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The 2024 General Election Thread


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Ladies and Gentlemen we have a winner in the torygraph's most cuntish and cryarsing but saying absolutely fuck all of any note article competition.

 

Some cunt called Liam Halligan is responsible for this pathetic shite.

 

This is beyond pathetic....

 

 

The end is in sight for Keir Starmer’s honeymoon period

 

The ‘lucky general’ may have it good for now, but an economic storm is on the horizon

 

I keep hearing media colleagues call Sir Keir Starmer a “lucky general”. The Labour leader, after all, is presiding over a huge 174-seat House of Commons majority, his party boasting 64pc of MPs, despite attracting just 34pc of all votes.

 

Given that just 60pc of those eligible actually bothered to cast their ballot earlier this month, Sir Keir’s Labour Party was supported by just one in five of the electorate, securing half a million fewer votes – yes, fewer! – than when Labour lost heavily under Jeremy Corbyn in 2019.

 

Yet such are the foibles of our first-past-the-post voting system that Labour now has 411 seats – 209 more than during the last Parliament – with Starmer presiding over an administration with practically unchecked legislative powers.

 

The new Prime Minister’s luck continued last week, as he hosted the European Community Summit at a sun-drenched Blenheim Palace – Churchill’s birthplace, no less. Broadcasters feasting on free ice cream overwhelmingly concluded the summit went well, as “Starmer reset our relations with Europe”.

 

Few found space in their bulletins to report the fact this first UK-brd post-Brexit summit with European Union leaders was instigated by Rishi Sunak – with Starmer getting credit for his predecessor’s efforts to maintain good cross-Channel relations.

 

The focus on summitry and sunshine also meant there was subsequently little mention that public sector borrowing in June was much higher than expected – rising to £14.5bn last month, according to Office for National Statistics figures on Friday, far more than £11.6bn forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility. So, in a single month, the Government just borrowed an additional £2.9bn.

 

Labour says its hugely controversial plan to add 20pc VAT to school fees will raise around £1.7bn. This is a policy which, for all the glee of the party’s hard-Left, will seriously disrupt the education of potentially tens of thousands of pupils, to say nothing of the lives of hard-working parents striving and struggling to send their children to an independent school.

 

Ministers say the money raised by making the UK pretty much the only country in the developed world to charge VAT on education is “vital – as it will pay for 6,500 new teachers”, but that amounts to a mere 1pc rise in state school teacher numbers.

 

The public finances just deteriorated by an amount approaching twice what will be raised by this spiteful policy – and barely anyone noticed or commented. Starmer is a lucky general indeed.

 

The state of the public finances isn’t Labour’s fault, of course – the party has only just entered government. But the tightness of the state’s balance sheet will seriously complicate the ability of Starmer’s administration to fulfil its manifesto commitments. That is one reason Labour’s post-election honeymoon – now in full swing – will be quite short.

 

Despite headline inflation being down at 2pc, the cost of living crisis is far from over. Food and energy prices remain some 30pc and 60pc higher respectively than they were prior to the pandemic – with necessities accounting for a much higher share of the spending of lower-income households.

 

Consumer confidence is low, with new data showing retail sales down 1.2pc in June, far more than expected. The official fine print shows that sales of goods remain 1.3pc lower than prior to the pandemic, even though consumers are spending around 20pc more to obtain those goods – such has been the impact of inflation.

 

And despite having hit the Bank of England’s target, inflation is proving to be extremely stubborn – the precise opposite of “transitory”, the word of choice among our policymaking establishment, as they airily dismissed those of us who repeatedly warned of a post-pandemic inflation surge.

 

Core inflation – stripping out food, energy and other volatile factors – remained at 3.5pc in June, the same as the previous month. Service sector inflation is also still far too high – up at 5.7pc, again having stayed the same as in May.

 

Digging further into the data, producer price inflation across the services sector – covering four-fifths of our entire economy – remained up at 3.1pc between April and June, compared to the same quarter last year.

