2024 UK general election - Place to watch and discuss just how fucked we are

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Reform on 21% national vote share across the constituencies declared so far, the same as the Conservatives.

Reform seems to be doing better than expected in seats they weren't going to win but have drastically underperformed in seats they were actually contesting so far. I really hope that turns around but it could be they are the protest vote in places it doesn't matter but people aren't voting for them where they can actually win.
 
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2 Faces 2 Colours said:
What a prophetic day for us Brits, we watch as an already shitty government gets shitter while one of our former colonies celebrate its independence.
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It's fun watching the confetti on the page as the UK slips slowly into the sea.
 
so no surprises then? pretty much the exact result everyone knew would happen since the queen's funeral? Its crazy how conservatives have been in power for the longest time in recent history besides when Thatcher came to power and yet they've had like 5 prime ministers and not a single one that supported Brexit. If anything this just proves how amazing China and other one party nations are, the modern conservative party can't even rule when they have an extreme majority. say what you will about Labour, they aren't going to be dragging their feet on their promises or tripping over their cocks. If anything their platform is underpromising the sort of nutty bullshit they'll force down the country's throat.
 
std::string said:
SNP might be even more cooked than anyone thought.
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Yeah looks bad, this was the prediction from the exit polls

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Looking forward to hearing Basildon results, recount after supposedly 20 votes in it.

Some of these seats are just nature healing from Corbyn. Like Barrow & Furness, always been safe Labour but Corbyn's scrap the deterrent didn't go down well in the town that builds the submarines.
 
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It does not quite match “the people have spoken, the bastards” level of sulk but Tim Collins, the army colonel who gave a famous speech to troops before the invasion of Iraq, has made some choice remarks about the voters of North Down who declined to elect him.

“People in North Down, I think they don’t want someone who doesn’t live in Northern Ireland,” Colllins, who lives in Kent, said after being eliminated.

“They’re interested in local politics, they’re not interested in cutting VAT, they’re not interested in international affairs. They’re interested in potholes and hedges.”

The Ulster Unionist party candidate made headlines during the campaign when comparing the cost of insuring a car in Northern Ireland to insuring his Rolls Royce. “It’s Northern Ireland, they don’t understand these things,” he said at the count centre. “The point I was making is that an expensive car is cheaper to insure in England than it is here.”

The seat remained a toss-up between the incumbent, Stephen Farry of Alliance, and Alex Easton, an independent unionist.
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Yes mate, you are the exact fucking problem. The voters of North Down think their problems are more important than whatever the fuck the voters of Kent think their problems are. It's almost like the two places have very little in common. It is almost like - hold that thought - Kent is not in Ulster??
Fucking parachuted-in candidates. Never accept them.
 
Coccxys said:
Starmer down 17% in his own constituency.
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Paki influence strikes again. It is startling how many seats in a UK election are being significantly affected - even decided - on the basis of a foreign conflict halfway around the world in which Britain and British forces are in no way involved.
It's almost like the Muslims of the UK view themselves as being of Muslim identity first and foremost, and nothing else is really important to them.
 
Grant Shapps taken out because of reform. You could see the moment he heard them getting 6k and knew it was over. Which yeah, he would have remained in office if it wasn't for reform.
 
Is IDS gone... No survived somehow.

He had near zero chance of holding, but did.

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No survived somehow
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Not somehow, but bc of Keir the Magnanimous' efforts to purge Corbynite parts of the labour pool. Faiza Shaheen would run as an independent candidate and she shaked her head when the labour candidate got slightly more votes than her. If they were combined, Ian would have been out.
 
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Is IDS gone... No survived somehow.

He had near zero chance of holding, but did.

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The 99% chance of losing the seat is based on assumption of uniform swing from the national exit poll

What actually happened in the seat is quite funny... The candidate for Labour was quite a well known activist called Faiza Shaheen, who is on the left wing of the Labour Party. However a few weeks before the election she was suddenly deselected as part of Starmer's effort to purge the party of the Labour left/Jeremy Corbyn supporters. The pretence for this was that she once liked a tweet referring to the Israel lobby, which is 'antisemitic'. However due to her sense of injustice/large ego she decided to stand as an independent candidate. Her and the new Labour candidate both got about 12k votes, allowing IDS to win with 17k. So Starmer's purging/her ego have gifted him the seat when he would have been easily beaten if not for Labour factionalism
 
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