Paid Members chokeout Posted July 5, 2024 Paid Members Posted July 5, 2024 (edited) Tories fully locked out of Wales. Genuienly brings a tear to the eye after the results in the last election. Obviously not happy about the Lib Dems fucking up the colour scheme but it's a minor complaint. Edited July 5, 2024 by chokeout Quote
Paid Members Dead Mike Posted July 5, 2024 Paid Members Posted July 5, 2024 North Hereford going to the Greens has got to be one of the biggest surprises. My family are all there & it's always been a very safe Tory seat. I thought it might switch to LibDem due to tactical voting but a Green win there is wild. Quote
Paid Members ReturnOfTheMack Posted July 5, 2024 Paid Members Posted July 5, 2024 I ended up throwing my vote to a smaller party in the hopes that it would show pressure on the very safe Labour incumbent. Almost certainly won't, but I couldn't bring myself to vote for Labour under Starmer. Quote
TheScarlettChad Posted July 5, 2024 Posted July 5, 2024 Congratulations to Sir Kier for his victory! I woke up a very happy man. Quote
Merzbow Posted July 5, 2024 Posted July 5, 2024 Zarah Sultana has gone from a 400+ seat majority to over 10,000+. As upset as I was for her not speaking up against JK just now she has been the most outspoken in favour of trans people and loudly too, far more than any other candidate in my area so the vote went there. Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted July 5, 2024 Author Members Posted July 5, 2024 (edited) Rees Mogg. What a thing to wake up to. Proper morning glory. Oh, and Corbyn on the beat hoe. Lovely. Edited July 5, 2024 by SuperBacon Corbyn, not Corby. WOP WOP WOP WOP WOP JC FUCK HIM UP Quote
Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted July 5, 2024 Awards Moderator Posted July 5, 2024 1 hour ago, BigJag said: Is Sir Keir Starmer the first Knight to be elected PM? Nicking from a Twitter thread last night where Greg Jenner was asking this… Back in the 18th/19th centuries plenty of PMs were dukes, earls, viscounts etc so were ennobled - I don’t think you have to be a knight as well to have one of those titles but a fair number of them must have been. More recently, Anthony Eden and Alec Douglas-Home were a Knight of the Garter and Knight of the Thistle respectively before becoming PMs. There could be some distinction in “elected” there as I don’t know how many might have just taken office rather than being directly voted in. Anyway, our seat went from SNP to Labour. Greens in third I think, which is a decent showing. Quote
deathrey Posted July 5, 2024 Posted July 5, 2024 The exit polls had predicted that Labour would finally win on my area - they didn't. We are Tory again. At least it's not Sajid Javid this time. Quote
Paid Members hallicks Posted July 5, 2024 Paid Members Posted July 5, 2024 Libdemania running wild in Tunbridge Wells, absolute scenes. Quote
Paid Members garynysmon Posted July 5, 2024 Paid Members Posted July 5, 2024 (edited) 1 hour ago, FLips said: Would have liked to see more seats for Plaid Cymru but can't complain at all with the fact the Tories got completely wiped out of Wales. TBH 4 seats, with 2 of them being gains was the upper end of Plaid’s expectations. Labour threw the kitchen sink at Caerfyrddin, told candidates to stop campaigning in their own south Wales seats to go to Carmarthen, Starmer visited yesterday, and Plaid beat them by almost 5,000. I long suspected that Labour would do worse in Wales than elsewhere as they have a 25 year old record to defend. The contrast with the SNP/Scottish narrative is stark. Edited July 5, 2024 by garynysmon Quote
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted July 5, 2024 Moderators Posted July 5, 2024 22 minutes ago, deathrey said: The exit polls had predicted that Labour would finally win on my area - they didn't. We are Tory again. At least it's not Sajid Javid this time. Same. Bloody Chris Philp. Prick. Quote
CavemanLynn Posted July 5, 2024 Posted July 5, 2024 Telegraph et al. reporting that Sunak is expected to resign. What's the benefit of this? The country has given him the sack. Is this just a "You can't fire me, coz I QUIT!" storm-off? Quote
Paid Members FLips Posted July 5, 2024 Paid Members Posted July 5, 2024 Just now, CavemanLynn said: Telegraph et al. reporting that Sunak is expected to resign. What's the benefit of this? The country has given him the sack. Is this just a "You can't fire me, coz I QUIT!" storm-off? I might be wrong but from what they're saying on BBC News it sounds like some PMs stick around when they lose to help transfer the country over, and some just immediately quit. Like a warm and cold transfer of power, and in this case it could be freezing. Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted July 5, 2024 Author Members Posted July 5, 2024 This makes it even better. Quote
westlondonmist Posted July 5, 2024 Posted July 5, 2024 Where do the Tories go from here? Braverman or Badenoch going fully all out right wing nut nut party and try and appease Farage and his voters? I think him rejoining Reform has had a huge affect on this election, probably benefitting Labour more than anything. Quote
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