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Post by graham on May 22, 2024 15:16:31 GMT
It would be interesting - and highly amusing - if by tomorrow morning 55 Tory MPs have sent in letters to Brady!
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Post by hireton on May 22, 2024 15:21:31 GMT
Well, I intend to follow the election campaign assiduously and give Sunak every possible chance to persuade me to give the Tories another five years. Will probably start taking the Daily Mail in order to get balanced coverage. And watch GB News obviously. |
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2024 15:21:40 GMT
or he’ll defect to Labour. (Maybe Starmer offered him a post if he calls the election early!) - it’s set the board alight anyway Maybe Sunak will defect. That would certainly improve the Tories’ chances so it would be a noble thing wot he dun. |
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Post by moby on May 22, 2024 15:21:48 GMT
4th July election.
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Post by leftieliberal on May 22, 2024 15:22:22 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2024 15:23:11 GMT
Well, I intend to follow the election campaign assiduously and give Sunak every possible chance to persuade me to give the Tories another five years. Will probably start taking the Daily Mail in order to get balanced coverage. And watch GB News obviously. Plugged into my brain during hospital stay. I do find it very balanced and informative - in its own way. |
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Post by moby on May 22, 2024 15:25:14 GMT
Apparently they are banking on the feelgood of England doing well in the Euros.
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Post by neilj on May 22, 2024 15:25:23 GMT
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Post by domjg on May 22, 2024 15:25:47 GMT
If Scottish schools have already broken up for the summer by then that's really not on. |
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Post by crossbat11 on May 22, 2024 15:26:10 GMT
Yes of course they 'can' but like photo id it reduces the chance that many 'will'. That's the point. If the election is to be announced today, there are weeks ahead for supposedly intelligent people to manage to organise a postal vote. Political parties will be chasing them up. I was at University when Ted Heath called an election on February 7th 1974 to be held just 3 weeks later on February 28th. Virtually everybody appeared to have a postal vote. You've got me all dewy-eyed and sentimental. The February 1974 election was the first in which I was old enough to cast a vote. I hadn't long turned 18 and started University in Bristol later that year, just before the October election of that same year. I was a student radical by then. It only took a few weeks of breathing in the rarefied academic air! I voted Labour of course in that February election and we squeezed a Labour minority government out of it. I voted for the losing candidate locally though and, little did I know it at the time, I wasn't to cast a vote for a winning candidate of any sort, council or parliamentary, until 1997, some 23 years later. I had a decent run for a bit thereafter but the barren spell resumed in 2010. And it's still going, alas. |
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Post by steve on May 22, 2024 15:26:20 GMT
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Post by crossbat11 on May 22, 2024 15:29:35 GMT
Game on ladies and gentleman.
At long last too!
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Post by crossbat11 on May 22, 2024 15:30:40 GMT
Apparently they are banking on the feelgood of England doing well in the Euros. Could go wrong though. Ramsdale could become a latter-day Peter Bonetti. |
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Post by graham on May 22, 2024 15:32:38 GMT
If the election is to be announced today, there are weeks ahead for supposedly intelligent people to manage to organise a postal vote. Political parties will be chasing them up. I was at University when Ted Heath called an election on February 7th 1974 to be held just 3 weeks later on February 28th. Virtually everybody appeared to have a postal vote. You've got me all dewy-eyed and sentimental. The February 1974 election was the first in which I was old enough to cast a vote. I hadn't long turned 18 and started University in Bristol later that year, just before the October election of that same year. I was a student radical by then. It only took a few weeks of breathing in the rarefied academic air! I voted Labour of course in that February election and we squeezed a Labour minority government out of it. I voted for the losing candidate locally though and, little did I know it at the time, I wasn't to cast a vote for a winning candidate of any sort, council or parliamentary, until 1997, some 23 years later. I had a decent run for a bit thereafter but the barren spell resumed in 2010. And it's still going, alas. February 1974 was my first vote at a GE - and I have yet to vote for a winning candidate despite now being almost 70 years old. |
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Post by crossbat11 on May 22, 2024 15:36:13 GMT
You've got me all dewy-eyed and sentimental. The February 1974 election was the first in which I was old enough to cast a vote. I hadn't long turned 18 and started University in Bristol later that year, just before the October election of that same year. I was a student radical by then. It only took a few weeks of breathing in the rarefied academic air! I voted Labour of course in that February election and we squeezed a Labour minority government out of it. I voted for the losing candidate locally though and, little did I know it at the time, I wasn't to cast a vote for a winning candidate of any sort, council or parliamentary, until 1997, some 23 years later. I had a decent run for a bit thereafter but the barren spell resumed in 2010. And it's still going, alas. February 1974 was my first vote at a GE - and I have yet to vote for a winning candidate despite now being almost 70 years old. We will overcome one day, graham, I'm sure. |
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Post by domjg on May 22, 2024 15:36:56 GMT
Apparently they are banking on the feelgood of England doing well in the Euros. If true that's beyond tragic. |
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2024 15:37:36 GMT
BBC 5Live saying it's definitely happening. Definitely summer. Probably 4th July. Sunak may not come out of Number 10 for another half hour.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2024 15:39:30 GMT
Bizarrely, if parliament is dissolved in the next few days, Sunak's flagship smoking ban legislation will not have time to pass.
