Elections UK General Election - Thursday the 4th of July 2024

[650lb Sumo]

Spoiler: Link

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/rishi-sunak-calls-uk-national-election-july-4-2024-05-22/

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called a national election on Wednesday for the 4th of July, saying Britons would be able to choose their future in a vote his Conservatives are widely expected to lose to the opposition Labour Party after 14 years in power.

Ending months of speculation as to when he would call a new vote, Sunak, 44, stood outside his Downing Street office in pouring rain and called the election several months earlier than expected - a risky strategy with his party far behind Labour in the opinion polls.

Almost shouting to be heard above an anthem of Labour's election victory in 1997 under former prime minister Tony Blair being played by protesters outside Downing Street's gates, Sunak listed what he said were his achievements in government, not only as prime minister but also as a former finance minister.

"Now is the moment for Britain to choose its future and decide whether it wants to build on the progress we have made or risk going back to square one and no certainty," he said. "Over the next few weeks, I will fight for every vote, I will earn your trust and I will prove to you that only a Conservative government led by me will not put our hard-earned economic stability at risk."

Sunak heads into the election not only trailing far behind Labour in the opinion polls but also somewhat isolated from some in his party, increasingly dependent on a small team of advisers to steer him through what is set to be an ugly campaign.

But he seems to have decided that, with some economic gains, such as falling inflation, and an economy growing at its fastest pace in almost three years, now is the time to take a risk and present his agenda for a new term formally to voters.

"Labour want you to think that this election is over before it has even begun," Sunak told a rally, hosted in an east London exhibition centre and attended by senior ministers and supporters, hours after the formal election announcement. The British people are going to show Labour that they don't take too kindly to being taken for granted."

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[Deleted member 585708]

This is good

This election is over before it has even begun

 

[syct23]

Now We can both Celebrate the 4th!

HAPPY 4th OF JULY UK!!

Welcome to the club!!

 

[650lb Sumo]

Update

Spoiler: Links

Nigel Farage pulls out of BBC interview at last minute amid Hitler row

‘Panorama’ special postponed as Reform UK party faces row over candidate who claimed UK would have been ‘better off’ if it had ‘taken Hitler up on his offer of neutrality’ instead of fighting the Nazis

www.independent.co.uk

Horrific moment Nigel Farage is pelted with objects by attacker

Dramatic footage shows a man in a red hoodie flinging objects at the Reform leader from an area that had been cordoned off by builders working on a shop, before he was grabbed.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Woman charged after Nigel Farage milkshake incident in Clacton

A 25-year-old woman is due in court in July after the Reform UK leader had a drink thrown over him.

www.bbc.co.uk

Nigel Farage assumed leadership of Reform UK on the 3rd of June. Reform UK was founded as the Brexit Party in 2018. It is the furthest right of the mainstream political parties. Farage has been attacked twice since taking the reins of Reform UK:

On Tuesday the 4th of June 25 year old OnlyFans model Victoria Thomas-Bowen, a Labour supporter, threw a banana milkshake on him in Clacton

and today a protestor threw a coffee cup and wet cement at him in Barnsley (some accounts say no cement was thrown). Farage was touring on the open top deck of his campaign bus, having been advised by police not to campaign in Barnsley on foot.

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Nigel Farage has pulled out of a high-profile BBC interview as his Reform UK party faces a row over whether the UK should have appeased Hitler.

The former UKIP leader was due to take part in a Panorama special with Nick Robinson, set to have been broadcast on Tuesday night.

But it has been pulled from the schedule and postponed, despite Mr Farage continuing to campaign in Barnsley and Nottinghamshire.

It comes less than 24 hours after it emerged one of his candidates claimed the country would have been 'far better' off if it had 'taken Hitler up on his offer of neutrality' instead of fighting the Nazis.

Ian Gribbin,

who is standing in Bexhill and Battle, also described Winston Churchill as 'abysmal' and praised Russian president Vladimir Putin, according to the BBC.

He also claimed online that women were the 'sponging gender' and should be 'deprived of health care'.

Mr Gribbin is reported to have posted on the Unherd website in 2022 that: 'Britain would be in a far better state today had we taken Hitler up on his offer of neutrality … but oh no Britain’s warped mindset values weird notions of international morality rather than looking after its own people.'

The same month he wrote that the UK should 'exorcise the cult of Churchill and recognise that in both policy and military strategy, he was abysmal'.

The previous month he criticised women, writing: 'Do you think you could actually work and pay for it all too like good citizens? Men pay 80% of tax – women spend 80% of tax revenue. On aggregate as a group you only take from society. Less complaining please from the ‘sponging gender’.'

 

[Deleted member 585708]

Farage is probably paying people to throw milkshakes at him at this point.

The guy is the epitome of pantomime politics.

The desperate far right in the UK will always look to him for answers, and he'll never have to provide any, so he'll just tell them whatever idiocy they want to hear.

The more people boo him, the stronger he thinks he looks.

He's completely irrelevant, though, he's never won a single seat himself, he's never been an actual MP, and he's only amped for this general election because he can hijack Reform UK knowing the Tories cannot win and thus they can blame him for taking a share of the right wing vote - which both parties will pretend is prevalent.

Boring.

 

[Kingz]

Interesting day to choose to hold their little election. Coincidence or salty?



I predict whoever wins, UK will remain the cuck champion of the western world for the foreseeable future

 

[KnightTemplar]

The day before my birthday.

