General Election - 4th July 2024

[The Future’s Blue!]

10 days, 10 beautiful days to contemplate the Tories being out on their arse.

 

[domalino]

"Supermajority".

Another Conservative buzzword that means precisely nothing.

Supermajority has a pretty well defined meaning - it’s just that in British government nothing requires one.

I think the problem for the conservatives is that for every person they scare with the idea of a Labour supermajority they get 3 people excited about actually wiping the Tories out…

 

[domalino]

10 days, 10 beautiful days to contemplate the Tories being out on their arse.

17 days? Or have you got something planned for a week before the election?

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Grant Shapps is no politician, he’s a used car salesman trying to sell the last car on the lot. A clapped out old MG with a rusted out floor, big-end gone on the engine and mouldy interior. And some people will still fancy having a pop.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Supermajority has a pretty well defined meaning - it’s just that in British government nothing requires one.

I think the problem for the conservatives is that for every person they scare with the idea of a Labour supermajority they get 3 people excited about actually wiping the Tories out…

Yes, so it means nothing in the context of our politics.

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

Supermajority has a pretty well defined meaning - it’s just that in British government nothing requires one.

I think the problem for the conservatives is that for every person they scare with the idea of a Labour supermajority they get 3 people excited about actually wiping the Tories out…

Maybe the Tories should have done a better job rather than cry about who’s voting for all the other parties. If they get the smashing that is predicted in this election this will be some fall from grace. I remember John McDonell being on the BBC news when the exit pole came out predicting a heavy loss for Labour in December 2019. Think it was Huw Edwards that outlined to him that the size of this loss for Labour they had already lost the 2024 election as well. What a collapse if it does happen.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Maybe the Tories should have done a better job rather than cry about who’s voting for all the other parties. If they get the smashing that is predicted in this election this will be some fall from grace. I remember John McDonell being on the BBC news when the exit pole came out predicting a heavy loss for Labour in December 2019. Think it was Hue Edwards that outlined to him that the size of this loss for Labour they had already lost the 2024 election as well. What a collapse if it does happen.

Huw Edwards has fallen almost as far as the Tories since 2019.

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

Huw Edwards has fallen almost as far as the Tories since 2019.

Probably sent more dick picks than the entire parliamentary party too. That would be a marginal maybe the Conservative Party might have a chance in.

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Yes, so it means nothing in the context of our politics.

Ironically, it meant something up until two years ago when the Fixed-term Parliaments Act was repealed by the Tories. That act required a supermajority to trigger an election outside of the established time table.

So the one power a Labour supermajority might have had was catching the opposition off-foot by calling an election when they weren’t prepared. But the Tories gifted them the unilateral power to do that anyway by repealing the act.

Go figure.

 

[hillbillyliar]

There is basically fuck all difference between an 80 seat and a 200 seat majority.

Perversely, a smaller majority can make a party more radical, as extremists in the party may hold the balance of power.