Election strategies (mine!)

For GSM, the only thing in Chump's favour is, well, nothing really. In the recent trial, he claimed to be "very innocent". In fact he had admitted all that stuff back in 2016, in a set of press conferences over several weeks. [They could have shown the films at the trial?!]. He may not consider paying off hookers IS a crime, but there are rules about campaign expenses, and he broke them.

But he's been well exposed anyway as a racist, sexist, fraud, serial liar and braggart, so what's new? If the American public is willing to forgive someone who suggested bleach was a good antidote for Covid, or someone who did nothing about gun laws after the Las Vegas massacre (2017 -- only about 60 dead, hundreds wounded, "hey, salute my pals the NRA"), or the instigator of the attempted Capitol revolution, well, Mencken had it about right back in the 30s:- "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public".

Oh, and if he gets back in, remember he was referring to Putin as his pal, when he took office before.

For all those trying to make sense of the Election babbling, over a period of 6 decades, I've been voting, despite masses of evidence that our Govts are populated with incompetence, a willingness to put their and party interests above ours, and occasionally a smattering of corruption.

So don't expect too much from any of them! For those trying to make detailed analyses, well, people vote for this way or that for the most bizarre of reasons, current policy, past policy, some crook in their midst, some strange comment a Minister or Shadow made, all sorts of reasons. So whatever you choose, somebody somewhere will have made a more tenuous choice!

And for 5 more weeks our TV news gets dominated by pundits spouting guesswork about that day's press conference burblings. I wish I had a giant custard pie for the lot of them. Oh, and to add insult, Nigel Farrago is trying to actually win an election here, so let's hope Clacton voters do the right thing and pick someone else???!

I shall be mostly on the golf course or in the garden. I'm Election day I am starting my new Writing for Pleasure Group.

fancythat

As to my "strategy".
I am pretty much surrounded by people who are very interested.

Probably the last two elections, I have got up in the night.
Not sure I will do that this time. Even though I have nothing in my diary yet, that week.

Still nothing in the diary. And as it happens, been confined to the house for days.
So I may be up in the night watching. Perhaps.

I’ve had leaflets from greens. LibDems. Tories, Labour , Reform and the workers party has banners a couple of miles away, oh yes and an Independent.
I’ll vote for my neighbour, our Labour candidate
I might have a sleep then get up about 3 am to see what’s happening

grandMattie

Just to stir things up a bit... Biden professes to loathe the UK and does his utmost to damage it, whilst Trump (disgusting man, horror of horrors!) is very pro British! what a choice

So happy that I don't have to choose either of them. Why does Biden loath the UK? Is it just to get the 'Irish' American an vote?

Hell will freeze over before I vote Lib Dem.
I've never voted Tory.
I despair of KS and Labour. My family have always voted Labour. Dad was a shop steward.

I'm politically homeless. I have five other options, or I can spoil my ballot which is what I did at the last GE.

Biden doesn’t hate the UK. We just aren’t important to the US now we aren’t a gateway to Europe (politically as well as geographically).

It’s possible that I will be in hospital on Thursday, so I may annoy the rest of the ward watching the results.