Separate Moan Thread About The Election

Fairly close run contest here. Lab 37%, Con 32%, Ref 20%, Green 5%, LibDem 3%.

I've now to wait and see what our new MP (old one retired because of serious health problems) is going to do to help solve local problems.

Too soon to start moaning about the new MP as that wouldn't be fair. So may start moaning tomorrow

I feel sorry for Larry the cat with all the comings and goings.

 

Yet we are already seeing taxation at it's highest level since WW2 - so how high does it have to go to solve the problem? If it was a dual strategy, coupled with cracking down on waste, we'd likely get somewhere.

 

This should worry us all:



Those who would normally be centre-right/right in their politics simply haven't bothered to turn out because they've felt they had nobody to vote for (it would appear, at least), rather than there being a groundswell of support for Labour. It appears that Scotland has handed Starmer around 10% of the seats - again, because people are sick to death of SNP.

Ah well, good luck to Starmer and whoever he picks for his cabinet, they've got a country that is in a proper mess - who knows, if he makes a dent in fixing it before the next election, he might even win votes like mine back to Labour.

For sure, looking at some of the numbers, the FPTP system is not reflected in percentage of votes across the country.

 

Johnathon Ashworth initially comes across as quite a nice guy, however the more you see him, the more you see an arrogance about him (or at least I did) that was only ever backed up with soundbites.

 

Unfortunately no. The Labour candidate, now MP, was the only one who said absolutely nothing for the villages. I'll give him a little bit of time to get settled before pestering him. There are a quite a large number of voters/groups that shall start pushing so his office will be kept very busy.

 

Bleedin' Tories won in my area - I don't get it at all. Off the back of Kwarteng's performance, if that wasn't enough to kill their chances, I don't know what is. It has long been said locally that folks around here would vote for a dog turd if it had a blue rosette on it, and it seems that is the case.