The 2024 General Election Thread

[Creator Supreme]

44 minutes ago, Champ said:

I can’t even get my head round your question.

 

I don’t understand why any reasonable adult would direct personal abuse towards anyone else or group of people.

 

 I’m reasonably politically engaged and I’m interested in the General Election so I’m drawn to the thread. It’s annoying and depressing to find it taken over by grown men  insulting each other

Woah woah woah Cath, grown men?

 

Overgrown kids if you don't mind!

[Bjornebye]

9 minutes ago, Anubis said:

 

Yup.

Or mute them all

[Arniepie]

its hard to tell if these vox pox are the result of finding the thickest cunt out there,or its a general viewpoint.

[YorkshireRed]

41 minutes ago, sir roger said:

 

The BBC one on Frisay with Rayner, Mordaunt, Farage, Cooper, Denyer, Flynn and Ap Iorwerth might be a bit more interesting, but it is only 90 minutes long and they'll probably all just end up shouting over each other. I think they need to mute the other microphones when somebody is speaking.

Or all the microphones and ask all the participants to communicate their messages via the medium of dance. 

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, YorkshireRed said:

Or all the microphones and ask all the participants to communicate their messages via the medium of dance. 

Theresa May tried that 

[Tj hooker]

https://x.com/Channel4News/status/1798631959364882937?t=mjUGiOn0p3DUsxUaNBScFQ&s=19

 

Won't embed for some reason but Channel 4 news now calling this slimeball out on being parachuted into a lovely safe Tory seat , the luck just some people have 

[Anubis]

The televised debate on Friday - new format.

 

[skend04]

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/06/frank-hester-donated-further-5m-to-tories-in-january-figures-show

 

Christ on a bike. After the furore surrounding Hester's racist comments about Abbott, the Tories thought it was a great idea to take even more of his lucre.

[Arniepie]

https://x.com/JonathanPieNews/status/1798648340110065669

[Rushies tash]

1 hour ago, Arniepie said:

its hard to tell if these vox pox are the result of finding the thickest cunt out there,or its a general viewpoint.

 

Ha ha, vox pox is a perfect description. 

[Barrington Womble]

Slightly different subject,  but I guess it comes from the same place. I always remember when we were first doing the spirit of shankly stuff, we asked a few of these reporters why they only interviewed dickheads and wools outside anfield, there were konsane Scouse voices. Why couldn't they find normal people. Their reply was, they're either not there or don't want to talk to us. We don't want to interview those dickheads either. So, when that campaign progressed, if there was something say SSN wanted to report on and normally they'd find randoms outside anfield or the club shop in town, they'd let us know where they'd be and when. We could then let others know to get there and some sane voices could be broadcast. But it did take organisation to do it. I imagine these political ones we see today don't really have any of that, the reporters just turn up and talk to the people who will talk to them. 

[TheHowieLama]

There is an outside chance those are actually just regular local folks.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

12 hours ago, an tha said:

As Klopp would say.....BOOM!

 

https://x.com/SkyPoliticsHub/status/1798422326926602651

 

Thumb pointer.

 

Always wondered where this originated. Was it Blair? You never see it in real life.

[Bruce Spanner]

2 minutes ago, Babb'sBurstNad said:

 

Thumb pointer.

 

Always wondered where this originated. Was it Blair? You never see it in real life.

Yes, I’m pretty sure.

[bossy]

I was a pox on the vox during the Johnson nonsense. Sky News stopped me in Glossop and I said quite a bit but they only broadcast the part where I laughed and said 'it's ridiculous, he's an idiot, get rid of him' which was the basic gist of it I suppose.

[an tha]

I just love people...

 

https://x.com/WayneDavid81/status/1798434341695189142/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1798434341695189142&currentTweetUser=WayneDavid81&currentTweet=1798434341695189142&currentTweetUser=WayneDavid81

[Barrington Womble]

36 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

There is an outside chance those are actually just regular local folks.

There will be lots of regular local people who are not bellends. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

21 minutes ago, an tha said:

I just love people...

 

https://x.com/WayneDavid81/status/1798434341695189142/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1798434341695189142&currentTweetUser=WayneDavid81&currentTweet=1798434341695189142&currentTweetUser=WayneDavid81

Last time round, there were normal functioning adults where I work, expressing surprise that they didn't have the names Corbyn and Johnson on their ballot papers.

[Strontium]

2 hours ago, Rico1304 said:

Looks like I’ll be voting Labour.  
 

https://x.com/wrn_manchester/status/1798395882817331426?s=46&t=wTmhxkVCGgzL1q3_vvfmTA

 

That candidate finishes third.

[TheHowieLama]

3 minutes ago, Barrington Womble said:

There will be lots of regular local people who are not bellends. 

 

And lots who will be. 

Going by the polls just about every other one.

[an tha]

10 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Last time round, there were normal functioning adults where I work, expressing surprise that they didn't have the names Corbyn and Johnson on their ballot papers.

And every vote is equal....

[AngryOfTuebrook]

25 minutes ago, an tha said:

And every vote is equal....

The weird thing is, though, the way our media and political parties present these campaigns, it's not that unreasonable to expect the leaders' names on the ballot.

 

(Personally, I'd prefer directly elected Prime Ministers... but that's another story.)

[Rico1304]

39 minutes ago, Strontium said:

 

That candidate finishes third.

Probably right, but Lisa Smart is the very opposite of nominative determinism.  
 

After Wragg I think it’s going to be close.  

[Rico1304]

38 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

 

And lots who will be. 

Going by the polls just about every other one.

Half the people are more stupid than the average person.  

[Rushies tash]

6 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

The weird thing is, though, the way our media and political parties present these campaigns, it's not that unreasonable to expect the leaders' names on the ballot.

 

(Personally, I'd prefer directly elected Prime Ministers... but that's another story.)

 

No way. If we had a US style presidential election, we'd definitely end up with someone like Farage in charge (or, knowing this country, Paul fucking Chuckle). I'd rather our politicians did it for a living and had an actual handle on their briefs, than some populist nutcase.