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  2. Posted

    4 hours ago, TQR said:

    LE24 this time next week. Remember how they went for the Tories last year? Here's the YouGov voting intention poll, with changes compared to one week before LE23.

     

    LAB: 45% (+4)

    CON: 20% (-7)

    REF: 13% (+6)

    LDM: 9% (-2)

    GRN: 7% (=)

    They are relatively few reform candidates standing in the locals that their absence from many seats will be a big factor. 

  11. Posted

    4 minutes ago, TQR said:

    Big Boy Sunak refused to rule out a July election when asked while on the plane to Poland.

     

    He said “All I’m going to say is the same thing I say every time…my working assumption is an election in the second half of the year.”

     

    The middle day of the year is 2nd July. Still on for the 4th, then.

    Well I doubt they will do the 10th. That is the day of the second Euro 2024 semi which could in theory feature England (and even less likely Scotland)  - no way will they want an election clashing with that. At least the 4th July is an off day from the tournament. 

    No matches on the 27th June either but England are playing on the 20th June. 

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    1 hour ago, Sod's Law said:

     

    Yeah, one benefit that was always said about FPTP was that it produced stable one party governments with a clear mandate and kept the loonie fringe parties out, an argument which has been shot to pieces in both Britain and America this past few years. The fact that Truss, Kwarteng, etc are still even in the Tory party speaks volumes. The loonies who would otherwise be in those fringe parties end up joining one of the main parties and morphing it out of all recognition. Like how Reagan would have despised Trump and what's become of his party today, playing along to Moscow's playbook. 

     

    It's true that Reform UK may end up with a few seats if PR was introduced, but guess what? Coalition pacts between more moderate parties to keep the more fringe parties out of government exist in other countries. They can exist here. 

    That used to be the case but with the trend in Europe for the far right coming into power or influence via PR it’s arguably an argument against it. 

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    9 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

    Times Obit for Sir Peter Hordern, former Tory MP for Horsham (sometime Horsham and Crawley) aged 95 (if he made his birthday on 18th April that is): https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sir-peter-hordern-obituary-tory-mp-who-was-thatcherite-before-thatcher-70b7hswjs

     

    Last picked by @Gooseberry Crumble for his Apricot Crumble team in 2021, so he's one for the List of the Missed: https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2021/celebs_H.html#horderpy19

    The paywalled part of the Obit reveals he died on his birthday. 

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    42 minutes ago, RoverAndOut said:

     

    Oh, with the greatest of respect, will you please fuck all the way off. The public couldn't give 2 shites if the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party didn't pay a bit of tax compared to those currently in office. But the Mail will probably get her, because she's a danger to them.

    Maybe. My dad is obsessed with it and is always going on about it so maybe that clouds my judgement. 

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