BRITISH GENERAL ELECTION - 4TH JULY

Pure Thick of It moment there on a par with Mays Strong and Stable while the letters peeled off the sign behind her, excellent trolling by Steve Bray, credit to the rain for stopping long enough to lure him out then soaking him aswell.

this will be the first general election since the brexit vote, where people will be voting on issues other than brexit.
Labour were always going to improve over the last election, because they no longer have Corbyn (thank god) but the Tories have been awful, so it should be a comfortable win.

It will be interesting how well the SNP do as well, their only saving grace at the moment is that the Tories are a bigger joke than they are.

Looking forward to seeing which high profile Tories lose their seats. Who's going to have the 2024 Portillo moment?

Whatever turns you on Labre34

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Who will I be looking forward to getting kicked out most? Hard to not think Gullis! A very nasty individual.

Funny enough, Thursday would be one of the bigger drinking nights in London these days especially since the pandemic. The twenty/thirty-somethings chained to their desks in the Square Mile and Canary Wharf until 9pm then on the pints after — best hope they don't forget to vote.

I suspect some previously stedfast Tory supporters are jumping the popularity bandwagon in favour of GB News: The Political Party…aka “Reform UK”

Possibly also hoping that enough gammons move their vote over to them to make Reform UK the new opposition. Won’t happen that way, but it could be the hope.

Like 1997, Labour are committed to the same spending plans as the Tories.

Ian Dunt on twitter (can't link on this pc) commenting that there seems to be a possible inner Tory revolt, where they hope to kick Sunak out by Thursday, and cancel the election before parliament is officially dissolved, there is so much confusion, lack of communication and ill planning that went on ahead of Sunak's announcement today.

Serous risk the Tories will go into an election with ether a new leader or even no leader

"Sunak didn't care about them"

Well they are British citizens so what did they expect.

Yep. Only stopped because the rain blew his speakers.

In the same vein:

"Interesting that the reaction of Tory MPs tonight is fatalistic about the result but fury at Sunak. They thought they had 5/6 months to get a job, to plan their lives. They think Sunak doesn't care about them with his millions and his US home. "Selfish" a word I've heard a lot."

https://x.com/ShippersUnbound/status/1793385211624816820

What afaik

Mmm. Voters are much more enthusiastic about Labour than they are about Reform. Both the opinion polls and the local election results show the Tories bleeding far more votes to the left than to the right.

The FPTP system delivers enormous power to the two established parties, at the expense of voters. For obvious reasons, both of the dominant parties will be highly averse to getting rid of it. And they'll be reinforced in that stance by the fact that in 2011 the public voted 2-to-1 to retain FPTP. That's the kind of margin in a referendum that really does settle a question for a generation.

It's true that FPTP is extremely difficult to defend as a matter of principle, and that in recent years it has been delivering truly dreadful outcomes. If the UK reaches a point of decline where they really can't avoid a long hard look at their political and constitutional structure, I think in that context FPTP would be vulnerable. But, honestly, I think it's safe unless and until that point is reached.

I have absolutely no faith or trust in the voting British public.

How that crowd of gangsters, lunatics and odious cretins lasted 14 years will always remain a mystery. Honestly when Liz Truss became PM I had to keep reminding myself it wasn't an episode of Black Mirror, imagine making Bojo look credible.

Labour have had nearly a decade and a half to put together some sort of credible alternative populated with proper leaders.

They haven't, it's pretty underwhelming TBF and they are running on the less than enthusiastic line of we need change.

Briton on every single metric is now worse off than it was 14 years ago, Briton doesn't need change it needs a complete reset and the British public need to do their part.