General Election - 4th July 2024

[KS55]

Completely missed what happened in Stratford when I fell asleep at 5am, but made up to wake up and find that the Tories were routed. Saw my local councillor at the polling station when I voted yesterday and he was confident they would win, which didn’t surprise me, but I didn’t expect a majority of over 7,000. Pretty mental.

Especially pleased with Truss and Rees-Mogg losing their seats, in particular the former who is a truly awful human being with nothing to redeem her. I sincerely hope she’s hurting today, the useless, arrogant ****.

As happy as I am about the overall outcome, I still have very mixed feelings. The winning party got barely over a third of the popular vote and will be able to do what the fuck they want for the next five years following that. That simply cannot be right, and for me, the underlying reason this country is so fucked and in such sharp decline. Doubt Starmer will do anything about it, though.

Labours result in 2019 was their worst since 1935. This time it is their best ever, yet their vote share went up by a minuscule amount. About a third of the country voted Labour yet they dominate the commons.
No doubt all the old Tory lags who lost their seats will re-appear in the Lords.
What a bonkers system.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Labours result in 2019 was their worst since 1935. This time it is their best ever, yet their vote share went up by a minuscule amount. About a third of the country voted Labour yet they dominate the commons.
No doubt all the old Tory lags who lost their seats will re-appear in the Lords.
What a bonkers system.

It'll be harder now - the dissolution honours gave a handful peerages out. No real problem in Theresa May and Alok Sharma, and also the Crag Mackinlay (the bionic MP) who all at least will add something.

Not sure Brady and Grayling add much. Laing may be useful for Parliamentary reform plans.

The less said about the Sunak chief of staff the better.

Labour have 8 going into the Lords too.
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May going in presumably means both she and Cameron avoid the wait for knighthoods/damehoods (presumably), Brown got CH but isn't knighted. Next one along is Johnson, and I doubt anyone much has interest in giving him anything.

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

Completely missed what happened in Stratford when I fell asleep at 5am, but made up to wake up and find that the Tories were routed. Saw my local councillor at the polling station when I voted yesterday and he was confident they would win, which didn’t surprise me, but I didn’t expect a majority of over 7,000. Pretty mental.

Especially pleased with Truss and Rees-Mogg losing their seats, in particular the former who is a truly awful human being with nothing to redeem her. I sincerely hope she’s hurting today, the useless, arrogant ****.

As happy as I am about the overall outcome, I still have very mixed feelings. The winning party got barely over a third of the popular vote and will be able to do what the fuck they want for the next five years following that. That simply cannot be right, and for me, the underlying reason this country is so fucked and in such sharp decline. Doubt Starmer will do anything about it, though.

Truss won’t care, do you think she would want to spend the next five years on the other side of the house sidelined with no opportunity to push her batshit crazy ideas and ambition? She’s got her guaranteed pay day for life from her disastrous premiership, she can go to the states and get involved with the MAGA think tank instead.

 

[bluethrunthru]

I'm no tory but don't see why Osborne would take any blame. The demise of the tories started with Boris and brexit. Downhill from there.

That is the truth they need to grasp. They need to ditch him, his legacy, his acolytes and acknowledge what they have done OR accept fate and be taken over by Reform Ltd to become the Nasty Party in tooth and claw

 

[HelloCity]

6/7 million votes and only 4 mps reform, but Lib Dem’s get less votes and 60+ seats. I know it’s the system we have, but it doesn’t seem very representative.

It’s representative of the areas where the votes were captured. You’re voting for someone to represent an area in parliament. It’s technically not just a vote for the party leader to be PM. How do you decide on representation from a popular vote? The Lib Dem’s purposely targeted seats they could actually win rather than reform which just hoped for the best.

 

[inbetween]

The lowest turnout ever. I think that says a lot and apathy is becoming the new majority party.

 

[shemnel]

A perspective on vote-share, for nothing but fun;

Welcome to the multi-team tournament at the Etihad, where 52k have turned up to cheer on their teams......

After 14 dismal seasons, Tory FC have still turned out 12.5k loyal fans, perhaps a surprise to many after the disastrous signings of Truss, Anderson, Pincher, Patel, Hunt and more. Management issues have dogged them, as well as nose-diving form, and they now have a huge rebuild job brought on by their own mismanagement.

AFC Labour, backed by 17.5k jubilant supporters, are the clear winners today but the new gaffer is yet to be accepted by many. Time will tell if they can steady a new-look team and grow their fanbase. Many question the two-thirds vote share AFC Labour now hold in the League.

There's no doubt that the noisy 7.5k firm from Reform, who have filled most of one end, are the new Ultras looking to stay in the division, but they'll look evermore to shock tactics to establish themselves and have more say going forwards. A dangerous trend for the sport.

Elsewhere, Lib Dem Academicals' 6.5k turnout, still much below their glory days of decades recent, look ahead to future tournaments with great joy and interest as they believe that they have performed a miracle by shrinking in size to get bigger in stature...

