Thread 2. Starmer, return of the Labour government

[L1ttledrummergirl]

Yes, lame but the last thread was nearly full.

Well he'd want them to feel welcome.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/suella-braverman-tory-leadership-robert-jenrick-b2585995.html

Poor Suella. Just couldn’t compete with the emptiness of soul needed to remove pictures painted to help comfort traumatised children. Must. Try. Harder.

According to the socialists at yougov among voters under 30 the combined vote for Reform and Tory was less than that for the Greens.

https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/49978-how-britain-voted-in-the-2024-general-election

I see that Dominic Grieve has got the hang of Twitter X now

OOh I like those stats

Me too.

Fascinating breakdown - particularly struck by this -

However, while previously there had also been a gradual decrease in the Labour share as age rises, in this election, around the same proportion of all age groups below 50 voted for Labour (41% to 46%). For the over 50s the proportion voting Labour decreases more steeply with 34% of 50-59s backing Labour, 28% of 60-69s and just 20% of those 70 or older.
The Liberal Democrats were backed similarly across age groups, the Green Party did a lot better with younger voters while Reform UK did better amongst older voters.
The median age of a Labour voter is now 46 and the median age of a Conservative voter is 63. For the Lib Dems it is 48, Reform UK 56, and Greens 39.

I’m very pleased and proud to be one of the 20% of Labour voters over 70 along with almost all my friends.

The Times had a ridiculous headline today about more young people voting Reform than Tory. And yet the whole article was about the fact that way more voted Green.

Jennifer Robinson

@welshroots

#politicslive What a decision the Conservatives have to make for new LEADERS
JENRICK - Helped Tory Donor avoid paying tax on massive housing development, saving him 45 million
PATEL Unofficial meetings in Israel and sacked for Bullying
BRAVERMAN - Whipping up Culture Wars
CLEVERLY- Breaking Ministerial Code and thinking it funny to Drug Woman, Degree in Hospitality
TUGENDHAT - Willing to tear up Good Friday Agreement BADENOCH - Computer Hacker
Oh my goodness, Spoilt for Choice

And Mordaunt.

Oh no - she can't stand up and fight

They are absolutely barking, what a selection. Farage and Ed Davey must be rubbing their hands with glee. I'm surprised there are enough Tory members left to cobble together a vote for any of the above. Ah well 🍿

I thought Lee Andersen yesterday had done his best to ensure that Reform receive less votes next time around. Or at least don't secure the votes of those right of centre voters in Shire counties that any party has to win to form a government?

Dunno. There's a MN thread on the police actions. Quite a few LA sound alikes.

But they probably voted Reform this time, to win more seats one needs to tap into a different part of the electorate. Marianne Le Pen has realised that in France, her father never did.

Unfortunately Anderson’s views are depressingly common. His comments yesterday are likely to have garnered a lot of support.

Dd had just finished expressing her horror at the behaviour of the police in the first incident, then they showed the footage of the other people being arrested. We were both a bit wtf, then up pops LA to say those police are heroes!
He's fucking insane if he thinks that behaviour was heroic. A hero would have kept their cool in that situation, not reacted badly as the police involved did.

If that is how reform wants to govern they need to make it clear in future elections.

Mel Stride has entered the race as well

A fine selection of the hopeless, the hapless and the witless, with a leavening of evil.

Don't they need 10 MPs to back then in order to be able to stand for the leadership? 4 standing so far so that's at least 40 MPs. Wonder if there will be any women.

I can't imagine Badenoch, Braverman and Patel not standing. If nothing else they will want to be involved in the backroom deals king/queen making at conference.

https://x.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1816517470452109544

Talking of the hopeless, hapless and witless Lord Frost would like to talk about once in a generation errors. No, not that one…

Medieval Miliband's plan for an energy system that depends on the weather is taking us back to the Middle Ages. His unreliable high-cost low-power system is going to drive out of the country what energy-intensive production we have left. Labour's energy policy is shaping up to be one of those collective madness, once-in-a-generation errors countries sometimes make - like Germany's error in junking nuclear. We will all have to pay a heavy price for it - unless Starmer sees sense and junks Miliband instead before he does any more damage.

The Telegraph’s a comic since the election. Frost has become a regular columnist.

My Dad has read the Telegraph for 50 years and he said last year that it had gone 'barking mad'.