 

This reflects high employee labour costs – with wages rising by an annual 5.7pc during the three months to May, too high for policymakers at the Bank of England, but far too low to make a serious dent in accumulated price rises since lockdown, with the consumer having endured the worst inflationary surge in almost 50 years.

 

Beyond the UK, there are further signs that far from abating, inflation could soon start rising again. The World Container Index, which measures the average price of shipping by sea, has just climbed to almost 4,000 – a value not reached since the end of 2022.

 

This index has more than doubled since the beginning of May – and is up fourfold since the start of the year – not least due to geopolitical risks including attacks by anti-Israeli Houthi militias on ships trying to enter the southern mouth of the Red Sea to access the Suez Canal.

 

With many freight vessels forced to take longer and more expensive routes, spiralling shipping costs will be passed on in the price of manufacturers’ inputs, commodities and, above all, consumer goods in the coming months, feeding directly into headline inflation.

 

That’s why the Monetary Policy Committee won’t lower interest rates from their 16-year high of 5.25pc at its next meeting in August, and probably not in September either – with the next meeting after that in November.

 

These latest borrowing numbers, depressing as they are, will probably embolden Starmer’s party to raise the UK’s already 70-year high tax burden even further. Which again, won’t please the vast majority of voters.

 

This will indeed be a short honeymoon for Labour’s lucky general, not only with the media but much of the public. Unless there’s a growth surge soon, I reckon that Starmer’s all-conquering administration could even be a one-term government.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The torygraph used to actually be a respectable paper with a brilliant sports supplement. 
 

Whenever I was in a decent hotel for work I’d grab a free copy at breakfast, take the sports section and throw the rest in the bin. 
 

It’s a pseudo intelligent mix of the hate mail and women’s institute newsletters more akin to a racist  beano now and has been for some time. 

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40 minutes ago, an tha said:

Ladies and Gentlemen we have a winner in the torygraph's most cuntish and cryarsing but saying absolutely fuck all of any note article competition.

 

Some cunt called Liam Halligan is responsible for this pathetic shite.

 

This is beyond pathetic....

 

 

The end is in sight for Keir Starmer’s honeymoon period

 

The ‘lucky general’ may have it good for now, but an economic storm is on the horizon

 

I keep hearing media colleagues call Sir Keir Starmer a “lucky general”. The Labour leader, after all, is presiding over a huge 174-seat House of Commons majority, his party boasting 64pc of MPs, despite attracting just 34pc of all votes.

 

Given that just 60pc of those eligible actually bothered to cast their ballot earlier this month, Sir Keir’s Labour Party was supported by just one in five of the electorate, securing half a million fewer votes – yes, fewer! – than when Labour lost heavily under Jeremy Corbyn in 2019.

 

Yet such are the foibles of our first-past-the-post voting system that Labour now has 411 seats – 209 more than during the last Parliament – with Starmer presiding over an administration with practically unchecked legislative powers.

 

The new Prime Minister’s luck continued last week, as he hosted the European Community Summit at a sun-drenched Blenheim Palace – Churchill’s birthplace, no less. Broadcasters feasting on free ice cream overwhelmingly concluded the summit went well, as “Starmer reset our relations with Europe”.

 

Few found space in their bulletins to report the fact this first UK-brd post-Brexit summit with European Union leaders was instigated by Rishi Sunak – with Starmer getting credit for his predecessor’s efforts to maintain good cross-Channel relations.

 

The focus on summitry and sunshine also meant there was subsequently little mention that public sector borrowing in June was much higher than expected – rising to £14.5bn last month, according to Office for National Statistics figures on Friday, far more than £11.6bn forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility. So, in a single month, the Government just borrowed an additional £2.9bn.

 

Labour says its hugely controversial plan to add 20pc VAT to school fees will raise around £1.7bn. This is a policy which, for all the glee of the party’s hard-Left, will seriously disrupt the education of potentially tens of thousands of pupils, to say nothing of the lives of hard-working parents striving and struggling to send their children to an independent school.

 

Ministers say the money raised by making the UK pretty much the only country in the developed world to charge VAT on education is “vital – as it will pay for 6,500 new teachers”, but that amounts to a mere 1pc rise in state school teacher numbers.