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Post by johntel on May 22, 2024 15:39:51 GMT
Emily Maitlis 'It’s on ! July 4th. Just had this from 3 people in last minute' OK by me, so long as they don't interrupt the footie coverage. |
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Post by pjw1961 on May 22, 2024 15:40:23 GMT
Apparently they are banking on the feelgood of England doing well in the Euros. In which case they are definitely stuffed  |
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Post by crossbat11 on May 22, 2024 15:41:26 GMT
Apparently they are banking on the feelgood of England doing well in the Euros. If true that's beyond tragic. England's prospects?? Surely not. In Harry, Jude and Phil we trust. |
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Post by pjw1961 on May 22, 2024 15:42:23 GMT
You've got me all dewy-eyed and sentimental. The February 1974 election was the first in which I was old enough to cast a vote. I hadn't long turned 18 and started University in Bristol later that year, just before the October election of that same year. I was a student radical by then. It only took a few weeks of breathing in the rarefied academic air! I voted Labour of course in that February election and we squeezed a Labour minority government out of it. I voted for the losing candidate locally though and, little did I know it at the time, I wasn't to cast a vote for a winning candidate of any sort, council or parliamentary, until 1997, some 23 years later. I had a decent run for a bit thereafter but the barren spell resumed in 2010. And it's still going, alas. February 1974 was my first vote at a GE - and I have yet to vote for a winning candidate despite now being almost 70 years old. Given your intention not to vote Labour in Norwich North, I suspect that will continue. |
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2024 15:44:26 GMT
Have we had a GE during a major football tournament before? 🤔 Sunak is of course a huge football fan (of a fantastic team) and should know this is playing with fire. |
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Post by pjw1961 on May 22, 2024 15:46:56 GMT
Given all the grumbling about some of the weird and repetitive obsessions of this site, a General Election is just what we need - a month and a half of talking about other stuff.
Also Paula Vennells must be grateful for the distraction - she is getting mangled at the Post Office enquiry and normally that would be the headline item.
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Post by jimjam on May 22, 2024 15:47:42 GMT
CB - didn't you vote for Richard Parker?
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Post by hireton on May 22, 2024 15:49:47 GMT
I suppose the answer to the possibe leadership election conundrum is that it could not happen as after the dissolution of Parliament there are no MPs to hold the first phase of the process.
If it is 4 July I wonder if the Whitsun Recess will be cancelled to enable the "wash-up" of uncontentious legislation to happen.
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Post by thylacine on May 22, 2024 15:54:08 GMT
New Icon. Here we go ! Only had 14 years to prepare though!
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Post by pjw1961 on May 22, 2024 15:54:56 GMT
Given all the grumbling about some of the weird and repetitive obsessions of this site, a General Election is just what we need - a month and a half of talking about other stuff. Talking about which, we have company - currently 157 guests on-line. "Users Online in the Last 24 Hours 1 Staff, 50 Members, 1,357 Guests." Play nicely everyone. |
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2024 15:57:57 GMT
New Icon. Here we go ! Only had 14 years to prepare though! Another weird thing about his (potential) choice of date. People will label it 'independence day' and this will gain traction. |
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Post by hireton on May 22, 2024 15:58:45 GMT
Have we had a GE during a major football tournament before? 🤔 Sunak is of course a huge football fan (of a fantastic team) and should know this is playing with fire. June 1970 and the 1970 World Cup? |
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