UK election

@Ponderable said
OK, I was under the impression that you would post here. Thanks for the clarification

@A-Unique-Nickname said
He has been too busy washing milkshake from himself and watching the euros.

And the election is in progress. Lets see what is te state this evening

@Ponderable said
And the election is in progress. Lets see what is te state this evening

I predict

Most votes

England: Labour
Scotland: SNP
N. Ireland: Sinn Fein
Wales: Who cares.

@A-Unique-Nickname said
I predict

Most votes

England: Labour
Scotland: SNP
N. Ireland: Sinn Fein
Wales: Who cares.

@A-Unique-Nickname said
I predict

Most votes

England: Labour
Scotland: SNP
N. Ireland: Sinn Fein
Wales: Who cares.

@Drewnogal said
What a cheek! 😮

Of interest to those interested in Wales is that the Conservative Party has been completely wiped out in Wales. Labour won all but five of the 32 Welsh Commons seats, with four going to Plaid Cymru and one, Brecon, Radnor & Cwm Tawe, to the Liberal Democrats. In the 2019 election, the Tories held 14 of the 40 seats, with Labour on 22, and Plaid Cymru on f ...[text shortened]... Farmers with Plaid? I’m currently staying at a wonderfulfarm rental cottage, high up in the hills 🥰

@A-Unique-Nickname said
Correct about England, N.I and Wales but horribly wrong about Scotland. Not surprised Labour won more seats there but didn't think it would be as much and SNP would still get the most votes.

Labour’s “Loveless Landslide”

As Europe lurches to the right the UK seems, on looking at the surface, to have lurched to the left. But have we?

In 2019 Jeremy Corbyn led the Labour Party to its worst result in 80 years giving Boris Johnson’s Conservatives a huge win and and 80+ seat majority. Labour have only increased their share of votes from that disaster by 1.6% and actually got less votes than in 2019. The first past the post system has given Labour a huge majority because everyone else is sick of the Tories and and they about half of their vote share the vast majority of which, just over 4,000,000 votes, went to Reform UK who only returned 5 seats.

Think about that for a moment. The Tories got twice as many votes as Reform, but got 121 seats. Labour got more or less twice as many votes as the Tories (but less than they got in 2019) and got 412 seats. Hardly a “landslide mandate” from the British people! Th UK needs a reform of the voting system which is rigged to favour the long established 2 party system.

As Sir Keir Starmer the multi-millionaire, castle-owning, born-again man of the people, sits in Downing Street he must be wondering where his support really lies, how deep it is and how on earth he’s going to hold on to it, given that only half of the people who did actually vote for him (Labour) say they did so because of him and the other half say they did so to get rid of the Tories.

Meanwhile the brave Jess Philips [Labour] and her campaign team in Birmingham constituency suffered horrendous abuse, sometimes people screaming in her face, threats of violence and car tyres being slashed by supporters of the “independent” sectarian candidate running on a “Gaza” ticket. A sign of things to come in some areas of the UK one wonders.

Of course… the mainstream media hardly reported on this campaign of abuse from that Muslim community and instead focused incessantly on Andrew Parker’s outrageous pay-per-slurr arrival on Clacton sea front. A self professed “well spoken” actor who drove nearly a hundred miles from his home to join the other 150 Reform volunteers for a chance encounter with Lee Sorrell’s undercover film team and to deliver some pantomime level offensive “rough talk”, calling Rushi Sunak a useless effin’ Paki and suggesting the army use boat immigrants as target shooting practice on the beaches. It was so bad, so ludicrously offensive, you almost couldn’t make it up. Hmmm.

But back to Labour and their “Loveless Landslide”; a landslide which looks increasingly like a hollow victory given the polling statistics above, and one which will give Labour nightmares at by-elections as they set out to “change Britain” to reform the NHS, to satisfy teachers and doctors pay demands (and now with the unions holding a financial gun to their head), to manage the escalating benefits money pit, to navigate the Middle East problem whilst remaining aligned to the and pre election commitments to Israel (and with 5 sectarian Muslim ‘Gaza ‘ MPs in the lower House), address mass uncontrolled immigration (without naming it as a manifesto priority) and of course NOT raise taxes.

It’s going to be interesting but also horrible to watch.

In case anyone thinks I’m being biased or exaggerating about what happened to Jess Philips then you can (finally) read about it here; scroll down to her video interview. Remember Jess is a hard left labour candidate, not anti immigration.

Interesting how this only gets promoted by the msm AFTER the election…

https://news.sky.com/story/labours-jess-phillips-reflects-on-abuse-in-absolutely-horrible-election-campaign-13173842

@divegeester said
Labour’s “Loveless Landslide”

As Europe lurches to the right the UK seems, on looking at the surface, to have lurched to the left. But have we?

In 2019 Jeremy Corbyn led the Labour Party to its worst result in 80 years giving Boris Johnson’s Conservatives a huge win and and 80+ seat majority. Labour have only increased their share of votes from that disaster ...[text shortened]... riority) and of course NOT raise taxes.

It’s going to be interesting but also horrible to watch.

fun fact, when we discussed the Britisch plotical system at German school in the 80's the very vast majority of pupils thought the british approach doubtful at least.

@Ponderable said
fun fact, when we discussed the Britisch plotical system at German school in the 80's the very vast majority of pupils thought the british approach doubtful at least.

@divegeester said
Labour’s “Loveless Landslide”

As Europe lurches to the right the UK seems, on looking at the surface, to have lurched to the left. But have we?

In 2019 Jeremy Corbyn led the Labour Party to its worst result in 80 years giving Boris Johnson’s Conservatives a huge win and and 80+ seat majority. Labour have only increased their share of votes from that disaster ...[text shortened]... riority) and of course NOT raise taxes.

It’s going to be interesting but also horrible to watch.