General Election 2024

Who got your vote?

  • Labour

    Votes: 147 54.2%

  • Conservative

    Votes: 5 1.8%

  • Lib Dem

    Votes: 25 9.2%

  • Green

    Votes: 48 17.7%

  • Reform

    Votes: 11 4.1%

  • SNP

    Votes: 5 1.8%

  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Independent

    Votes: 8 3.0%

  • UK resident but not voting

    Votes: 18 6.6%

  • Spoiled my ballot

    Votes: 3 1.1%
  • Total voters
    271
  • Poll closed .
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Jericholyte2 said:
Who on Earth are the 17% who wouldn’t immediately support cutting VAT for kids toothbrushes!?!
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Drainy said:
Reform are polling at around 17%
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If we let kids brush their teeth then the classic British smile will be a thing of the past, replaced with some foreign white teeth smile. And before you know it people will start getting their teeth straightened or, and it makes me sick to even say this, floss or use mouthwash *shudder*.

Vote for bad teeth. Vote Reform.
 
I think this may genuinely be the worst election campaign in modern times. The winner is largely hiding, the Tories with gaffe after gaffe, Reform staging attacks, Lib Dems clowning.

The quality of politicians is just so low. Even If you didn't agree with them there definitely used to be competent politicians across the house.
 
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...n-campaign-laurence-fox-reclaim-b2559659.html

Four Tory candidates have signed up to the pledges of Laurence Fox’s right-wing Reclaim Party in exchange for campaign donations of £5,000 each.

The four Conservatives, Dame Andrea Jenkyns, Brendan Clarke-Smith, Karl McCartney and Marco Longhi, have promised to uphold Reclaim’s “four commitments to culture”.

The commitments are to seek to pull Britain out of the European Court of Human Rights, repeal the Human Rights Act, ban gender reassignment for children and to reform the Equality Act.
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https://x.com/thereclaimparty/status/1799721643818037563

How is this even above board? I know the little Englander party (no, not Farage's party - the other one) doesn't appear to be fielding any candidates after Bridgen left, but it's very weird that Tory MP's are accepting money from another political "party" while flying the Conservative banner. CCHQ must be utterly powerless.
 
WPMUFC said:
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This is probably just a ploy. If everyone is running around shouting "Labour landslide!" then you're likely to get a few Labour folk who won't bother turning up to vote since they think it's already a sure thing.
 
Matt Varnish said:
Right so now I understand how this will work,
Parents will drop off their kids at primary schools, where there will be no-one to look after them.
That'll work
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No, you are missing a very important part of the plan. They're going to think long and hard about the staffing issue, and after they've thought long and hard about it the issue will magically disappear. And if anyone brings up the issue again they'll tell you that they've hard a long hard think about it. Siplmes.
 
Mr Pigeon said:
No, you are missing a very important part of the plan. They're going to think long and hard about the staffing issue, and after they've thought long and hard about it the issue will magically disappear. And if anyone brings up the issue again they'll tell you that they've hard a long hard think about it. Siplmes.
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Plans need money, money come through taxes. There's no two ways about it tax rises will come if they want to fix the country.

However they cannot be seen to accepting this because the British public are morons and think that there is a mgaic money tree which doesn't come from their pockets and if you tell them its coming from your pockets they will vote for the other guy.

Let's just get this election over with and get Labour in, there's no point dissecting any of their plans as they're treading cautiously to get it over the line.
 
Matt Varnish said:
Right so now I understand how this will work,
Parents will drop off their kids at primary schools, where there will be no-one to look after them.
That'll work
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Mr Pigeon said:
No, you are missing a very important part of the plan. They're going to think long and hard about the staffing issue, and after they've thought long and hard about it the issue will magically disappear. And if anyone brings up the issue again they'll tell you that they've hard a long hard think about it. Siplmes.
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Drainy said:
Apparently the Tories are wanting to pay for tax cuts by cutting in-work benefits..

And they accuse others of class warfare :lol:
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Yeah but in-work benefits don't help rich people. Why do you hate rich people so much?

