Thread 53 Sunak: Superminority!

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https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/election?iso=20240502T00&p0=136&msg=UK+general+election&font=sanserif

I've told ds I'll pray to a God I don't believe in if the tories get <100 and if the worst of the bastards go
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This is what it has come to 😆

Just catching up on the threads - given what could have been this 👆is a relief.

Might stay up till midnight @VoteOutToHelpOut but am tempted to wait till dawn - torn.
Really glad you got the proxy vote sorted @medianewbie

https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/homepage.html

if the tories get <100

I do an innocent thing like go to work and you all wandered off without me!!

Anyway, this is funny but yet definitely not funny at all.

https://x.com/GBGreatAgain/status/1808443912123560012

Just reflecting on the fact that my school might be the last to be judged under the current brutal OFSTED regime.

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I am hoping against all hope Macron has totally called their bluff there

I thought I'd post this from John O'Farrell in The Guardian about being a Labour supporter:-

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This page is rather fun, gives the odds for Tories losing their seats https://www.parallelparliament.co.uk/MPs?order_by=lose-seat

Found this on my FB feed.

I'm not going to say "I told you so" until after Sunday but I did predict that the French two round system would allow the French to register their protest vote in the first round and then be more sensible in the 2nd round

Oh, I enjoyed that.

Anyone posted this? (his Scottish is rubbish which considering he was in that sitcom is strange)

https://x.com/KieranCHodgson/status/1808536912111587413

Oh god, the rictus grin!!!

Reading that list of all those odds of people losing their seats reminds me of one of the pleasures I get from General Election night - all the names of the constituencies that you don't hear so much about the rest of the time.

See also countries taking part in the Olympics Opening Ceremony 😀

So will I & if Braverman Patel Gullis & Badenoch lose I will do the stations of the cross & recite the rosary until my voice gives out.
thank you for the new thread
flowers from me

Local waste management services advisory here

if Braverman Patel Gullis & Badenoch lose

There must be someone game for a laugh for a naked run down a high street somewhere if that happens.

£10 from me to a charity of their choice if they want to setup a page.

Funnily enough it is actually blue bin day here tomorrow. Blue = recycling though, and I don't want recycled Tories.

You've just reminded me: I need to put our purple bin out (glass) for tomorrow. It only gets picked up every 8 weeks

We used to have blue bags and then boxes for paper and cardboard. Now we have an insert in the recycling bin.

To be fair to the council they have managed to mess up collections whatever is used.

I do wonder what would happen if we had the French system.
To be elected in the first round, a candidate is required to secure an absolute majority of votes cast, and also to secure votes equal to at least 25% of eligible voters in their constituency.

Should none of the candidates satisfy these conditions, a second round of voting ensues.

Most constituencies proceed to a second round election. Only first-round candidates with the support of at least 12.5% of eligible voters are allowed to participate, but if only 1 candidate meets that standard the two candidates with the highest number of votes in the first round may continue to the second round.

I think that would make things more interesting here.

Worth a read from Rafael Behr - tackling the assumption that Starmers success is solely because of a poor adversary.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/03/general-election-labour-winning-keir-starmer-historic-victory-opposition-leader

Aargh! I'm way behind with the threads again!

But I'm a law-abiding MNetter so here's my tax, m'lud

"I stand above you like Colossus, pitiful Tory!"