2024 Election result.

So the Election is now over and Labour have the Majority - No surprise.  But looking a bit deeper and it shows how undemocratic the UK is:

 

2019 - Labour got mullered, they lost big, the worst result in Labour history.                      10.2 million votes 

2024 - Labour win a Majority, they win big, one of the biggest in Labour History.               9.6 million votes

 

How does this happen? Apathy, people couldn't be bothered to go and vote, well at least for the main two parties.  The Conservative vote disappeared, not exactly, they just went to Reform.  for the second election in a Row it wasn't won by the votes it was won by Apathy, the more the parties stay the same the less enthusiasm there is to vote in a two party system and this keeps the one of the two parties in power.  For the second Election in a row it was won by a party losing votes rather than a party getting votes.  But the most powerful party that has influenced the last two election wasn't Labour or Conservatives, but Reform.

Reform in 2019, pulled a lot of their candidates, to help the Conservatives win mainly for Brexit

This time Reform took Millions of votes from the Tories, and helped Labour win a Majority.

Both Election results have been influenced by Reform.

As Sam Coates of Sky said "A thumping Majority without a thumping share of the vote"

Whatever anyone says about Corbyn, he is the only Labour MP to increase the share of the vote since 1997, but winning is winning, power is all that matters and that is what Starmer has now.   But this is worrying for Democracy, in a country where over 60 million people can vote, 9.6 million people voted in the person of power, about 6% of the voting public voted for the party in power.  This is not a Democracy.

Also not a Democracy when a person with the most votes can't just become Prime Minister, but then has to go to see an unelected head of state to ask if he can become Prime Minister, so that 6% means nothing if the King says no - He didn't and probably wouldn't, however the fact that he has to give his blessing to what the people vote for (no matter how small the percentage is) is proof that we don't have a Democracy.

My Guess at the Election

So here goes, from what I've heard after three weeks, here is my prediction.

Labour will win comfortably, however they won't get as many votes as in 2019, but we will be back to the Tony Blair days of people getting outright majorities with less than 10 million, hope I'm wrong as the 2019 election where Boris Johnson got a majority with nearly 14 million votes is still poor when you think approx. 50 million people in the UK can vote, only 14 million votes got to choose the Government, but it is the system we have, so Labour win, but I'd expect big gains by Greens, Lib Dems and Reform, with big losses from Conservatives, however I don't think the people not voting Conservative will vote Labour this time (or in fact any time) if you look at 2019 Boris said thank you to the Labour voters who gave him his vote, I don't think they did, the figures show that while Labour lost around 3,000,000 voters from 2017, Boris only got 300,000 more votes than May did in 2017 so the people not voting Labour did not vote Tory,  also Reform pulled candidates out to help Conservatives win in certain areas.  So  getting 300,000 more people isn't that impressive.  But we are were we are, Labour will get less votes than in 2017 and I think they'll get more but not a lot more than in 2019, they'll get a Majority as Reform will take votes off Conservatives as will Lib Dems, and it will be hailed as a victory for Starmer, which it is winning is winning, but less people voting for you is bad for Democracy, but no one really cares about that.  Especially not Labour if they are in power, not the Royals if they still get their say on legislation that affects them, not the media if they have influence over Labour, not the businessmen who control the parties with money.

 

Democracy is lost.  It is lost because all the parties are the same.  Have a vote, make your choice, but the same people will still be in charge.

 

I didn't expect my guess to be so right, some of it was obvious to predict like the Labour Majority.  The only thing I got wrong was the amount of votes Labour got.  I said they'd get more than 2019, they got less!

2024 Election Blog - 4th July

So we are finally here, It is voting day where we decide which of the two parties controlled by the Media and Billionaires stay in control of the Country.  My guess of what will happen:

 

Starmer will win a Majority but will not get as many votes as Corbyn got in 2017, and will get around the same votes as Corbyn got in 2019 - around 10 million, because the winner will be Apathy

He will then go to the unelected head of state to ask if he can be Prime Minister, making all those votes countless compared to one man's say so.