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Hopefully all of this hard thinking and "doing the sums" will magically expand the size of school buildings to accommodate all of these new kids. And don't forget that the security needed for nursery kids means that they'll be limited to the same area where the Primary 1 kids are - if the P1 kids are lucky enough to be in a school that has a place like this built for them. Fortunately since there's still absolutely no explanation on how this is going to be staffed (it's advised to have one adult staff member for every four under-4 year old kids), so it means when they inevitably walk out of the building and get trampled on by P7 kids there will be nobody there to report it anyway.
 
It's a bit like the 40 new hospitals the Tories were going to build. Complete bollocks.
 
Idiots giving Farage free publicity again by throwing stuff at him and amazingly its top of the news stories. Stories about Reform spokesman saying Britain should have stayed out of WW2 is nowhere to be seen now.
 
Maticmaker said:
@Paul the Wolf ...these 'face visualization' gizzmo's' are fantastic, they can make people disappear at a particular time, anywhere, even Kettering :lol:
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;) They can also make people appear who are not there as well, standing shoulder to shoulder, or maybe it was a figment of that man's imagination. Anyone who has been to Kettering will know the truth.
 
DanH said:
This week's polls are beginning to drop:

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Reform are gonna overtake aren't they?

Farages end goal is taking over the Tory party. Can see 'conservatives reformed' party a mile away.
 
SalfordRed18 said:
Reform are gonna overtake aren't they?

Farages end goal is taking over the Tory party. Can see 'conservatives reformed' party a mile away.
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I think they could overtake. I don't know if it's just me not noticing but the response to the manifesto launch seems fairly subdued at the moment.
 
DanH said:
I think they could overtake. I don't know if it's just me not noticing but the response to the manifesto launch seems fairly subdued at the moment.
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They had Robert Hayward (former Tory MP, now lord and occasional pollster) on sky news before. He reckons if it swings a few more % from Tory to Reform and the Lib Dems can gain a couple of %, then Reform will get a few seats but the Lib Dems would clean up and potentially become the 2nd largest party due to vote splitting.
 
Thinking about how the same people who said the jam man and his social democracy was unrealistic/destroyed the Labour Party are now not going to beat the Labour 2017 vote percentage

 
DanH said:
This week's polls are beginning to drop:

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That’s a good shift tbh. I’d rather Lib Dem’s take some of Labours majority. Their flagship is funding the NHS so it’s important to have an opposition raising the right issues.
 
Bert_ said:
They had Robert Hayward (former Tory MP, now lord and occasional pollster) on sky news before. He reckons if it swings a few more % from Tory to Reform and the Lib Dems can gain a couple of %, then Reform will get a few seats but the Lib Dems would clean up and potentially become the 2nd largest party due to vote splitting.
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I would like to see that. Before the election was called I was expecting a tightening to the Conservative's with Labour playing a safety first strategy on their campaign. It turns out the Tory's have been so poor that the split seems to be heading to the Lib Dems instead.
 
nimic said:
A 20 point lead is great, but isn't it actually pretty bad to be polling 38% when the government party is in complete meltdown?
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For some reason, Starmer is insisting on targeting the reform votes instead of the Lib Dem / Green votes. Tory bastard.
 
nimic said:
That would be fine if only you had a modern electoral system, instead of that 1700s first past the vote dross.
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First Past the Post brings stability to our politics, voters understand it, and it ensures a really close and positive relationship between the MP and their constituents.

Is the argument trotted out, conveniently ignoring the last decade of chaos.
 
Pexbo said:
That’s a good shift tbh. I’d rather Lib Dem’s take some of Labours majority. Their flagship is funding the NHS so it’s important to have an opposition raising the right issues.
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Weren't they part of the coalition with Tories that brought the country to its knees with austerity? They're getting panned, despite their great manifesto, because everybody is reminding them of how they backtracked on everything they promised back then and tried to apologise about it later.
 
Reiver said:
I agree.
I don't know if I can bring myself to vote for them again after Nick Clegg though.
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He’s gone man. Parties change for better and for worse. I’d vote labour again if they abandoned being right wing and represented the people their whole idea is about.

feck it vote Lib Dem.
 
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