United Kingdom General Election: July 4, 2024

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Would love the election to be May, but there isn't really any reason for Sunak to go earlier than he really needs to. It'll be October/November, right on top of the US election.

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New MRP poll (sample size: 14,000) published by YouGov, with the following seat projections:

• Labour: 385
• Conservative: 169
• Lib Dem: 48
• SNP: 25
• Plaid Cymru: 3
• Green: 1

_{Via the Telegraph (Note: both 2024 and 2019 maps use the new boundaries).}

This could be a lot worst for the Tories

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These are the kinds of poll numbers which led to Truss's removal. If this is indeed the direction the polls are headed towards, would MPs revolt against Rishi that close before the election? Is there even a plan B C D?

Pretty funny that Rishi was the break glass in case of emergency candidate, there is no one else, they're stuck

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After two and a half years of nothing but bad news for Tories you gotta do what you can to create some competition

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Okay this surprised me, I haven't been paying the closet attention recently and I assumed we were still looking at the end of the year?

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Okay this surprised me, I haven't been paying the closet attention recently and I assumed we were still looking at the end of the year?

Don’t beat yourself up about it, from the reactions in SW1 today, basically everyone else did too…

Yeah I now see from the reactions that this was another puzzling out of left field decision from Sunak.

Though hey I'm pretty happy about it, summer election lets go!

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What made Sunak decide to have a July election?

He's bad at politics and incredibly arrogant

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Only 4 times??

They're thinking Attlee, Wilson and Blair but they're not taking into account Wilsons second term or MacDonald so it would be technically more like the seventh time for Starmer

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https://twitter.com/ITVNewsPolitics/status/1793628105250402676?ref_src=twsrc%5Et...

This is Sunak heritage.

Sunak determined to make Theresa May look good in retrospect

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Shocked at Gove leaving, they'll miss him

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So apparently Sunak is taking a “day off” from the campaign trail tomorrow.

The first smart decision he's made this campaign

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The canada election comparison comes to my mind is the Liberal one where they accidentally assaulted a teenager, the PM lost his cool with literal preteens and a cabinet minister poked a farmer calling him fat.

Gosh which election was that?

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National Service? It's like parody of a terrible Tory campaign

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https://twitter.com/JAHeale/status/1795455911139430537

Excellent news

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Can't wait to see all the crazies they end up grabbing at the last second to fill all those vacancies

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Can't wait to see all the crazies they end up grabbing at the last second to fill all those vacancies

Well, you’ll never guess who’s on the shortlist for Wokingham…

lol I did not guess that

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I saw a conversation elsewhere in which a Labour majority of 73 was predicted and one of the participants (who seemed to be pro-Labour or at least anti-Tory) was dismissive that it could be that high. I don't think most people and certainly not most of the media have clocked onto what a bloodbath this might be.

Everyone I've talked to about the election has basically been like "I think Labour might win" and when I say it's going to be another 97/over 400 seats it's met with scepticism, so no I don't think people are prepared for how bad it might be for the Tories.