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The keys will be f***ing shite though

“His lot” aren’t in charge. You keep making this error. The you must be Labour / Left assumption because you disagree with me is rather dull and just shows you up

On a related point… does he have PCC as part of his Mayoral duties? Just wondering if there will be a by-election where we can see some more batshit bar charts that out Lib the LibDems

Probably nothing but as the constituency doesn’t exist… we’ll get round to it

They tried to get her to stand in the election for them, so much so she had to announce it wasn’t right for her now at this stage of her career

And Braverman won’t be? Theres also a few photos of Patel in Farage’s company at the last Tory conference. She’s also been suspiciously quiet

… so what you will have is a battle between the Right wingers. Braverman Patel and possibly others. Early prediction, it’ll be Patel.

On the question of which way will the Tory Party turn this is rather relevant. Also add Penny Mordor to the list Hunt won’t run again I don’t think so the wet/one nation era will probably have to coalesce around Tugndhat. And they’ll lose

There was no will of 65.2% this is utter nonsense

Not sure on the Aussie system (not enough knowledge) but electing two chambers from one vote cycle seems utterly pointless

I’m in favour of PR, very much so but this argument holds no water. We have no idea if that’s even true the way FPTP suppresses voting. For example yesterday the turnout across Liverpool was spectacularly low. The missing votes are pretty much all Labour votes that really couldn’t be bothered voting because the seats were a foregone conclusion. The Green Party are celebrating getting 2nd in my seat with 6k votes. The Labour candidate got 23k, I think Reform got 3k and LibDems 2k. Tory maybe 1k. If everyone in the seat voted all that would happen is a massive increase in Labour votes and possibly an increase slightly in LibDem and Tory. But the Labour vote share would increase massively. This will be replicated in any safe seat for any party. Vote share is irrelevant under FPTP

Why can’t people celebrate something about themselves is the pertinent question not why does it need a celebration doh! Literally no one is stopping you celebrating your straightness, off you go and watch how literally no-one cares

That’s the haters problem though, no one else's

Vote for me so we can get two says at once seems a little wild

Hold on, when were you forced to celebrate someone else's sexuality. Sounds pretty wild that. How did they do it? Hold a gun to your head? Force you to walk round town butt naked with your ring piece pointing at the sun? How?

I think Reforms 4 MPs are much better known that the Green 4. Tice, Farage, Anderson and former owner of Southampton FC Rupert Lowe. Whereas the greens are Carla Denyer, Sian Berry, Mr Breast inflator and somebody else

It’s not upsetting, it’s a false narrative. It’s not very important, it’s meaningless because of the way the system is gamed I also don’t give a shit about Labour, didn’t vote for them

This vote share thing is also doing my nut in, it’s not relevant the way parties game play FPTP.

Sky News stats analyst this morning is awful What is the point in comparing swings between 1997 and 2024. What utter meaningless nonsense

Never understood their appeal if I'm honest

Seriously, it’s completed, there’s just one choice on it. Forcing someone to make a second preference is antidemocratic

What you’d call a spoilt ballot for someone only expressing one preference? You really haven’t thought about that, it’s anti-democratic.

Who will ultimately lose in that constituency and nothing will change, just prolongs the voting process in about 85% of seats, result mostly the same. It encourages absolutely nothing and most people won't even express a second preference

Not easy, so many unknowns with the new candidates and the terminally silent