General Election - 4th July 2024

Galloway's party taking Angela Rayner's seat would be my dream moment. The Tory big guns falling in 97 was fun for a lot of people, Balls in 2015 and Clegg losing to a future crook in 2017 amused me.

I did feel sorry when Dennis Skinner lost his seat in 2019.

Firstly I didn’t say that the Liberals would be the official opposition, merely that there is a path for that to happen, if Labour and Liberals worked together and not compete for the same seat, I also said that mps would quit the weekend and this has happened today, especially with Gove (Surrey Heath) and Harper (Tunbridge Wells) both seats where Liberals are very competitive in. So what I am saying is that Liberals and Labour not to compete with each others and pour their resources in fighting the Tories. They might have to form a coalition after all.

Opinion polls on Sunday will be very very telling.

Sunak saying the Labour would costs families £2000 a year, this sounds more desperate than pertinent.

Wasn’t Rishi in Belfast today, outside the Titanic exhibition?

Truss - Lady Jane Grey made me laugh.

I think Sir Kier is a far shrewder politician than windbag Kinnock was. How he was able to have a second shot at winning an election I don't know. It wouldn't happen nowadays.

Mogg with his money I thought might have stepped down but might still harbour political ambitions. A lot of Tories have been clearly looking elsewhere for jobs with so many not standing or those that need to work were.

I'd imagine Sir Kier might be quite a good PM for the arts and theatre. When so many in the industry were packing his predecessor JC it always made me wonder if they had any idea what JC's attitude to their sector was?

There's little to no chance Galloway's party wins Ashton upon Lyne mostly because they are essentially a bunch of grifters.

Not that easy to enrol in schools but I expect he knows people who know people, eh?

The National Service plan although limited to 30k people and this community volunteering seems like another Rishi own goal. People will be looking to get out of it and if some get exemptions then others will try for them too.

Also why was Rishi campaigning in Belfast when the Tories don't field candidates in NI?

Never knew people from Eire who live in England get a vote in our election. I don't see why that is allowed Eire is another country just like say France!

The National Service plan is a ridiculous idea to pander to the older conservatives they're afraid of losing - the ones with the WWII fetish who never did national service themselves and think that the "youth of today" need "teaching a lesson" etc.

Mind boggling considering the mess that today's young people are walking into as young adults. Housing? Cost of living? An underfunded NHS under excessive pressures? High tuition fees having just lost two years of their education to Covid? And now they have to join the army or give up weekends when they could be studying or working?

Young people stayed home for almost two years of their lives while the Tories were having parties and they have the nerve to lecture them on doing their "national service"? I hope they get wiped out completely come July.

Well said Anthony, regardless of who anyone supports I always say the most important thing is to use your vote. If you don't please then don't start moaning about things.

A BBC vox pop of youngsters at a pop festival today indicated some of them were into the idea. It's akin to something private schools do with CCF, St John's ambulance volunteering and the like, with the aim of building confidence and experience. In an age when so many teenagers I know are glued to their phones or computer games with their heads in cyberspace I think something that got them engaged outside and in their communities could be a good thing.

What's causing your displeasure Parsley?

There is nothing wrong with young people volunteering or engaging with their communities, but this is not the way to do it. It isn't even a practical plan that can be easily mobilised. It's a costly endeavour that will require major restructuring of our services, and remove young people from many jobs in which they're already working, such as customer service for example, in a country with a population which cannot sustain this kind of undertaking.

Young people may seem to be "glued to their phones", but so what? In today's society and economy you need to be connected to what is going on in the world. Volunteering isn't going to stop young people from using social media or messaging their friends. And in fact such networking has become key to the development of many businesses.

This is all just the "Back in my day we WALKED to school, uphill - both ways!" crowd showing their indignance that the world has changed and they haven't changed with it.

Very well expressed 👍🏽