#ge2024uk — Public Fediverse posts

Blog post: UK cartogram round-up https://open-innovations.org/blog/2024-07-31-uk-cartogram-round-up
Now that the dust has settled, this post is a round-up of some subjective thoughts on the varied cartograms that were used in the recent UK General Election.

#hexmap #ge2024uk #dataviz

I'm not sitting up all night while they try to drag meaningful discussions out of this, I'll find out the result in the morning. Wake me up if anything particularly unexpected happens.

#GE2024UK

Two results in:
https://ge2024.hexmap.uk/

#hexmap #ge2024uk

Good to see Andy Burnham not letting John Redwood get away with his Tory bullshit. #ukpolitics #ge2024uk

If anyone wants to print out and colour in your own UK general election hex map, here's a PDF I made https://open-innovations.org/projects/hexmaps/colour-your-own-uk-general-election-2024.pdf

#hexmap #GE2024 #ge2024uk

Final call for improvements to our UK constituency hex map layout.

Edit the layout at https://open-innovations.org/projects/hexmaps/builder.html?https://raw.githubusercontent.com/odileeds/hexmaps/gh-pages/maps/uk-constituencies-2023.hexjson

Some of the rules we tried to follow when designing it https://open-innovations.org/blog/2023-08-03-hexes-for-the-next-general-election

#GE2024 #GE2024uk #hexmap

Anyone ever done a 'community project bingo card'? Don't think people have any idea how broken the system is and how much social work type stuff small, poorly funded local organisations like us have to do. This week I have spent hours talking with hospital, police, post office and train station staff, council, housing team, GP surgery to track down a missing person and get them the help they need. Hopefully all sorted now .. absolutely none of this is my job but we have the local connections to do it. For those of you wondering where social services fits in, I could not get hold of social services at all.. was on hold for an hour and gave up. Please vote to get #ToriesOut on Thursday! #BrokenSystem #ToriesOutNow #CommunitySupport #ge2024uk #election2024

Note to leaders of Labour, Conservatives, LibDems, SNP.

#GE2024UK #UK_Politics

"A Labour landslide is nailed on, ..., so vote with your conscience for Greens or independents if you want to put pressure on the party about the #climate crisis or war in #Gaza.

Polls mask many ‘undecideds’ and fuel Labour worry about mobilising voters | General election 2024 | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/20/polls-mask-many-undecideds-and-fuel-labour-worry-about-mobilising-voters

#GE2024 #GE2024UK

Former #Tory minister, Chris Skidmore, withdraws his support for Sunak's now #climate denialist party.
Should have gone the whole hog and supported the #GreenParty.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/20/tory-minister-need-labour-government

#GE2024UK

For those who want to be old-school on the night of the 4th of July, I've made a colour-your-own UK General Election 2024 hex map as a PDF (version 1) https://open-innovations.org/projects/hexmaps/colour-your-own-uk-general-election-2024.pdf
#hexmap #GE2024 #GE2024uk

there are TWO DAYS remaining

https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

#ukpol #generalElection2024 #ge2024uk #ukGeneralElection

The libdems have added "Liz's Law" to their manifesto

"Introduce new rules to ensure that a Prime Minister must have served for at least one year before becoming eligible to access the Public Duty Cost Allowance fund."

#ukpolitics #ge2024uk

#ukpolitics #ge2024uk

"In a referendum in 2011, PR was rejected by the public, who weren't convinced the voting system was a problem that needed to be fixed."

BBC lying about PR here. AV isn't proportional. We've never had a referendum on PR.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqeevzldj0jo

#Sunak says he will bring back National Service if Tories win general election

https://ground.news/article/sunak-says-he-will-bring-back-national-service-if-tories-win-general-election_155d37?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=newsroom-share

if this isn't an attempt to get all the gammons get all teary at the "glory days" "when men were men and not afraid to go to war" I don't know what is

#ge2024 #ge2024uk

@LadyMirtazapine you're assuming an ability to conspire and plan beyond anything Mr Sunak has yet been able to demonstrate.

Look, my 1st election (1992 ge) was in u/g holidays (and days from a major field trip), and a postal vote was trivial. If it is "too much of a hassle" for an abled bodied person to get a postal vote, then they probably shouldnt be voting.
#generalelection #ge2024 #ge2024uk

Sure sure sure, it's great we finally get to vote the Tories out, but I think we’re all losing sight of the most important question:

Who’s anchoring the results coverage?

#UKGeneralElection #GE2024 #GE2024UK #GTTO #UKPol

I am #roaring at the trolling of #RishiSunak when announcing the #general #election.

Yes Rishi, things indeed can only get better.

#GE2024UK #GeneralElectionUK #ThingsCanOnlyGetBetter