Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org
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Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, working on Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
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Joined Oct 2022
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Let us hope constitutional law can get back to being boring again. We will be a happier polity for it.
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Ukpol
Just realised that this result happened despite the Tories redrawing all the constituency boundaries to favour them and despite their attempts at voter suppression through forcing ID at polling stations.
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David Lammy leaves open the possibility of a return to the direct grant for BBC World Service. That would be a small but remarkable thing. Let no one in the UK forget that BBCWS has hundreds of millions of listeners each week!
Morning thoughts on #ukge24: whilst we do need electoral reform and PR, the UK electorate showed they could work round this, for now. Aside from the big Lab majority, the strength and variety of MPs from minority parties seems more diverse than ever.
Old frog face doesn't look as smug now he's reached the Clacton counting centre. Here's hoping another chancer gets told. #GEUK24
#UKGE24 Chingford constituency stays with Tories under IDS. Independent candidate looked to have a moment of realisation that whatever the issue was between her and Labour, that had gifted this result.
#ukge24 Conservatives lose Welwyn. Sad day for Defence Secretaries Michael Green, Corinne Stockheath and Sebastian Fox.
Hurrah, that Russian-backed chancer Galloway is out. #GE2024
ReformUK have their first seat in #UKGE24 - but 50p Lee Anderson has lost votes since defecting from the Tories. Labour have held here and he just needs to keep showing himself to be the noisy twunt he is.
#GE2024 It's a shame that outgoing Lord Chancellor Robert Buckland has found a moderate voice. Shame he didn't use it when he was in a position to challenge Johnson and Truss.
E.g. Parliament has been a mess for the past few years, reasoned debate and due process bulldozed by May and Johnson. Whenever I watched a debate, opposition was ineffective and often grandstanding. Adding Reform into that mix is going to turn voters off even more.
Underlying all this fragmentation of the #UKPol map, the uncertainty of reconnecting to the EU: the UK itself is breaking apart after 200 years and needs rethinking before we can fix anything else.
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3rd result in for #UKGE and Greens again getting a big boost for their size.
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Whisper it quietly, but this is a very European style election result. FPTP is masking it in terms of seats though. #ge2024
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Wakey wakey America. Out of bed. You don’t want to be missing your last Independence Day do you?
Previous boost of the article by @tferrer is worth a pop through translate if you don't read Spanish. "Portillo and the Lettuce" is all about the glorious political memes and the joys of UK General Election night.
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Por supuesto, no podía limitar mi nerdismo sobre las #elecciones🗳️ en #ReinoUnido🇬🇧 a Mastodon, no.
Como pueden imaginarse, me lo he pasado en grande escribiendo esto
#autobombo🥁 https://elpais.com/opinion/2024-07-04/portillo-y-la-lechuga.html
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Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, working on Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.
Joined Oct 2022