Charles will say Yes, because 20-25% of the UK has voted for Keir.

The Tories will get between 75-100 seats, they will drop 5-6 million votes from 2019, so will get around 8-9 million votes

Reform will pick up 4 seats at most

The Lib Dems, Greens and Independents will make the most gains

More people will be found to have bet on the Election.

 

 

2024 Election Blog - 28th June - 3rd July

The last week.

A reform activist was caught being racist about the Prime Minister, is this news?, or is he trying to become the Reform leader after Farage gives up?

 

The Illusion of Democracy - During a Democratic Election

SNP Leader John Swinney warned that closely-fought election contests could be affected because some voters still with one week to go had not received their postal votes.

Also a Crown appointed dignitary who represented the King in Essex has resigned from her position after she appeared in a Conservative Party Election campaign material, despite her role being non-political, Sue Jackson, a deputy lieutenant of Essex appeared in a campaign leaflet for the Conservative Candidate for South Basildon and East Thurrock, as a representative of the King Lord Lieutenants and their deputy are publicly apolitical.

The Daily Mail had a pull out indicating 132 constituencies where you can "vote to stop a Starmer Supermajority", this is not a democracy when a paper is telling people who to vote for, the same goes for the website ripples who are telling people to vote tactically to get the Tories out.

How is this a Democracy when people do not vote for what they want but instead vote for what they don't want, just to try and stop the party that they really don't want?  It makes a mockery of a Democracy.  But then when you have first past the post, you have to make your vote count and voting for what you want is a "waste".

Also the same paper, same day (Saturday the 29th June), ex-PM writing on the front that "the UK can still swerve Starmergeddon", again, he wasn't warning people of this danger when 5 years ago he won an 80 seat Majority.  One kind of Majority = Good if it's Conservative, Labour Majority = Bad and needs to be stopped, this is the type of Democracy we have in the UK.

 

 

 

2024 Election Blog - 21st June - 27th June

Getting close to the end now.

And anyone keeping count it is now 5 people who are in Rishi's close circle being investigated by the Gambling Commissioner for allegedly gambling on when the General Election was going to be.  What made this funnier was the Tories brought out a Tweet with a Roulette Wheel saying "If you gamble on Labour you never win" the same day two of them were brought to the attention of the world.  If this doesn't show you that they are all in it for themselves nothing will, were they looking after their constituents?  were they looking after the best interests of the Nation?  No they were (Allegedly) making a few quid for themselves, gambling isn't illegal, but insider trading is and that is what they have been doing, using their knowledge to fatten their pockets, yet these are the people who get voted in to run the country, protect us, yet all this time they are (allegedly) using their knowledge of when the next General Election will be held to make money, because that is all that matters to politicians, not just Conservatives.... All of them are in it for themselves, if you took away their expenses (Which a lot of them were caught out fiddling), took away their second houses that we all pay for, took away their subsidized meals and drink in the houses of commons, they wouldn't bother to be Politicians, or they would still be politicians but they'd be even more on the take, what a sorry state of affairs this country is in.

The Guardian newspaper reported that over 120 Conservative MP's paid £100,000 of tax-payers money to the Conservative in-house web design services.  The Conservative MP's paid Bluetree website services to design their websites, then claimed the money back through expenses, the Conservatives do not own Bluetree well not completely anyway, but Conservative head quarters repeatedly refused to dent the party received income from Bluetree.  Yes folks it looks like you and I pay our Taxes so the Conservatives can get free websites from us - Democracy in action! 

