🇬🇧 Discussion: UK Politics

[Sithborg]

Yeah, that shows you just how bad things are.

 

[squeekness]

I thought he was gone away already.

 

[blueharvest]

With any luck, hopefully the Tories will lose the election, anyway.

 

[chamber-music]

Tory's have been in panic mode for a while. Cameron and now Boris back. If Truss comes back we know they truly got insane.

 

[blueharvest]

Tory's have been in panic mode for a while. Cameron and now Boris back. If Truss comes back we know they truly got insane.

Insane or desperate, one of the two.

 

[DA_Champion]

This happened in Canada in 1993.

The stories were wiped out. They went from being a majority party to having 2 of 301 seats in Canada's House of Commons. The Reform party (yes it was called the Reform Party) took over their base and won, I think, 52 seats.

Britain's conservatives, likewise deserve to be annihilated.

But Canada at least got Jean Chretien as Prime Minister, who in hindsight was pretty good. His government balanced the budget, enacted gun control, legalized gay marriage and kept Canada out of the Iraq war.

Britain? They're getting Keir Starmer.

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[blueharvest]

British Prime Minister Sunak says he's 'incredibly' angry over election date betting accusations

Tory candidate Laura Saunders, who is married to the Conservative Party’s director of campaigning, Tony Lee, is facing a commission investigation into alleged betting offences, British media reported.

apnews.com

 

[blueharvest]

Strict asylum rules and poor treatment of migrants are pushing people north to the UK

Strict asylum rules and the hostile treatment of migrants are pushing people from the Middle East, Africa and Asia out of Europe and toward the United Kingdom.

apnews.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The insider betting scandal that has engulfed the UK election

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said anyone found to have broken the rules would face "the full consequences of the law" and be "booted out" of the ruling Conservative Party.

www.sbs.com.au

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[blueharvest]

Nigel Farage criticised for saying West provoked Ukraine war

The Reform UK leader told the BBC that "of course" the war was President Vladimir Putin's fault.

www.bbc.com

 

[blueharvest]

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Iceman]

Too corrupt, should be sent down for a long time.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[blueharvest]

How Tory neglect flooded Britain’s rivers with sewage

On a journey along the Thames – where fury at pollution has spawned a wave of local activism – it is clear that the decline of rivers is among this government’s worst legacies

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueharvest]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[blueharvest]

Rishi Sunak ally Mel Stride says Labour is heading for ‘largest majority ever’

Work and pensions secretary says it is ‘highly unlikely’ polls putting Tories on 20-point deficit are wrong

www.theguardian.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Tory election campaign reaches conclusion with final ‘please don’t humiliate us’ plea to voters

The Conservative election campaign has reached its crescendo with a plea to voters not to completely humiliate them at the polls tomorrow.

newsthump.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Britain will not rejoin EU in my lifetime, says Starmer

Labour leader also says he cannot foresee circumstances where UK would re-enter single market or customs union

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueharvest]

Labour lead over Tories holds as voters prepare to head to polls - UK general election 2024 live news

Polling stations to open across the country from 7am with voting taking place until 10pm on Thursday night

www.theguardian.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Britain will not rejoin EU in my lifetime, says Starmer

Labour leader also says he cannot foresee circumstances where UK would re-enter single market or customs union

www.theguardian.com

UK can rejoin EU ‘in a century or 2,’ Juncker says

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www.politico.eu

"When you leave a boat, you can't get back on the same boat," says the man who — with Michel Barnier — led the EU's side of Brexit talks. Never? "In a century or two, yes," he said, eyes sparkling mischievously behind his glasses. He notes that no British political party fighting today's election wants to rejoin the EU (with Labour Party Leader Keir Starmer — who is widely expected to be the U.K.'s next PM — saying the country would not rejoin the EU's single market in his lifetime). Britain is "currently discovering the consequences of its vote, and the consequences correspond exactly to what we told them they'd be," Juncker says.

CNBC - No God, no big ads and no age debate: The UK election race is very different to America's

1) [Much Shorter] Campaigns
2) [More Limited] Election spending and ads
3) ‘We don’t do God’ [Less Religious]
4) Age is just a number [Younger Leaders]
5) [Less] ‘Culture wars’
6) ‘Absurd’ [Fringe] diversions

 

[mclay18]

And the Labour Party won a very decisive race on our Independence Day, very ironic. Congratulations to you anti Tory voters.

Hopefully Starmer will improve the UK like Joe Biden has been here in the States.