United Kingdom General Election: July 4, 2024

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Sky News too unofficially confirms it's July 4.

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Who on God’s green Earth is in charge of this campaign? Like, this is almost Lettucean.

https://twitter.com/michaelocyoung/status/1793362133561786424
https://twitter.com/politlcsuk/status/1793359914137464960

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Not quite The Sun 1997, but Daily Mail realizing that Tories are so hopeless (and they should curry favour with the next government) that they are becoming kinda sorta maybe neutral for the campaign really is something.

https://twitter.com/peston/status/1794109174055383078

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"Kwarteng drank champagne with bankers to celebrate mini-Budget"

https://twitter.com/thattimwalker/status/1795571297403236611

"PM declares he is a Thatcherite"

His only notable economic proposal is maintaining and expanding already disproportional welfare payments to unproductive population at cost paid by taxpayers. Some Thatcherism, that one.

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What exactly does a major political party do where there is a better chance of them falling to 3rd than forming government again?

Select the son of a former PM as their next leader.

Well, if the electoral route doesn't work, Mark Thatcher does have some experience with coups.

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https://twitter.com/DerbysPolice/status/1797013089017106619

Still a month left to bring back Suella for another crackdown on woke policing.

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So, he didn't leave the commemoration early to campaign. He... um...

https://twitter.com/johnestevens/status/1798827679158067279

Is Max Bialystock running his campaign?

He's just being consistent. Stop Channel crossings means stop Channel crossings, in either direction.

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https://twitter.com/tomorrowsmps/status/1799102778385781207

You can hear the sigh of relief from them. Which is not exactly impressive for an election called by their own damn PM.

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feels like you can't necessarily compare FPTP and Proportional Representation elections quite so easily

So what would be the British equivalents to the PCs holding 2 seats in Quebec/New Brunswick after 1993? half the Tory caucus being made up of Scottish MPs?

Perhaps David Mundell as Jean Charest (liberal man from a culturally distinct region) and Thérèse Coffey as Elsie Wayne (reactionary woman from somewhere on the east coast). And let's not forget than in addition to the two PCs, there was also Gilles Bernier, an ex-PC who managed to get reelected as an independent after being sacked from the party for being charged with a crime. Which means Julian Knight is going to win.

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You can really tell that Sunak has never done a day of constituency campaigning in his life. It’s not all about abstract ideological grandstanding, you upper-class twit.

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https://twitter.com/maiamindel/status/1802450213673767184

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in the event of an England win today, I can see the half-hearted campaign argument from the Tories about making a late comeback to win just like England did vs Slovakia

in the spirit of Bob Dole trying to do a whistle stop ala Harry Truman in 1996

Imagine if they won with Germany though. By tomorrow you’d have Tory MPs tweeting themselves singing Two World Wars and One World Cup.