General British politics discussion thread

I think around a third of the electorate in London are BAME.

The biggest media outlet for British Black people ran a poll asking amongst their readership what effect Abbott not being allowed to stand at next election for Labour, 80% said they'd consider how they voted at the next election.

Blair had Benn, Corbyn, Grant, Abbott, etc railing against him at every turn and knew the right decision politically was to keep them in the party.

I personally don't mind, I don't vote in the UK anymore, all I'm saying is she's hugely significant politically in London. She stands as independent she wins, Corbyn does the same, put up other candidates and even if they don't win, they could stop Labour winning in lots of seats, even under FPTP.

Touché 😀

Meanwhile, in other news, London has recaptured its crown as Europe’s largest stock market from Paris, lifted by surging crude oil prices.

www.bnnbloomberg.ca/london-regains-europe-s-stock-market-crown-lifted-by-oil-surge-1.1986661

Brexit, eh ?

I'd love a debate.

Here's the thing.

Brexit was meant to bring widescale job losses in the City of London and a gradual diminuation of the London Stock Exchange as a financial power.

None of which has happened.

And none of this news today has been reported in the Irish media. Pound to a penny if the story was reversed and Paris was trumping London it would be in all the financial pages.

Lots going wrong with the UK economy but Brexit ? Far too early for a rational judgement considering the prism of the pandemic and Ukraine/energy prices.

And soon we'll have Starmernomics. That'll be interesting ...

I have been observing the results on BBC One this morning. Labour have won both bi-elections with huge swings in vote share in each constituency.

Tamworth had a 36% turnout for the bi-election. Mid Bedfordshire had a 44% turnout with the results of the vote coming up within the last 30 minutes.

Prof. John Curtis on the BBC is predicting that there will be a huge collapse incoming for the Tories when the UK's GE takes place next year.

What exciting times for British Labour and what bad timing this government has been when it's being run by the Tories. And it is a spectacularly bad omen for Rishi Sunak on how he is doing in the job as PM at the moment. If the majority of the British public really have had enough of the Tories after going through 14 years in power next year; this election could be a huge moment for Keir Starmer and Labour if the results like this going to be repeated in every constituency right across the majority of the UK next year.

I would not be surprised in hearing that election could be a bigger historic result when Tony Blair went into 10 Downing St. The optics look really strong for Labour to have really good results if the bi-elections are conveying similar feelings in their own part of the UK.

How this effect the other parties battling for seats in the election is anyone's guess. If the Tories get a huge pummelling in the election. They will know that 14 years of power will have grave consequences for your team if the public is clearly fed up with how they are running the country into the ground within a matter of seconds every single day. They need to be prepared for a huge swingeing cut in their vote share when the elections hit them next year. If they keep screwing up their roles while in government between now and 2024; the British public will go to vote them out en masse when the push comes to shove. The Tories only have themselves to blame if they keep up this farce of a government.

Yes. The Tories were hoping that the anti-Tory swing would be split between Labour and the Lib Dems and this would enable them to cling to the seat on a minority of the vote. They'll be particularly disappointed that the anti-Tory swing was pretty evenly split between Labour and the Lib Dems but was so massive that the Tories lost the seat anyway.