To be glad we are finally getting an election

[frankentall]

Rishi due to tell us at 5pm what the date is - smart money on 4th July perhaps pressaging his inevitable departure for the USA.

Bloody 4 July, how many people will be on holiday? Did he do this deliberately to limit turnout? I've asked for a postal vote but I'm wondering whether it will arrive after I've left. They're very vague about timings on the gov.uk site. they'll send it out 'shortly before the election.' When is that? A day? A week? A month? I want to vote in this one. Then crack the champagne, hopefully.

To make the most of the school holidays in California before the kids start their new schools there maybe? 🤣

I'm joining you 🍷

What behaviour? Or do you hate the fact that a teenage mother has done well?

Totally embarrassed and fuming how they treated our PM - the stupid childish Labour noise has reinforced my reasons to vote Conservative

I think mine arrived about two weeks or so before the local elections

The manifesto has been election ready for months.

Yeah, won't be voting Labour. However, I do believe it will be a landslide victory to the 'reds'!

I remember stopping up all night in 1997 to see the results and the landslide that was New Labour, it will not feel momentous or victorious as it did then.

But, yes kids, here comes your Labour government.

Rishi is packing for his holidays as we speak......still refuse to vote Labour as I am politically homeless.

I can’t wait to see the back of the smug rat. I laughed like a drain at him getting piss wet through and completely drowned out by D-Ream.

Things can’t get any worse than they have for the past 14yrs. It’s been utterly bleak yet he thinks because inflation has dropped today we’re all going to forget it. No chance.

What behaviour? Or do you hate the fact that a teenage mother has done well?

You mean northern, working class teenage mother.

Would like to have seen how Jacob Rees Mogg, Rishi Sunak and the other privileged private school Tory twats would have coped with her upbringing.

Have one for me, not drinking at the moment

But wish I was 🍾🍷

It looks as though Labour will get in, but looking at KS's immediate steps for change will be interesting. At the moment we are paying France something like £56 million a year for them to police their borders and stop migrants coming across the channel. Doesn't seem to be working so wonder if he will continue with this payment as well as the money it will cost for his proposals.

He also wants to cut NHS waiting times with 40,000 more evening and weekend appointments a week but that will only work if NHS employees are willing to work extra hours.

Also wonder what his "tough spending rules" means.

Apologises forgot to add the northern part.

but yes I doubt they would have coped with her upbringing hence why they don’t like her and what she’s done

I stay up all night every time, and I can't wait for this one. I think it will feel every bit as momentous as 97 and just as desperately necessary. I still haven't quite recovered from the morning after the Brexit referendum. Hopefully this election will be the beginning of getting the UK back on some kind of even keel after the absolute shipwreck of the last decade. It needs to be, before everyone gets on their own small boat out of here.

Although I'm a traditional Labour supporter, the current Labour manifesto consists of "look over the there, the Tories have done a terrible job. Don't worry we won't make it worse" I've seen nothing absolutely nothing that convinces me Labour are worth the vote

I'm excited.

A CHANGE.... WILL DO YOU GOOD

Lavengro

Me too. 97 was the first election i ever watched. I was 12 and my dad let me stay up late because he knew it was a big deal. When portillo lost K&C he was practically crying, i didn't fully get it then but I totally do now.

I'm so excited! I can't stop singing 'Things will only get better' 😎🌹
I'm a Labour party member so I'll be out on the doorsteps campaigning but not in my own constituency. Labour don't stand a chance where I live so I'll be making regular trips to my home city.

Bring it on!!!!!!! Woohoo!!!!

If Labour do get in and it looks as though they might, I really don't think it will be like '97. The world is so different from then.

Half of Scotland will be on holiday (our schools break up the week before) !

Everything there's no issue he hasn't backed the government on, apart from rwanda. Everytime I see him, he's saying we support this we support that.

I've not seen him say 1 single thing that will benefit me or my family.

Jeremy corbyn was going to do alot, they were big ambitions and wouldn't have all been realised sure but even a few of those things would have benefited the entire country.

Kier has no ambition no plan and no dreams to help any of us. Tbh if it wasn't for the rwanda plan, I'd rather have the Conservatives I dislike him so much.

I don't really understand what you mean. Obviously the world is different in 2024 from how it was in 1997. But why does that mean it (a) can't be a landslide (though I don't necessarily think it will be) and, more importantly (b) won't be a total and utter celebration for those of us who have come close to losing the will to live in the face of the pernicious political culture of the last 10-15 years?

What if you are not in a marginal seat?

The manifesto hasn't been published yet...