 

The public finances just deteriorated by an amount approaching twice what will be raised by this spiteful policy – and barely anyone noticed or commented. Starmer is a lucky general indeed.

 

The state of the public finances isn’t Labour’s fault, of course – the party has only just entered government. But the tightness of the state’s balance sheet will seriously complicate the ability of Starmer’s administration to fulfil its manifesto commitments. That is one reason Labour’s post-election honeymoon – now in full swing – will be quite short.

 

Despite headline inflation being down at 2pc, the cost of living crisis is far from over. Food and energy prices remain some 30pc and 60pc higher respectively than they were prior to the pandemic – with necessities accounting for a much higher share of the spending of lower-income households.

 

Consumer confidence is low, with new data showing retail sales down 1.2pc in June, far more than expected. The official fine print shows that sales of goods remain 1.3pc lower than prior to the pandemic, even though consumers are spending around 20pc more to obtain those goods – such has been the impact of inflation.

 

And despite having hit the Bank of England’s target, inflation is proving to be extremely stubborn – the precise opposite of “transitory”, the word of choice among our policymaking establishment, as they airily dismissed those of us who repeatedly warned of a post-pandemic inflation surge.

 

Core inflation – stripping out food, energy and other volatile factors – remained at 3.5pc in June, the same as the previous month. Service sector inflation is also still far too high – up at 5.7pc, again having stayed the same as in May.

 

Digging further into the data, producer price inflation across the services sector – covering four-fifths of our entire economy – remained up at 3.1pc between April and June, compared to the same quarter last year.

 

This reflects high employee labour costs – with wages rising by an annual 5.7pc during the three months to May, too high for policymakers at the Bank of England, but far too low to make a serious dent in accumulated price rises since lockdown, with the consumer having endured the worst inflationary surge in almost 50 years.

 

Beyond the UK, there are further signs that far from abating, inflation could soon start rising again. The World Container Index, which measures the average price of shipping by sea, has just climbed to almost 4,000 – a value not reached since the end of 2022.

 

This index has more than doubled since the beginning of May – and is up fourfold since the start of the year – not least due to geopolitical risks including attacks by anti-Israeli Houthi militias on ships trying to enter the southern mouth of the Red Sea to access the Suez Canal.

 

With many freight vessels forced to take longer and more expensive routes, spiralling shipping costs will be passed on in the price of manufacturers’ inputs, commodities and, above all, consumer goods in the coming months, feeding directly into headline inflation.

 

That’s why the Monetary Policy Committee won’t lower interest rates from their 16-year high of 5.25pc at its next meeting in August, and probably not in September either – with the next meeting after that in November.

 

These latest borrowing numbers, depressing as they are, will probably embolden Starmer’s party to raise the UK’s already 70-year high tax burden even further. Which again, won’t please the vast majority of voters.

 

This will indeed be a short honeymoon for Labour’s lucky general, not only with the media but much of the public. Unless there’s a growth surge soon, I reckon that Starmer’s all-conquering administration could even be a one-term government.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whenever people bring up the Telegraph I always think back with a wry smile to a few years ago when I listened to Mark Drakeford being interviewed on BBC Radio 4 by Nick Robinson. 

 

 

Robinson read out a couple of paragraphs of that mornings paper which absolutely slated both Drakeford and Wales, basically calling him and us a load of far left communists. Robinson then asked does that criticism bother him. Drakeford replied ..'why should it bother me what written in the Daily Telegraph? Hardly anyone in Wales reads those right wing papers nevermind take them seriously,  although if you chose to that's a question for you'

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3 hours ago, Gnasher said:

 

Whenever people bring up the Telegraph I always think back with a wry smile to a few years ago when I listened to Mark Drakeford being interviewed on BBC Radio 4 by Nick Robinson. 

