UK Politics

[steviewevie]

Starmer's approval ratings have gone up during this campaign.

[mattiloy]

Just now, pink_triangle said:

 
Let’s be honest none of the 4 leaders in the debate today are particularly charismatic. The public don’t love Starmer but don’t hate him either. After  Boris, Corbyn , Truss etc I think a lot of the public will take dull and competent.

He owes everything to the fact the tories are a binfire and the uk is a two party system. Thats it.

[steviewevie]

Kind of feel for all the Starmer haters out there.

[mattiloy]

Oblivious, brain dead, smug. Middle england.

[LJS]

I guess it's not news that Farage is a vile & hideous bigot ...  

 

"Nigel Farage has praised the misogynist influencer Andrew Tate for being an “important voice” for the emasculated and giving boys “perhaps a bit of confidence at school” in online interviews that appear to be aimed at young men over the past year.  The Reform UK leader spoke in favour of Tate for defending “male culture” in a Strike It Big podcast that aired in February "

 

...  Farage’s interviews on the podcasts demonstrate how he has been attempting to appeal to younger audiences on a series of controversialist podcasts and online shows aimed at younger men.  He has ranged from arguing against diversity quotas for BAME people, saying “the idea we should give people jobs according to how suntanned they are, the colour of their skin” was nonsense, to suggesting that some people on benefits are “too fat … too stupid, too lazy” to work."

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/20/nigel-farage-andrew-tate-important-voice-men-podcast-interview?

[Nobody Interesting]

My take on last night.

Lib Dems - came over well though still awful when tuition fees are mentioned. I wonder if they will ever be forgotten/forgiven?
SNP - I Watched the football
Labour - first half almost sent me to sleep but then seemed to wake up and relax and came over the best I have seen him so far.
Tories - I really thought Sunak was going to lose it. His eyes!!! Just awful.

[steviewevie]

 

[steviewevie]

Apparently Greens are confident from polling that they can win in those two rural tory seats they're targeting, as well as Bristol/Brighton.

[steviewevie]

Going to put a tenner on tories....

 

[Nobody Interesting]

This is what happens when you cut taxes to try and con people into voting for you when you don't actually have any money.

""Government borrowing in May hit the highest since the Covid crisis but was lower than the UK's fiscal watchdog had forecast.

Borrowing reached £15bn last month, which was £800m higher than May last year.

It means that the public sector spent more than it received in taxes and other income, leading the government to borrow billions of pounds.

It is the third highest figure for May since records began in 1993, surpassed only by the pandemic years.""

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmll7k8pl2xo

[steviewevie]

Signwatch update.

Near where I live seen a few labour signs but nowhere near as normal.

Near where I work not seen any tory signs when normally see quite a few, seen some lib dems and some labour.

Overall though, not many signs.

[steviewevie]

..and my MP has been putting these sort of posts out...must be some worry about muslim support...although surely he'll walk it.

 

[zahidf]

4 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Signwatch update.

Near where I live seen a few labour signs but nowhere near as normal.

Near where I work not seen any tory signs when normally see quite a few, seen some lib dems and some labour.

Overall though, not many signs.

Spending all the money online now

[zahidf]

3 hours ago, steviewevie said:

Going to put a tenner on tories....

 

Swear this has been the headline every week for the last several months

[steviewevie]

14 minutes ago, zahidf said:

Swear this has been the headline every week for the last several months

yes, but with these big MRP polls that have been showing tory wipeout and labour super majorities, the worry for labour that this could mean a lot of people feel it's a foregone conclusion and either not bother voting, or vote elsewhere...and that some tory/reform type voters might fall in behind tories because fears of a starmer socialist republic.

One thing I do keep hearing about is that support for labour is wide but shallow, and built on sand, so even if get in with big landslide could easily get kicked out by a similar landslide in 5 years time if things aren't improving and tories look credible.

[steviewevie]

Or Farage will do a Trump and take over the tory party and then the country and we descend into Trumphell.

[Nobody Interesting]

38 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Signwatch update.

Near where I live seen a few labour signs but nowhere near as normal.

Near where I work not seen any tory signs when normally see quite a few, seen some lib dems and some labour.

Overall though, not many signs.

 

Here we have seen one Labour one, one Tory one (On a local hotel/bar that we will now never use), 3 Green and hundreds and hundreds of Lib Dem ones

[philipsteak]

1 hour ago, steviewevie said:

Signwatch update.

Near where I live seen a few labour signs but nowhere near as normal.

Near where I work not seen any tory signs when normally see quite a few, seen some lib dems and some labour.

Overall though, not many signs.

 

1 hour ago, zahidf said:

Spending all the money online now

 

I'm now in a traditionally very strong Tory constituency (Hexham). I think Labour got close in 97 but other than that, not a sniff. However predictions are now for Labour to win. I've literally seen one for the Tory MP and one generic Lib Dem (no chance). Labour do seem to have a decent online presence here though. Nada from the Tories. Honestly feels like he's given up.

[philipsteak]

1 hour ago, Nobody Interesting said:

 

Here we have seen one Labour one, one Tory one (On a local hotel/bar that we will now never use), 3 Green and hundreds and hundreds of Lib Dem ones

 

I lived in Tim Farron's constituency before. The Lib Dems were very good at this sort of thing there. Loads of signs, leaflets through the door etc. 

[Neil]

16 hours ago, mattiloy said:

He owes everything to the fact the tories are a binfire and the uk is a two party system. Thats it.

unlike sweden which alternates two parties of govt!

[steviewevie]

LAB -20

[Nobody Interesting]

8 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

LAB -20

 

Good

[steviewevie]

8 minutes ago, Nobody Interesting said:

 

Good

until Tories are all over it and Labour have to rule it out.

[Kurosagi]

Usually at GE time there are loads of tory signs out and about, particularly big ones in the fields overlooking the main road. Nothing at all this time, other than this one:

 

 

[steviewevie]

At least Farage, Galloway and Corbyn will be able to agree on something as they fester up there  on the back seats of parliament.