Will this be "Independence Day" from the Tories?
SNP 10 seats? Total meltdown if that's true.
13 Reform 61 Lib Dems
i wonder how much an amplifying effect FPTP will have on the sense of doom. at least with PRSTV you can go out and vote for a doomed candidate but have a sense that at least you can vote for them but your vote is not wasted.
Well done. If the exit polls hold up correctly, you were very close.
That's a horrendously high number for the Tories after the last 14 years.
Jaysus Sky are milking the exit poll.
75. Wildly optimistic for tactical voting to have mullered them.
Go with 118 seats. For no sensible reason.
I would say around 110. for also no particular reason.
Any punts at a guess on the number of seats the Tories win? I'm gonna say 137, based on not much at all.
Seems to be a bit more of Tories being challenged the wee last while thankfully (hey better late than never)
Maria Caulfield (Tory health minister...well until Thursday) spouting nonsense that Keir Starmer will only be doing a 4 day week...Matt Barbet on sky having none of it.
The last two days the BBC have been heavily promoting stories of Reform candidates defecting to the Tories because of racism in the former. It must be really bad if the Tories are seen as a less racist option.
I'm quite happy to see those two tearing into each other.
BBC journalism tanked after Hutton and they now have difficulty being factual never mind impartial. TVLA now account for 80% of my junk mail.
For crying out load. I suggest policy debate and instead we get a video dump from yet another pro-Russia tankie. What’s more a pro-Russia tankie who’s begging Farage for an extremist love-in…or “hustings” as he’d like to pretend to call it. I’d like to take this opportunity to remind far-rightists here, that the far left are just as bad. Most of the rest of us live in the center grounds of politics where discussion, compromise and agreement are possible. There’s not just a binary black & while, left & white divide in politics. Within that division you also have a horseshoe curve where the centre advocates choice & reconciliation, while the extreme ends champion totalitarianism and no quarter given.
Farage & Galloway represent both ends of this extremist horseshoe, and this might be why they find themselves to be darlings of the likes of the Kremlin.
Intentionally funny.
It's always the ones that rail against "cancel culture" that want people sacked for pranks, isn't it?
Imagine if he had just jokingly said, "And I love you too, Vlad", while his staff dealt with it.
But the one thing that all right wingers have in common is the hatred they fester and store inside them costs them any sense of humour they once had. It's why there's no funny right wing shows or comedians.
Why are you so intent on defending horrible bigots? Galloway doesn't represent anybody. He won a by-election because the Labour candidate was withdrawn.
Reform UK doesn't exist for policy. It exists to do the bidding of dodgy financiers like Arron Banks. It masquerades as a party (It's a company in which Nigel Farage is the majority shareholder) and the only other thing real about it is the racism.
Sounds like a good idea. Maybe both sides of the spectrum should have a debate ?
So we’ve gone from far-right posters complaining about broadcasters pointing out the plain bloody obvious about the nature of their beloved clatch of Union-Jack botherers, to them now calling the nature of a well known voting demographic; «tropes»
Now, I know the truth isn’t really the far-right’s best friend at the best of times and in recent years anything approaching the truth seems to trigger some kind of allergic reaction, but I’d like to think that maybe they could start to actually discuss things like policy and make their case instead of clutching pearls of fake outrage when people don’t agree with them. Might actually trigger debate, instead of reinforcing the impression that the likes of ReformUK are both block-headed and dangerous.
You forgot to add 'deplorables' to your list of tropes there.
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He's going after the same demographic that support the far right parties around Europe. Often elderly, living in rural areas, low standard of education and so on….these voters are more likely to buy into the 'return to traditional /conservative values' spiel and to feel under threat from the modern world.
That led by donkeys stunt with Nigel Farage is genuinely hilarious...the clapping stopping ha.
It's sad to see a sizeable chunk of people fall for his grifting nonsense again and again.
Boylan is already back broadcasting on Classic Hits btw. His sojourn into politics was very brief.
Agreed. He got exposed a bit when pushed about the usual climate change denial and could only retort "I've seen some documentaries" lol. He's the closest to Farage though I'd agree. I think a good few of the others are going to get themselves brought before the courts due to their ego and edgelording getting out of hand. Glad Boylan didn't get elected though. If they had any smarts, they'd be all getting behind him and putting him at the forefront but as I said, their egos and edgelording come first. Which is great for the left in that sense but they are still quite dangerous also as they can rile the susceptible people up.
As a reform supporter, do you agree with Farage kicking out the 3 candidates for racism?
I've been clear the whole time.
I think we should leave it there since you've produced no evidence.
Incorrect you asked for proof that he worked for the BBC. Now you are asking for proof the something insidious was going on, make your mind up.
I don't think it is a good look to hand out one of just a few questions to someone working at the BBC when you claim to be impartial and independant in a general election debate.
Well like the crowds here and the world over they appeal to those who fall into one or all three of the C categories.
You made claims that something insidious was going on at the BBC. I've asked for proof and you've given nothing. You seem to think they should have been worshipping Farage.
