On the 4th July 2024, the UK held a general election. Here are my notes and links …
I celebrated/recorded the results in a blog article called “Labour Landslide“. See also, my diigo list tagged 2024, which includes some articles about the French election.
On the Politics
- What yougov has to say, “How Britain voted in the 2024 General Election“; I made a page specifically for the #sankey diagram.
- The politico.eu UK Polls page, shows a remarkable drop in Labour’s popularity during the campaign from 45% to 34%
- The House of Commons Library results page, and that of the BBC. Also the wikipedia page on the GE 2024.
- Announcing the Government and the FT’s comments on the unexpected appointments and demotions.
Manifesto
- Labour’s Manifesto (HTML) or local (.pdf)
- The Green Party Manifesto (their web download page), or my mirror.
On Money
- Labour Party raises 15 times more than Tories in donations during second week of campaign from Sky News
More on my bookmarks
Here are the 20 most recent diigo bookmarks …
- The BCC's appeal for policy, not exactly vote Labour, but pretty close. Tags: business bcc europeanunion internationaltrade industrialpolicy ge2024
- Bt the Guardian, "British Chambers of Commerce director general calls on politicians to improve ties with EU and strike better deal" get the BCC press release Tags: politics ge2024 brexit rejoineu internationaltrade BCC
- by Lewis Baston, taglined, "Labour lost more than half a million votes in areas with the highest Muslim populations, leaving it with fewer supporters overall than it had in 2019". Mainly a catalogue of successes and failures together with a review of what happened in the noughties after Iraq. Tags: […]
- The house of commons library page Tags: politics ge2024 hoclibrary
- How Britain voted in the 2024 general election. This includes a sankey diagram and a series of segment analyses. Tags: politics ge2024 yougov
- A prediction of the political shape of the next PLP Tags: politics ge2024 labour PLP
- The tagine is, Green, independent and Workers Party candidates are now Labour's main challenger in 57 constituencies – a time bomb ticking beneath the new government's majority. The article looks at the deliberate provocations of the bureaucracy, and the success of the independents and Greens and the shrinking majorities of […]
- Richard Seymour, in a typically eloquent article presents certain truths to the Left and to those Labour people who seem themselves as so. He repeats the facts which suggest that Labour's mandate is weak and like many others suggests that the price of failure is high with the UK's franchise […]
- Macron's party hope that FPN will come unstick, and they will do their best to ensure it happens using their foundational tactics of anti-leftism smearing the LFI. Tags: politics france ge2024 macron
- In France, the calamity of a far-right government has been averted for now. But the future threat is far from vanquished. The surprise third place for Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National (RN) in the second round of parliamentary voting, when it had seemed after the first in reach of an […]
- via Byline Times, Have Reform UK committed election fraud by nominating non-existent people as candidates? If so, this is probably a number of crimes but the Electoral Commission say it's for the police not them. Tags: IFTTT Feedly GE2024 politics electoralfraud reformuk
- Their list of Constituencies and Candidates. Tags: politics ge2024 democracyclub
- Labour's 2024 Manifesto Tags: politics labour manifesto ge2024
- The Greens have published their manifesto on the web. Tags: politics ge2024 greenparty
- A tabulation of the MRP publications Tags: politics ge2024 prediction