2024 Elections

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-69050450

"Rishi Sunak announces UK general election for Thursday 4 July".

With this announcement, has anyone 🦻 heard of what the major parties have install for the DWP/JCP...

Mind you if my local Tory candidate comes a knocking . I'll ask them about the success' of there party :

The Universal Credit system  

🟠 The Restart/Kickstart scheme

🟢 The Work Program.

🟣 The Channel Crossers. 🪖

The Lockdown's.

Inflation/ Price's rising.

🪵 And finally will Mel (Rt hon Mel Stride) be getting into his Stride's ..... 🧐

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/24/full-list-tory-mps-standing-down-next-general-election/

I wonder do these Member's know something that the rest of us don't 🧐. With all this jumping ship()... Glad to hear our 'Mel-$, is going down with the Captain ‍...

Little people of the forum, remember you need an acceptable form of photo id to cast your vote in person. If you lack something on the approved list, you can apply for a voter id certificate. Or register for a postal vote.

In addition to watching the football and Le Tour, I've got to get myself in shape for a general election all nighter on Thursday. I do love a Returning Officer and the myriad of municipal venues on show to the nation almost as much as the push bike racing.

Anyone else planning an all nighter and who has a wishlist of Portillo Moments they hope to see befall certain politicians, may be interested to know that the results for the loathsome Ester McVey and Mr Duncan - Smith, are due to be announced between 3 - 3.30am. Polling apparently shows neither are as guaranteed to retain their seats as previously - come on voters of Tatton and Chingford, don't let us down.

Nope....‍ I need all the 'beauty sleep' I can get....
To your comment thou Ignatius: "myriad of municipal venues on show". I always wonder how many of these 'Pop Up Venue's' there are in the UK. And how much does it cost the Local Authority/Tax Payer's.??? I dare say ( call me a Sinic, if you wish) that some people down the line make a Bruce-y Bonus , out of it arrangement. As most voters could commute to single central location, or postal ballot, or even a converted 'Flu Jab bus' if out in the sticks? 🧐

Hark at me chucking Ballast ️ overboard to save the sinking ship economy... Get back in line Pintel...

Will be doing similar to Ignatius. SO sick to the back teeth of what this government have done to UK ltd past 15 years. Especially to the unemployed, sick, and disabled.

Hope to god Labour won't be going down the same road, but very worried as they out of all parties are keeping eerily quiet about their plans for unemployed etc. I smell a rat coming.

Be a huge bag of cheese wotsits and a 6 pack for me Be pausing my movies and flicking back and forth to see what the latest voting figs are. Let's hope the polls over the past month are correct.  Think I will have a full meltdown if i see a Tory win. Be tragic.

Surely you are already handsome enough and can easily afford to miss your beauty sleep for one night, Pintel?

In most areas the count is done in a council owned venue, such as a leisure centre or similar, so not a money maker for the usual spivs. A big, unavoidable expense is paying people to staff polling stations and count the votes.

My postal vote was sent off last week so, like jobberpw, I just need to decide on my party food for the night and which TV channel to watch it on.

Anyone who plans on voting in person tomorrow - remember your photo id.

Nope, #Ignatius. As they say 'beauty is only skin deep'.. In my case its a few fathoms beneath the surface... Thats why I use name Pintel and not Prince- Charming....


Still on a positive note for you Ignatius. The Tour de France, Euro's 24,Wimbledon 🥎, and the greased up Wrestling Match that is Political Election... I'm sorry to say to me its like watching a 'One Horse race'. Still have they improved the graphics. From the days of the 'Swing-om-mater'🧭 (the cardboard poster with an arrow on it). And a presentater that hasn't been stolen from a grave🪦. Need anyone to add some Emojis, I'm your fella..

Apparently our bossman, Mr Stride, is tipped to lose his seat tomorrow. It would be funny if he then had to claim UC and suffer Restart, but I don't suppose he will.

Stride deserves to lose his seat big time taking his with his pie in the sky ideas for the unemployed, sick and disabled with him. Sad thing is, someone else will be taking over with same mentality, that's my betting anyway.

Pintel, as the forums artist in residence, we were all expecting you to have designed a swingometer.

Like jobber, I too don't expect great improvement in life under the DWP with a change in government. Nevertheless, I intend to savour each and everyone of our Tory tormentors who gets their overdue comeuppance overnight. Listening to a boffin on the radio earlier, he said by about 2pm there is enough exit poll data to know the result but as they are bound by electoral law they are sworn to secrecy.

Yes Ignatius, too right. Good riddance to them all. Particularly Bodger, Coffee, Stryder and Mog.

Sad thing is, they will carry on making bigger piles of cash somewhere else, leaving a wake of suffering behind them without as much as glimpse back.

Good riddance to the cunt party, aka Conservatives, in my opinion.  Labour's win is looking inevitable.  Not that's possibly good news.

I'm tired, so forgive me if I'm wrong or posting wrong information.  But I'm sure I read the Torys were looking into the possibility of limiting benefits, in a similar style how to Reform would like to do it.  But again I might be mis-informed.

If we voted Reform, this is something we could have been facing:

Enforce a 2-Strike Rule for Job Offers

All job seekers and those fit to work must find employment within 4 months or accept a job after 2 offers. Otherwise, benefits are withdrawn.

https://assets.nationbuilder.com/reformuk/pages/253/attachments/original/1718625371/Reform_UK_Our_Contract_with_You.pdf?1718625371 (page 12)

Now how would that affect me with long term and permanent health conditions?

Reform would probably just leave you to starve to death.

Reform are truly terrifying for the future.

Ignatius wrote:Reform would probably just leave you to starve to death.

Reform are truly terrifying for the future.

