UK General Election 2024 - July 4th (4 Viewers)

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Here’s the full bio for my local UKIP candidate



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As someone whose underscores are regularly ignored, I think it’s a terrible faux pas on the punctuation front and I won’t be voting for Peter.
 
More on the Faiza Shaheen debacle

ZenGiraffe said:
Well, the Labour selection shit show overnight is intensely depressing.





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GNL said:


It's pretty galling to use a tweet talking about Islamophobia as one of your reasons to deselect somebody.

Also to announce it by briefing the press before you tell her. Spiteful.
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Tisch said:
I'm wondering if Newsnight already had her booked or if they scrambled to get her on at the last minute. If it's the former that's dreadful TIMING on Labour's part.

She was an absolute dead cert at giant-killing Iain Duncan Smith as well. She was only about 1000 votes behind him in 2019. Her story would have been a big success for Labour. She talks about how it's a "personal" one for her having had a sick mother who had to go through rounds of DWP interviews for benefits. An all round brilliant candidate in both her own right, and if you simply look at the optics. A massive screw up.
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Evie said:
Voted for Faiza last time. She’s absolutely of the politics that Starmer is trying to get rid of, but she’s very very popular locally and there are other sitting MPs who are no different. This is such an own goal, they could’ve managed this ages ago if they really believed she was problematic.
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I find it interesting that the new candidate's twitter is full of retweets congratulating other candidates being chosen but has gone awfully quiet since her own selection. I didn't even know anything about it till now when I thought I'd check to see if there was any update! There's not even a pic of her on the tweet!

I'll wait till 4th July but it's made me (and I'm sure others!) so unsure. What the hell are all these own goals achieving?
 
I read on Twitter that the new candidate is/was on the internal Labour committee dealing with the disciplinary matter involving the previous candidate. :o
 
The Shaheen thing will likely fizzle out, there’s no legal right anybody has to be a PPC. The leadership just don’t want her in Parliament and are willing to take the hit now after presumably run the odds on the constituency. It’s telling that they’re deselecting her, whilst candidates like, say, Richard Burgon are getting a free run. Labour Party management is a brutal business.
 
I was fully expecting Burgon to be the next one mysteriously deselected. Maybe there just weren’t any opportunistic SPADS who could be arsed moving to Leeds :eyes:
 
VoR said:
I was fully expecting Burgon to be the next one mysteriously deselected. Maybe there just weren’t any opportunistic SPADS who could be arsed moving to Leeds :eyes:
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They know he will fall in line.
 
gggggg said:
They know he will fall in line.
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Possibly, but this is where they’re being short sighted. I guarantee that the first embarassing by-election scandal Starmer has to face will come from one of these dropped-in inner circle candidates rather than someone cranky from the left. Most likely Akehurst if he actually gets in.
 
VoR said:
Possibly, but this is where they’re being short sighted. I guarantee that the first embarassing by-election scandal Starmer has to face will come from one of these dropped-in inner circle candidates rather than someone cranky from the left. Most likely Akehurst if he actually gets in.
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The calculation will be how many Mandelsons can they reasonably withstand for sake of Party loyalty
 
The thought of Badenoch losing her seat is absolutely thrilling, if unlikely.
 
I've become quietly thrilled with my own private fantasy of :WhiffOfMisogyny: running for an MP seat

But alas, it doesn't appear to be happening.
 
I was driving along a busy main road near Southport tonight (close to where Liverpool City Region's ONLY Tory seat exists) and there was an array of canvas signs in people's gardens, seems to be a very competitive area as you would imagine for a place looking to swing left.

Anyway it was a sea of Labour signs and Lib Dem signs and Green signs and then every now and again you'd pass a blue sign with someone's name on it... clear the Tory candidate who is asking people to vote for HIM and not the party he (allegedly) represents :D
 
Jilly is DEFINITELY voting Tory traditional values

Meanwhile the evil Hannah publicly tells everyone she's Lib Dem, whilst privately trying to sell consultancy services to Tory HQ
 
gggggg said:
The Shaheen thing will likely fizzle out, there’s no legal right anybody has to be a PPC. The leadership just don’t want her in Parliament and are willing to take the hit now after presumably run the odds on the constituency. It’s telling that they’re deselecting her, whilst candidates like, say, Richard Burgon are getting a free run. Labour Party management is a brutal business.
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Oh it’ll fizzle out nationally in like a day. But Chingford is a weird mix of voters and has a scalp so people are angry that they can see an easy route back for IDS, aside from it being about her. I don’t even live there anymore and I’m pissed off they might not chuck him out

On a brighter note the whole Lib Dem campaign is now my daily highlight, like a lovely little election advent calendar with Ed Daveys face in it
 
AGinAg (39) said:
Electoral Calculus MRP is notoriously weak. I'll wait for YouGov's.
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The methodology is pretty sound, they’ve taken an average of lots of polls as well as their own. But MRP is a bad predictor of landslide elections as there are countless variables and no uniform swing. The YouGov one will be more cautious. I believe More in Common have one next week too.

The Opinium poll for Sunday morning is promising fireworks too…..
 
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