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Post by jayblanc on May 22, 2024 16:27:01 GMT
It's pissing down on him with Things can only get better' pounding in the background. Brilliant!  I mean, it's amusing. It's also possibly telling that they had no one ready to put up the rain canopy. Suggests that this was not planned in advance. |
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Post by steve on May 22, 2024 16:31:03 GMT
Incredibly shrinking man pops back into number 10 and the sun comes out. Attachment Deleted |
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Post by thylacine on May 22, 2024 16:33:30 GMT
Larry doesn't look to impressed but that might be the rain. Hope Starmer likes cats.
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Post by steve on May 22, 2024 16:33:52 GMT
pjw1961It's not actually a government statement, not that that would stop Sunak, the absence of the PM crest on the podium means he's talking as the leader of the Tory party.
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Post by pjw1961 on May 22, 2024 16:35:26 GMT
pjw1961 It's not actually a government statement, not that that would stop Sunak, the absence of the PM crest on the podium means he's talking as the leader of the Tory party. For how long though! |
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Post by steve on May 22, 2024 16:36:44 GMT
He truly looked washed out didn't he?
Increasingly so as time went by..
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Post by moosepoll on May 22, 2024 16:37:24 GMT
Which newspaper is going to use THINGS CAN ONLY GET WETTER tomorrow
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Post by neilj on May 22, 2024 16:37:38 GMT
Survation
NEW: Our first take on the General Election ahead.
21 Point Labour Lead, highest since November 2022.
LAB 48 (+4)
CON 27 (+3)
LD 8 (-2)
GRN 2 (-5)
RFM 8 (-)
SNP 3 (+1)
OTH 4 (-1)
F/w 21st - 22nd May. Changes vs. 10th May 2024.
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Post by steve on May 22, 2024 16:38:23 GMT
thylacineFollowing on my success in calling the announcement early☺ I can inform you that Larry is definitely a liberaldemocat
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2024 16:38:53 GMT
I wouldn't be surprised if Sunak is thinking "It's all right, I'll wake up soon, and that election announcement fiasco will just have been a terrible dream".
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Post by domjg on May 22, 2024 16:39:17 GMT
Larry doesn't look to impressed but that might be the rain. Hope Starmer likes cats. Every thoughtful person of taste likes cats |
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Post by neilj on May 22, 2024 16:40:07 GMT
Sunak announced the election in the pouring rain while some wag was playing 'Things can only get better' in the background
You've got to feel sorry for him, okay maybe not 😀
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2024 16:42:49 GMT
'Disastrous', 'shambolic', 'dismal' - just a few descriptions of Sunak's speech emanating from 5Live... Despite that, I can only see the Tory VI increasing from now as people are forced to make up their minds.
For what it's worth, my early % prediction is LAB 40 / CON 29 / LIB 13 / REF 7 / GRN 4. Seats LAB 403 / CON 159 / LIB 47 / REF 0 / GRN 0 (+SNP 19 / PLC 4 / NI 18)
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Post by leftieliberal on May 22, 2024 16:47:51 GMT
As Hilaire Belloc wrote in his poem "On a General Election"
The accursed power which stands on Privilege
(And goes with Women, and Champagne and Bridge)
Broke — and Democracy resumed her reign:
(Which goes with Bridge, and Women and Champagne).
'Nuff said
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2024 16:48:44 GMT
I mean, it's amusing. It's also possibly telling that they had no one ready to put up the rain canopy. Suggests that this was not planned in advance.
Apparently it was because it's important for people to see the Number 10 door in the background... I wonder if it's because everyone around him hates him.
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Post by leftieliberal on May 22, 2024 16:49:28 GMT
Statesman-like response from Starmer.
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Post by thylacine on May 22, 2024 16:49:52 GMT
Strong speech from Starmer I thought.
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Post by steve on May 22, 2024 16:50:44 GMT
I was most disappointed by Starmer.
Only three union flags.
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Post by steve on May 22, 2024 16:52:17 GMT
"Sunak announced the election in the pouring rain while some wag was playing 'Things can only get better' in the background
You've got to feel sorry for him, okay maybe not"
The damp can do terrible things to a sub woofer.
Thoughts and prayers.
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Post by jib on May 22, 2024 16:52:30 GMT
It was him with that music. Is he standing for the Lib Dems again?
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Post by neilj on May 22, 2024 16:53:43 GMT
Did no one in Sunak's team look at the weather forecast and say we need to hold the announcement inside?
Didn't Sunak look out the window?
Just the latest example of this shambolic Government
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Post by crossbat11 on May 22, 2024 16:56:27 GMT
Starmer absolutely right to eschew any personal attacks on Sunak or Toryism more generally in his statement.
He directed his fire at the Government and finished on what he thought both he and his party could do for the country, while conceding that the power now lay with us, the voters.
He looked a better man than Sunak today. People notice these things. Millions will now tune in to politics over the next six weeks where before they were largely tuned out.
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Post by thylacine on May 22, 2024 16:57:03 GMT
BBC pointing out how bad that wet start was to the conservative election campaign. Looks like the chaos Starmer identified. Let's hope it continues through the rest of the blue campaign.
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Post by jimjam on May 22, 2024 17:01:29 GMT
Can we agree when to start a prediction thread and when to close it to stop a late entrant potentially having an advantage?
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Post by pjw1961 on May 22, 2024 17:06:17 GMT
Survation NEW: Our first take on the General Election ahead. 21 Point Labour Lead, highest since November 2022. LAB 48 (+4) CON 27 (+3) LD 8 (-2) GRN 2 (-5) RFM 8 (-) SNP 3 (+1) OTH 4 (-1) F/w 21st - 22nd May. Changes vs. 10th May 2024. John Curtice described Sunak's decision to call an early election "Very brave", which sounds along the same lines as the 'Yes Minister' Sir Humphrey saying "that's a courageous decision Minister". |
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Post by pjw1961 on May 22, 2024 17:07:40 GMT
'Disastrous', 'shambolic', 'dismal' - just a few descriptions of Sunak's speech emanating from 5Live... Despite that, I can only see the Tory VI increasing from now as people are forced to make up their minds. For what it's worth, my early % prediction is LAB 40 / CON 29 / LIB 13 / REF 7 / GRN 4. Seats LAB 403 / CON 159 / LIB 47 / REF 0 / GRN 0 (+SNP 19 / PLC 4 / NI 18) I honestly think at this stage the Conservatives would be pleased with that. |
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Post by neilj on May 22, 2024 17:07:47 GMT
So far 65 tory MPs have announced they are standing down. Suggestion there will be more before the election, likely to result in many rushed selection processes
Interesting days
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Post by jayblanc on May 22, 2024 17:09:09 GMT
This being the image The Times chose to run with says it all really.  |
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Post by neilj on May 22, 2024 17:14:14 GMT
Re polling, it will be interesting if the pollsters showing relatively smaller Labour leads (due to reallocation of don't knows etc) get closer to the other pollsters using more traditional methodologies
As we get closer to election day this was predicted to happen, indeed there is already evidence its been happening
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