General Election 2024: General UK Politics Discussion here

[alchresearch]

17 hours ago, geared said:

Labour won because the country was sick of the Tories, nothing more, nothing less.

 

Indeed, the figures speak for themselves 

Labour gained over 200 seats but their vote share increased by less than two percentage points to 34%.

 

If the Tories and Reform were one party, I don't think it would have been a landslide

 

[El Cid]

8 minutes ago, alchresearch said:

 

Indeed, the figures speak for themselves 

Labour gained over 200 seats but their vote share increased by less than two percentage points to 34%.

 

If the Tories and Reform were one party, I don't think it would have been a landslide

 

 

So which persons or party do you think made people dissolutioned with politics?

[geared]

1 hour ago, alchresearch said:

 

Indeed, the figures speak for themselves 

Labour gained over 200 seats but their vote share increased by less than two percentage points to 34%.

 

If the Tories and Reform were one party, I don't think it would have been a landslide

 

 

That's percentage vote share as well.

 

Technically, they actually got half a million less votes than Corbn's Labour did in 2019.

 

 

[Mister M]

2 hours ago, alchresearch said:

 

Indeed, the figures speak for themselves 

Labour gained over 200 seats but their vote share increased by less than two percentage points to 34%.

 

If the Tories and Reform were one party, I don't think it would have been a landslide

 

In response to the claim that if Conservatives and Reform were one vote, the psephologist Prof John Curtice has already polled for that and found many voters who voted Reform wouldn't vote Conservative, and many Conservatives wouldn't vote reform. 

Same as in the 1980s when the SDP broke away from Labour.

 

[altus]

2 hours ago, alchresearch said:

If the Tories and Reform were one party, I don't think it would have been a landslide

 

If you're going to count the right wing votes together, you've got to count the progressive votes together too.

[Guest]

3 hours ago, El Cid said:

 

So which persons or party do you think made people dissolutioned with politics?

All of the main parties

[El Cid]

40 minutes ago, Uggy said:

All of the main parties

 

SNP corruption, bungs to Tory Michelle Mone; but that does not work for the Liberal Democrats that did nothing wrong, they got more seats in 2024 but more votes in 2019

[hackey lad]

I see Little Johnny Ashworth has walked into a lovely little job . 

[Mister Gee]

2 minutes ago, hackey lad said:

I see Little Johnny Ashworth has walked into a lovely little job . 

Any chance of a link please?

[Beechwood_S6]

13 minutes ago, Mister Gee said:

Any chance of a link please?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/09/jonathan-ashworth-new-boss-labour-together-thinktank#:~:text=Ex-MP Jonathan Ashworth named as new boss of Labour Together thinktank,-Exclusive%3A Former shadow&text=Jonathan Ashworth is to become,seat%2C the Guardian has learned.