Played my part. Fact she has swanned around the last 18 months like Billy Big Bollocks and took the seat for granted is what did for her.Originally Posted by Ben
Truss gone.
Played my part. Fact she has swanned around the last 18 months like Billy Big Bollocks and took the seat for granted is what did for her.Truss gone.
I just fucking hate Starmer's voice WHY DOES HE SOUND LIKE THAT
The way results were going.
This result is the strength of first past the post. Labour the only party popular everywhere and rewarded with a stonking mandate. Those backed by particular communities find a voice in parliament. Those with a thin spread of cranks rightly find no representation and are not allowed to drag everyone else into the shit.
PR we'd be looking at Keir 'reaching out to' Ed Davey plus the Greens or something for a shithouse coalition. FPTP there's a government and we crack on with our lives.
The SNP took some bumming.
Baker interview with Balls and Osborne was great fun on ITV.
Labour won mine, Tory seat since 2005 with an average 15,000 majority, 30,000 last time only managed 13,000 this time.
Reform nicking 9,000 off them here
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Every single Tory twat that lost their seat now needs to be kicked out of the party.
Also lol at the Exit Poll and lol at Baz.
Humza's fault no doubt about it.
Not all the scandals, then?
What scandals?
Who was heckling Jess Philips?
The scandals won't have helped, but would you vote for a party that made this cunt the leader?
People like him are the reason Reform are making in roads too. It needs to be stamped out. Racism isn’t ok and it doesn't become ok just because it's coming from minorities.
Pakistani single issue thugs.
I hadn't seen that.
"The vast majority of my voter base, white"
The Krankies and the unaccounted cash?
Nobody gives a shit about that lol. It's almost entirely Humza.
Yeah thats madness bearing in mind that a quick Google indicates nearly 96% of the country is white.
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That's not the headspace that Muslims occupy. Only the Islamic world exists to them and other types of people, even in an overwhelming majority, are a frustrating inconvenience.
Jeremy Corbyn
My GOAT
The Labour Vote up not even two per cent, and turn out down almost eight per cent. Any post-mortem fixating on what Labour did is a waste of time.
lol Jonathan Ashworth lost what a little rat.
Ex Southampton chairman Rupert Lowe turning up as a Reform candidate and winning is something I wasnt expecting.
Wes Streeting nearly lost to the caliphate. That would have made life interesting.
Jeremy Hunt held his seat somehow. Now, if he can find a way to switch his allegiance to the Labour Party, the run for PM is ON.
I wake up to see Baz's bet is toast.
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A 1997-style majority but theyre one and done if they dont get a lot of shit sorted.
Which they won't. I give them 6 months before the in-fighting leaves them unable to function.
Lowest vote share of any majority in history.
Second election in November, Reform majority, the gassings begin by Christmas. A new dawn has broken, has it not.
5% less popular vote than 2017 is pretty fucking funny.
Hitchin have only been red from 1945-1950 and 1964-1970 before today.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/...cies/E14001365
Those reform votes in my constituency
Just the 7000 votes for them in this area. Which is impressive, considering Reform dropped him at the last minute for this.
I fear Sir Boyds dream of a Far Right Britain could well be on the cards.
Sadly there is clearly a venn diagram overlap between people who actually want to do something about immigration and absolute racist scum.
Would be avoided if any of the main parties had a coherent plan, but they don't, so we are where we are.
Just been reading about the Jess Phillips stuff. How was that not given more coverage? I know the answer, but still.
And the answer is exactly why 7000 of my neighbours were happy to vote for a man that wants to drown women and children in the sea.
Reform getting 25% of the vote in our area. 2nd above the Tories. Fucking horrid.
They hoovered up over 4,000 votes in Oxford West and Abingdon, a Liberal Democrat stronghold forever and affluent area.
Still, if people had more opportunities and a better life, they wouldn't be voting reform.
It is, but it's also understandable. People have had enough and they aren't being listened to. Populists will be more than happy to mop them up. Labour are going to have to be very, very careful. If they are seen to be pandering to minorities, it could get very nasty out there.
The Tories really have ruined this country.
It's already started on my Facebook. A lad from my school is ranting about Labour requisitioning P&O Ferries to ship the entirety of Pakistan in now.
History really does repeat its self. And it's maddening that people can see what the Tories have done to the country (making everyone poorer, protecting house prices over people, dismantling the NHS, etc) but then still go on to blame brown people. Including my friend that is the son of immigrants. Baffling.
Greens almost surpassing the Tories in my ends for second place. Feels good.
Yeah, unbelievable, not sure I can see the path for him but who knows. Keeps his head down for a bit, doesn't be the next leader, anything can happen.
144 years of continuous Tory representation over in Horsham which is pretty lol seeing as the candidate, probably Kiko's former boss, had a stated life plan of Oxford Union President > Investment Banker > Safe Tory Seat.
The exposed and denounced reform candidate got more votes than the Labour guy did, so it's a geriatric Lib Dem as the MP. All round head in hands stuff.
My Tory Father in law is on Facebook fuming about the "glee" in the voices of the presenters and pundits on the BBC
4000 people in my constituency voted for Reform lol.
My constituency probably shows how much Reform have hammered the Tories. They took 9900 votes and then there was a centre right independent who has always been Tory who took 6200, she lost by 600 odd votes. Like the perfect storm of shit show in that she has dropped 16,000 votes from last time out to other right wing candidates. You have to wonder if the Tories can win back those Reform voters over the next 5 years. Bearing in mind Farage doesn't actually have to do anything with any of his policies and will now get even more coverage you would imagine it will be a struggle for them to do so.
You also wonder who they choose to be the new leader but they need to realise that if they go for someone brown and further to the right(Braverman, Badenoch or Patel) they won't be winning next time round either because there will be a large section of that Reform support who just never will vote for someone like them or Sunak.
Worst thing the Tories could do would be to try and play Farage at his own game, i.e. tubthump powerlessly. They actually need to drive a wedge between themselves and Reform, not between themselves and Labour. A Braverman figure would lead them into proper oblivion. Someone like Hunt would repair some of the reputational damage, simply by existing for a while and not being massively objectionable in ways that voters notice. Opposition parties can learn a lot from Starmer's successful strategy of the last four years.
This is it with the Tories, traditionally I have always voted Tory up until 2016. But, I didn't want Brexit(that's my choice) and I have felt disenfranchised since this point. It may work out better for the country in the long-term but at the minute I just cannot see it and a lot of the things that are supposed Brexit benefits seem to be the cutting of red-tape and regulation which is actually in place to make people safer. I would also never say that the EU is perfect, but if we tried to have some kind of input into things like the French rather than constantly railing against it maybe it could be made better.
I also think something does need to be done about immigration but things like Rwanda and blaming illegal immigration for all the countries ills are not the answer. About 10% of immigration is from the boats it's still a lot and it does need to be stopped but the biggest reason it needs to be stopped is because people are dying in the sea trying to get here and that shouldn't be happening in the 21st century. The proper way to stop it is to process the arrivals as quickly as possible and get anyone without entitlement to stay deported as quickly as you can not have each case take 2/3 years to get heard and sorted.
But, the actual biggest issue with migration is the huge amounts of people we are letting come to the country legally. Nobody, actually talks about this and the fact that this could be stopped pretty much immediately if we wanted it to and would potentially bring immigration down to the tens of thousands everyone talks about.
I could and would vote Tory again in the future but as long as the shit above continues there is no chance I will do and if they continue on this path of seemingly moving closer to being in line with Farage then it will turn off a lot of moderate voters like me who you need to win elections.
They could always try actually being Conservative.
He's being an insincere fanny already.
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