UK and European Politics 2024 Thread

[Mr Jinx]

He'll need to speak to others too.

Which he won't be able to do very well if he's walking up and down promenades campaigning to get a seat in deepest Essex.

 

[Grecian2K]

Thing is G2K she's had weeks to prepare for this, No doubt instructed by lawyers from the Post Office side. For a person of the cloth she is coming across really bad.

True. Although, according to her pathetic bleating, she hadn't had enough time to fully prepare her submissions.

 

[DB9]

Which he won't be able to do very well if he's walking up and down promenades campaigning to get a seat in deepest Essex.

But actually willing to fight for a winnable seat? He'd be able to be seen on a wide as possible audience. People who watch GBN are as I said converted but to stand I think it would have more gravitas.

 

[DB9]

From Farage's Statement earlier today:

"important though the General Election is, The contest in the USA on Nov 5th has huge global significance......I intend to help with the grassroots campaign in the USA in any way i can"

Obviously cares more about the US than the UK. Remember when he said how wrong it was for a foreign politician (Obama) to poke their nose in our politics, Funny he's forgotten that rule?

 

[DB9]

First "Gaff" of the campaign come from Sunak (I'm sure he wont be the only one) From the BBC:

As we told you earlier, the PM has been meeting workers at a brewery in South Wales - and we might just have one of the first awkward gaffes of the campaign.

He asked if they were looking forward to all the football.

Cue stony silence… (Wales didn’t quality for Euro 2024).

 

[Grecian2K]

First "Gaff" of the campaign come from Sunak (I'm sure he wont be the only one) From the BBC:

As we told you earlier, the PM has been meeting workers at a brewery in South Wales - and we might just have one of the first awkward gaffes of the campaign.

He asked if they were looking forward to all the football.

Cue stony silence… (Wales didn’t quality for Euro 2024).

Not only that but his mere presence has also certainly ruined the staffs' planned p!ss up.

 

[Grecian2K]

More "rats" deserting the sinking vessel.

Eleanor Laing the latest Tory MP to step down
Deputy Commons Speaker Dame Eleanor Laing has just announced she will not seek re-election.
The Conservative MP for Epping Forest, who has served for 27 years, says she told Prime Minister Rishi Sunak "several days ago".
Earlier, Conservative MP for Bury St Edmunds and work and pensions minister, Jo Churchill, also said she's not standing this time round.

Given the now imminence of the GE will the Tories even be able to slot in enough candidates to contest a full slate of seats?

 

[arthur]

More "rats" deserting the sinking vessel.

Given the now imminence of the GE will the Tories even be able to slot in enough candidates to contest a full slate of seats?

Interesting observation by someone yesterday - this election is not a surprise for Labour as they've had to be prepared for whenever Sunak calls it. But it is a surprise for the Tories who are not in the least bit prepared and have 100 seats without a candidate selected.

Can't even run a party, let alone a country. "We have a plan and it's working". Yeah, right...

 

[arthur]

Keir Starmer - specialist subject, the bleeding obvious

Rishi Sunak clearly does not believe in his Rwanda plan. I think that’s been clear from this morning, because he’s not going to get any flights off.

I think that tells its own story. I don’t think he’s ever believed that plan is going to work, and so he has called an election early enough to have it not tested before the election.

Most of the country, bar a few diehards in Tavistock, have probably already worked this out

 

[Grecian2K]

Can't even run a party, let alone a country. "We have a plan and it's working". Yeah, right...

A bit harsh there art.
After his gesture to the temperance movement at that Welsh brewery Sunak is now hot-footing it in his chopper across to a Whitstable whelk stall to try and discover how to run one.