General Election - 4th July 2024

From Farage, unsurprisingly, but also elsewhere and social media from accounts of all political factions (judging by their bio flags). Labour have been guilty of this too pre-election, "Sunak doesn't get Britain" - Cameron, Osborne, Johnson, Blair and co - indeed most of the chattering classes - are relatively very well off/rich, but didn't have their understanding of Britain called into question in the way being done with Sunak. 

Two wrongs don't make a right. The way Sunak is talked about has wider ripples. For example, Jewish friends were uncomfortable with the way Jewish politicians of both sides were portrayed as dark, vampiric. 

I wonder where he'd be if Dominic Cummings hadn't torpedoed him? Fwiw, I'm on the Left but I think 'Partygate' was ludicrously overblown. If we end up with a FPPTP situation where non-mainstream parties get a big chunk of the vote but no/few seats will that increase pressure for voting reform? 

Keir's centre right isn't he? Not going to be too much change from a Sunak government. Starmer must be to the right of Johnson on a fair few policies. I know Johnson was a populist leader so whoever he spoke to last or was shouting loudest will lead his thoughts but not sure Starmer is going to govern with too many policies from left of centre

No that was a comment on the individual

there is no difference to older voters getting influenced by social media ..e.g, facebook..or TV as Fox News or even far crazier..

What about a voting limit of 70 year of age..or even 65

btw. here in Aachen..a city with 60.000 students…many of them will be engineers in big companies..NASA trained here for their most dangerous reparation..world class university without tuition..same in Cologne, in Freiburg…

It is all about education.

AfD had no chance… as many voted Green and Volt en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volt_Germany

wahlen.regioit.de/1/eu2024/05334002/praesentation/ergebnis.html?wahl_id=95&stimmentyp=0&id=ebene_3_id_1

Yes there's lots of evidence on the impact of Fox News in the hard right radicalisation of older voters in the US.

GB News has a similar effect though it's reach is much much smaller. Radicalisation is the issue, not the age of the voter.

I want to live in Crowbacks village, sounds interesting

I think the appropriate answer is that it evens out across the country, so no point in worrying about it. There will be people who die during the term of the parliament, and people who were 17 years and 364 days old on the day of the election, so it's all a bit arbitrary. 

I have worked at elections in the past, and I recall one gentleman telling me his wife had died a few days earlier so wouldn't be coming into vote. Her name was still on the register. They get printed in advance, and while there is sometimes an extra register with corrections, it's usually people who have registered late or possibly applied for a postal or proxy vote and it's not realistic to include recent deaths with it.

Regarding the racism surrounding Rishi's attitude to the D-Day events - it's unfortunately not surprising. I was expecting it as soon as it happened, and without wanting to remove responsibility from the racists, IMO it underline's his lack of political awareness that he couldn't see it. There was a lot of talk about how he let down the whole British people, but rightly or wrongly, he particularly represents British people of Indian heritage, and his actions played into a false stereotype. 

Historians have long tried to remind the British public of the role of servicemen from the Commonwealth in WW2. However, there is often resistance from the usual suspects, and he created an open goal for them. 

It's not fair for the lone representative of minority or under-represented groups to be expected to be all things to all people. It's not fair that when their blunders are seen as more representative than their successes. However, that's the world we live in and this particular blunder really did disproportionately let down the servicemen from the Commonwealth, and very predictably gave ammunition to racists. 

Great website for if tactical voting is your thing

www.getvoting.org/