General Election - 4th July 2024

Who will you be voting for in the General Election?

  • Labour

    Votes: 266 56.8%

  • Conservative

    Votes: 12 2.6%

  • Liberal Democrat

    Votes: 40 8.5%

  • Reform

    Votes: 71 15.2%

  • Green Party

    Votes: 28 6.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 51 10.9%
  • Total voters
    468
Even for Tories this is an impressively shameless level of pandering to the pensioner vote at the expense of the young. I suspect shortly we'll be informed that £1000 will be directly taken out of the accounts of everyone under 45 and given straight to your nearest retiree. Maybe next they'll all be given a free car.
 


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adrianr said:
Even for Tories this is an impressively shameless level of pandering to the pensioner vote at the expense of the young. I suspect shortly we'll be informed that £1000 will be directly taken out of the accounts of everyone under 45 and given straight to your nearest retiree. Maybe next they'll all be given a free car.
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We’ll, somebody has to pay for our elders days away as the Tories haven’t funded it, just scrambling around for anything that keeps people moving to Reform.
 
Tactical voting will be the absolute killer for the Tories.

If Labour supporters get behind Lib Dems where they are best placed to beat them and vice versa.

If that happens to a significant degree then they will be wiped out as they so richly deserve to be.
 
Eebo said:
Tactical voting will be the absolute killer for the Tories.

If Labour supporters get behind Lib Dems where they are best placed to beat them and vice versa.

If that happens to a significant degree then they will be wiped out as they so richly deserve to be.
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Would be funny. Especially if it ended up with the Lib Dems winning the election (or at least preventing a Labour majority). ;-)
 
SkyBlueFlux said:
Interesting. Apparently, this guy is a pollster with Find Out Now who publish their polling through Electoral Calculus.

He’s suggesting that the Lib Dems may be ahead of the Tories in terms of seats in their latest MRP which comes out later this week.

For a regular poll that would be easy to dismiss as “non-uniform swings make it unlikely”, but an MRP poll is basically like a constituency level analysis. Over the last 8 years or so they have been pretty much bang on, particularly YouGov who I think does the largest one.

Hope springs eternal.

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I'd say that's unlikely.
Lib dems are 5th favourites with the bookies to get the most seats - behind labour, tories, reform and ukip (who I didn't even know were still around).
 
Gorton_Tubster said:
This is what we get with a mainly right wing press and media.



Stupid people taken advantage of imo. How they can believe the country would be better off under Tory I dont know. wtf
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The Myth of the Good Master.

There's a cruel irony of that bloke saying "with what they've got to play with, and isn't a lot".

No wonder it's easy to get like-minded simpletons to hate immigrants.
 
Mr Kobayashi said:
The Myth of the Good Master.

There's a cruel irony of that bloke saying "with what they've got to play with, and isn't a lot".

No wonder it's easy to get like-minded simpletons to hate immigrants.
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Peter Cook imitating a working class Tory
"As a trade unionist people often ask me why I'm voting Conservative at the next election.... I tell 'em it's because I'm a stupid ****"
 
Mr Kobayashi said:
The Myth of the Good Master.

There's a cruel irony of that bloke saying "with what they've got to play with, and isn't a lot".

No wonder it's easy to get like-minded simpletons to hate immigrants.
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When I saw that clip on the telly I assumed it was a piss take or a scene from a comedy show!
 
adrianr said:
Even for Tories this is an impressively shameless level of pandering to the pensioner vote at the expense of the young. I suspect shortly we'll be informed that £1000 will be directly taken out of the accounts of everyone under 45 and given straight to your nearest retiree. Maybe next they'll all be given a free car.
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A free car? I'll have some of that as long as I get to choose the make and model.
 
117 M34 said:
I'd say that's unlikely.
Lib dems are 5th favourites with the bookies to get the most seats - behind labour, tories, reform and ukip (who I didn't even know were still around).
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Reform are odds on to get ZERO seats in the next election. Lib Dems are odds on to get over 30 seats.
 
The blue phantom said:
Reform are odds on to get ZERO seats in the next election. Lib Dems are odds on to get over 30 seats.
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The tactical voting platform had almost a million visitors before the local council elections.
They are expecting that to multiply before the general election.
Labour majority government with the Lib-dems as the official party of opposition, with the self-servatives and SNP fighting for third and fourth
 
117 M34 said:
I'd say that's unlikely.
Lib dems are 5th favourites with the bookies to get the most seats - behind labour, tories, reform and ukip (who I didn't even know were still around).
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Well bookies are an awful measure of how likely something incredibly unlikely is to happen. That’s like comparing the odds of Ederson and Harry Maguire to be next season’s top scorer. There’s probably only about 2 people in the betting market.

I’ll grant that it’s unlikely but there’s only realistically 3 parties that can come second, and Reform and UKIP are not in that pool. The Lib Dem’s campaign is regionally focused, they won’t ever stand a chance of winning the most seats for the exact same reason as the SNP. But winning the second most seats, and winning the most seats are very different things. The bar for that might be as low as 60-80 seats.

If I had to put odds on who is going to have the second most seats it’s probably something like:
> Tories 90%
> Lib Dems 6%
> SNP 3%
> Labour 1%
 
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