Politics Thread 7: THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER - General Election 04/07/24

[Moggy]

Have the Tories actually got enough people to run in every seat? They are going to have to really quickly get some candidates up and running.

They were something like 150 candidates short when the election was announced. At the same time, Greens had about 95% of their candidates selected with the aim to have a candidate in every seat for the first time ever.

The Tories are going to have scandal after scandal as they'll have to rush to select candidates.

[Tomous]

Have the Tories actually got enough people to run in every seat? They are going to have to really quickly get some candidates up and running.

They were something like 150 candidates short when the election was announced. At the same time, Greens had about 95% of their candidates selected with the aim to have a candidate in every seat for the first time ever.

The Tories are going to have scandal after scandal as they'll have to rush to select candidates.

What's a few dozen more at this point

[Neo Cortex]

Have the Tories actually got enough people to run in every seat? They are going to have to really quickly get some candidates up and running.

They were something like 150 candidates short when the election was announced. At the same time, Greens had about 95% of their candidates selected with the aim to have a candidate in every seat for the first time ever.

The Tories are going to have scandal after scandal as they'll have to rush to select candidates.

What's a few dozen more at this point

It's always dick pics atm too

[Return_of_the_STAR]

twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1793717817734218238

Oh wow I hope they do this every day.

[Moggy]

"And poor people actually eat this?"

[Garth]

twitter.com/realBenBloch/status/1793762474837049479

[Zilnad]

This week's whims... Brutal

[Sprouty]

twitter.com/realBenBloch/status/1793762474837049479

Debates need to be legally mandated. Whoever is ahead wants less and behind want more, every election. Remember when Boris literally hid in a fridge to avoid questioning?!

[satriales]

Rishi is now refusing to honour the charity bet he lost with Piers Morgan. His excuse that he didn't lose because one person went to Rwanda voluntarily (he was paid £3k to go and they then lost him). He should donate £1k to The Red Cross regardless - it's literally like 5p to Rishi.

[Rex Kramer]

Does anyone know what is the cut off date for naming candidates for each seat? I'm wondering if we'll see a flurry of retirements this weekend.

[Grumpy David]

twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1793899852624953398

Starmer can now expel Corbyn from the party and do the same for anyone supporting him. Great opportunity to clear out the basket of deplorables.

Starmer has to be one of the luckiest politicians of all time.

[Garth]

twitter.com/robpowellnews/status/1793893652407668773

[Cuttooth]

"I have other things I wish to do."

[Moggy]

twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1793899852624953398

Starmer can now expel Corbyn from the party and do the same for anyone supporting him. Great opportunity to clear out the basket of deplorables.

Starmer has to be one of the luckiest politicians of all time.

Lucky? I highly doubt Labour will be winning Islington North against Corbyn. And I'm not sure that purging Labour of Corbyn supporters is a great way of showing a unified party in the lead up to an election.

I'm sure Labour will still win, but I wouldn't describe this as good news for the party.

[Grumpy David]

twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1793899852624953398

Starmer can now expel Corbyn from the party and do the same for anyone supporting him. Great opportunity to clear out the basket of deplorables.

Starmer has to be one of the luckiest politicians of all time.

Lucky? I highly doubt Labour will be winning Islington North against Corbyn. And I'm not sure that purging Labour of Corbyn supporters is a great way of showing a unified party in the lead up to an election.

I'm sure Labour will still win, but I wouldn't describe this as good news for the party.

Starmer is very lucky. He only became an MP much later in life and rose to the top very quickly.

He's gets to be Labour leader whilst the Tories and the SNP were already in power for a long time so the "time for a change" feeling was already brewing and then both parties imploded in spectacular fashion.

And Corbyn's automatic expulsion from Labour means Starmer can draw a clean line under it and should any Labour deplorables voice support for him they get automatically expelled too (it's not a purge, it's an automated process the results from poor decisions that were freely chosen).

Corbyn is 73 and could have just retired but his arrogance wouldn't let him. It'll be a 2 horse race between Corbyn and the Labour candidate but I expect Labour to edge it and then lucky Starmer won't even have to see Corbyn in the opposition benches.

[Knoyleo]

An independent Corbyn will absolutely win Islington North.

"Deplorables"

[Oblomov Boblomov]

Corbyn will be elected, and we should be grateful for whatever domestic-social-and/or-economic-policy pressure he is able to exert on a Labour government. Perhaps not so much his foreign policy .

[DML]

I'm actually interested in why Corbynites are considered deplorable. I think it would give me a better understanding.

At the moment I'm not sure I'd take Wes Streeting over any of them, hateful human.

[Moggy]

twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1793899852624953398

Starmer can now expel Corbyn from the party and do the same for anyone supporting him. Great opportunity to clear out the basket of deplorables.

Starmer has to be one of the luckiest politicians of all time.

Lucky? I highly doubt Labour will be winning Islington North against Corbyn. And I'm not sure that purging Labour of Corbyn supporters is a great way of showing a unified party in the lead up to an election.

I'm sure Labour will still win, but I wouldn't describe this as good news for the party.

Starmer is very lucky. He only became an MP much later in life and rose to the top very quickly.

He's gets to be Labour leader whilst the Tories and the SNP were already in power for a long time so the "time for a change" feeling was already brewing and then both parties imploded in spectacular fashion.

And Corbyn's automatic expulsion from Labour means Starmer can draw a clean line under it and should any Labour deplorables voice support for him they get automatically expelled too (it's not a purge, it's an automated process the results from poor decisions that were freely chosen).

Corbyn is 73 and could have just retired but his arrogance wouldn't let him. It'll be a 2 horse race between Corbyn and the Labour candidate but I expect Labour to edge it and then lucky Starmer won't even have to see Corbyn in the opposition benches.

Starmer and Sunak became MPs at the same time. Theres an age gap, but I'm not sure why "later in life" is luckier than somebody becoming PM earlier in life.

You're quite mad if you think Labour can beat Corbyn in Islington.

[Moggy]

I'm actually interested in why Corbynites are considered deplorable. I think it would give me a better understanding.