Election 2024

I do find the BBC News has a right wing bias. And look at how many times Farage has been on Question Time and how rabid the audience often is. Having said that many of their dramas, especially the excellent series Years and Years, are the complete opposite. As are their podcasts eg You’re Dead to Me. I’m getting really scared that this supermajority stuff has filtered through to the electorate; I’ll be rabid myself if it stops our lovely Labour candidate being elected. I mean, I even had to put up with Edwina Curry as my MP for years ( I stormed out of a meeting that she attended once because I really thought that I was going to punch her she was so rude to everyone; I felt awful but someone came to see me afterwards and said Mo, somebody had to do it). I don’t deserve 5 more years of Heather Wheeler do I?
 
Two can play that game DO......

I said to my daughter this morning "have you voted yet Dr D?" :ROFLMAO:

But seriously, leading up to today I've been close to throwing things at the screen whenever I go to the BBC news/election site, the headline is either "Sunak will tackle...." or "Starmer being pressured...." drip, drip, drip

And don't get me started about Laura K
 
I’ll be watching the Ch4 coverage with Alastair Campbell, Rory Stewart and Emily Matliss. I can’t stomach Kuensberg; the way she used to fawn over Johnson…
 
Labour 400-449 Seats 2.14
Conservatives 50-99 Seats 1.97
Reform 20% of vote or higher 3.1

These three prices on the machine point to a strong rumour Reform are on their way to amassing 20 per cent of the popular vote, diluting slightly the scale of Labour's landslide but absolutely annihilating the Tories.

Exit poll within the hour.
 
I can’t stomach the fact that I must be surrounded by people that vote Reform everywhere I go. And it will totally scupper any hope of an elected party considering proportional representation.
 
The story of the 1992 election was the shy Tory vote - the story of 2024 might be the shy Reform vote.

There may be more of them out there than we think or they themselves care to admit.

We will find out soon enough.
 
It's a weak market but LibDems 60+ seats is now around 1.5 which suggests they might do well in the 'blue wall'

It'd be just grand if they become the official opposition
 
Shades of 1992 for me inasmuch as people won't admit to voting Tory.

Don't bank on the Exit poll lot being universally truthful either.

I will be pleasantly surprised if Labour reach 400 seats now and my friend's biggest worry is the Tories go on to top 150.
 
I think Alastairs going to struggle to share a studio with Nadine Dorries for the next few hours!
 
It wouldn’t surprise me if the exit is correct in general outcome but wrong in detail inasmuch as Labour getting less seats and Reform more.
 
moehat said:
I think Alastairs going to struggle to share a studio with Nadine Dorries for the next few hours!
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The wicked witch of the west would struggle to share a platform with her to. be fair. Let’s hope Alaistsir has a carafe of water to hand.
 
Coach miguel said:
I can't see labour getting more than 410 seats. The lavatories will get around 140 odd and the lib dems around 60. Can see the snp doing much better than polls suggest too. Reform figures Inflated IMHO and maybe 2 mps for them. I'll be staying up to watch the carnage and the tories claiming 140 seats is a victory really as they were expecting much worse.🤣🤣
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Not a bad prediction if exit poll is right. Maybe wrong with reform but still dubious with that. Be very interesting to see how much tactical voting affected the result. Its hardly been talked about but could stop the tories from getting power for decades. Social media now playing a massive part in the media and the press now a sideshow. Praise the Lord.
 
First actual result in and a significant Reform vote pushing the Tories into third place.

This was the clear rumour in the betting markets tonight ahead of the Exit poll.
 
A really enjoyable and informative thread.

I'm off to bed now though. I'm not good at being told the same thing over and over again.

I knew this would happen quite a long time ago in terms of the Labour landslide. Enjoy the night if you're staying up.
 
If the standard of politicians has gone down, the standard of broadcast/journalists covering it isn't far behind.

Never heard so much cliched, repetitive, low-calibre drivel from people absurdly pleased with themselves.

John Curtice - and, to a lesser extent, Jeremy Vine - are the only ones worth listening to, particularly Curtice because he's an intelligent expert on his subject, NOT a low-calibre broadcast journalist.

I'm staying up for a bit, but I've muted it now and will just watch the numbers and only up the volume if Curtice or Vine are on with revised projections in light of ongoing real results.

Big night for Reform, I'm afraid and if Labour get 400 plus, let alone the projected 410, I will still be pleasantly surprised.
 
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I think I've already heard the quote of the night from the unseated Conservative candidate from Swindon, saying that many in his party had acted like preforming artists in a "circus", describing them as: "A group of bald men fighting over a comb" Haha ha! I could've pissed myself.
 
Coach miguel said:
Not a bad prediction if exit poll is right. Maybe wrong with reform but still dubious with that. Be very interesting to see how much tactical voting affected the result. Its hardly been talked about but could stop the tories from getting power for decades. Social media now playing a massive part in the media and the press now a sideshow. Praise the Lord.
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The Conservatives will rebrand themselves as more populist, even more right wing, maybe even changing their name to 'New conservative' or 'Conservative Reform Party' If you're a betting man put your money on Farago being the leader. Maybe with Braverman as Home Secretary.
 
Drone said:
No worries, the photogenic Ms Niblett did you proud

Shame about Farage and Anderson but otherwise a cracking night(y)
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Oh hell. I was glued to the Guardian results for ages waiting for our result and when it came through I still couldn’t believe it and had to keep rechecking it. Catherine has won for North Derby and Erewash has gone Labour, too! The Reform vote is very worrying though.
 
I concur with a lot of what's been said on here recently about the rise of Reform etc.

Labours challenge now is to try and steadily, over the next five years, bring down the numbers on immigration, and be seen to be bringing them down aswell. Rather than denying the problem exists, which to be fair, they haven't done in more recent times.

I voted Labour most my adult life. I take the view they are usually the best of the bunch. I like many mark the sharp decline of the Torys back to Boris and his handling of the Covid Pandemic.

A shame for Jeremy Corbyn supporters that he wanted the election as soon as possible and got it just before the pandemic when Boris was riding so high in the polls. As I think even a die hard socialist like Corbyn would have won this election if it had been called anytime the past year or two, or three.

That's life.
 
yorick said:
I think I've already heard the quote of the night from the unseated Conservative candidate from Swindon, saying that many in his party had acted like preforming artists in a "circus", describing them as: "A group of bald men fighting over a comb" Haha ha! I could've pissed myself.
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I saw that live and thought both he and the winning Labour candidate conducted themselves impeccably.

The Conservatives might be bearable if there were more like him around.

Contrast him with Cleverly who is one leopard who will never change his spots, spouting the same old Tory shite soundbites.

Worth celebrating is getting rid of Truss, Rees-Mogg and Schapps but for us up here sticking it right up Douglas Ross is a really big deal. The little Masonic shitebag is gone, hopefully for good.

The down side is that he'll probably be back on the football field doing his bit to help the Rangers cause.
 
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