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BIossomtoes · 04/07/2024 17:10

SerendipityJane · 04/07/2024 17:07

A woman who gets her jollies riding around for no reason in a tank isn't the sort of person given to questions like "Should I see if I have a right to govern ?"

😂

Evenstar · 04/07/2024 17:12

Talking of Truss 🤣

Thread 53 Sunak: Superminority!
SerendipityJane · 04/07/2024 17:15

Just so happens that "round our way" the only game in town is Labour. Which as someone who isn't really a big fan of the Conservatives suits me just fine. Quite happy to add my tiny little voice to the tens of thousands who also seem to prefer not to have a Conservative member of parliament.

However, if it so happened a LibDem candidate was so placed, I would vote for them.

This is why insults and attacks are wasted on me (quite aside from me being an old battleaxe). I'm not ideologically wedded to any single party. And if people want my advice, they shouldn't be either. The moment you become an uncritical voting automaton for any party is the day that party crosses you off the list of "people we care about". And usually, like the fabled slow boiled frog, you never realise. Which is why over the years pensioners have slowly become the Tories targets. After all, if they all vote Tory anyway .....

user8800 · 04/07/2024 17:17

SerendipityJane · 04/07/2024 17:15

Just so happens that "round our way" the only game in town is Labour. Which as someone who isn't really a big fan of the Conservatives suits me just fine. Quite happy to add my tiny little voice to the tens of thousands who also seem to prefer not to have a Conservative member of parliament.

However, if it so happened a LibDem candidate was so placed, I would vote for them.

This is why insults and attacks are wasted on me (quite aside from me being an old battleaxe). I'm not ideologically wedded to any single party. And if people want my advice, they shouldn't be either. The moment you become an uncritical voting automaton for any party is the day that party crosses you off the list of "people we care about". And usually, like the fabled slow boiled frog, you never realise. Which is why over the years pensioners have slowly become the Tories targets. After all, if they all vote Tory anyway .....

💯

DoNotEngage · 04/07/2024 17:21

Are people getting confused between the proportional voting referendum and the Brexit referendum?

SerendipityJane · 04/07/2024 17:25

DoNotEngage · 04/07/2024 17:21

Are people getting confused between the proportional voting referendum and the Brexit referendum?

Possibly. But given they both happened less than 14 years ago, and there are plenty of resources available (including any number of posters on these and similar threads), such confusion is odd. It's not like some really obscure or arcane piece of political history or knowledge that is the preserve of an elite. It really should be "common knowledge".

SerendipityJane · 04/07/2024 17:31

Which is more likely ?

Thread 53 Sunak: Superminority!
TimeForRishiByeByes · 04/07/2024 17:44

I'm almost bored of this now. Cmon 10pm

BIossomtoes · 04/07/2024 17:47

Yes, the next four hours are going to drag.

TaraTories · 04/07/2024 17:48

Anyone who was really worried about the effect of Brexit (enough to want to reverse it) would be voting Lib Dem in my view, as the only party willing to talk about it let alone suggest having closer ties to Europe to regain some of the 68bn lost in trade and 28bn in tax we no longer get.

I don't think anyone can blame Clegg or the Libs for that still, surely!

My area won't be announced until 3/4am it seems.
Been a lovely day for it here though.

TimeForRishiByeByes · 04/07/2024 17:49

VoteOutToHelpOut · 04/07/2024 17:06

No one on this thread is voting Tory today, be assured of that! Well apart from a few posters who pop in now and again. But not the regular ones.

I mean aren't our usernames a good enough indication 😆

placemats · 04/07/2024 17:51

BIossomtoes · 04/07/2024 17:47

Yes, the next four hours are going to drag.

