General Election 2024: General UK Politics Discussion here

[Delbow]

Just now, Mister M said:

Apparently one of the correspondents on the telly said that when she lost the job at No10 - many local people were furious that she 'forgot' about her constituency, and went off to USA to sell her book.

 

Everybody Hates Liz

[crookesey]

Just now, Delbow said:

 

Everybody Hates Liz

I don’t hate anyone, hate is a very negative emotion.

[Mister M]

28 minutes ago, Mister M said:

Apparently one of the correspondents on the telly said that when she lost the job at No10 - many local people were furious that she 'forgot' about her constituency, and went off to USA to sell her book.

Edit that.

She said:

"I agree I was part of that, that it is absolutely true. But during our 14 years in power, unfortunately, we did not do enough to take on the legacy we’d been left. In particular things like the Human Rights Act that made it very difficult for us to deport illegal immigrants, and that is one of the reasons I think we’ve ended up in this situation we are now."

 

So it's the fault of the Labour Party 14 years ago. 

[Prettytom]

1 hour ago, Mister M said:

She turned up very late, then said nothing at all on the stage.

Rather graceless behaviour 

She’s a rather graceless person. Parliament will be better without people like her.

 

It’s a big majority, isn’t it. It gives Starmer the opportunity to be radical and far sighted. Unless Labour descend into chaos like the last Tory army, he should have ten years to fix the damage that the last lot inflicted on the country.

 

He could start by making the NHS more user friendly.

[Wing Commander]

An hollow victory for Starmer.  Corbyn got a bigger share of the vote for Labour in 2017.   The huge majority for Labour is a freak result because the Conservatives did so badly and Reform UK have managed to obtain 14% of the vote.  

[Mister M]

13 minutes ago, Wing Commander said:

An hollow victory for Starmer.  Corbyn got a bigger share of the vote for Labour in 2017.   The huge majority for Labour is a freak result because the Conservatives did so badly and Reform UK have managed to obtain 14% of the vote.  

Oh here we go - simultaneously telling us that Labour did poorly with its share of the vote, but that Reform did stupendously getting 14% of the vote.

Speaking of Corbyn. I think he did rather better in 2019, than the Tories did yesterday. 

Edited July 5 by Mister M

[crookesey]

12 minutes ago, Wing Commander said:

An hollow victory for Starmer.  Corbyn got a bigger share of the vote for Labour in 2017.   The huge majority for Labour is a freak result because the Conservatives did so badly and Reform UK have managed to obtain 14% of the vote.  

It’s all about turn out, voting apathy is infectious.

[melthebell]

19 minutes ago, Wing Commander said:

An hollow victory for Starmer.  Corbyn got a bigger share of the vote for Labour in 2017.   The huge majority for Labour is a freak result because the Conservatives did so badly and Reform UK have managed to obtain 14% of the vote.  

Who cares, the Tories are out, out, out

[Prettytom]

16 minutes ago, Wing Commander said:

An hollow victory for Starmer.  Corbyn got a bigger share of the vote for Labour in 2017.   The huge majority for Labour is a freak result because the Conservatives did so badly and Reform UK have managed to obtain 14% of the vote.  

It is very similar to the two elections in the 1980s, when Thatcher won huge majorities. 
 

Then, the left wing vote was split by David Owen and his egocentric chums

Thatcher decimated the country on roughly 40% of the popular vote. That's slightly higher than tge Labour vote this time, but hardly a ringing endorsement of her, or her policies.

 

This time, the right wing vote has been split by Farage and his vanity. 
 

Unless Reform go away, Labour could be in power for decades.

[trastrick]

Congratulations to Labour, on their victory!

 

They now have a mandate.

 

They have been given the job to put the countries problems right.

 

Let's hope they take the responsibility seriously, and don't just continue to run the country into the ground, and blame their predecessor!

 

As a wise man put it "Success is the best revenge!