Tory MP, Johnny "Rambo" Mercer has been accusing his Labour opposition of lying about his service record.  Now I don't know if the service record of his rival is true or not, I do know that a lot of service personal can't talk about their roles as its top secret and that's fine, but Johnny knows this too, he's also Veterans Minister (or was until Parliament was closed down for the Election), this doesn't seem like the kind of thing an ex-Army MP would do to a fellow Comrade, but when you have nothing else for people to vote for you, when you cannot use Policies to win peoples votes, then attack the other side.  No surprise the Telegraph offered him a column to spout his opinions.   Speaking of which:

The Telegraph are having wet nappies this week

21st June - Sir Jim Radcliffe attacks Labour plans days after backing Starmer

21st June - No State School spaces in Reeve's (Labour shadow Chancellor) constituency as Labour pledge private school tax raid

21st June - Labour would allow wokery to destroy Capitalism

21st June - Keir won't use private healthcare even if his kids were ill

23rd June - Raynor refuses to rule out scrapping landmark North Sea oil Project

23rd June - How Britain's wealthiest savers are preparing for a Labour Government

24th June - Keir Starmer to appoint dozens of peers within weeks of taking office

24th June - Kemi Badenoch (Tory MP) "Labour Gender plans would create loopholes for predators"

24th June - Labour accused of pressuring Gambling Commission over betting scandal

24th June - Starmer could bring back benefits Britain

24th June - "My husband might die for this country yet Starmer is insulting us with his school fees tax"

25th June - "Britain is about to be pushed over the edge"

26th June - "Sunak may have made the Biggest electoral mistake in British history"

26th June - "Labour will make every UK borough take "fair share" of migrants, says Rayner.

26th June - "Labour will come to regret it's war on wealth"

26th June - "pensioners risk £11,000 hit under Labour"

27th June - "Hinges of Corbyn coffin creaked and Starmer turned a darker pink"

 

Damn, how do people read this every day and not end up with their head exploding?  Nothing positive all the Telegraph has is fear, and it does make you wonder if this is how the Conservatives have stayed in power / control for so long?

 

2024 Election Blog - 13th June - 20th June

Half way through campaigning and things are getting interesting:

 

Labour released it's manifesto, they chose Richard Walker the exec chair of Iceland foods to launch it, which is a bit strange considering a few months ago he wanted to be a Conservative MP, I wonder what would change?  The prospect of Labour getting in or the lack of difference between the two parties?  But that wasn't the only cat out of the bag in terms of the Labour Party, because on the 18th June, ex phones4u CEO and Tory party donor John Caudwell said "I'm going to vote Labour for the first time" he then went on to say "It's a hell of a u-turn.... What Keir (Starmer) has done as far as I can see is take all the left out of the Labour Party"  In a Democracy it should be that you have more than one political stance fighting for being the PM, but in this Democracy it seems we have a choice between a right wing Conservative party and a right wing Labour Party, as these two businessmen have shown.  In a two horse race if both parties are the same the Voters lose!

The Labour party's 2017 and 2019 manifesto pledged to reform the domestic worker visa, removing the conditions that put workers at risk of modern slavery.  This pledge was not in the 2024 manifesto - Because Labour is the party of Business now?

Nigel Farage "demanded" a debate with Keir Starmer and this is strange because although I agree every party should be allowed to debate and put their points across, why does Farage think he has the right? his party has one MP and Labour have over 150, this is like San Marino demanding they play Brazil in the World cup final, but as I said every leader should be able to put their point across to the other parties in front of the Voting U.K, so if anyone can explain why Farage after failing 7 times to be elected to Parliament is able to go on all these leaders debates, yet George Galloway, the leader of the Workers Party, and current MP for Rochdale is not invited to go on?, This tells you everything you need to know about Democracy in this country and how Right wing our Media is.   But while on the subject of George, "Hope not Hate" have been sending leaflets around Rochdale telling the people to vote out Galloway, I'm just wondering why they are targeting George and not Nigel, a man whose entire "political" career has been to cause division and hate?  Again whatever your opinion of George or Nigel is, it is irrelevant in terms of who should be invited to debate, either both of them or neither.  One is a 7 times electoral loser and the other has been voted in to be an MP on 4 occasions.   I'm saying invite them all or don't invite any of them.  That is the only way this could be Democratic.