Amongst the remaining 10k fans, a sizeable 4k Green Thistle fans have shown a real presence at the tournament, if not quite the impact or quality. A ridiculed minor player of years gone by, the Greens are showing new shoots and could be a disruptive force in an unpredictable future landscape.....

6k also rans represent the rest of the 10 or so teams in the league and are doubtful to make an impact.

 

[remember arthur mann]

Exit polls
410 Labour
131 Tory
61 Lib Dem
13 reform Plc
10 SNP
2 GREENS
23 others (18 Northern Ireland)
Exit polls as per sky

Not too far out.

 

[Worsleyweb]

You have to feel for rishi and he's Mrs..only got millions in the bank..I'll see ya down at aldi

Why the personal abuse?? He paid people during Covid. Seems a nice man worked hard.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Completely missed what happened in Stratford when I fell asleep at 5am, but made up to wake up and find that the Tories were routed. Saw my local councillor at the polling station when I voted yesterday and he was confident they would win, which didn’t surprise me, but I didn’t expect a majority of over 7,000. Pretty mental.

Especially pleased with Truss and Rees-Mogg losing their seats, in particular the former who is a truly awful human being with nothing to redeem her. I sincerely hope she’s hurting today, the useless, arrogant ****.

As happy as I am about the overall outcome, I still have very mixed feelings. The winning party got barely over a third of the popular vote and will be able to do what the fuck they want for the next five years following that. That simply cannot be right, and for me, the underlying reason this country is so fucked and in such sharp decline. Doubt Starmer will do anything about it, though.

Truss likely not very bothered and is a classic example of all that is wrong with politics today. A good public speaker she is not , I think we can all agree on that point. And yet, over the last 18 months she’s received over £250k for ‘speaking’ at various events around the world, which is absolutely staggering.

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=24941

 

[kaz7]

Martin lewis positive , seems to think that labour will be easier to get to look at things like standing charges on fuel bills for ons

 

[Eccles Blue]

Has anyone checked how that piece of dog dirt eating, party drinking, alleged human being who used to be Prime Minister is? Has he managed to escape in a rowing boat across the channel hopefully and when he lands he gets swept back out by a huge wave?
Conspicuous by his absence. :-(

 

[M18CTID]

Thanks, you might be correct for the most part.

But I know people who voted Reform that were ex Labour voters. So it's not just people who flat out refuse to vote Labour.

Either way, i think Farage is a con man. I know most of them are to a degree, so he's not alone in that but he's definitely a spiv.

I agree with this. While I'm sure that Reform took many more votes from the Tories than Labour overall, they definitely took some from Labour too.

I think this is backed up with some interesting results from my constituency Gorton and Denton. It used to just be Gorton until the 2024 boundary change so it's not easy to get a like for like comparison with 2019. Gorton has always been a safe Labour seat though so it's no surprise that Andrew Gwynne won at a canter with 18,555 votes but that was down from 34,583 in 2019. The Conservatives never do well here. They got 4244 votes in 2019 and 2888 this time. However, Reform came second with 5142 votes so I think it's fair to say that in my constituency they took more votes from Labour than the Tories. They weren't the only ones to take votes from Labour though. The Greens came an impressive 3rd with 4810 votes compared to 1697 in 2019, and the Workers Party of Britain came 4th with 3766 votes. The big surprise here was that the Lib Dems came last with just 1399 votes which was down from 2448 in 2019 when they came 3rd out of 5. An odd outlier when you consider how well the Lib Dems have done elsewhere in the country. Oh, and the turnout was only 47% (down from 58.3% in 2019) so while several parties took thousands of votes off Labour, I think it's also reasonable to suggest some Labour voters who voted in 2019 didn't bother voting this time.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Why the personal abuse?? He paid people during Covid. Seems a nice man worked hard.

He didn’t pay anybody in covid mate. You, me and every other tax payer did.

 

[jim tolmies perm]

Adding up the percentages it seems that around 60% of the vote has gone to let's call Europhile parties.
This is important if the UK really wants to get it's economy back on track.
No, not rejoin (yet) but a new deal now

 

[Worsleyweb]

He didn’t pay anybody in covid mate. You, me and every other tax payer did.

He Co-ordinated a very generous plan. Why the abuse?

 

[ZenHalfTimeCrock]

Cleverly implying truss was mentally unstable...

 

[hilts]

It’s representative of the areas where the votes were captured. You’re voting for someone to represent an area in parliament. It’s technically not just a vote for the party leader to be PM. How do you decide on representation from a popular vote? The Lib Dem’s purposely targeted seats they could actually win rather than reform which just hoped for the best.

Thanks for explaining how FPTP works:-)


It's still undemocratic

 

[kaz7]

I am going all cross eyed now , time to get up and wake up !

 

[M18CTID]

Why the personal abuse?? He paid people during Covid. Seems a nice man worked hard.

What, he paid people out of his own personal bank account? Fair fucks to him!