UK General Election 2024 #2

[kev1974]

Deadline for candidate nominations is 4pm on Friday.

Today Nigel Farage announced he will stand in Clacton, he's also taking over from Tice as leader of Reform.

 

[Blueblue123]

Even if we consider more centrist/moderate Tories, it's one hell of a political whiplash to go from Labour to Reform.

99% of people who are now going to vote Reform were never going to vote Labour.

 

[HelloStereo]

Patriotic right wingers.

 

[pommobear]

I'm going to start a political party called Down With Boats N Scroungers N Bring Back Hanging. Will go down a storm I reckon.

 

[Strangebuttrue]

Even if we consider more centrist/moderate Tories, it's one hell of a political whiplash to go from Labour to Reform.

99% of people who are now going to vote Reform were never going to vote Labour.

In London maybe. Not so sure about the rest of the UK.
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I'm going to start a political party called Down With Boats N Scroungers N Bring Back Hanging. Will go down a storm I reckon.

Thank God they weren’t about when your Dad came over illegally

 

[biscuitthief]

Thank you for the new thread!

Also, today Yougov released the results of the first MRP of 2024. https://yougov.co.uk/politics/artic...-shows-labour-on-track-to-beat-1997-landslide - as with all polls it is subject to change but still makes for worthwhile reading.

Going back to the last thread. The reason a lot of Labour's voters defected to the Tories in 2019 was due to their position on Brexit and the fact they HATED Corbyn. Reform could possibly gain some socially conservative Labour voters who voted Tory in 2019 but lets see.

31 days to go.

 

[Blueblue123]

Someone's... triggered

 

[HelloStereo]

Someone's... triggered

He's so tetchy.

 

[L3moning]

I'm going to start a political party called Down With Boats N Scroungers N Bring Back Hanging. Will go down a storm I reckon.

This does remind me of the two short lived UKIP spin-offs called An Independence From Europe and We Demand A Referendum Now

 

[pommobear]

In London maybe. Not so sure about the rest of the UK.
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Thank God they weren’t about when your Dad came over illegally

My Dad was a political prisoner under a dictatorship and was held and tortured for two years. When he got out of prison all his family and most of his friends had been killed except for his first wife and my half sister who were in the UK, and they had come to the UK because his first wife was an English teacher in their home country and therefore thought the UK would be a place she could find work and build a life for her child. He came to the UK to find them. His asylum claim was processed and he became a British citizen. And now he's been here for over 40 years, paying taxes, not *once* claiming benefits. He worked from the moment he got here - he was a journalist in his home country but because he couldn't speak English when he came here he ended up washing dishes in a restaurant. He learned English, he became a social worker.

You can have whatever political opinions you like but I assume something pretty awful must have happened to you considering your total lack of empathy and human compassion.

 

[Strangebuttrue]

Someone's... triggered

The Hamas supporting BBC… do me a favour
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The reason a lot of Labour's voters defected to the Tories in 2019 was due to their position on Brexit and the fact they HATED Corbyn. Reform could possibly gain some socially conservative Labour voters who voted Tory in 2019 but lets see.

31 days to go.

This is why I find it strange that anyone could support a man that wanted to overturn Brexit and supported a second referendum all while supporting Corbyn (twice) for PM. Starmer cannot be trusted one little bit.

 

[biscuitthief]

This is why I find it strange that anyone could support a man that wanted to overturn Brexit and supported a second referendum all while supporting Corbyn (twice) for PM. Starmer cannot be trusted one little bit.

I think its more about getting the Tories out. For a lot of people Starmer is the lesser of two evils.

Let's face it, can we really trust any of them?

 

[Strangebuttrue]

I think its more about getting the Tories out. For a lot of people Starmer is the lesser of two evils.

Let's face it, can we really trust any of them?

and now they have another option which is why I believe some people who were going to vote for Labour may now switch their vote to Reform. Not that I think it will make much of a difference in the grand scheme of things.

 

[pommobear]

Farage on the radio wanging on about "British values" again. Would love to know what they are.

 

[JDoody]

Farage on the radio wanging on about "British values" again. Would love to know what they are.

You're British aren't you? Why don't you know?

 

[HelloStereo]

You're British aren't you? Why don't you know?

I'm British and I don't know either.

Are you? Care to tell us?

 

[L3moning]

and now they have another option which is why I believe some people who were going to vote for Labour may now switch their vote to Reform. Not that I think it will make much of a difference in the grand scheme of things.

I think some of the pre-2019 Labour vote in the Midlands will go to Reform, but probably not enough to make a difference in any seats except maybe Ashfield, which has its own reasons for being like that (mostly reasons named Jason Zadrozny).

 

[Strangebuttrue]

Farage on the radio wanging on about "British values" again. Would love to know what they are.

I'm British and I don't know either.

Are you? Care to tell us?

Well that’s a bit worrying. You claim to be British but probably happy to wave the Palestine flag

 

[HelloStereo]

Well that’s a bit worrying. You claim to be British but probably happy to wave the Palestine flag

Haha so many assumptions here . Is jumping to conclusions a British value?

 

[IGiveUp22]

I’m British and yep, happy to “wave the Palestinian flag” because I’m a humanitarian first and foremost - I actually care about humans, regardless of their skin colour racism on this thread is staggering