At least I'll be too drunk to give a fuck about the results.

Not that I'd care much even if I was sober.

 

[KnightTemplar]

Interesting day to choose to hold their little election. Coincidence or salty?



I predict whoever wins, UK will remain the cuck champion of the western world for the foreseeable future

At least until November, when America chooses between a Dementia sufferer who can barely walk and liked to shower with his daughter, and a convicted felon who pays hush money to porn stars and thinks Hitler was a pretty cool guy.

 

[650lb Sumo]

Update Two

Spoiler: Link

Labour on course for 200-seat majority and Tories to have fewest MPs ever, new poll shows

The latest YouGov MRP for Sky News projects Labour would have the second largest majority since the Second World War while the Tories will slump to their lowest level of MPs.

news.sky.com

Labour are on course for a majority of 200 according to a new YouGov projection, which also suggests the Tories will slump to their lowest number of seats at an election since the party's formation in 1834.

If this projection is replicated when the country goes to the polls on the 4th of July, Labour would have the second largest majority since the Second World War.

If this and other MRP polls are accurate, it suggests Britain is on the cusp of a fundamental redrawing of the political landscape.

This would break all historical records, putting the Tories well below their previous low of 141 seats in 1906 under Arthur Balfour.

It puts Sir Keir Starmer's Labour on course for a commanding 425 seats, more than double the 202 seats won in the 2019 election, and beats all previous records for Labour since the party was founded at the start of the last century.

The Liberal Democrats would win 67 seats under this projection, a huge six times the number of seats they won in 2019.

This would be the highest number since the formation of the Lib Dems, a record previously set in 2005 when Charles Kennedy was leader.

Meanwhile, John Swinney's SNP are projected to drop to 20 seats under this projection, down from the 48 won by Nicola Sturgeon in the last general election.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Interesting day to choose to hold their little election. Coincidence or salty?



I predict whoever wins, UK will remain the cuck champion of the western world for the foreseeable future

Most people over here wouldn't be able to tell you what day American independence day is.

 

[Fox by the Sea]

Farage is probably paying people to throw milkshakes at him at this point.

The guy is the epitome of pantomime politics.

The desperate far right in the UK will always look to him for answers, and he'll never have to provide any, so he'll just tell them whatever idiocy they want to hear.

The more people boo him, the stronger he thinks he looks.

He's completely irrelevant, though, he's never won a single seat himself, he's never been an actual MP, and he's only amped for this general election because he can hijack Reform UK knowing the Tories cannot win and thus they can blame him for taking a share of the right wing vote - which both parties will pretend is prevalent.

Boring.

isn't he winning one this time? heard his party might actually beat the tories, which is hilarious.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

isn't he winning one this time? heard his party might actually beat the tories, which is hilarious.

Yeah it looks like he'll get a seat which will at least make parliament sessions entertaining with him making a tit of himself.

 

[Deleted member 585708]

isn't he winning one this time? heard his party might actually beat the tories, which is hilarious.

Considering he has been able to hand pick a constituency, he might. I'd roflmao if he still lost again though.

Not sure Reform will beat the Tories, but that would be hilarious. Seems unlikely to me though, lot of Tories are in hiding right now.

 

[LeonardoBjj]

The day before my birthday.

At least I'll be too drunk to give a fuck about the results.

Not that I'd care much even if I was sober.

- In Brazil they say a drunk ass has no owner! But i will ask @Zer to tke care of you!

 

[650lb Sumo]

Farage is probably paying people to throw milkshakes at him at this point.

The guy is the epitome of pantomime politics.

The desperate far right in the UK will always look to him for answers, and he'll never have to provide any, so he'll just tell them whatever idiocy they want to hear.

The more people boo him, the stronger he thinks he looks.

He's completely irrelevant, though, he's never won a single seat himself, he's never been an actual MP, and he's only amped for this general election because he can hijack Reform UK knowing the Tories cannot win and thus they can blame him for taking a share of the right wing vote - which both parties will pretend is prevalent.

Boring.

I heard there's a photo of him with Thomas-Bowen, who is an OnlyFans model, from some other occasion, and she's dressed up smartly in an evening dress with expensive earrings and her hair up etc. I couldn't find it, although I am still going to look and ask more. Anyway yes, politics in 2024 is a pantomime and the buttons we push aren't connected to the machine.

 

[650lb Sumo]

Update Three

Spoiler: Links

UK General Election 2024 | YouGov

YouGov. Stay informed on the latest UK general election polling data.

yougov.co.uk

Less than 36 hours to go!

Labour: Sir Keir Rodney Starmer KCB KC

Conservative and Unionist Party: Rishi Sunak

The Liberal Democrats: Sir Edward Jonathan Davey FRSA

The Scottish National Party: John Ramsay Swinney

Reform UK: Nigel Paul Farage

Plaid Cymru: Rhun ap Iorwerth

(I'm not doing the Greens and NI because it gets too complicated and less relevant.)

 

[bobthebuilder]

It is basically Farage vs socialists

 

[aunshi189]

It is basically Farage vs socialists

The socialists are mad that Starmer isn't socialist enough.

 

[ColemanwastheGOAT]

Parliamentary systems are so fucking retarded. 'Winning' an election with 30% of the vote lmao.

 

[A Very Serious Cat]

So for some weird reason I can vote in this, who is the least shit option here?