I'm cooking tonight and before I know it it'll be 9pm. Starting at 6.30.

fuckthetories2 · 04/07/2024 17:52

Thankyou @VoteOutToHelpOut I'm mearly putting across a point that so many my age have, if I've miss understood history I'm open to be corrected. But my vote is cast, wasn't and will never be Tory, can assure anyone of that 😂

HannibalHeyes · 04/07/2024 17:54

RE: the 2010 election - A lot of people blaming the Lib Dems conveniently forget that the Tories won the most votes and had the most seats. Democratically it was right for the Lib Dems to go with them, if they were going into coalition (whether they should have done that or not is a whole other discussion). Also, a coalition with Labour would still not have had a majority of seats, and could not have formed a government. Even with the SNP, Plaid, and the Greens they would not have had a majority.

RafaistheKingofClay · 04/07/2024 17:58

VoteOutToHelpOut · 04/07/2024 17:06

No one on this thread is voting Tory today, be assured of that! Well apart from a few posters who pop in now and again. But not the regular ones.

Not sure if I can bring myself to vote Tory to keep reform out. If I end up with a reform mp I’m moving in a month 😂

Champagnesocialismo · 04/07/2024 18:00

I am, like Father Jack Hackett, sooo sooo sorry to hear of this.

Just kidding. Feel bad for the voters.

But otherwise, how delicious

BIossomtoes · 04/07/2024 18:01

Champagnesocialismo · 04/07/2024 18:00

I am, like Father Jack Hackett, sooo sooo sorry to hear of this.

Just kidding. Feel bad for the voters.

But otherwise, how delicious

Trouble is if she loses she’ll throw a Trump style tantrum and demand a by election.

SerendipityJane · 04/07/2024 18:04

A diversion

Thread 53 Sunak: Superminority!
tobee · 04/07/2024 18:04

Just come back from voting! There were only a labour and libdem teller there fwiw. And this one of the Torier part of the Tory constituency. Time was there'd always be a retired colonel type or a lady in a hat sporting a blue rosette on the door.

Labour teller asked dd if it was her first time but sadly she's just a young looking very honest 29 year old so no Wispa bar for her!

tobee · 04/07/2024 18:06

Has anyone investigated what has happened with the postal votes? Or is it something and nothing? I know it's been the blame game.

BIossomtoes · 04/07/2024 18:07

tobee · 04/07/2024 18:06

Has anyone investigated what has happened with the postal votes? Or is it something and nothing? I know it's been the blame game.

My money’s on incompetence. It’s usually cock up. Couldn’t have happened in a worse constituency though.

SerendipityJane · 04/07/2024 18:08

BIossomtoes · 04/07/2024 18:01

Trouble is if she loses she’ll throw a Trump style tantrum and demand a by election.

Which she may be entitled to. But it would be her vs. Labour party. And some remaining Tories like Mordaunt, Braverman, Cleverly, Patel, Baker may be washing their hair for a month, assuming they are MPs in a position to canvass.

With the coming Tory wipeout, she could have no one familiar to campaign for her. A lot of door knocking to people expecting a Deliveroo rather than a candidate.

Champagnesocialismo · 04/07/2024 18:10

SerendipityJane · 04/07/2024 18:08

Which she may be entitled to. But it would be her vs. Labour party. And some remaining Tories like Mordaunt, Braverman, Cleverly, Patel, Baker may be washing their hair for a month, assuming they are MPs in a position to canvass.

With the coming Tory wipeout, she could have no one familiar to campaign for her. A lot of door knocking to people expecting a Deliveroo rather than a candidate.

Well exactly. The world won’t stop turning because of Kemi Badenoch.

Though I appreciate it’s probably a message no one has been brave enough to give her yet

BIossomtoes · 04/07/2024 18:11

SerendipityJane · 04/07/2024 18:08

Which she may be entitled to. But it would be her vs. Labour party. And some remaining Tories like Mordaunt, Braverman, Cleverly, Patel, Baker may be washing their hair for a month, assuming they are MPs in a position to canvass.

With the coming Tory wipeout, she could have no one familiar to campaign for her. A lot of door knocking to people expecting a Deliveroo rather than a candidate.

There would be a lot of former Tory MPs with a lot of time on their hands. Although I don’t get the impression she’s got many friends.