United Kingdom General Election: July 4, 2024

[Yelnoc]

Some journalists here started talking about Canada 1993. And how Nigel Farages goal is basically to make the Tories lose so that they have to merge with Reform and make the Conservative Party more right wing / conservative and have people like Farage have more influence.

Ultimately, some of the journalists are fags like Andrew Pierce, which is unfortunate, because the non-bender population of the UK is larger than the outside observer might observe due to the assumption that the UK is populated by roaring poofters (not unreasonable given our governing class). It is actually populated by good old boys, nonetheless, the poofters do predominate. Press F.

Ignore the unusual name homosexual c*** factor.

What is this trash?

Yeah, I don't know. Can we get another British person to translate this?

[Yelnoc]

It was just endless waffle.

Rigby went hard on Starmer and soft on Sunak, but the most memorable moment of each :

Starmer segment.
Rigby:" Has he answered the question?"
Audience member: "No"

Sunak segment.
Rigby:"What can you say to make us like you again?"
Sunak: "I eat sugar"

Voters would probably leave to get a Twix.

That Sunak quote is brutal. Does he think he's running against Desantis?

[Yelnoc]

A question from an ignorant American:

If Reform starts to consistently outpoll the Conservatives down the stretch, could we see a significant block of Tories break off and vote Liberal Democrat to try and keep Reform out?

Or is that unlikely to be a factor nationally due to local dynamics? Or, for that matter, am I overestimating the number of Tory voters who would not have Reform as their second choice?

[Yelnoc]

I don't know if this has been posted before, but this is a really good interactive quiz to see who you support as it actually puts the party manifestos up against one another in a one on one manner.  It might remind some people of a dentist visit though.


https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1804160343708442815

Thank you so much for this, it appears if I lived in the UK I would be a Plaid Cymru voter (gave me a good chuckle). I know no British poster wants to hear this, but I do apparently have an ancestor from Wrexham...

[Yelnoc]

So Vote Compass (one of those who do you align with style quizzes, predominately based in Australia and Canada) has done a quiz from the UK.

I got the following:

https://votecompass.uk/result?i=04615316e0dc0b93048a2d7b9c0d8d&r=34IMvYEN78vEnOZQIfxeN&l=en&n=en

Thanks for this. I guess I'm a socially moderate Green in the UK context? Interesting haha.