No lottery win anticipated...

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I won't be voting Tory and will be celebrating their decimation much more than celebrating Labour getting in, as it'll be their chickens coming home to roost, finally.

It will also unfortunately mean the continued rise of the far right but that was always on the cards and at least this time round every Tory voter ditching them for Reform is a vote the Tories lose.
If the Tories truly are wiped out bar the most truest of blue backwater bubbles, and Farage gets Clacton then I guess he stays with them, though I wouldn't rule out him jumping ship for a Tory leadership contest if they're resurging come the next election.
If that's the case then given the way the populist vote has worked so well this last eight years, expect him to be PM in the 2030s...
BMTP if the internet hasn't melted/drowned by then...

The other potential benefit is the volume of Reform, Lib Dem & Green votes/seats will help push towards electoral reform and the scrapping of FPTP.
And that's proper reform not that wishy-washy, half-arsed bollox we had a referendum on years back (which I voted for, not because I believed in the change being offered but because I wanted my number counted on the side of those pro-change in general).
That strengthens the hand of the far right, admittedly, but it also represents the left & progressives far better, making it a better sense of an actual working democracy.


...And on to the OP, with the real Wrath 'what did you have for lunch?'-type question:

An early evening loop of NR3:-
Sewell Park for poos & sniffs (just the Fenton, we can do ours at home);
onwards to sitting outside the Rosebery with a gorgeous pint of something fancy off the chalkboard;
onwards to the polling booth at the church hall just down the road (Calvert Hall, Rosebery Road Methodist);
onwards to outside Chish'n'Fips having ordered the vegan Pukka Pies'n'large chips;
onwards back home via Long Row to complete the loop and get the dindins on our trays and in our laps;
Sasha Fenton with us for the full NR3 tour (including coming inside the hall but sadly not getting her own ballot paper) and fielding a few chippy-chips off my plate before having her proper dindins.

Posted By: DJ Ginga, Jul 3, 01:37:30