UK General Election 2024 - July 4th

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genuinely starting to wonder if the lib dems will indeed get more seats than the Tories now :D
It would be quite funny and, in a WAY, welcome - there's the potential for the right to just splinter at this election and find themselves unable to stitch something by back together that is electorally viable for several years. The centre/very soft right may look to the Lib Dems because of the coalition, despite them really being a soft left party at this stage plus they're giving some disaffected Labour voters somewhere to go.
 
Like is he STUPID!?

He must have done a million test questions about “how can you relate to the British people?” and the best him AND they could come up with is he went without Sky!?

I’d have more respect if he said “you know what, I fucking can’t but I’m out there listening to my constituents day in day out”

This is it. The answer isn't really the issue because it's all relative. I'm sure there are plenty of people who would've perceived "going without" as a kid to mean luxuries rather than fundamentals (sidenote: still salty that I didn't get the Deluxe Megazord for Christmas in 1993). Rishi's problem is that he/his advisers have never worked out how to square the circle of his wealth and privilege in a way that doesn't make him seem out of touch. It's rather alarming (if not at all surprising) that falling back on the 'he's a man of the people' angle has evidently been deemed the less damaging approach than trying to project empathy or understanding.
 
This is it. The answer isn't really the issue because it's all relative. I'm sure there are plenty of people who would've perceived "going without" as a kid to mean luxuries rather than fundamentals (sidenote: still salty that I didn't get the Deluxe Megazord for Christmas in 1993). Rishi's problem is that he/his advisers have never worked out how to square the circle of his wealth and privilege in a way that doesn't make him seem out of touch. It's rather alarming (if not at all surprising) that falling back on the 'he's a man of the people' angle has evidently been deemed the less damaging approach than trying to project empathy or understanding.
Why is 'I was extremely fortunate, I was brought up in a financially secure home, and I want every child to experience the same' so difficult?

Presumably because you don't give a shit, but plenty of others would be able to pretend with a modicum of believability.
 
Why is 'I was extremely fortunate, I was brought up in a financially secure home, and I want every child to experience the same' so difficult?

Presumably because you don't give a shit, but plenty of others would be able to pretend with a modicum of believability.

Exactly. His team must surely, at some point, have tried feeding him these lines and tested to see how they land.

He really is an unfathomably bad politician.

I did wonder how ITV would approach airing the interview (or if they even would), given the furore around it. Surely, SURELY, someone on his team must've looked at it and thought, "Oh, shit. We really can't have them broadcast that and make a bad situation ten times worse"
 
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Just been for a peek on Twitter during my break and it is AWASH with Dishi Sunak, Dishy Sunak, Rishi No Dishi etc.

he's FUCKED.
 
Starting to feel keen on Lib Dems being 2nd, however much of a pipe dream that is. If the Tories aren't even the official opposition, their airtime should plummet. I mean, it won't and we all know that but it does feel like a genuine change to the conversation is viable - Labour government, Lib Dem shadow cabinet as the official opposition, Tories and Reform, battling in the sidelines. Of course, their media coverage would initially be wider and more intense than that afforded to the Lib Dems but that wouldn't be justifiable in the medium term.
 


Why is Ed Davey pretending to be above these please? It isn't like he is getting on the leaders debates, and Swinney has been doing the Scottish debates.
 
It's been articulated better elsewhere but it does say something about how invested our media are in a certain narrative that Ed Davey has to do all of this Takeshi's Total Wipeout Castle shit to get any attention at all, while Farage so much as coughs and the media are all over it.
 
Rishi Sunak: Labour's £2000 Taxes! Fuck D-Day! I've never watched Sky Atlantic!

Keir Starmer: Save the NHS! Stop the rot! Time for a change!

Reform: Fuck immigrants! Hitler was misunderstood! Stop throwing pies at me!

Lib Dems:


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Why is Ed Davey pretending to be above these please? It isn't like he is getting on the leaders debates, and Swinney has been doing the Scottish debates.
Because someone might bring up his not-insignificant role in the Horizon Post Office scandal while he served in the coalition government. Why face scrutiny when he can send Daisy Cooper to do the debates and spend six weeks playing the harmless buffoon instead?
 
Didn't see Starmer, but this is going pretty terribly so far for Sunak
 
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