United Kingdom General Election: July 4, 2024

[warandwar]

There are some interesting Reform UK candidates out there. Here's a thread on one of them:

https://twitter.com/snigskitchen/status/1770542877250105823

Clearly they should just stick to their old pool of former members of the Revolutionary Communist Party

[warandwar]

https://Twitter.com/tomorrowsmps/status/1793336678096019874?t=QU1_O62L4ZAVCm0P6r...

Selections are going to come fast now. Here's the Lib-Dems choosing someone asap for a target seat. And Corbyns former seat becomes even more of a stitch-up:

https://twitter.com/tomorrowsmps/status/1793378252154913030?t=l8uSukHrwSpAga0xdI...

How many seats has Paul Mason failed to be selected in at this point?

[warandwar]

Goodness me, but a lot of Trade Union officials are getting selected at the last moment. Who would have thought!

I have my issues with Labour, but it's nice to see they still take their name somewhat seriously in terms of their political leadership selection.

Although it’s very much well connected union officials, many of whom have never done a day on the shop floor, rather than ordinary workers.

Still often quite involved in unions though, which is effectively a full time job and not through choice.

Yeah, Michels' iron law of oligarchy remains an unfortunate reality, but if a party is to have an oligarchy it could do worse than to draw it from the ranks of organizations whose bread and butter is still defending workers' interests.

Michels law of oligarchy is not made of Iron!!!

[warandwar]

surely if you want more density, you'd rather people rezone single family housing vs creating mcmansions in suburban sprawl in a natural area.

[warandwar]

A number of Labour officials in Islington North have resigned (or "expect to be expelled") in order to campaign for Corbyn.

Why would they do this less than a week before the election? Wouldn't it have more impact if they started participating in the campaign earlier?

I think it's a sign they expect the race to be close and that Corbyn needs all the help he can get. I've seen talk that many people didn't realize Corbyn was running as an independent so a lot of it will be helping spread the word so they aren't confused when they get a ballot.

From an american or canadian standpoint, british elections are really short. As far as I know, a big push for the week prior is pretty standard for the uk, and things in general are much more casual over there. More money was spent on the Bowman primary here than by all british parties combined have spent during this election period.