General Election - July 2024

[twoleftfeet]

This appears to be the rumour on Sky. An easy win for Starmer and some big names losing their seats. The Country needs a change but is it going to get one? The thought of seeing that annoying Beth Rigby for 6 weeks though is a horrifying thought.

[Hammer and Pickle]

"On the other hand, anyone who is interested in the economy and the EU because, for example, they have a business to run and people to employ, will be interested in how the 500 billion euro post-Covid recovery plan is faring in the various member states. They will of course be aware that, while their businesses have been hit by the same Pandemic, their access to the money is 0, and they will know who to thank for that. Here’s some further reading https://www.politico.eu/article/capitals-call-on-the-eu-to-speed-up-post-pandemic-cash-transfers/"

[Sydney_Iron]

"Watching Rushi this morning sounds like he is going to try and make this all about immigration and who do you trust to control it? Reminds me of an Australian election about 10 years ago, Tony Abbot was good to his word and stopped the boats and even now labour won‚Äôt change some of the toughest immigration laws in the world, political suicide for any party that even suggests it. And what the fuck is that Scottish cսnt on about that calling this election is disrespectful to the sweatys as it will be held during school holidays????"

[goose]

"Let’s be honest, the U.K. could be the best performing economy in the G20 and you’d still find fault. We get it, you’re STILL bitter about Brexit because it cost you work. Get over it. Thankfully this election has fuck all to do with you so your opinion is worthless."

[Hammer and Pickle]

Anyone trying to take credit for the UK economy doing better than the EU's clearly doesn't want to have a serious conversation on either the economy or the EU.

[Fauxstralian]

July 4 is on a rest day between the Round of 16 games & the Qtr finals Is the 4th day of Wimbledon Banking on England making the quarter finals & not every Brit out in the first 2 rounds in SW19 Also allows Rishi a nice long summer holiday if he loses his seat

[goose]

He’s gambling everything on England winning the euros.

[mashed in maryland]

A cynical but logical take would be that Rishi is calling an election that almost everyone is sure he'll lose cos he knows something we don't. Looming war in the middle east or with Russia he doesn't get lumped with? Some sort of dirt on Labour that will be released in time to make sure he wins? Something up with the Royals? Anything else?

[mashed in maryland]

A cynical but logical take would be that Rishi is calling an election that almost everyone is sure he'll lose cos he knows something we don't. Looming war in the middle east or with Russia he doesn't get lumped with? Some sort of dirt on Labour that will be released in time to make sure he wins? Something up with the Royals? Anything else?

[Nutsin]

The country is doomed. It’s fucked and it’s gonna get a lot worse. Fucking glad I left.

[arsene york-hunt]

NHS is now incapable of functioning and is being overrun by too many people. Too many people on the roads mega jams everywhere. Too many people requiring housing house prices out of reach for the ordinary working people. Too many people requiring social sevices. Too many people in the prison system. All of our systems are creaking under the weight of too many people. So vote labour?.. .Well they want to import even more people and are against deporting the criminals. Where is Screaming Lord Sutch when you need him?

[LeroysBoots]

State of the roads is the barometer to judge the current incumbents.....totally fucked everywhere.

[SurfaceAgentX2Zero]

"chim chim cha boo 10:31 Wed May 22 ''By any metric we are doing better than the EU: inflation, GDP, unemployment, investment' Mate, April fools was last month.' Well, he's factually correct: Inflation - UK 2.3%, EU 2.6% GDP - UK 0.6%, EU 0.3% Unemployment - UK 4.3%, EU 6% I don't know what sort of investment he means. Truth's an inconvenient thing. The Tories have been a disaster, but on the economy, not so much."

[Steady]

"I’m sure Labour will turn things round and spend loads on services and getting the country going again, the downside will be they’ll borrow shit loads as usual that the next 3 generations will suffer for"

[BRANDED]

No party can get us out of the shit the covid response fucked us with.

[Mike Oxsaw]

"If people haven't worked out that the tories are obviously managing/engineering a defeat here, they're more fucking stupid than a very stupid person. It's clearly obvious that they have worked out that they have no clue as to how to sort the societal shit show they've dumped on the country and so plan to ""legitimately"" fuck off sharpish and let some other poor buggers try to sort it out. Last one, lights. You know the drill."

[goose]

So instead you want citizenship in Germany where the majority part is right wing. Well played.

[northbankboy68]

"..and Police being told to stop criminal arrests by the party of law and order. Ha, ha, ha. Lap it up folks. Vote Tory"

[northbankboy68]

"..and Police being told to stop criminal arrests by the party of law and order. Ha, ha, ha. Lap it up folks. Vote Tory"

[northbankboy68]

"Never seen anyone, not even Moyes, looking so happy to march into a defeat as Sun*k. Ha, ha, ha. Country is an absolute mess. Blame it on 4 Labour Prime Ministers since 1900. Can't wait for my German citizenship. Ha, ha, ha. Small boats invading since Brexit. Love it."

[Mike Oxsaw]

"Given that this election was NOT a complete surprise, I trust that all (ALL) the expats on here having a pop from afar at the UK and how it is administered, have made provisions to ensure that they can vote and actually make a contribution before the counting starts, rather than whinge, Remainer style, after the ball, when the result doesn't go the way they want."

[only1billybonds]

"The reason for it is the one that matters most, it was voted for by a majority."

[goose]

Can someone ban the Polish tramp from this thread? Nobody wants to read another month of his pontificating about an election he can’t vote in.

[Hammer and Pickle]

"Those figures would be significantly better if the UK was still in the EU, which is of course why the party that led the UK out of the EU for no real good reason is about to get kicked out of government."

[wils]

"chim chim cha boo wrote... ""'By any metric we are doing better than the EU: inflation, GDP, unemployment, investment' Mate, April fools was last month."" Data is here with sources, Chim. Inflation: UK v EU April 2024 2.3% v 2.4% Source UK : https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/ EU : https://ec.europa.eu/ Unemployment UK v EU (Dec 23) : 4.2% v 6.2% Sources: UK https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/ EU https://ec.europa.eu/ GDP growth UK v EU (Q4 2023) : 0.3% v 0.0% Sources UK :https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/ EU https://ec.europa.eu/ Investment: * The UK up 6% from 2022 * Total FDI projects in Europe were down 4% on 2022, with France and Germany’s project numbers declining year-on-year Source: https://www.ey.com/en_uk/news/2024/05/uk-foreign-direct-investment-project-total-grows"

[Hammer and Pickle]

"Out of interest, how does Reform UK want to reform the country when it won’t win a seat (except maybe Clacton-on-Sea)?"