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    5 hours ago, Thatcher said:

    Farage to make an ‘emergency general election announcement’ at 4pm. Can only presume he’s donning his flip flops and has now decided to stand himself and will resume leadership of Reform. He couldn’t possibly see all that debate airtime up for grabs and let it slip by, could he?

     

    Clacton is looking for a candidate after their current one was embroiled in an antisemitism scandal. 

    You’re welcome - everyone had the bit about him standing but nobody else had him about taking back the leadership ;) 

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    28 minutes ago, The Old Crem said:

    Clacton is probably the perfect seat for him if he does want to win. Demographicly and politically it all fits for several reasons. 

    MRP projection for Clacton if Farage runs puts him on 37% with the Tories second on 27%. 
     

    If Farage runs it’s game over for the Tories and brace for electoral wipeout.

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    Farage to make an ‘emergency general election announcement’ at 4pm. Can only presume he’s donning his flip flops and has now decided to stand himself and will resume leadership of Reform. He couldn’t possibly see all that debate airtime up for grabs and let it slip by, could he?

     

    Clacton is looking for a candidate after their current one was embroiled in an antisemitism scandal. 

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    Keir Starmer refuses to take part in the BBC debate with all 7 parties scheduled for 7th June.
     

    He will do a head to head with the Prime Minister on 26th June and a Question Time special on 20th June.

     

    BBC trailing the 7th June debate as ‘party leaders’, so ball firmly back in their court as to whether they empty chair him or loosen it to allow a party representative instead.

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    Baroness Smith of Basildon is quoted in the piece in The Times saying she wants another 100 Labour peers enobled to make the numbers ‘roughly’ equal. 
     

    Once Labour are in the pigeons will really come home to roost with journalists who have gotten used to giving the Tories a very rough ride in comparison to their laxity with Labour. I understand the Tories have been in Government, so heavy scrutiny is required,  but if the majority for Labour is anything like what’s being talked about then even more scrutiny is required of them in Government given the absence of other parties in the Chamber. 
     

    Will any journo bother to quiz them on their plans for the Lords? I doubt it. Pertinent questions to Angie Rayner during the battle bus launch consisted of ‘what’s your road trip snack of choice’ and ‘what’s your road trip music if choice’. (A kitkat and house music if you’re wondering)

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    I read a very interesting article that was considering that the ‘core vote’ of the two mainstream parties doesn’t exist anymore. Pair that with a splintering across the spectrum, right of centre betwixt Tories and Reform, and left of centre between Labour/Lib Dem/Green/Workers Party(to a lesser extent?), leaves future elections likely to be volatile, with big crashing swings and wipeouts. More floating voters with less allegiance to a party resulting in significant majorities stacking up at election time as they move en masse. The Tories profited from it in 2019, Labour will this year. But when the bottom falls out it goes well and truly, as we are seeing with the likely Tory wipeout. 
     

    Tories likely looking at voting system reform more favourably now!

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    Almighty row brewing with the deselections of Lloyd Russell-Moyle, Fazia Shaheen and requested deselection of Apsana Begum. Diane Abbott row ongoing. Not the News at 10 cycle Labour HQ would’ve hoped for on the day that was supposed to be about their plans for the NHS.

     

    If Diane Abbott joins Corbyn in standing as an Independent, do other left wingers currently suffering a purge follow suit? 
     

    Mish Rahman of Labour’s NEC: “Starmer does not care about black or Muslim people”. Still time before candidate deadlines for the boat to be rocked. The view from inside here.

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    The first day of the campaign which I think has been poor for Labour. Conservatives led the morning papers with the triple lock plus pledge, evening news featuring the non-story Rayner and Abbott rumbling on. 
     

    By the looks of the papers tomorrow, the Tories fairing better. Metro front page covers the pension triple lock pledge again, plus includes Sunak’s claim of Labour costing every family £2000. Mentions Labour’s list of business backers that was quickly debunked. 

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  12. Posted

    27 minutes ago, Sean said:

    Hearing that she is still banned from standing as a Labour MP despite being given the whip back.How does that even work?

    The Guardian gives the low down. Note the phrase “not stand for Labour due to what are termed as health difficulties”. 
     

    Obviously with that article a pinch of salt as each faction wanting to push a certain narrative. 
     

    On your particular point, she’s been given the whip back so that she can retire as a Labour MP. An unspoken agreement so to speak that if she did get the whip she’ll go gracefully, but briefing about her health might blow up in their face. 

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    18 hours ago, Sean said:

    Barbara Keeley also standing down.Previously fought breat cancer in 2019.At 72 though she may well just be ready to retire.

     

    John Spellar also standing down.77 in August so not a huge surprise.First elected on the same day as Harriet Harman in 1982.

    Lyn Brown standing down citing health challenges and ‘serious conditions that have increasing impact on work’. Labour MP for West Ham since 2005.

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    The major issue with that policy is that if you actually read the detail it’s not as ‘scary’ as it sounds - it’s working in logistics/procurement/flood defences, or volunteering for the emergency services or charities.

     

    But running a campaign in which you drive defence as one of the key wedges, with all sorts of articles and write ups about how the world is a dangerous place with Russia looming and our safety is at risk, to then announce national service? What young person or young person’s parents are going to vote for that? Hear the words national service and you immediately presume military service which may include deployment.
     

    A policy that will put many off, in order to give a little bit of red meat to a handful of Reform voters. Convinced he is trying to lose this election on purpose.

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    17 minutes ago, DCI Frank Burnside said:

     

    I really wouldn’t be surprised if Rishi doesn’t last the weekend. I can see it now, Rishi announces he’s off and cometh the hour, cometh the man, forward steps Boris Johnson.

     

    Funnily enough Boris has done his first attack piece of the campaign on Starmer in the Daily Mail tomorrow.

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    On 18/01/2024 at 19:15, Ulitzer95 said:


    Apologies.

     

    It was Craig Mackinlay who had near fatal blood poisoning, not Craig Whittaker. I get the two of them confused. 

    Just an update on Mackinlay - both hands and feet amputated as a result of sepsis. Footage of him here.

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  25. Posted

    5 hours ago, RoverAndOut said:

     

    Ah, so it was a rigged vote for Israel, nothing to do with music. That's fine. She lost, her song was forgettable, end of story. For all the noise and chaos, the show itself was actually quite enjoyable and the winner had a great song and a brilliant stage presence.

     

    A remarkably successful night in our house: I voted for the winner, dad voted for 2nd and mum got 4th. 12 months for the world to calm down before we do it all again.

    Not so much a rigged vote as a statement vote. If everybody had accepted the fact that Israel were competing, sucked it up and got on with it without the insults and trolling, I am fairly confident her average song would’ve ended up middle of the leaderboard. But people wanted to make it political, and there we can see the result.

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