In terms of their attitude to we who don't participate (much) in the workforce, I don't know...my HOPE is that they realise how fucking disconnected the DWP is from how to get the right job per claimant, and at least move to some kind of volunteer, BUT paid schemes.

What I'd like; you have x.x million unemployed, so you create x.x openings ROUGHLY proportionate to whatever sectors (construction/facilities management/healthcare etc) we are in. Those openings can be in public, private or mixed sectors, if private then companies are heavily subsidised to give people who want to work but are just a bit lacking in interview/social skills and/or have huge gaps on their cv's holding us back. This would both fill the gaps in the cv's and give a fuckton of confidence to hitherto unsuccessful jobseekers, if you have an employer, finally, who REALLY likes having you around, you'll feel a lot better, just opens up a world of improvement. Personally I'd have taken this up like a shot, as long as they were paying a fair crack, the work didn't have me tearing out my hair, and I could up sticks and leave the minute I got a better offer, which if that didn't work out, I could go back on the scheme with no recriminations and pick back up.

No, I'm not expecting any party to do this, including Reform, BUT just that if you asked me which party was least unlikely to do it...I'd hazard Reform. BTW...I didn't vote Reform yesterday.

(Big change of topic)

However, what IS terrifying, and where I absolutely agree with Reform, is the looming threat of radical islamism. I'll just say I'm very well placed, for reasons I won't go into, to listen to their chatter, and it's quite ominous. In about a couple of decades, 3 tops, it'll come to a head, and it won't be pleasant.

Intincroi wrote:Good riddance to the cunt party, aka Conservatives, in my opinion.  Labour's win is looking inevitable.  Not that's possibly good news.

I'm tired, so forgive me if I'm wrong or posting wrong information.  But I'm sure I read the Torys were looking into the possibility of limiting benefits, in a similar style how to Reform would like to do it.  But again I might be mis-informed.

If we voted Reform, this is something we could have been facing:

Enforce a 2-Strike Rule for Job Offers

All job seekers and those fit to work must find employment within 4 months or accept a job after 2 offers. Otherwise, benefits are withdrawn.

https://assets.nationbuilder.com/reformuk/pages/253/attachments/original/1718625371/Reform_UK_Our_Contract_with_You.pdf?1718625371 (page 12)

Now how would that affect me with long term and permanent health conditions?

At the risk of stating the obvious, it wouldn't as I guess those conditions render you unfit to work.

That "contract" would result in riots, and ironically would drive down wages as desperation kicked in, you'd have hundreds of thousands of vacancies that were offering 30k suddenly advertising MW. A lot of the X million out of work WANT to work but just can't find anything. As I said in the previous post Reform would have been far better off spending extra and creating X million jobs. I'm strongly of the belief that about 99% of people who are unemployed WANT to work, just not in jobs we aren't gonna be happy doing. If those jobs were created, bye bye JC.

Ignatius wrote:Apparently our bossman, Mr Stride, is tipped to lose his seat tomorrow. It would be funny if he then had to claim UC and suffer Restart, but I don't suppose he will.

I would love to have a one-on-one with Mel Stride, Rishi, and Hunt on the restart; they wouldn't last 5 minutes. No doubt the truth comes out after 14 years of Tories control: how many disabled people have died by the DWP? How many restart participants been abused and bullied No wonder these pricks (MPs) are leaving the country after the election defeat something to hide.

Seem the Rt Hon IDS(Chingford) & Rt Hon Mel Stride (Central Devon) are still on the gravy train.. On the plus side thou Rt Hon Mr J Corbyn(Islington North), is still there..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2024_United_Kingdom_general_election_by_constituency

See how many former DWP 🧻 minister's, get a consultant role with Restart provider's.

Apart from Therese Coffey, the electoral massacre of those who served in the DWP didn't materialise.

The threat from Reform is them dragging mainstream parties ever further to the right. Reform polled strongly in mine and neighbouring constituencies - constituencies where the local population is overwhelming white and British born. Riddle me that.

A similar picture ️ in my area Ignatius. Of the 'Reform' party, getting a foot hold, seeing they started in 2018 (6x year's) to get the silver medal in my area. Against candidate's/parties that have been around decades. From the BBC site of parties across the political spectrum, the (so call) Left, did very poorly (Workers Party of Britain, Socialist Labour Party etc).


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_UK


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2024/uk/results

I keep hearing the XTC song "Making Plans for Nigel"... 🧐

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gZjZBCZWxpg&pp=ygUaeHRjIG1ha2luZyBwbGFucyBmb3IgbmlnZWw%3D

Should I get my wellies🥾 on the wade through the 'rivers' in Enoch Powell stylee.🥺

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Powell

Ignatius wrote:Apart from Therese Coffey, the electoral massacre of those who served in the DWP didn't materialise.

I did notice the former mp, Mr Damian (14 July 2016 – 11 June 2017) Green, lost his seat in Ashford....



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damian_Green


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2024/uk/constituencies/E14001069

That the one who was sacked for the porn on the work computer incident back when Theresa May was trying to be boss however many Prime Ministers ago? Well, I applaud the voters of Ashford for belatedly deciding moral standards are important after all.

Should we send a nice email to the new work and pensions boss, Liz, about the restart and how successful the Tories wasted public money maybe that would kick start a shut down immediately. 

Never underestimate the ability of these people to waste public fund's. Failed IT projects, High Speed Railway (HS-2) etc etc. So don't count your Chicken before they hatch.??? I'm putting my money on Labour, re opening the Coal mines/pits.. Gets the jobless figure's down, helps the energy crisis, and due to the Dangerous nature of the occupation. Reduce the amount of people reaching pension age..🥸 ...




🥎My Bad Ignatius, so hard to keep up with the Ministerial scandals...🧐