General Election July 2024

[CivicDuties]

I guess the only question now is, who is going to be Leader of the Opposition? Penny Mordaunt or Ed Davey?

[Baroque attacks]

Rufus Stone said:

Timothy Bucktu said:

Yes...a change of bds can't come soon enough.

A bit premature. The current Labour Party is different to the one last in power. Let's give them a chance first huh?

I’d love to think this is optimism rather than naivety.

[ScotHill]

School holiday season in Scotland, we have postal votes so shouldn't be affected but ain't great timing, lots of people won't be home. Not sure how that would affect the demographics likely to vote, probably similar across the board, but hopefully the SNP fanatics have already booked their yurts in Scandinavia to experience a taste of their promised neverland.

[P-Jay]

Rumours, there's always rumours on Twitter, but now and again they're right.

Letters of no confidence are going in, either to try to stop the GE, or because they want to try to fight it with a different leader. Desperate times.

[anonymoususer]

Summer General Election Thursday 4th July

Well done valiant who called it earlier on

valiant said:

Emily Maitles reports hearing from numerous reliable sources that it's 4th July.

Edited by anonymoususer on Wednesday 22 May 16:27

[David87]

Insert Independence Day joke here.

[S600BSB]

P-Jay said:

Rumours, there's always rumours on Twitter, but now and again they're right.

Letters of no confidence are going in, either to try to stop the GE, or because they want to try to fight it with a different leader. Desperate times.

Couldn’t make it up! Hang on..

[E63eeeeee...]

P-Jay said:

Rumours, there's always rumours on Twitter, but now and again they're right.

Letters of no confidence are going in, either to try to stop the GE, or because they want to try to fight it with a different leader. Desperate times.

If you needed any further demonstration of why these fkwits shouldn't be running a whelk stall, never mind a country, there it is. It's like they're trying to govern in a parallel dimension with an entirely different set of physical and logical rules.

[tim0409]

CivicDuties said:

I guess the only question now is, who is going to be Leader of the Opposition? Penny Mordaunt or Ed Davey?

There is the small matter to Mordaunt retaining her seat.

[Baroque attacks]

Bloody overshadowing Vennels

[Rusty Old-Banger]

Who's playing the Star Wars Imperial March in the background of BBC news at the moment?

[Rufus Stone]

Baroque attacks said:

I’d love to think this is optimism rather than naivety.

I'm 62. I've lived through several of them. None have killed me, or left me poorer as far as I can remember.

[Gecko1978]

Gecko1978 said:

No way not without rate and or tax cuts first

Never was I more wrong. Oh well bye bye Rishi hello Kier

[Mr Penguin]

I can't find it now but this week on How to Win an Election, Peter Mandelson said that he wondered if it would be in July because that is when the Labour campaign director is on holiday and it would annoy him.

[easytiger123]

Quick question. Assuming the Tories lose, does Starmer become PM on July 5th or is there some delay/handover?

[ecsrobin]

Speech about to happen (5pm)outside number 10.

[gotoPzero]

Well I can only predict this is going to be a sh*t show.

[paulw123]

E63eeeeee... said:

About bloody time. This government has no answers to any of the UK's real problems and has been treading water for what feels like years now. An election can't come soon enough.

Hard to disagree with that. Unfortunately Labour havegt shown they have any answers either other than, grrr Tories.

[isaldiri]

easytiger123 said:

Quick question. Assuming the Tories lose, does Starmer become PM on July 5th or is there some delay/handover?

Sunak resigns the day after and Starmer gets in if he is confident he has enough MPs that will support his government I suppose. Blair iirc became PM the day after the 97 election....?

[easytiger123]

isaldiri said:

easytiger123 said:

Quick question. Assuming the Tories lose, does Starmer become PM on July 5th or is there some delay/handover?

Sunak resigns the day after and Starmer gets in if he is confident he has enough MPs that will support his government I suppose. Blair iirc became PM the day after the 97 election....?

Ta. It's been so long since we changed government I'd forgotten.