uk elections

After 11 years in the wilderness Labour should be doing a hell of a lot better than this. There's been like 130,000 deaths from Covid because the government's response to a pandemic was botched, how the hell has Labour lost Hartlepool ? The same contempt for voters seems to exist that has...

Can't see how Boris will recover from the mishandling of Covid. When he steps down, or if there's a leadership challenge forcing him to, who do you reckon will take over from him ? Sunak ? Too close perhaps ? Raab ? Mogg ? Too slimy, but he's kept his head down this last 12 months.

Just over 56% of the vote on first choices alone.

Thought we should have a thread about this. Seems that the Conservative Manifesto is being written by: According to the Grauniad. If there was any doubt about what is likely to happen in the (IMO almost certain) event of a Conservative majority.

Was thinking about what else Johnson could come up with as his bribes for when the next GE is called. Given the news today I reckon it's going to be cancellation of HS2 and the third runway at Heathrow. Anyone else want to bet on what else ?

Looks as though the UK is going to have a Trump clone as the next PM..since Johnson embraces authoritarian politics and will probably be backed by enough in his party to survive for the future. ANybody who frequents this website knows that I think in general about Conspiracy theories,but I am...

150 councils are holding elections throughout England and Tyrone in NI. First results expected at midnight. There is a live update here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-43543775 Any thoughts?

So, how long WILL Theresa May last as Prime Minister?

We'll know for certain in a few days time, so here is your chance to make a public prediction. The poll is public, so we can see see who voted for what, and it is one vote each. As an aside, it'd be interesting to have your predictions for the Lib Dem result. I reckon they'll be down to 4 or 5 MPs.

Today I used my democratic mandate and cast my vote in the local elections. With nearly 5,000 councilors being elected throughout England, Scotland and Wales, it'll be an early indication of possible success and failure. At least I was spared the agony of deciding who to vote for. I've...

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May has called for a general election, if she gets the votes it will be in June. At the end of this year many of us will be able to reminisce about when there used to be something called "an opposition".

It certainly looks like it. After he sacked Hilary Benn his Shadow Cabinet are queueing up to resign. live updates I wonder who'll be next, given Labour's election system? A Blairite 'suit' wouldn't go down well with the punters but maybe vote-fatigue will kick in. Maybe Benn himself? He made...

The topic of this thread is not the referendum (plenty of threads to talk about that) but what folk think will be the outcome of the likes of Cameron's resignation. On the Tory side I can't see there being any leadership candidate that isn't much to the right of Cameron and Osborne so I can see...

In a speech outside 10 Downing Street he said: "The British people have voted to leave the EU and their will must be respected. The will of the British people is an instruction that must be delivered. There can be no doubt about the result. Across the world people have been watching the...

Been reading a really interesting bit of research on the last general election here in the UK. http://www.ippr.org/juncture/learning-the-right-lessons-from-labours-2015-defeat It looks at many of the different factors that determined the eventual votes, obviously a bit of hindsight creeps into...

He won, will politics be at all different now? I'm interested to see his first PM questions. Will he fail like Cameron did in making it anything but a Punch and Judy show. I read he wants to make it more inclusive of back benchers and the public, he has apparently already emailed many of...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11741659/Jeremy-Corbyn-set-to-win-Labour-leadership-shock-poll-reveals.html " The latest polling, seen by the New Statesman, puts Mr Corbyn ahead once second preference votes have been taken into account. Andy Burnham is said to be winning in...

In light of recent events...:boxedin:

We are in interesting times but for David Cameron's party with his increased majority, no coalition partner to keep them in check and for their party no change in Scotland.(They had 1 seat before the election in Scotland and have 1 seat after the election). I am wondering how he will balance...

Anyone watching this? It's an absolute riot.

Hot on the heels of Labour's outrage over David Cameron saying that he'd serve a full second term if elected (but wouldn't seek a third term), the conservatives have claimed that Labour would raise taxes by £3,028 a household. This claim, like so many from all sides, does not stand up to...

I'm no fan of David Cameron or the party of which he is the leader but IMO this is a case of making political mountains out of molehills of the worst kind. One of the stories doing the rounds at the moment in the UK is Labour claiming that David Cameron is arrogant for stating that, should he...

For the first time in my life I am likely to vote Conservative in the forthcoming election, mainly to bolster the centre right vote against the extreme right of UKIP. My constituency has no chance of going to Labour or the Lib Dems (who normally get my vote), so I am almost certain to vote...

Ukip have their first MP. BBC Douglas Carswell, Conservative defector, won Clacton easily last night. They also came damned close in Lancashire. Along with topping the popular vote in the European elections recently, this is a huge breakthrough for them, and a nightmare for the Conservatives...

With the polling under way, I thought it would be good to start a thread. Nothing really extraordinary just yet although Knowsley in Liverpool is now a one party (labour) council.

So everyone's favourite supporter of murderous villains -George Galloway- has unexpectedly won the Bradford West by-election. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17549388 Four hellish years of this again.

The Lib Dems were utterly decimated in the by-election, losing their deposit and coming behind an Independent candidate with no party machine. Not a good omen for the local elections.. *Dan Jarvis (Lab) 14,724 *Jane Collins (UKIP) 2,953 *James Hockney (C) 1,999 *Enis Dalton...

Which son of the famous Jewish Marxist would you prefer as leader of the Labour party? Ballot papers go out on Wednesday. Allegedly their mother is upset. So she is voting Dianne Abbott...

The election thread seems to have run into the sand, and we have a new government this morning. Does anyone want to discuss the coalition deal and the prospects for government? Rolfe.