[Albion] The election up all-nighter

WATFORD zero · May 4, 2024

Harry Wilson's tackle said:
Also you will recall the last coalition.

When the Liberal voters discovered that they would not get all their policies into law, and indeed the Liberals had to concede some of their most beloved policies to their coalition partners, the liberal voters skweemed and skweemed 'betwayal' until they were sick, and the Liberals then sank without a trace.

Coalitions means nobody ever getting what they want.

FPTP means that some of us get most of what we thought we wanted some of the time.

That's because we can't do proper grown up coalition politics like the rest of the world seems to manage with our unorthodox FPTP system, we only do Red or Blue and each time we switch from one to the other, apparently everything is the previous incumbents fault :facepalm:

I wonder why we have those two lines that run down the middle of the house of commons, two sword lengths apart that no other democracy seem to need ? :wink:

Soton Seagull · May 4, 2024

West Midlands go Labour. Huge victory as popular concensus was Andy Street was doing a good job.

Sunak's bumhole must be flapping at 100 mph!

Dick Head · May 4, 2024

A1X said:
Sky reporting Labour have taken West Midlands mayor

clapham_gull · May 4, 2024

What a decent man Andy Street is. The last decent Conservative leaves the room.

A1X · May 4, 2024

Guinness Boy said:
This is absolutely awful. The woman’s lack of humility and gravitas is incredible. Basically, the Tories put up a female Timmy for Mayor

f*** me what a passive aggressive response that was, London certainly dodged a bullet there

Harry Wilson's tackle · May 4, 2024

Zeberdi said:
https://www.chathamhouse.org/2024/02/labours-ditched-ps28-billion-climate-pledge-sends-wrong-message-uk-cop-energy-commitments

So they have rolled back the extra spending they had previously estimated they would spend.

I don't really know what that means. It sounds like they had planned to spend some money, then they decided to increase that, and not they have decided to reduce the amount of extra spending.

I guess in a world where the opposition is constantly trying to second guess how much money to spend on what, if they become the government, they are entitled to change their mind.

Radio 5 now has a phone in with people already queuing up to claim that British politics is broken.

Mmmmmm......broken? Like football, it is a funny old game.

Right time for the football league highlight :thumbsup:

A1X · May 4, 2024

Dick Head said:
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“Rishi…you got no fans”

Hugo Rune · May 4, 2024

Guinness Boy said:
This is absolutely awful. The woman’s lack of humility and gravitas is incredible. Basically, the Tories put up a female Timmy for Mayor

The contrast to Andy Street is quite astonishing. Chalk and cheese.

Zeberdi · May 4, 2024

A1X said:
f*** me what a passive aggressive response that was, London certainly dodged a bullet there

Right? I’m just surprised in her ‘concession’ speech, that she didn’t suggest the election was a ‘steal’

WATFORD zero · May 4, 2024

Hugo Rune said:
The contrast to Andy Street is quite astonishing. Chalk and cheese.

There used to be good honest hardworking Conservative Politicians but the majority left when Johnson was elected. Andy Street was the last remnants of a previous generation. Susan Hall gives a perfect precis of the Conservative party of the 2020s.

TomandJerry · May 4, 2024

Labour’s Richard Parker beat Conservative Andy Street by 1,508 votes to become mayor of the West Midlands.

Peacehaven Wild Kids · May 4, 2024

Springal · May 4, 2024

Peacehaven Wild Kids said:
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Guinness Boy · May 4, 2024

Springal said:

Laura Kuntsberg, the BBC’s official Tory Party spokeswoman.

A1X · May 4, 2024

Springal said:

In most jobs, someone this important getting something like this so catastrophically wrong would lead to serious questions being asked of them as an individual, be interesting to see if that happens here

KZNSeagull · May 4, 2024

BBC News Unverified Live

chickens · May 4, 2024

Guinness Boy said:
This is absolutely awful. The woman’s lack of humility and gravitas is incredible. Basically, the Tories put up a female Timmy for Mayor

I’m not sure she meant to, but I think she said that she would continue to stand up to women and motorists.

Let’s hope she doesn’t stand up to a non ULEZ compliant vehicle, the brakes tend to have started deteriorating on vehicles that old.

pb21 · May 4, 2024

Eeyore · May 4, 2024

pb21 said:

It's a bit like us still wittering on about the lifting of the Oxford Benevolent Cup in 1985 as evidence of a huge knockout victory in our history.

Harry Wilson's tackle · May 5, 2024

clapham_gull said:
What a decent man Andy Street is. The last decent Conservative leaves the room.

Such a contrast to the London rat. The bloke who beat Andy Street was very classy too.

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