Nigel Farage has confirmed he won't be standing in the election on 4th July. However, I can confirm that he will be appearing on BBC Question Time at least 17 times between now and election day.
Re photo ID for voting. Just a note that they don't seem to accept the Post Office Easy ID app as an ID (even though that's based on legit ID like driving licence or passport.)
I don't know for certain if it's officially not accepted, but the polling station staff I asked the first time we had to use ID said no, so if you have that, don't rely on it for the election. Take along the actual ID. #UKPol#GE2024
This means you will still be able to vote, but your name and address will not be on the electoral register. Your electoral registration office will not disclose your details to anyone, unless they are legally required to.
Now there’s a GE on the way, recommendations for UK politics accounts and politics commentators who actually regularly post here (not just sporadic broadcasting or accounts that have been inactive since 2022) would be fab, if anyone has some. (Don’t worry – I won’t flood feeds with any of this stuff, although I may be a bit giddy on the night of 4 July, unless polling radically shifts before then.)
@craiggrannell Possibly worth following the #UKPol, #UKPolitics and #GE2024 tags for a bit (or skimming through them) to see who you'd like to follow more permanently.
“Sunak began to talk about his plan. He has a plan. Labour doesn't have a plan. Trust the plan. Don't go back to step one. But he was, quite literally, a man outside, in the rain, without an umbrella. He was the visual representation of someone who did not have a plan. Then the music began”.
Basically its some PHP that generates very simple/awful web pages with a CSV file as a data source (yeah it should be an SQLite DB or just statically generated data - I know) to act as random bingo cards to play along with the election, cross them off as they lose their seats :)
I have just found out that the US election is on 5 November. This, together with the Tories calling one on 4 July, is a terrible, terrible joke on us proles, right?
I shall be voting #Conservative, because only Conservatives want women and people from ethnic minorities to hold positions of power and for gay people to be allowed to marry. #ukpol
If you're not sure about if you have valid ID for getting to vote (because of the Tories bullshit voter supression laws), then just apply for a postal vote.
The fact that they'll keep replaying the GE announcement with Sunak getting wetter under the rain and D:Ream blasting in the background is something that the writers on The Thick of It would have binned as far too farcical
I don't know how anyone else feels about their personal security being in the hands of someone who can't (a) read a weather forecast or (b) use an umbrella for the biggest announcement of their career so far, but I'm not confident in their ability to keep me safe.
Rishi Sunak has stated its going to be about who the public trusts...
Not the ground on which he might be best advised to fight after a decade & half of scandals, corruption & crisis....
Indeed, he says he's going to 'earn our trust'.... well given he's been PM for some time, and is (therefore) admitting he hasn't earnt our trust already, this looks like howl statements scripted by a advisor, unless he's monumentally out of touch.... oh, hold on
@ChrisMayLA6 I’m no constitutional expert but isn’t a party leader making a Party Political Broadcast while parenthetically exercising Prime Ministerial prerogative to announce a General Election a breach of the Ministerial Code?
I thought they were supposed to maintain separation of roles?
But of course, any constitutional probity went out the window years ago
When I was in London checks watch 3 weeks ago, I was quite loud about how there wouldn't be an election until December, because who the hell would call an election after those Council elections.
Further proof that I have absolutely no idea how Tory politicians think. #UKPol