Funny isn’t it? I got a poll card through the door the other day and all I’ve scrolled past since is news about how I shouldn’t bother voting because Labour have this in the fucking bag.
DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THE HEADLINES, VOTE
Conservatives set for worst election result yet, research shows
Submitted 7 months ago by MonsterMonster@lemmy.world to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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Lifebandit666@feddit.uk 7 months ago
CMDR_Horn@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
I keep scrolling past this headline and having hope for a brief moment it’s talking about the US. Good luck across the pond
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 7 months ago
Would be nice to feel positive about it, but my expectations for a Starmer-led Labour government are extremely low. I don’t believe they’ll actually do anything serious to try and reverse the damage of 14 years of Tory government.
Still, seeing some miserable looking Tories would be great if they really do get hammered.
li10@feddit.uk 7 months ago
If this is anything short of a bloodbath then I’ll have lost any remaining hope I had for this country.
I don’t think I have any hope left already tho
LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Daddy Putin will soon send his troll and disinformation army to save repubes
SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de 7 months ago
hey… pss… you wanna know a trick on how to save 350 Million Pound a week for the NHS?
LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Step 1: Get me a fucking red bus
EnderMB@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I would love to believe this, but living in the westcountry and regularly visiting places like Surrey shows you that there are still lots of people that will forever support the Tories, or will never support Labour.
People like Jeremy Hunt, Liz Truss, Jacob Rees Mogg, and co don’t get into power by accident. They’re voted in, often multiple times over multiple decades.
While I really want to see a Labour government again, and while I still hold some slight glimmer of hope that Starmer is playing it coy by trying to look more centrist/right-wing than he actually is, I’m still not sold.
Devorlon@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Thank fuck, I’ll finally be able to experience a non-tory Westminster.
MonsterMonster@lemmy.world 7 months ago
When Michael Portillo lost his seat in 97 it was sweet. That was my first experience of a non-tory government post childhood. But the experience of the evil farce of today’s Tories makes pre-97 Major’s Tories look almost desirable.
Even the script writers for Yes Minister/Prime Minister could not have made up the last 14 years.
NickwithaC@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’ll believe it when I see it.
hellfire103@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Yay!
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Thank goodness the electorate saw through the Tories before they could do anything to cause lasting damage to the country for generations to come.
lemonflavoured@kbin.social 7 months ago
I think they'll get somewhere in the region of 160 seats at the least. Maybe even 200 depending on Events.
Labour have got to be seen as doing something in the next 5 years though, else it might well swing back again in 2029.
ReCursing@kbin.social 7 months ago
Bring it on
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 7 months ago
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
echo64@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Shy tories will always mitigate the polls. It’s unlikely to be a bloodbath, but the infighting after a loss might be the real killing blow to the party.
minimalfootprint@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 7 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
It also suggests the prime minister is at risk of losing his own constituency, the new Richmond & Northallerton seat in North Yorkshire, to Labour with his lead less than 2.5 percentage points.
The poll also suggests the Scottish National Party would pick up 41 seats, the Liberal Democrats 22 and Plaid Cymru two.
Naomi Smith, Best for Britain’s chief executive, said: “With the polling showing swathes of voters turning their backs on the Tories, it’s clear that this will be a change election.”
The findings come after Labour sources said the party’s overall financial position remained strong despite membership subscriptions falling off because donations were healthy and unions were expected to give very substantial backing to the election effort.
Labour has suffered more than a 23,000 fall in membership over the past two months after controversies over its policy on Gaza and its U-turn on green investment, according to figures released to its National Executive Committee (NEC).The party’s general secretary, David Evans, revealed that membership, which had stood at 390,000 in January, had plummeted to 366,604 at the latest count, with more than 11,700 of these being in arrears.
Labour only had 150,000 members at the end of its last period in office [in 2010],” he said.“The state of the opinion polls suggest there is no correlation between membership and electoral popularity.”
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Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Good, good. Let the hate flow through me.
Draegur@lemm.ee 7 months ago
gods i hope so
i also hope it could be true for us yanks on this side of the pond.
good luck, UK!
HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Let us hope together. Good luck, United States.
Maeve@kbin.social 7 months ago
I hate to be "that guy,” but I must say it. This isn't "good luck United States," wrt USA elections; it is literally, "good luck, world!" I sincerely wish us all a much more liberal government, while I wholeheartedly prefer actual leftist government.