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Spectrox Celery

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Fan of Doctor Who and generally nerdy stuff. Left the bird after some unpleasantness. Materialised here. Currently trying to skeet my way through the JNT era. All views my own and don't reflect my employer or anyone else.

Spectrox Celery's avatar Spectrox Celery @whoniversal.bsky.social
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"Labour winning one of the largest victories in UK political history is an indictment of Keir Starmer and the mainstream of the party" Or something. Take a fucking day off Owen.

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra's avatar Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social
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“Mongo only pawn in game of life.”

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Spectrox Celery's avatar Spectrox Celery @whoniversal.bsky.social
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Yeah, which is why you need the question I just said rather than this one, which is useless. Obviously someone who votes Reform is no longer currently considering voting Conservative, otherwise they would vote Conservative. But that doesn't mean in other elections they don't vote/haven't voted Tory.

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Spectrox Celery's avatar Spectrox Celery @whoniversal.bsky.social
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But that's useless in terms of establishing the relationship between support for Reform and support for conservatives. People adding the two together are doing so because it demonstrates voter movement between the two. That most Reform voters were Tory in 2019.

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Spectrox Celery's avatar Spectrox Celery @whoniversal.bsky.social
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In order to properly test this, shouldn't we be establishing how reform voters voted in 2019? Obviously a voter that didn't vote Tory this time didn't want to vote Tory this time, but that doesn't mean they weren't previously Tories.

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Spectrox Celery's avatar Spectrox Celery @whoniversal.bsky.social
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The question says would they have considered voting Tory though, not whether they had ever voted Tory before

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Spectrox Celery's avatar Spectrox Celery @whoniversal.bsky.social
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That is very interesting. I guess this assumption comes from all the election night charts which seem to suggest an almost straight transfer? Many of the charts on the BBC in particular, the percentage fall in Tory vote and rise in Reform seem roughly equivalent for a lot of them.

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Spectrox Celery's avatar Spectrox Celery @whoniversal.bsky.social
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I'm glad I don't know this clown, though the flag in the profile is always a handy indication it isn't worth talking to someone. The whole "nobody has any enthusiasm for Keir Starmer" thing seems more ridiculous each hour when you consider the massive arse kicking he just doled out to the Tories.

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It's also just logistically a pain in the arse for the civil service to have to change, reorganise and rebrand everything

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I agree. That's as high as UKIP ever got as well.

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Their unbearable hectoring student union/trustafarian leader has. She's been on loads.

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"And what happened to the SNP?..."

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Spectrox Celery's avatar Spectrox Celery @whoniversal.bsky.social
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British Greens are anti growth Malthusian nutcases who have welcomed every crank Labour expelled for racism and wingnuttery

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To be fair I've seen loads of their insufferable student union trustafarian leader this morning

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Mayfair Cynic's avatar Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social
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"If the election wasn't FPTP the result would have been different" "But the election was FPTP, so that's how we ran our strategy" "But if it wasn't..." "It was" "But..." "Please stop"

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"We need to listen and learn" Probably should have started doing that about a decade ago mate.

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Horace Dorrington's avatar Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social
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"We need to reflect on the fact that we have wrecked education and policing and healthcare, filled women's prisons with rapists, covered up a Covid outbreak, nicked six hundred grand from our own supporters, and torched half of Glasgow."

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Never seen a stronger case of Main Character Syndrome in my life

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Jonny Morris's avatar Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social
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I don't want to see former Tory MPs on Strictly, in the Jungle, playing Traitors, hosting panel shows, or making travelogues or documentaries. I never want to see their smug, shiny faces again. I want them all to fuck permanently off.

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"Whatever happened to the Conservative Party?" "He's over there..."

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Mark Chadbourn's avatar Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social
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Vanity candidate Faiza Shaheen splits the vote in Chingford and gifts the seat to the Conservative’s Iain Duncan Smith #UKGE2024

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Am I the only person who heard "Ed Davey" and "Chessington" and assumed he would be at "Chessington World of Adventure"?

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Interesting that Labour would still have gained Swindon had Reform not stood.

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Thoughts and prayers with Owen Jones at this difficult time

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Prediction time based on my own playing around with numbers: Lab: 450 Con: 90 LD: 65 SNP: 18 PC: 3 Green: 2 Reform: 1

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Losing Mrs Brown's Boys is possibly the largest potential upside of thermonuclear war

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Spectrox Celery's avatar Spectrox Celery @whoniversal.bsky.social
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Alright, "Mr Fussy", what were you doing between 1933 and 1945?

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Spectrox Celery's avatar Spectrox Celery @whoniversal.bsky.social
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Ooh perfect stopgap between me putting the kids to bed and the exit poll

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Spectrox Celery's avatar Spectrox Celery @whoniversal.bsky.social
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I didn't even know there was a Basket Case 3.

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Spectrox Celery's avatar Spectrox Celery @whoniversal.bsky.social
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What about the art that specifically mocks the people who commissioned it? Like that Gainsborough he put all the hidden dicks in?

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Just got my first Reform voter on the doorstep. "I voted Reform but I hope you're lot get in". Baffling.

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Spectrox Celery's avatar Spectrox Celery @whoniversal.bsky.social
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Don't forget to put out a mince pie and glass of milk for John Curtice tonight

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"What are you doing with that pillow? Where are my guards?"

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Jonn Elledge 's avatar Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social
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"In almost every realm of government activity, this lot have made life worse. The policies referred to in every sentence in this article have damaged untold thousands of lives. The party has created the broken Britain it claimed its mission was to repair."

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Sophia McDougall's avatar Sophia McDougall @sophiamcdougall.bsky.social
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Please, everyone. It would be politically seismic, hope dawning on the broken wasteland the Tories left behind, and most importantly of all it would be so fucking funny.

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Prediction time based on my own playing around with numbers: Lab: 450 Con: 90 LD: 65 SNP: 18 PC: 3 Green: 2 Reform: 1

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Spectrox Celery's avatar Spectrox Celery @whoniversal.bsky.social
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Seven seats for Reform? Seven, Survation? That's insane!

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