2024 General Election

[Taipan]

Labour’s Karl Turner, who is standing for re-election in Hull East:
In Hull East, less than half of the electorate went to the ballot box in 2019 – and, here and elsewhere, the party fears being caught out by political apathy


Even during a general election campaign with projections of historic – even unprecedented – results, people cannot always be relied upon to give their full attention.

“We met a guy who said he was going to vote Labour but wouldn’t now because he had just heard that we were taxing condoms,” said Labour’s Karl Turner, who was first voted in as the MP for Hull East in 2010 and is standing for re-election this time.

“I said, ‘condoms?’ ‘Yeah,’ he said: ‘I just heard on that [pointing to the TV] that you are taxing condoms, and I’m not having it. You’re not getting my vote.’ It was Terence [Turner’s parliamentary assistant] here who worked it out.

“‘We’re taxing non-doms, not condoms,’ I said. ‘Oh,’ he said. ‘Like the prime minister’s wife? Ah.’ He calls out: ‘Margaret: they’re taxing non-doms, not condoms.’”

[JackyJoll]

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“‘We’re taxing non-doms, not condoms,’ I said. ‘Oh,’ he said. ‘Like the prime minister’s wife? Ah.’ He calls out: ‘Margaret: they’re taxing non-doms, not condoms.’”

In the old Margaret Thatcher days, some anti-Community Charge activists were door-knocking in a high rise block of flats in Aberdeen, to get their message out and garner support.

An old man opened his door to the combat-jacketed socialist youngsters and asked them their business.

Student: “We’re fighting against the poll tax.”

Resident: “I didnae ken we were bothered wi’ polecats roond here!”

[Mr. Dazzle]

AFAIK cutting VAT on Condoms to 5% was a Labour government move anyway

[cheb]

My local GP surgery gives them away, there's a box on the windowsill in the toilet.

[Saga Lout]

Risk assessments make complete sense when they’re done by sensible people.

Thank you

A nerd comments: in some ways, despite the imposition of having to do them, I found them to be a useful mental 'pause', where I could work through the planned activities, identifying every opportunity for it to go wrong, etc.

And once you'd identified all the ways it could go wrong and implemented an idiot proof procedure, management went and hired a better idiot.

[Horse]

Risk assessments make complete sense when they’re done by sensible people.

Thank you

A nerd comments: in some ways, despite the imposition of having to do them, I found them to be a useful mental 'pause', where I could work through the planned activities, identifying every opportunity for it to go wrong, etc.

And once you'd identified all the ways it could go wrong and implemented an idiot proof procedure, management went and hired a better idiot.

No, I retired

[JackyJoll]

Thank you

A nerd comments: in some ways, despite the imposition of having to do them, I found them to be a useful mental 'pause', where I could work through the planned activities, identifying every opportunity for it to go wrong, etc.

And once you'd identified all the ways it could go wrong and implemented an idiot proof procedure, management went and hired a better idiot.

No, I retired

Everyone thinks they’re irreplaceable.

[Horse]

No, I retired

Everyone thinks they’re irreplaceable.

Two months after I retired, I was asked back to do some specific tasks

But usually, the graveyards are full of irreplaceable people.

[mangocrazy]

So only 3 days after the election and we've not only got rid of the Tories, the England football team are through to the semis and Sir Lewis Hamilton has just won his 9th British GP.

[JackyJoll]

No, I retired

Everyone thinks they’re irreplaceable.

Two months after I retired, I was asked back to do some specific tasks

But usually, the graveyards are full of irreplaceable people.

They didn’t exactly ask me back, but they asked me to do some work. I refused, in a nice (I think) way.

[JackyJoll]

So only 3 days after the election and we've not only got rid of the Tories, the England football team are through to the semis and Sir Lewis Hamilton has just won his 9th British GP.

Labour’s just got in and it fucking rained!

[mangocrazy]

So only 3 days after the election and we've not only got rid of the Tories, the England football team are through to the semis and Sir Lewis Hamilton has just won his 9th British GP.

Labour’s just got in and it fucking rained!

It rained on Rishi Sunak as he announced the election date, as I recall.

[Taipan]

@Dr_BellaR
We might be on the verge of a HUGE SCANDAL. Suspicions have been raised that Reform have fielded election candidates that aren’t real people. Is there any evidence that Mark Matlock (candidate for Clapham & Brixton Hill) actually exists? He looks AI generated

[gremlin]

My local GP surgery gives them away, there's a box on the windowsill in the toilet.

I thought those chewing gums had a funny taste....

[cheb]

Brilliant for blowing bubbles though.

[cheb]

Her or him: Ooh, cheese and onion flavour.
Him or him (or it or they or or or): Hang on, I haven't put ti on yet.

[Horse]

@Dr_BellaR
We might be on the verge of a HUGE SCANDAL. Suspicions have been raised that Reform have fielded election candidates that aren’t real people. Is there any evidence that Mark Matlock (candidate for Clapham & Brixton Hill) actually exists? He looks AI generated