Rishi Sunak's protection officer got arrested over alleged election date bets.  Anyone keeping track that is now two people close to the Prime Minister who allegedly bet on when the General Election was going to be.  Yet so many people in the conservative Party kept screaming that Jeremy Corbyn was a danger to Security, it's almost like people in and around the Prime Minister are out for themselves and will do anything to make some money - Shocker.

The Illusion of Democracy - During a Democratic Election

It turned out that the BBC looked into a lot of Twitter account which are posting similar messages all in support of Reform, saying phrases like "Vote Reform UK" and "only Reform UK has a real plan for Britain", these are bots or paid trolls trying to distort the online conversation to try and exaggerate the popularity of Reform, trust me I got into a conversation with one, who tried to convince me that Reform is a "major Party" and at the next Election they could have 7 MP's, now I'm no mathematician but 7 out of 650 doesn't sound major, in fact it sounds like just over 1% to me, unsurprisingly once I pointed out that Reform doesn't have a single MP voted in under the Reform Manifesto (Just one MP, who was voted in as a conservative), the user started using insults.

 

The Telegraph went into overdrive

14th June - Debate winner was unclear but Rayner lost it.

16th June - Britain still doesn't have a clue about the scale of the disaster heading it's way - With a picture of Keir Starmer (If it wasn't clear that the Telegraph are terrified of Labour getting in)

16th June - If the Right can't unite, Starmer will change Britain beyond recognition.

17th June - Jeers rang out as Starmer squirmed over backing Corbyn and taxes.

18th June - Keir Starmer's original sin has come back to haunt him - A picture of Keir and Corbyn

18th June - "Savers drain pension pot ahead of Labour Tax raid"

18th June "Labour frontbencher can't say how much green energy plans will cut bills"

20th June - Keir Starmer, Corbyn's old Ally, is a threat to National Security

20th June - Labour would rig future elections by giving vote to EU migrants and prisoners, claim Tories

The only thing the Telegraph can peddle is fear.

 

The Conversation analyzed the number of appearances on Question Time of Non-Politicians in the last 10 years - The results weren't that surprising, it was a Right wing love fest, and people think the BBC is left leaning, number one was Isabel Oakenshott, who is on every right wing TV channel and newspaper going as well as currently dating the leader of the Reform party, second was Julia-Hartley-Brewer, again someone who has written for every right wing newspaper as well as appearing on talk radio and Talk TV, third was Kate Andrews, from the IEA a very right wing think tank from Tufton street in Westminster, in fact I can't see any left leaning people who made the top 13 people mentioned, however one name missing from there is Nigel Farage who did appear 10 times, I guess they view him as a politician?

2024 Election Blog - 6th June - 12th June

Three weeks after the unelected Prime Minister choose to call an election and there is only one place to start.....

 

Rishi Sunak choose to leave the D-Day remembrance early to do an Election interview with ITV

To leave the D-Day early is bad

To leave the D-Day early on an important milestone (80 years) is unacceptable

To leave the D-day early when your core voters are the elderly is inexcusable

To leave the D-Day early to do an election interview when all the parties had agreed to stop campaigning for that day is despicable

To say you already had the interview booked weeks ago when you only called the Election two weeks ago and you have 80 years notice for D-Day is just a plain face lie from a charlatan.

This doesn't prove we don't have a Democracy, it just proves that Rishi is an idiot, doesn't understand the people, doesn't respect the rules and doesn't tell the truth.... No wonder the Conservatives made him leader.

Rishi left the D-Day memorial to do an election interview, where he was asked about growing up and he said there were "lots of things he missed out on growing up such as Sky TV", as you can imagine he has had the piss taken out of him over this.  The poor kid.  Starmer was asked if he had Sky TV growing up and he said "Certainly not" Andrew Neil in the Telegraph called out Starmer by pointing out that Sky TV came out in 1989 by which time Starmer was 27.   This is another perfect example of the Telegraph supporting the Conservatives by trying a "gotcha" moment and failing, Starmer said he didn't have SKY TV, Neil said he couldn't have had SKY TV and they have managed to make a story out of Starmer saying something that is true.  To be fair it doesn't happen often!

