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 Post subject: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Wed May 22, 2024 17:19 
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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Wed May 22, 2024 17:46 
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Immediately booked my leave for clerking. After the many 'expressions of interest' at the local elections, I'm expecting a part-carnival atmosphere.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Wed May 22, 2024 17:57 
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I’m on holiday, so will need to do a postal vote. I wonder what choices I’ll get? Either way it’s a new MP as Sajid isn’t standing (and hasn’t been heard from for ages).


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Wed May 22, 2024 17:58 
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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Wed May 22, 2024 18:03 
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Everyone make sure they have their ID!


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Wed May 22, 2024 18:06 
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Everyone make sure they have their ID!

Or apply for postal vote and you don't need it.

We've been postal voting for a few years now

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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Wed May 22, 2024 18:12 
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I'm away too that week.

I'll have to watch the results show on catchup.

Postal vote application just sent off!


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Wed May 22, 2024 18:56 
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Postal for me, which does me out of a beer.

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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Wed May 22, 2024 21:32 
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Not quite fully updated yet, but https://tactical.vote/


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Wed May 22, 2024 22:29 
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Obviously this is just media punditry, but I think this would be fairly hilarious if it happened. Holding a leadership contest in the run-up to a general election seems like a certain way to just slam your vote share head-first into the floor. We'd end up with some insane situation where Labour has a majority of 400 and Penny Morduant is the leader of a Conservative Party that has 8 MPs


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Thu May 23, 2024 7:49 
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Yes, sounds mostly like he's talking to himself, or dragging someone else to his frotting dreams in with leading questions, but still an entertaining and not unbelievable scenario.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Thu May 23, 2024 9:07 
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Whenever I hear owd Rishi speak, and for some reason it was particularly noticeable during his speech yesterday, all I can hear is Will from the Inbetweeners.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Thu May 23, 2024 11:30 
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And so it begins...


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Thu May 23, 2024 11:45 
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Surely they've twigged this is a bad idea by now? I imahine every editor in every news org has the office intern checking people who ask questions against lists of local councillors or whatever.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Thu May 23, 2024 12:29 
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That was a bewildering and entertaining watch yesterday. I couldn't remember when watching it if it was tradition for PMs when announcing the date to do long rambling tetchy speeches or just say, "Here's the date kthnxbye." It was also a bit weird hearing a bleak recital of past events and a bleak projection of future dangerous geopolitical events with him saying that only he can bring the stability and stern watchfulness that can help see us through it, when the entire legacy of the Tory party has been one of infighting chaos and that he didn't have the gumption to bring a brolly with him or indeed use the press room they expressly built for this kind of thing when there's a very heavy downpour threatening. His final glower before stalking off was a strange watch as well.

Sorry to hear you won't get to watch it live, Kern! I always enjoy your running commentaries on these things.

Also I've booked the day after the election off, so I can recover.

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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Thu May 23, 2024 13:16 
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https://x.com/TomLarkinSky/status/1793608546015490381





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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
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https://x.com/TomLarkinSky/status/1793608546015490381

Going well already.


At least he picked one of the few genuinely good Welsh breweries instead of Brains or Tiny Rebel. Though, of course, he doesn't drink, so no fun there. And he picked a part of the UK that actively hates him for his campaign launch. And etc.

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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Thu May 23, 2024 15:36 
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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Fri May 24, 2024 11:33 
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NervousPete wrote:
MaliA wrote:
https://x.com/TomLarkinSky/status/1793608546015490381

Going well already.


At least he picked one of the few genuinely good Welsh breweries instead of Brains or Tiny Rebel. Though, of course, he doesn't drink, so no fun there. And he picked a part of the UK that actively hates him for his campaign launch. And etc.


He won't have picked it, it will likely have been one of the civil servants at No. 10. And someone will have given him prompts for what to talk about. I hope they told him to mention the footy in the knowledge that Wales haven't qualified.

I'm also really hoping that someone in his office will 'accidentally' set Rishi up for a debacle like Rudy Giulliani at Four Seasons Total Landscaping.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Fri May 24, 2024 11:56 
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Ian Dunt's email today talking about the Tories sending out an email looking for 200-odd (!) candidates (Labour need 100 or so). They'll have a fortnight to vet them. Many will be in very safe seats for other parties, so you'll need "someone very odd" to run.

Expect more hilarity.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Fri May 24, 2024 17:03 
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Reform are apparently aiming to put 600-odd candidates forward. I imagine some very interesting characters will pop up.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Fri May 24, 2024 17:30 
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Reform are apparently aiming to put 600-odd candidates forward. I imagine some very interesting characters will pop up.


Where do you fancy standing?

https://www.reformparty.uk/candidate-ap ... l-election


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Fri May 24, 2024 22:50 
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Dr Zoidberg wrote:
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Reform are apparently aiming to put 600-odd candidates forward. I imagine some very interesting characters will pop up.


Where do you fancy standing?

https://www.reformparty.uk/candidate-ap ... l-election


Have you ever been a member of, or affiliated with, any of the following: Tommy Robinson, National Front (NF), British National Party (BNP), Britain First, English Defence League (EDL), For Britain Movement or Antifa?

