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Post by Moose on Jul 4, 2024 6:00:55 GMT
Going to be an interesting 24 hours.
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Post by Moose on Jul 4, 2024 6:07:47 GMT
It's seven minutes past - is it over yet?
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Post by JoeP on Jul 4, 2024 6:20:29 GMT
Is this the official EF General Election 2024 part thread?
I've brought ... coffee. It's going to be a long day before any actual news happens. I don't expect anything before the exit polls after 8pm UK time.
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Post by tangent on Jul 4, 2024 10:07:49 GMT
I don't expect anything before the exit polls after 8pm UK time. Exit polls will be at 10pm. I bet the pollsters are breathing a sigh of relief - no more work to do today - until the exit polls are declared when they either breathe a second sigh of relief or grimace and head straight to the pubs.
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Post by JoeP on Jul 4, 2024 14:54:08 GMT
Yes I realised that later. I was overcorrecting for the time difference with Finland ...
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Post by tangent on Jul 4, 2024 15:04:25 GMT
The BBC are bereft of polling news today before 10pm. They are resorting to photos of the political party leaders voting and photos of the many thousands of dogs visiting the polling stations with their owners. ![](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2024/7/4/bf9c530e-6e2c-4cf0-8ec5-166c89ce4041.jpg)
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Post by Moose on Jul 4, 2024 21:20:26 GMT
Exit polls looking great!
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Post by Moose on Jul 5, 2024 0:18:21 GMT
Only seven called so far. All to Labour, though six were Labour already. Tories lost one.
It will start hotting up now.
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Post by Moose on Jul 5, 2024 0:19:31 GMT
Eight called now. All Labour.
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Post by Moose on Jul 5, 2024 2:10:24 GMT
Our constituency has swung back to Labour, great, but Reform got a LOT of votes here. Not great.
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Post by JoeP on Jul 5, 2024 6:15:27 GMT
I had a plan to stay up with tactical naps, but that failed completely. I didn't even make it to the exit poll at midnight Finnish time - but I have been up since 6am watching nasty Tories fall. Except a few, disappointingly.
It's good that Sunak kept his seat though - he can't jet off to California immediately and will have to squirm in the House of Commons as one of the biggest losers of all time. I wonder how long it will be before he resigns as an MP.
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Post by JoeP on Jul 5, 2024 6:15:54 GMT
Also with lots of coffee - anyone want a cup?
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Post by tangent on Jul 5, 2024 11:15:02 GMT
I stayed up until 12:30am and woke up at 5am to take an antibiotic. I'm tired now ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/sad.png) My constituency (Hazel Grove) was a win for the Lib Dems from the Conservatives ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Wholly Goats on Jul 6, 2024 0:13:04 GMT
I was just looking at the BBC graphs and charts.
Kudos.
You now will have a strongly Labour controlled Parliament. Do something decent with it. Flog your member to shore up NHS. Build up the mental health services. Provide basic dentristry. Social justice warriors...be active, but be couth.
Wow... That was quite a swing. How long has the Conservative Party held the Prime Ministry? Through how many PMs? Somebody Boris, willya?
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Post by Wholly Goats on Jul 6, 2024 0:17:34 GMT
Answering my own questions...
Since 2015.
Includes Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, and Sunak. And what did any of it get you but worse off than you are now?
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Post by Wholly Goats on Jul 6, 2024 0:20:35 GMT
So, who is it who will 'ascend' to the bit and bridle of the Prime Ministry?"
Will I recognize him by either name or face?
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Post by Wholly Goats on Jul 6, 2024 0:22:29 GMT
Or her.
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Post by Moose on Jul 6, 2024 2:32:22 GMT
Well Starmer.. he's been voted in. Don't know who the Tories will put up as their new leader as Sunak has resigned. I am not overly enthused by him (Starmer) but *shrugs* anything is better than what we had*
*actually that is not true, because Reform UK did well and that bothers me and makes me fear that they will be a 'force' in the future. But Starmer is better than Sunak, anyway.
