Conservatives set for worst election result yet, research shows
Conservatives set for worst election result yet, research shows
Survey of 15,000 people suggests even party leader Rishi Sunak’s North Yorkshire seat is at risk
I'll believe it when I see it. We've managed to keep these idiots in power for 14 years longer than we should have - I still have plenty of doubts.
Yeah, there's plenty of 'shy' Tories. By rights, after all they've done, they should be reduced to double figures but I am braced for them to only lose a hundred odd seats.
To be honest the dream result for me would them to lose just the right amount for labour to need to form a coalition with the Lib Dems and for the Lib Dems to demand PR as this price.
PR would destroy the Tories for good as the collection of interests that make them up would cause them to split into multiple parties.
Under PR the UK would almost always elect a centre left coalition. The only reason the Tories and the right seem to have so much power is that anyone who wants to vote right pretty much has one option. Whereas left of centre splits between labour, green, lib dem.
It’s almost as if the constituency boundaries have been optimised to return Tory?!?!?!
Lol, no - the blue team are set for a poor election result, that doesn't mean conservatives nor their hold on power are at any risk whatsoever, since all 3 largest parties directly serve conservative, right winged interests.
The only thing a red team win will do is give blue team someone to blame the past 15 years on, so that they get back in power next time.
The fact that people still not only believe this charade, but are actually pinning their hopes on it is beyond depressing, but it also serves as living proof of the system working exactly as intended - to keep the powerful in power, and everyone else serving them.I don't know anything about UK politics but it's common enough in any country to say "all parties are too conservative" while in fact one of them is clearly less-so than the others.
That's true but the labour party is far more conservative than ever before in its history, and is still squarely "conservative" even if less so than the others. They still want to privatise the NHS even more, for example, a.right wing position which will cause a lot of suffering and cost many lives. Just because they're not fully fascist doesn't mean you can't criticise them for being too conservative.
If you're tired of people who are upset with their choices at the polls, consider working to pass electoral reform so they can shut the fuck up and get off the sidelines and show us how it's done!
The solution is more democracy, not vote shaming people into a false dichotomy merry go round.
There's always been a strong dose of authoritarianism about the red team, they might purport to represent the working classes but they also seem to want to 'improve' them too. And as someone on the Alexei Sayle podcast pointed out, their Foreign Policy is always quite imperialistic.
and now we may have a blairite to look forward to, wish the working class would vote in theyre interest
Blair took a few years to embrace authoritarianism. Starmer is doing it straight out of the gate.
and now we may have a blairite to look forward to, wish the working class would vote in theyre interest
Exactly this. Starting with better education, schooling, and basic spelling competency. But instead we get Tory.
wish the working class would vote in theyre interest
That's what I plan to do, while being well aware that playing within the rules they've set us won't actually change anything (but I refuse to vote for someone who doesn't represent me, and Labour now categorically don't), and aiming to abolish the establishment, rather than put any trust in it to look out for the working class, because it never will, no matter how we vote. By design.
That's exactly the article the run in the US when they don't want the progressives to vote
But this is published in The Guardian so that doesn't really track with the whole let's suppress the left wing vote conspiracy
Good. That's how it should be.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
It also suggests the prime minister is at risk of losing his own constituency, the new Richmond & Northallerton seat in North Yorkshire, to Labour with his lead less than 2.5 percentage points.
The poll also suggests the Scottish National Party would pick up 41 seats, the Liberal Democrats 22 and Plaid Cymru two.
Naomi Smith, Best for Britain’s chief executive, said: “With the polling showing swathes of voters turning their backs on the Tories, it’s clear that this will be a change election.”
The findings come after Labour sources said the party’s overall financial position remained strong despite membership subscriptions falling off because donations were healthy and unions were expected to give very substantial backing to the election effort.
Labour has suffered more than a 23,000 fall in membership over the past two months after controversies over its policy on Gaza and its U-turn on green investment, according to figures released to its National Executive Committee (NEC).The party’s general secretary, David Evans, revealed that membership, which had stood at 390,000 in January, had plummeted to 366,604 at the latest count, with more than 11,700 of these being in arrears.
Labour only had 150,000 members at the end of its last period in office [in 2010],” he said.“The state of the opinion polls suggest there is no correlation between membership and electoral popularity.”
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I've been hearing about record turnout and fears of a Trump landslide, I've heard that Trump will fail fantastically and nobody will vote R, it's almost like all of this polling is basically useless propaganda.
Go out and vote. Ignore the pollsters. They all said that Clinton would win in 16
Welcome to UK politics...
I'm feeling this election is going to get quite a lot of fringe MPs by function of their previous defection.