One of these things is not like the others, one of these does not belong

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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Sat May 25, 2024 3:45 
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Malc wrote:
Dr Zoidberg wrote:
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Reform are apparently aiming to put 600-odd candidates forward. I imagine some very interesting characters will pop up.


Where do you fancy standing?

https://www.reformparty.uk/candidate-ap ... l-election


Have you ever been a member of, or affiliated with, any of the following: Tommy Robinson, National Front (NF), British National Party (BNP), Britain First, English Defence League (EDL), For Britain Movement or Antifa?

One of these things is not like the others, one of these does not belong


I saw that. It wasn’t clear if these are seen as a negative or positive :D


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Sat May 25, 2024 6:11 
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Malc wrote:
Dr Zoidberg wrote:
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Reform are apparently aiming to put 600-odd candidates forward. I imagine some very interesting characters will pop up.


Where do you fancy standing?

https://www.reformparty.uk/candidate-ap ... l-election


Have you ever been a member of, or affiliated with, any of the following: Tommy Robinson, National Front (NF), British National Party (BNP), Britain First, English Defence League (EDL), For Britain Movement or Antifa?

One of these things is not like the others, one of these does not belong

Clearly they're just looking for good people and there's good people on both sides.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Sat May 25, 2024 12:28 
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Dr Zoidberg wrote:
Squirt wrote:
Reform are apparently aiming to put 600-odd candidates forward. I imagine some very interesting characters will pop up.


Where do you fancy standing?

https://www.reformparty.uk/candidate-ap ... l-election



A bit left of centre, please.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Tue May 28, 2024 8:47 
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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Tue May 28, 2024 13:27 
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https://www.politics.co.uk/news-feature ... reform-uk/

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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Tue Jun 04, 2024 10:27 
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Not sure if I can bothered to watch Sunak v Starmer on ITV tonight, unless they're going straight to the cage fight.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
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Not sure if I can bothered to watch Sunak v Starmer on ITV tonight, unless they're going straight to the cage fight.

What if they add a surprise guest, the new leader of the Reform Party?


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
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Tories pledge annual cap on migration, but Cleverly won't put a number on it.

Or, to put it another way, 'Tories pledge annual cap on migration, but cleverly won't put a number on it.'


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Tue Jun 04, 2024 12:06 
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It's a really small number though. Whatever number you're thinking of, it's lower than that. Promise


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Tue Jun 04, 2024 12:18 
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It's a really small number though. Whatever number you're thinking of, it's lower than that. Promise


69, dudes!
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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
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69 dudes!


Title of your sex tape.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
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Satsuma wrote:
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69 dudes!


Title of your sex tape.


Excellent!


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Tue Jun 04, 2024 21:10 
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Ten minutes in and if I hear the word 'plan' one more time I think I'll throw something at the telly.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Tue Jun 04, 2024 21:16 
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Ten minutes in and if I hear the word 'plan' one more time I think I'll throw something at the telly.


I saw the first three seconds and gibbed it off.

Cannot stand the PM. Effete, tiresomely smug, and not nearly as with it as he thinks he is.

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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
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Trying to work out how it's been staged to make them look of similar height.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
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My bet is a slightly sloping stage.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
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Well, that was staggeringly unenlightening.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
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Both awful, the host not much better.

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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
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About the only thing I can remember from last night was Starmer getting very excited when asked about football at the end.

I should have stayed listening to the lovely octets on Radio 3 instead. Oh well.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
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Just watched nothing but 5 minutes of just this.

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Somewhere, Nigel is going apoplectic and writing to the BBC to accuse them of sabotaging his campaign ..... unless ...... that WAS the Reform Election Broadcast, incorporating the Four Cs - Clear, Concise, Complete Correct.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
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ITVs was the same, so it must be deliberate

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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
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Maybe Reform have a really tight marketing budget.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
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Maybe Reform have a really tight marketing budget.


And there are a reasonable number of people who *do* like the idea of something genuinely different to vote for, but find Farage offputting.


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Dr Zoidberg wrote:
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Maybe Reform have a really tight marketing budget.


And there are a reasonable number of people who *do* like the idea of something genuinely different to vote for, but find Farage offputting.


So they have an election broadcast without him in it, or any of the other Reform candidates who might say something unacceptable to public decency. Sneaky bastards.


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Sat Jun 15, 2024 13:27 
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Or because the whole thing has been thrown together on the whim of a narcissistic madman, they didn't have time to do anything real


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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
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Or because the whole thing has been thrown together on the whim of a narcissistic madman, they didn't have time to do anything real



I've just had a look on YouTube to see if there was anything about it and found this on Times Radio


“The fact that this would have been past around mates, talked about in the pub that’s an incredibly powerful effect”.

Reform UK reveal their five minutes of static party political broadcast as a "finger in the eye to the Westminster establishment" says Mark Lucas former director of presentation for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.



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 Post subject: Re: General Election 2024
PostPosted: Sat Jun 15, 2024 22:05 
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I reckon they picked up on some stat that "on average people only watch a few seconds of a party political broadcast" and went from there.


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