General Election 2024?

[msc 18,062]

13 minutes ago, Clorox Bleachman said:

Charles Kennedy drank himself to death within a few weeks of losing his seat in 2015.

He was actually getting himself together after being off the wagon for ages during the coalition but it was too late.

 

Before your time, Clorox but popular young Paisley MP Gordon McMaster killed himself shortly after the 1997 election. It turned out he had been in the closet over his homosexuality and been blackmailed by another labour MP, Tommy Graham, whom McMaster had looked up to. Very sad story. That seat became Mhairi Black's years later, incidentally.

[gcreptile 10,482]

3 hours ago, The Old Crem said:

 

 

I think higher turnout means that Reform will have a strong result. It's similar to a lot of elections in other countries where the rising divide increases turnout.

I also believe that there are "shy reform" voters instead of "shy tories". Yes, I do think the Tories will get pretty much destroyed.

 

[Sly Ronnie 796]

14 minutes ago, RoverAndOut said:

While we're in this pre-exit poll lull, just a couple of thoughts from re-watching the 1997 coverage recently:

 

• There was discussion about how little and vague the Labour manifesto was, and how this would make it difficult to govern as they didn't have a mandate to do very much.
• There was also (which surprised me) discussion of how there wasn't a great deal of enthusiasm about Labour winning, more about the Tories losing (sound familiar?).
• A recognition that voters had voted tactically in greater numbers than ever before, to really punish the Tories.
• Discussions about how the splits in the Tory Party had damaged the brand, with one side claiming they were right that Major was leading them to defeat and the other claiming it was these naysayers that had made the defeat so bad.

There were probably more parallels but it was a couple of weeks ago now and I can't remember it all quite so vividly. Doesn't feel so different after all, hoping for a similar result tonight and a similar outcome over the next 4-5 years.

 

History doesn't repeat but it does rhyme.

 

From what I recall, that what was being said about Labour, that there was a lack of enthusiasm etc. But when it did become this humongous majority, it did change the temperature a bit and there was more expectation and dare I say euphoria upon the scale of victory. If Labour had squeaked in with a bare majority, then that narrative about a lack of enthusiasm for the new government would have been maintained.

[YoungWillz 19,980]

And so.

 

Sky begins its coverage.

 

Settle in.

 

I may briefly flip to the BBC just at 10 to see the exit poll results.

[maryportfuncity 10,277]

1 minute ago, YoungWillz said:

And so.

 

Sky begins its coverage.

 

Settle in.

 

I may briefly flip to the BBC just at 10 to see the exit poll results.

 

 

You and me both re that exit poll, then earlyish night and awake to much toast for breakfast

[Father Brown 129]

I'm set. I'll probably stick to Sky.

[The Old Crem 3,354]

 

[Sly Ronnie 796]

Sky, BBC and even LBC!

[Brad252 613]

1 hour ago, TQR said:

Reform Ltd. being dishonest? No way!

 

 

Erm...

 

This led to some good parodies, like this one:

 

https://x.com/supertanskiii/status/1808634584176677122

 

[Father Brown 129]

Sky has a CGI Larry! Beat that!

[YoungWillz 19,980]

1 minute ago, Father Brown said:

Sky has a CGI Larry! Beat that!

I'm sure at the BBC they are going to CGI an impartial face onto Laura K. 

[DCI Frank Burnside 3,615]

14 minutes ago, The Old Crem said:

 

Theresa Coffey made a Dame

 

Oliver Dowden, Ben Wallace and Julian Smith given knighthoods

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dissolution-honours-2024

[DCI Frank Burnside 3,615]

May first Ex-PM into the HoL since Thatcher I think

[YoungWillz 19,980]

Just now, DCI Frank Burnside said:

May first Ex-PM into the HoL since Thatcher I think

Cameron?

[Father Brown 129]

Dame Therese Coffey

 

[Brad252 613]

5 minutes ago, DCI Frank Burnside said:

May first Ex-PM into the HoL since Thatcher I think

 

4 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Cameron?

May the first one who wasn't rushed in to shore up someone's ailing position.

[YoungWillz 19,980]

Don't know why, this has started playing in my head:

 

 

[DCI Frank Burnside 3,615]

14 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Cameron?

Oh fuck yeah. Had forgotten for some odd reason

[YoungWillz 19,980]

4 minutes ago, DCI Frank Burnside said:

Oh fuck yeah. Had forgotten for some odd reason

Easy to blank the fucker from memory tbh.

 

Then you remember....

[Commtech Sio Bibble 1,601]

4 minutes ago, DCI Frank Burnside said:

Oh fuck yeah. Had forgotten for some odd reason

I had too, to be fair it wasn't a direct promotion, he took 7 years off to do some lobbying whilst shagging a pig on a remote beach in Spain.

[Philheybrookbay1 242]

I feel really nervous. 9 mins to exit poll...

[TQR 13,618]

Got the butterflies. Five mins until exit poll!

[TQR 13,618]

Fuck off, Vine

[BuffaloPhil 746]

LAB 410 to CON 131 exit poll result

[TQR 13,618]

That'll do!