UK General Election 4th July

[stxjimmy]

A good politician can uplift and make one think the sky's the limit.

Po little rishi just made a laughing stock of himself telling the uk electorate of the sacrifices his parents made to educate him, no sky tv.

Winchester school presently charges £49,152 pa.

 

[jaF0]

Hopefully the sands of time are ebbing away for rightist governance, despicable and ineffective here in the uk, worldwide.
They have nothing positive to offer anyone but their own dwindling intolerant demographic.

Umm, you saw the EU vote?

 

[MajorRewrite]

Umm, you saw the EU vote?

The results of the EU vote have been misrepresented in the press. The EU was run by a centrist coalition before the election and will be after the election too.

 

[MajorRewrite]

“Never ever fuck a Tory, unless it’s metaphorically in an election.”

 

[Bray123]

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...nvestigation-in-election-date-betting-scandal

A series of Tories are now being investigated for placing bets on the date of the election shortly before it was announced. Even one of the police officers on protection duties has been arrested & suspended.

https://imgur.com/bBTRqcg

 

[MajorRewrite]

The ending is inspirational. Independence Day for Britain!

 

[MajorRewrite]

An interesting series from ABC (Australia) about Who Broke Britain?

This part focuses on the Conservative Party’s austerity program. It has dragged down the UK over the 14 years the Conservatives have been in power, and it is exactly what the Republicans want to replicate in the US.

 

[Lazaran]

An interesting series from ABC (Australia) about Who Broke Britain?

This part focuses on the Conservative Party’s austerity program. It has dragged down the UK over the 14 years the Conservatives have been in power, and it is exactly what the Republicans want to replicate in the US.

Gripping stuff.

I found two more in the series and they were equally intense.

I look forward to seeing the concluding episode.

 

[butters]

thatcher broke britain and her followers have continued to rip it apart

 

[MajorRewrite]

thatcher broke britain and her followers have continued to rip it apart

The parallels between the Tories and Republicans are fairly amazing. Twins separated at birth.

 

[Bray123]

An interesting series from ABC (Australia) about Who Broke Britain?

This part focuses on the Conservative Party’s austerity program. It has dragged down the UK over the 14 years the Conservatives have been in power, and it is exactly what the Republicans want to replicate in the US.

Unfortunately the Conservatives had to introduce measures to recover from the disastrous policies of the Brown government (don't bother checking, there's no money left).

The austerity years are long gone though.

 

[MajorRewrite]

The austerity years are long gone though.

No, apparently still in full force by the hapless Tories.

Second austerity period (2021-present)

Rishi Sunak became prime minister after Truss stepped down and quickly announced that a new budget would be forthcoming, with "difficult decisions" made. The government faced higher borrowing costs due to market fallout after the mini-budget and the collapse of the Truss ministry. His plans drew warning from Olivier de Schutter, the UN poverty envoy, who stated that the coming wave of austerity "could violate the UK’s international human rights obligations and increase hunger and malnutrition."[61] Sunak's tax rises, alongside major cuts, were referred to as "embracing austerity" by Time.[62] By the time of the 2023 Spring Statement, Britain faced the largest two year decline in living standards since records began in the 1950s, due to persistent inflation, fiscal drag, and taxation at a post-war record high. Further cuts to departments outside of defence and health were planned for the following five years.

 

[Bn2f]

Hoping for a return to ‘great’ for Great Britain.

Unfortunately, America (you as well, France) does not now have the opportunity to suffer through 14 years of austerity, a parade of terrible leaders and a lack of constituent helping ideas in order to oust seditious and incompetent politicians and judges.

 

[MajorRewrite]

https://www.politico.eu/article/american-guide-uk-election/
An accurate and amusing article on general elections in the UK for our American brothers and sisters.

Farage is certainly a Trumpian-level bullshit peddler. It’s disturbing that after the disaster of Brexit, that knob still has supporters.

The Tory leader has been fawning over U.S. tech execs in office, and already owns a swanky house in California — so don’t be surprised if he crops up in Silicon Valley after an election defeat. Lucky you!

Biden ought to declare Sunak a menace to society and ban him from the US.

 

[THBGato]

Anyone else staying up all night with copious amounts of alcohol and snacks to watch 14 years of Conservative rule come to an end?

 

[butters]

UK exit polls just released

• Labour: 410 seats
• Conservatives: 131
• Liberal Democrats: 61
• Reform UK: 13
• Scottish National Party: 10
• Others: 25

https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/uk-general-election-results-2024-intl/index.html

nice one

 

[butters]

so now Labour's left, as it usually is, with the monumental task of unfucking up the conservative party's incredibly terrible fuck-uppery

 

[butters]

wait, what??? Theresa May's just been given a peerage? *sigh*
money talks

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-dissolution-honours-list-b2574199.html

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

The Tories are dead! Suicide by Brexit.

Now on to November and the fall of the GOP under Trump’s leadership!

 

[butters]

The Tories are dead! Suicide by Brexit.

Now on to November and the fall of the GOP under Trump’s leadership!

we can hope, though i doubt if the results will be as strong... but hope is always there

 

[ChloeTzang]

The Tories are dead! Suicide by Brexit.

That pretty much sums it up, doesn't it. They had that election handed to them by Farage, they had Brexit nailed, and all they had to do was deliver on the economy, putting a stop to the illegals flooding in and start mass deportations of the millions already there - a no brainer and they blew it. And then they picked Sunak as PM. The Conservatives Party deserved to die. Next elections will be Reform.

200 seat majority for Labour. Let's see what Starmer does with it.

 

[THBGato]

they had Brexit nailed,

To a cross, that they have to bear for ever.

Brexit was always impossible to achieve. It was an act of national self-harm.

One could argue that Farage has handed this election to Labour.

 

[jaF0]

Is there such a thing as Re-BREU?

 

[THBGato]

Good to see the Lib Dems bouncing back. The Reform vote is a bit terrifying.

 

[THBGato]

Jacob Rees-Moog om the BBC right now. We so hope he loses his seat. we've champagne reserved for such an eventuality.