.

Diane Abbott is suspended from the Labour party and has been ever since she wrote that antisemitism is only as bad as being nasty to gingers.

[Saga Lout]

Diane Abbott is suspended from the Labour party and has been ever since she wrote that antisemitism is only as bad as being nasty to gingers.

And if that's not an example of political correctness gone mad, I don't know what is.

[Hot_Air]

I didn’t realise people with red hair were exterminated in the holocaust.

Antisemitism aside, Diane Abbot will be the ‘Mother of the House’ if re-elected as an MP. Guess who would be the ‘Father of the House’ if he’s re-elected? His first name is, as you may know, Jeremy …

[MyLittleStudPony]

Look at her shoes! Look at her shoes! You can't blame Brexit, it's the pandemic! Look at her shoes!

[Horse]

The Tories seem to be a big tax and spend party but

They seem to have taken stealth taxes to an art form. Gradually not raising thresholds, for example.

if Labour get in the unions will be putting placard factories on overtime.

Does the UK still have much in the way of card carrying Red Robbo extreme left, underpaid, overworked, factory fodder, etc., union members?

[Count Steer]

The Tories seem to be a big tax and spend party but

They seem to have taken stealth taxes to an art form. Gradually not raising thresholds, for example.

if Labour get in the unions will be putting placard factories on overtime.

Does the UK still have much in the way of card carrying Red Robbo extreme left, underpaid, overworked, factory fodder, etc., union members?

The unions have lost a lot of financial clout as Labour now get more £ support from other sources than them. They're also in a bit of a knot about the green agenda as they're v keen to keep all the North Sea oil jobs going but want to be seen as keen on keeping the planet from hitting regulo 4. So they want to kick up about dropping the green plan but want to 'drill-baby-drill' as well.

[MyLittleStudPony]

"A post-war record of nearly 80 Conservative MPs has stepped down ahead of the General Election."


Hopefully SKS / Labour will keep things Brexity (nice and Brexity). Because it's all going so well. I think everyone remembers the politicians and voters who made it happen. Keep it Brexity. Nice and Brexity.

[JackyJoll]

I’m not sure what the parties stand for these days.

Labour, or Starmer at least, doesn’t even appear to want World socialist revolution any more.

[Yorick]

"A post-war record of nearly 80 Conservative MPs has stepped down ahead of the General Election."

Who will replace them? From local tory parties?

[JackyJoll]

Who will replace them?

In each constituency, the candidate who gets the most votes.