One of Rishi's aides apparently put a bet on 3 days before the Election was called that we would have a General Election in July.  Amazingly he was right, what are the odds?  No seriously what were those odds?  Innocent until proven guilty and he is getting investigated, so I'll leave it there.

But the Conservatives didn't stop there, they produced a Poster with Keir as a Hand Puppet and Angela Rayner with her hand up the Puppet controlling him with the caption "Whose controlling Keir", however the Conservative Twitter account tweeted "Angela Rayner has already pulled Keir's Strings"...... a hand puppet does not have strings, this is just embarrassing.

The Conservatives released their manifesto, there were tax cuts, which when all the services you require are cut to the bone offering tax cuts is just a kick in the teeth to the UK, but the Conservatives have nothing to offer but fear of the alternative and cutting tax when the UK needs investments.  Keir jumped in and called it "a Corbyn-style manifesto", was it left wing?  Nope according to Keir it had "a load of everything into the wheelbarrow without explaining how to pay for it" which is strange for two reasons

1) The 2019 Labour manifesto was fully costed

2) Keir should know this as he campaigned for it, he was Elected to be an MP due to it.

Read into that what you will.

The Conservative Party Chairman Richard Holden put himself forward on a long list of one (himself) to represent Basildon and Billericay, a safe Tory seat, then refused to answer questions during an interview about his candidate selection being a stitch up.  His address is in Bishop Auckland some 260 miles away from Basildon, He then blocked Billericay and the Basildon twitter from following him.  It takes a lot to be this incompetent, maybe Rishi is giving lessons?

The Illusion of Democracy - During a Democratic Election

Everyday I went to the home page of my internet browser and it has headlines from the Newspapers, see if you can guess who the Telegraph are supporting with these headlines

Monday 10th June - "Nobody can afford Labours secret tax bill" - Really nobody?

Tuesday 11th June - "Labour has let the cat out of the bag" - and "every parent should be worried" and "Sunak is winning over voters"

Wednesday 12th  June - "We moved to Spain to dodge Labour's private school tax raid"

Thursday 13th June - Sir Keir Starmer wilted under security - Starmer "I backed Corbyn in 2019 because I thought he would lose" - Labour is about to give Middle England a simple choice: emigrate or give up - Be warned, Starmer's elite will take no political prisoners.

 

You cannot have a free Democracy if all the Newspapers have an agenda.  I expect this to get so much worse as the vote gets closer.

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to the 2024 Election Blog - 30th - 5th June

Two weeks after the unelected Prime Minister decided we should have an election, so that we can vote in one of the two main parties who are controlled by the Media and big businesses, this builds the Illusion of choice.  

Two weeks of campaigning and what have we learnt?  Labour have no policies, they only hope that people are so annoyed with the Tories that they'll vote for the Jellyfish with a quiff, they off nothing else other than not being Tory, even though they are more Conservative than the Conservatives but with Red Badges.

Rishi went around telling everyone that Labour will cost everyone £2,000 more in tax.  Basically it is because the Conservatives have nothing to offer except fear, it has always been this way, they don't run the country they loot it and the way they always get in is through deception, fear and the media always being on their side, with this in mind Rishi is going into overdrive, he has nothing to offer, so he repeats and repeats things such as "Only the Conservatives can offer stability" really after the shit show they have preceded over for the last 14 years?  He's also been saying that Keir has no plan..... He is right, hmm I guess maybe he is right.

Keir mean-while carried on where he left off last week, by doing nothing, saying nothing, being nothing, the only time he gets a mention is when he is chucking MP's out of the Labour Party or welcoming Tories. Basically the below will show you who is welcome in the Labour Party and who is not.