 

 

Robinson read out a couple of paragraphs of that mornings paper which absolutely slated both Drakeford and Wales, basically calling him and us a load of far left communists. Robinson then asked does that criticism bother him. Drakeford replied ..'why should it bother me what written in the Daily Telegraph? Hardly anyone in Wales reads those right wing papers nevermind take them seriously,  although if you chose to that's a question for you'

I am going to have to block it as a source on my google suggested articles on phones internet homepage.

 

As i have read stuff off there like the above and numerous other articles I was watching out for during election run up their articles are now coming up on it day after day.

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/27/were-taxing-non-doms-not-condoms-labour-strives-to-reconnect-with-disengaged-voters
 

Even during a general election campaign with projections of historic – even unprecedented – results, people cannot always be relied upon to give their full attention.

 

“We met a guy who said he was going to vote Labour but wouldn’t now because he had just heard that we were taxing condoms,” said Labour’s Karl Turner, who was first voted in as the MP for Hull East in 2010 and is standing for re-election this time.


I said, ‘condoms?’ ‘Yeah,’ he said: ‘I just heard on that [pointing to the TV] that you are taxing condoms, and I’m not having it. You’re not getting my vote.’ It was Terence [Turner’s parliamentary assistant] here who worked it out.

 

“‘We’re taxing non-doms, not condoms,’ I said. ‘Oh,’ he said. ‘Like the prime minister’s wife? Ah.’ He calls out: ‘Margaret: they’re taxing non-doms, not condoms.’”

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14 minutes ago, Kevin D said:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/27/were-taxing-non-doms-not-condoms-labour-strives-to-reconnect-with-disengaged-voters
 

Even during a general election campaign with projections of historic – even unprecedented – results, people cannot always be relied upon to give their full attention.

 

“We met a guy who said he was going to vote Labour but wouldn’t now because he had just heard that we were taxing condoms,” said Labour’s Karl Turner, who was first voted in as the MP for Hull East in 2010 and is standing for re-election this time.


I said, ‘condoms?’ ‘Yeah,’ he said: ‘I just heard on that [pointing to the TV] that you are taxing condoms, and I’m not having it. You’re not getting my vote.’ It was Terence [Turner’s parliamentary assistant] here who worked it out.

 

“‘We’re taxing non-doms, not condoms,’ I said. ‘Oh,’ he said. ‘Like the prime minister’s wife? Ah.’ He calls out: ‘Margaret: they’re taxing non-doms, not condoms.’”

I know we laugh about it,but these fucking morons made us leave the eu and put boris johnson in charge of running an entire country. 

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49 minutes ago, Arniepie said:

I know we laugh about it,but these fucking morons made us leave the eu and put boris johnson in charge of running an entire country. 

On the GAA thread I've just shared a screenshot of the Twitter bio of some William Ulsterman gobshite, which proclaims "Pro-Brexit! No Irish Sea border!" and I can't help thinking "make your mind up, you stupid fucking cunt".

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4 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

On the GAA thread I've just shared a screenshot of the Twitter bio of some William Ulsterman gobshite, which proclaims "Pro-Brexit! No Irish Sea border!" and I can't help thinking "make your mind up, you stupid fucking cunt".

4 million people have just voted for a party that wants to fill  the cs with "believers" and think you can solve the migrant crises by simply "turning the boats back"  

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On 11/06/2024 at 13:54, lifetime fan said:


Johnny Mercer has a majority of nearly 13,000 and electoral calculus give him only an 8-10% chance of winning the seat. 


I know I’m a pathetic, petty, bitter, small minded cunt but I did laugh driving past Johnny Mercer’s old constituency office today seeing it a temporary Christmas pound shop. 

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On 24/12/2024 at 11:53, lifetime fan said:


I know I’m a pathetic, petty, bitter, small minded cunt but I did laugh driving past Johnny Mercer’s old constituency office today seeing it a temporary Christmas pound shop. 


The beginning of the year it was turned into a second hand wedding dress shop. 
 

They’d buy wedding dresses from women whose husbands had been having an affair (very apt for that cunt Mercer and his wandering dick) for cash and then flog them for twice as much. 
 

That’s now gone bust and the place is empty again. 
 

Gave me another grin when I went past today. 

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