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Post by Moose on Jul 6, 2024 2:35:33 GMT
I was just looking at the BBC graphs and charts. Flog your member to shore up NHS. I am not going to say how I first interpreted that
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Post by JoeP on Jul 6, 2024 8:11:24 GMT
So, who is it who will 'ascend' to the bit and bridle of the Prime Ministry?" Will I recognize him by either name or face? Keir Starmer, Keir Starmer - WikipediaYou probably won't recognise the name let alone the face, because he's been deliberately quiet and boring (calm and capable), letting the Conservative Party lose, rather than having to sell a specific vision. ![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Prime_Minister_Sir_Keir_Starmer_Official_Portrait_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Prime_Minister_Sir_Keir_Starmer_Official_Portrait_%28cropped%29.jpg)
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Post by JoeP on Jul 6, 2024 8:11:52 GMT
I was just looking at the BBC graphs and charts. Flog your member to shore up NHS. I am not going to say how I first interpreted that *arrives at GP surgery* "What seems to be the problem?" "Well, I've been flogging my member to support the NHS ..."
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Post by tangent on Jul 6, 2024 8:51:29 GMT
You now will have a strongly Labour controlled Parliament. Do something decent with it. Flog your member to shore up NHS. Build up the mental health services. Provide basic dentistry. Social justice warriors...be active, but be couth. During the pre-election campaign, the Tories chided Labour because at first they would not say precisely what taxes they would impose, knowing that whatever they said, it would be damning. "Vote Labour and they will tax you £2,000" (which was untrue but the actual value was complicated). Labour had to promise the same taxes as the Tories and also promise not to increase borrowing. The Tories needed a distinguishing point to sell to their members - no, not that member. Hence, the country is in such a poor state, to do all they want to do will cost a lot of money and the Labour party is stymied both on taxes and borrowing. Rachel Reeves, the new chancellor, keeps telling us that, actually there's not a lot of money.
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Post by Wholly Goats on Jul 6, 2024 17:33:56 GMT
Look...I don't know how you interact with those you elect to representative office, but how are they supposed to represent you if you don't impart to them your interests?
Text or call, I don't care. But if you have a newly minted Labour reprsentative in Parliament, take advantage of that and air your grievances.
As for Labour, they've made all the promises necessary and withheld those unnecessary. New taxes will be forthcoming...But for feck's sake, get something from it.
If you can, establish a rapport with them. Keep dinning them with your opinions and concerns. Don't rely upon just 'thoughts and prayers', make it real.
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Post by Wholly Goats on Jul 6, 2024 17:36:29 GMT
Thanks, JoeP.
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Post by Moose on Jul 6, 2024 21:57:37 GMT
I did email my new MP (before the election). He didn't reply "Well, I've been flogging my member to support the NHS ..." ROFL!
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Post by Moose on Jul 6, 2024 22:02:32 GMT
To be honest, Labour could have fielded pretty much anyone at all and they'd have won - even Corbyn (missed opportunity if you ask me). As the media are correctly saying, it was not so much enthusiasm for Labour but disdain for the Tories.
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Post by Wholly Goats on Jul 7, 2024 0:04:21 GMT
To be honest, Labour could have fielded pretty much anyone at all and they'd have won - even Corbyn (missed opportunity if you ask me). As the media are correctly saying, it was not so much enthusiasm for Labour but disdain for the Tories. It's about flippin' time!
I think I told you when they came to power that nothing good would come of Tories in power. Now, look at you.
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Post by Moose on Jul 7, 2024 0:06:19 GMT
Don't look at me - I have always, always voted against the Tories. Unfortunately, not everyone in the country has and so we've had fourteen years of this shite
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Post by Wholly Goats on Jul 7, 2024 1:46:16 GMT
I guess it just goes to show that 'Merkins and Brits are just as thick.
Thick as a brick.
++deep sigh++
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Post by Moose on Jul 7, 2024 2:41:45 GMT
Well not all. But yes, too many. And I fear that Trump will be back in soon, unless he drops dead of being a dickhead.
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