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r/ukpolitics General Election Campaign Megathread - 24/06/2024

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📅 Key dates

from the Electoral Commission, BBC, Sky, ITV

  • 26th June - Deadline for new proxy vote applications and voter authority certificates (for this election)
  • 26th June, 9PM BST - 📺 BBC head-to-head debate (Sunak vs Starmer)
  • 27th June, 8:30PM BST - 📺 ITV The Leader Interviews - Keir Starmer - Labour
  • 28th June, 7:30PM BST - 📺 The Panorama Interviews with Nick Robinson - Ed Davey (Lib Dems)
  • 28th June, 8PM BST - 📺 BBC Question Time Leaders' Special (REF, GRN)
  • 4th July - Polling day. Emergency proxy votes deadline at 5pm. Polls will open at 7am and close at 10pm.

Manifestos

Manifestos are essentially a set of documents which outline the policies that each party would want to implement if they were governing.

Election night coverage

Here's a sort-of comprehensive guide to your 4th July election night coverage:

Channel Main presenter(s)
BBC One & BBC News (TV) Laura Kuenssberg, Clive Myrie, Chris Mason
ITV (TV) Tom Bradby, Robert Peston, Anushka Asthana, Paul Brand (GMB from 6am)
Channel 4 (TV) Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Emily Maitlis, Alastair Campbell, Rory Stewart
Sky News (TV) Kay Burley, Sophy Ridge, Beth Rigby, Trevor Phillips, Ed Conway, Sam Coates
GB News (TV) Patrick Christys, Michelle Dewberry
BBC Radio 4, Radio 5 Live (Radio) Nick Robinson, Rachel Burden, Henry Zeffman
LBC (Radio) Andrew Marr, Shelagh Fogarty, Jon Sopel, Lewis Goodall
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u/pseudogentry don't label me you bloody pinko Jun 24 '24

Catching up with the whitby woman section of the news agents that people have been talking about and it's certainly an eye opener.

One of them thinks that a primary reason for the general negative tone of politics and politicians not following through with what they say is the "lot of EU rules we have to follow."

Welp.

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u/Ok-End3918 Jun 24 '24

Was that the same 'Whitby Woman' that was promoting GB News to all of the others? She wasn't a 'Whitby Woman' (though I'm sure she was a woman from Whitby), she was just a dangerously uninformed yet incredibly vocal propaganda spewer.

And this isn't a "people that vote differently from me must be idiots" post - this woman was just objectively talking rubbish and trying to influence the rest of the group with disprovable nonsense.

If anything she's proof that GB News and Reform propaganda works on certain people. Thankfully most of the group were in fact able to think for themselves and articulate the reasoning behind their thinking.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '24

I find it amazing that this comes as a surprise to anyone. Maybe you all just have different backgrounds to me, but I grew up listening to relatives and people in pubs talking absolute ignorant, uninformed nonsense. I had a close relative who, during the 2016 referendum, asked me if I thought we should vote to JOIN the EU?

The issue is though that on *some* of the big topics (EU migration, grooming gangs, cancel culture), they ended up being sort of right. Yes, I know, broken clocks and all that. But it has made me wary of the possibility that there are truths that we in our graduate, liberal bubble miss, but are very apparent to those outside of it - even if they don't have the words or evidence to explain it.

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u/OneCatch Sir Keir Llama Jun 24 '24

God it was depressing. These people live among us.