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So is it going to be five years of editorial of how Labour have ruined the country and thrown away all the great successes?

Braverman with the zingers the day before election

Suella Braverman says today that the prime minister’s attacks on racist views expressed by Reform candidates has less force because the party he leads - and she aspires to lead - kept Frank Hester’s millions. Quite extraordinary attack on the eve of polling day, in the Telegraph. She says “whatever the ‘smartest men in the room’ may privately think, the public are not in fact mugs”.

https://x.com/Peston/status/1808400785631289455?t=oo6aHrvk9gABDB8jpiBdMw&s=19

Guess they come over on the small boats

For any of you undecideds in Orkney

Don't think so, think it's only building over time with all the drivers outlined above

Plus the youth like reform

NEW JLP @TheSun: Reform in 2nd place with 16/17 year olds, joint-1st with males

All 16/17s:

LAB: 39%
REFORM: 23%
GRN: 18%
LDEM: 9%
CON: 5%

Males:

REF: 35%
LAB: 35%
LDEM: 11%
CON: 11%
GRN: 2%

Females:

LAB: 43%
GRN: 33%
REF: 12%
LDEM: 8%
CON: 0%

https://x.com/JLPartnersPolls/status/1808111523195167158?t=fISDZMVCdftuMbUSgTLMJg&s=19

Also, I do wonder who the LibDems are trying to appeal to with their awkward watersport/social media antics. I'm not down with the kids but I don't think they care about it at all.

It's not too appeal to anyone but the only way they know they can get some media air time

Survation just dropped thier final MRP and it's tory wipe out
https://x.com/Survation/status/1808198101964148928?t=_qTFGC_bfP6U-xzz13Eibg&s=19

Currently aboard and taking Fexofenadine for hayfever but realised I have had no insect bites swell up so far which is unheard of for me, normally react badly and look like I have a boiled egg stuck to my arm, leg, wherever they choose to bite

So is this 5km rule going to make any difference?

Taylor swift is making 14 million a gig apparently, chances of her playing glasto for Micheal Evans to give himself a pat on the back are slim now

I think big stars will still play it but it will be very much at a time of thier choosing later in thier career rather than for the money

I see heatgeeks are now an Octopus partner and will be given the jobs that octopus think are too hard/ non conventional for thier standard installers

Weeks ago

Currently riding the train around France and Spain and really jarring hearing how loud the swifts and house martins are in city centres compared to what is common at home

Isn't it changing the domain to nitter?

If you read the thread they say its due to labour's handing of Gaza

Reform polling ahead of Lib dems with ethnic minority Britain

https://x.com/YouGov/status/1806705295084663042?t=JDnR01cNHdBsOPxCQ99A3g&s=19

Yes but they keep freezing the tax thresholds which drags more low earners and pensioners in to being taxed. One of the reasons Reform are looking to raise the threshold to 20k (and they have a large black hole in thier spending plans), don't think I've seen other parties looking to move the threshold although greens are looking to merge NI and Income tax at the lower threshold I think and conservatives now proposing to make the threshold age related so it would track state pension to keep them out of it.

While reading this thread, I'm listening to life's a gas by T Rex

A song from closer to WW1 than today

But that by far the largest group of people in the country appear to be about to vote for a straight-down-the-middle, sensible-if-stolid Labour party, does not suggest that they are looking to extremists as the answer.

15-20% of the country do indeed appear to be about to vote for a mad old racist, but I don't think you can tar 'the people' with that brush

I don't believe the majority see extremists as the answer but the majority voting Labour isn't an endorsement that Starmerism is what the majority want is it? And more a product of our crap two party system and one of the parties being rubbish for 14 years and any other vote viewed as wasted

I find the pile on, on someone saying they consider reform an option slightly odd and does show how heavily the demographic of the forum is skewed (which is fine but people should deluded themselves thier is a mix of voices). I get the bashing of Tice and Farage as they are a negative influence on politics in my opinion but if you are socially and fiscally conservative and don't like FPTP, who else should you vote for?

Seems strong centrist dad vibes to oppose everything that challenges the status quo and keeps us locked in a two party system that isn't working

I'm surprised so many of the political compasses didn't come out more authoritarian as a lot of people seem to be against people having views different from thiers

No guess I typed it badly, just a referendum on PR although have heard farage saying we should have more referendums, maybe one on net zero

They are proposing a referendum on proportional representation, to have an elected second chamber instead of the House of Lords and a codified Bill of rights in amongst a lot of nonsense stuff like banning postal votes

Why are the conservatives so shit at social media?
https://x.com/Conservatives/status/1805932619856548153?t=URl-GdlqG8WEh9vOc1L9nA&s=19

Do they have just have a relative doing it as a internship ?

Thread dredge but are you still looking to do this? I've done UK to Tarragona this week so can hopefully offer some input if you're still interested

Currently traveling through France and Spain on the train, it's 25-30 which is the limit of what I want to be out in all day doing tourist stuff,would much prefer 22-26 but work and family say no.

Apart from schools forcing when you can go, I don't get going late July/ August to Southern Europe for a holiday

If I'd known the UK weather would of been so good I would of probably been happy going UK holiday but was organised last minute and wanted to escape the never ending gloom we were having