General Election - 4th July 2024

[Scottyboi]

They make money whenever outsiders come in (generally) as only small bets are on big price winners. Cheltenham for example can be a proper loser for bookmakers when 4 or 5 favourites win on one day, the money wagered on favourites is very significant.

Yep the more outsiders win the better.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Sunak is smashing it - "it" in this instance is his own Party

 

[bluethrunthru]

Vote Geoff

 

[The blue phantom]

My predition is as follows (note there will be 50 less mps after this election due to boundary changes):

Labour 350
Tory 160
Lib D 36
SNP 34
Reform 1
Others 19

Labour are currently Evens to get 400 seats or above.
Tories are 4/6 to get between 50 and 150 seats.

 

[BrianW]

I have just fed that into Electoral Calculus with some very modest %s for tactical voting.

Labour 507
Tories 61
LD 48
Ref 0
Green 0
SNP 12
PC 3
NI 18

If it be thy will, O Lord, I need to get more bubbly in.

 

[mosssideblue]

I have just fed that into Electoral Calculus with some very modest %s for tactical voting.

Labour 507
Tories 61
LD 48
Ref 0
Green 0
SNP 12
PC 3
NI 18

If it be thy will, O Lord, I need to get more bubbly in.

Still 61 too many

 

[law74]

I have just fed that into Electoral Calculus with some very modest %s for tactical voting.

Labour 507
Tories 61
LD 48
Ref 0
Green 0
SNP 12
PC 3
NI 18

If it be thy will, O Lord, I need to get more bubbly in.

I had to speak to my boss in work today as I had 10th - 28th June booked off.
Now going in on 28th and off on the 5th.

 

[Ashton Moss Messi]

Maybe not the best place to comment on this but the board of Royal Mail's owners are recommending a £5bn takeover by a Czech billionaire.
The final nail in the privatisation coffin, selling another one of our assets that the graft of successive generations have built.
It doesn't matter if RM is good bad or indifferent or is ultimately responsible for the Horizon fiasco.
Handing over a near-monopoly that will be a cashcow with little guarantee of service levels is boiling my piss.
BBC News - Royal Mail owners to back £5bn takeover offer

Royal Mail: Owners agree to £5bn takeover offer by billionaire

Daniel Kretinsky said that potentially owning the business would come with huge responsibility.

www.bbc.com

 

[mackenzie]

We are seeing the complete death throes of the most successful political party in modern history.
Quite astounding how they have sunk this low.
They cut their own throat though when they got rid of any member with an ounce of common sense.
I'm looking at you Johnson. And your ego.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

These cunts need to be shown at the ballot box that enough is enough. The damage they caused with that austerity stuff is only now being realised properly in public services. I see it, daily, with work, and its very tough. Im speaking from a position of strength here Im living it and its fucking hard going. This impacts on everything and all of us and its all fallen apart. We are a shambles of a place really