UK General Election 2024 - July 4th

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It’s not even actually a pensions policy. It’s another policy where the Tories are trying to attract the coffin dodger vote by promising to screw over young people more.
 
There are probably more guilt-ridden Boomers than some imagine.

My mum lives in a mortgage-free one bedroom flat. She lives off her State, a modest Civil Service and half her ex-husband’s teacher pension. She is generally financially comfortable and keeps saying how guilty she feels, having had it quite easy on just working as a carer and low level admin jobs. Every month she buys a £100 supermarket gift card to help out a friend in her 50s struggling to make ends meet. You couldn’t pay her to vote Tory.
 
This entire election is being built on the old vote.

Takes place in the middle of summer during festivals, holidays and post grad activity

Archaic policies like national service

Better pensions

What a cynical campaign.
 
Entirely giving up on anyone under 60 is a terrible long term strategy but they’ve obviously decided it’s their only chance of salvaging some sort of result that isn’t completely humiliating.
 
It's exactly that, damage limitation. If they can get enough rotten old bastards to vote for them, it might not be quite so humiliating so fuck it, tip everyone under 65 straight under the bus and anyone between about 10 and 25 straight into a shit-filled sea. I hate them with all my heart.
 
They're being surprisingly and worryingly competitive. Although I suspect a lot of minds have already been made up.

There's still over five weeks to completely humiliate themselves, which is highly likely. Labour have gone full Dua Lipa so far, so they better learn some choreo.
 
Their fight is to avoid haemorrhaging voters to Reform as much as anything else. I'm assuming they'll starting terfing it up as soon as Pride Month begins - they'll enjoy poisoning that well.
 


I know some poor BRAND MANAGER is tearing out their hair at this hideous, off-brand monstrosity.
 
AGinAg (39) said:
They're being surprisingly and worryingly competitive. Although I suspect a lot of minds have already been made up.
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Aside from one dodgy Opinium poll, the poll results aren't budging, yet. If anything it's a slight Labour swing.

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I'm expecting that Labour are just biding their time and waiting for the big manifesto launch rather than pissing random policies out every few days. It's the better move.

Although that all rests on their manifesto not being a damp squib, which it might be.
 
Seriously, is there ANY significant challenge to that witch in Canterbury?

There must be voters in that constituency who’d switch to Lib Dem or Green purely because they can’t in good conscience vote for HER.

Probably not enough to make a difference sadly, but it’d be nice to think they at least had a viable option.
 
It's tough because they had the same Tory twat for thirty years before she beat him in 2017. So voting for anyone else could easily let them back in :gross:
 
I suppose it's a lot less damaging when 90% of the electorate don't recognise you in the first place.
 
I know people cringe at his big hammer antics but I can't help but QUITE LIKE Ed Davey.

He's leaning into the Lib Dems as the benign nerds of the political system, and I can't say I hate that in the grand scheme of things. Hope they actually do pick up a few seats.
 
Ed Davey leaning into everything was always going to be the entertaining side story of this campaign. He's very silly.
 
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Ah, of course!

Maybe Eddie Izzard should defect to the Greens and run against her just for the lolz.
 
As for Ed Davey, this will sound like the most backhanded of compliments but he has a touch of the Boris Johnsons in his apparent comfort with looking a bit of a fool. Except he doesn't also appear to be a raging thundercunt, which is nice.

Sunak and Starmer could never style out falling into a lake because they're both so obviously thin-skinned.
 
They've removed the University and the surrounding student halls, from our constituency. Ironically the Labour candidate here is a senior professor there. She's still odds on favourite to swing us Labour for the first time since 1945.

Obviously I want Labour to win, she's my councillor and was head of my department at Uni, so I know her, but worse the Tory is a flown in Strictly contestant (and Olympian).
 
Although I've just remembered she had her own TV series about a decade ago.

We're just flooded with stars. Although on a sad note Seb Flyte won't be standing.
 
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The Lib Dems came second in that seat in 2010 (when the Tories held it), but they do seem to have dropped off significantly since then.

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I think that's in part because it's a university town. Lib Dems used to get a lot of the student vote, but they fell off a bit with that audience :eyes:
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See also Bristol West, soon to be Bristol Central. Labour in 2001, Lib Dem 2005 & 2010 (with 48% in 2010), then the vote collapsed to 19% in 2015, 7% in 2017. They agreed to withdraw in favour of the Greens in 2019.

Current polling has them on 2% with the Greens on 50%, as @ZenGiraffe posted above. They are going to struggle in such seats for a LONG time, I suspect.
 
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