712: General Election 2024 in Review

Rob and Tom discuss their favourite thing, a General Election! The biggest actual poll there is…

Topics

• [0:00] Intro

• [1:39] We Had a General Election

• [4:08] The Labour Party

• [18:48] The Conservative Party

• [31:37] The Liberal Democrats

• [46:08] Reform

• [1:01:38] The Greens

• [1:11:10] The SNP

• [1:17:34] Wales

• [1:25:34] Outro

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• BBC - UK General election 2024 Results

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• Recording engineer: Ennuicastr

• Theme song: Handel's Water Music (Public Domain under CC0 1.0) with Big Ben Chimes (By hyderpotter under CC0 1.0).

• Main Image: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer arrives at Number 10 Downing St by Number 10 under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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711: General Election Manifestos 2024

Rob and Tom discuss the 2024 General Election Manifestos for the 3 main parties (Part 2 of 2)…

Topics

• [0:00] Intro

• [1:16] Lib Dem Manifesto

• [18:28] Conservative Manifesto

• [36:02] Labour Manifesto

• [54:00] Quick Polls Update

• [1:00:35] Outro

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• The Papers

• Lib Dem manifesto: 11 key policies explained - BBC News

• Conservative manifesto 2024: 12 key policies analysed - BBC News

• Labour manifesto 2024: 12 key policies analysed - BBC News

• Electoral Calculus

• Politico Poll of Polls

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Attribution

• Recording engineer: Ennuicastr

• Theme song: Handel's Water Music (Public Domain under CC0 1.0) with Big Ben Chimes (By hyderpotter under CC0 1.0).

• Main Image: Keir Starmer at the Labour Manifesto Launch

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710: General Election 2024 So Far...

Rob and Tom discuss the run up to the 2024 General Election (Part 1 of 2)…

Topics

• [0:00] Intro

• [2:30] General Election Feelings

• [24:55] Labour’s Campaigning

• [34:01] Outro

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• The Papers

• Evan Edinger on Political TikToks

• Electoral Calculus

• Politico Poll of Polls

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Attribution

• Recording engineer: Ennuicastr

• Theme song: Handel's Water Music (Public Domain under CC0 1.0) with Big Ben Chimes (By hyderpotter under CC0 1.0).

• Main Image: Ed Davey having a whale of a time

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709: Local Elections 2024

Rob and Tom discuss a whole load of local elections and what might be in store for the (now announced) General Election…

Topics

• [0:00] Intro

• [4:05] By-Elections

• [10:06] Local Council Elections

• [27:57] Mayoral Elections

• [47:12] Police and Crime Commissioners

• [48:48] Quick Polls Update

• [56:17] Outro

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• The Papers

• BBC: Local election results in maps and charts

• 2024 United Kingdom local elections

• 2024 Blackpool South by-election

• Sadiq Khan on track for third term as London mayor – but nearly half of Londoners dissatisfied with performance

• Electoral Calculus

• Politico Poll of Polls

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• Recording engineer: Ennuicastr

• Theme song: Handel's Water Music (Public Domain under CC0 1.0) with Big Ben Chimes (By hyderpotter under CC0 1.0).

• Main Image: Count Binface via Twitter

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708: Have the Tories Lost the Plot, Or Will the Plotters Take Top Spot?

Rob and Tom discuss a grab bag of headlines and how the polls are looking for Rishi Sunak…

Topics

• [0:00] Intro

• [1:27] Budget 2024

• [15:32] Lee Anderson & Reform UK

• [29:56] How is Rishi’s Leadership Faring?

• [36:22] When is the General Election going to be?

• [43:50] Poll Update

• [47:33] Outro

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• The Papers

• Spring Budget

• Polling Tweet

• 2024 Local Elections

• Electoral Calculus

• Politico Poll of Polls

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• Twitter

• Facebook

Attribution

• Recording engineer: Ennuicastr

• Theme song: Handel's Water Music (Public Domain under CC0 1.0) with Big Ben Chimes (By hyderpotter under CC0 1.0).

• Main Image: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visit to Horsham by The Conservative Party under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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707: Keir Starmer, What Do You Stand For?

Rob and Tom discuss the Popular Conservatives, transphobia at PMQS and what policies Keir Starmer is likely to put forward…

Topics

• [0:00] Intro

• [1:07] What is PopCon??

• [22:44] Does PopCon Matter?

• [31:21] PMQs

• [45:49] Keir Starmer, What Do You Stand For?

• [1:13:17] Quick Polls Update

• [1:21:30] Outro

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• The Papers

• Liz Truss is offering lessons on how to be popular

• Labour Party: Missions

• Electoral Calculus

• Politico Poll of Polls

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• Facebook

Attribution

• Recording engineer: Ennuicastr

• Theme song: Handel's Water Music (Public Domain under CC0 1.0) with Big Ben Chimes (By hyderpotter under CC0 1.0).

• Main Image: Keir Starmer, 2020 Labour Party leadership election hustings by Rwendland under CC by SA 4.0

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706: 2024 Predictions

Rob and Tom make predictions for 2024…

Topics

• [0:00] Intro

• [1:28] General Election Predictions

• [23:25] Conservative Predictions

• [34:17] Labour Predictions

• [55:23] Lib Dem Predictions

• [58:32] SNP Predictions

• [1:03:03] US Election Predictions

• [1:13:16] Outro

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• The Papers

• Electoral Calculus

• Politico Poll of Polls

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Attribution

• Recording engineer: Ennuicastr

• Theme song: Handel's Water Music (Public Domain under CC0 1.0) with Big Ben Chimes (By hyderpotter under CC0 1.0).

• Main Image: 2024

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