“I take my responsibilities seriously. I did not lie” - UK politics June 23 on

xxxp fucked up what he did to that girl fleeing her abusive stepfather

lol exactly

There is a 2BR in my LA building that is always let to three international students for around £650/week, so I looked it up on Zoopla and it was bought up (likely RTB) before their records started, so the landlord is probably mortgage-free. Council tenants pay around £180/week for the same flat.

Granted, the flat is in Central London but that’s some markup.

media coverage of the royal family in full extremely normal mode

When you have no means of getting a car, affording a wife/husband/kid and a house.

For people under 50 today's YouGov poll is:

Lab 60%
Con 10%
Green 10%
LD 9%
Reform 5%
SNP 3%

— Sam Freedman (@Samfr) January 18, 2024

LOL, that can't be real?

OK, apparently it is. Among 18-24 year olds, support for the Tories sits at 4%! Crazy times.

Posh people just not breeding enough

they're breeding but their kids are super-weird and hate their parents and themselves (source: saltburn)

OK, apparently it is. Among 18-24 year olds, support for the Tories sits at 4%! Crazy times.

― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 January 2024 bookmarkflaglink

They better be given a house, a job that pays, a car and a pension to look forward.

But guess what? Labour won't give you those things either, so it doesn't matter.

yeah, thanks UK electorate for belatedly falling out with the tory party, but mostly not falling with their policies and economic model.

Hasn't the polling by age group been similar for quite a long while, its just of a question of when it starts to matter? (I thought guaranteed for next election not this one but other factors maybe shifting the more important senior votes too)

as to why it looks like its changing an election early I mean

Never in a million years has support for the Tories been at 10% for the under fifties. I'd surprised if it's ever been that for any age range tbh.

xp- Covid a factor mebbe?

yeah, thanks UK electorate for belatedly falling out with the tory party, but mostly not falling with their policies and economic model.

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 18 January 2024 13:40 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yah I wanna give the government a boot for my mortgage going up doesn't mean I care about povs and homelesses, Sir Keir understands that

For those asking the numbers for people over 50 are:

Lab: 35%
Con: 30%
Reform: 18%
LD: 8%
Green: 4%
SNP: 2%

The swing against the Tories is actually bigger for older people. It's just coming from a much higher starting point.

— Sam Freedman (@Samfr) January 18, 2024

This seems quite significant, Labour have a 5 point lead with over 50s, that has to be new

Never in a million years has support for the Tories been at 10% for the under fifties. I'd surprised if it's ever been that for any age range tbh.

The yougov site is horrible to navigate but I got as far back as August 2022 and the Tories had marginally lower support for the under fifties in that poll than this one. Was that pre-Truss?

I apologise, I read the figures wrong. Confusingly they have voting intention and who would you vote for tomorrow as different things, with different numbers

jan 2024
18-24 tories 4%
25-49 tories 10%

aug 2022
18-24 tories 6%
25-49 tories 16%

https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/TheTimes_VI_Immigration_Cons_240117_W.pdf

https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/TheTimesVI_220901_W.pdf

Just before Truss. They were surely even lower after the debacle of her premiership, lettuce and all!

I scrolled back as far as September 2020 before giving up. The big drop was between September 2020 and August 2022, though with that being a larger timeframe maybe its just been a consistent continual gradual glide down with no particular drop off point. The yougov site is too painful to engage with any further though

Imagine voting for this

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEI5HNXXAAAEycw?format=jpg&name=medium

*boke*

tbf their both about the size of Action Man

also swivel-eyed cunts like Action Man

Tonight we counted the votes for the Cazenove ward by-election. Ian Sharer was duly elected to represent the residents of Cazenove with 1,623 votes. Turnout was 31.92% More information about the election and result will be available on our website: https://t.co/7XMaiEIbqG pic.twitter.com/khxJxfFbDr

— Hackney Council (@hackneycouncil) January 19, 2024

That’s a rhetorical question

See what happens when mark s moves out of Hackney?

oh right this is the one where the Labour candidate was a frothing transphobe

the "one"

Ah!

Tory vote up 47.4%!

How much of this is down to the candidate himself rather than the party? He's been a councillor there for 16 of the last 22 years according to google

a rare Lib Dem turning out to be a Tory

(xp) Bit of both. Labour's vote down 13%.

luckily there are no other Labour candidates who are outspoken poisonous bigots so things should be fine going forward

This is what reporters are up against: Man City and their lawyer Simon Cliff, lobbying government, and the general public (and fans) being told fuck-all about anything the comes of that. Chapeau, Russell. https://t.co/ib3lQNApf6

— Nick Harris (@sportingintel) January 21, 2024

(Baroness) Nicky Morgan, "The two state solution has to be one of the only ways out of the current situation."

Er, yeah, thanks for that one.

🔴 ROCHDALE: there's speculation that political journalist Paul Waugh - currently with the i paper - could be Starmer's favoured candidate to stand for Labour in forthcoming by-election following death of Tony Lloyd.

— @Tomorrow'sMPs (@tomorrowsmps) January 21, 2024

when your name is paul and you're a political journalist and would give anything to be favoured by the labour party as candidate for an available seat and you hear you haven't even made the list of political journalists called paul who are under consideration RIP

The depravity continues.

I'm so desensitised to the moral vacuum of politicians that I didn't even clock the object depravity of Lisa Nandy - the former chair of Labour Friends of Palestine - leading a march to support the people exterminating them through genocide. Jesus fucking Christ. https://t.co/78xM66woBt

— Marl Karx (@BareLeft) January 21, 2024

wretched. I hope her dad disowns her and never speaks another word to her!

I can't really hope in a few short extracts to bring home the power of what Hanan Wahabi - who lost her brother, her sister-in-law and their three children at Grenfell - just said to the representatives of those responsible. But here are a few bits I've transcribed: pic.twitter.com/MCTH0o2qG8

— Peter Apps (@PeteApps) January 24, 2024

— some anti-Sunak plotters met at the J Sheekey fish restaurant in the heart of theatre land

— Sunak loyalist says they’re less Dominic Cummings, more Alan Cumming

— No10 think they’ve flushed out what they see as rabble of disgruntled right-wing aideshttps://t.co/fPN52TG8yq

— Alex Wickham (@alexwickham) January 27, 2024

"Sunak loyalist says [anti-Sunak plotters] less Dominic Cummings, more Alan Cumming"

at a loss as to what this could possibly mean. The article doesn't provide any further context.

I gueeeess they mean they’re not political geniuses but ngl it feels homophobic af

yeah it must be some kind of "less Karl Marx and more Groucho Marx" type jibe, but but by someone for who has instinctive reactions to Dominic Cummings and Alan Cumming that are wildly different than like 95% of the UK public

Is Alan Cumming even very high in the public consciousness in 2024? Just a classic politics nerd out of touch non-joke

was taken to that restaurant for my birthday about ten years ago, was good

Alan Cumming hosts the US Traitors while wearing flashy outfits. Still a baffling line given that people actually like him and he's not a disgraced weirdo

"it's like expecting a glass of champagne and getting a glass of warm piss" - guy who hates drinking champagne and loves drinking warm piss, confusingly