Shottery Politics

Politics Department, Stratford Girls' Grammar School, Warwickshire, UK.
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[Shottery Politics @SGGSPoliticsDep]

How many 16/17 year olds in the average constituency?
What will the turn out be?
It's the right thing to do (in this teachers opinion) but will make little difference to any result.

[Election Maps UK @ElectionMapsUK]

Westminster Voting Intention [16-17 Year Olds]:

LAB: 35%
GRN: 19%
RFM: 17%
CON: 11%
LDM: 7%

Via @focaldataHQ, 14-18 Jul.

[Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @LeftieStats]

🚨 Voting intention of 16/17 year olds 👇

🔴 LAB – 33%
➡️ REF – 20%
🟢 GRN – 18%
🟠 LD – 12%
🔵 CON – 10%

Via @StrategyMerlin, 4-6 July

[Shottery Politics @SGGSPoliticsDep]

16 year olds to vote!

[SHHS Politics @PoliticsShhs]

Voting systems

[Britain Elects @BritainElects]

The polls, one year since the general election:

Reform: +14.1
Greens: +2.6
Lib Dems: +1.5

Conservatives: -6.7
Labour: -11.1

👉https://t.co/pFlJ82iJj3

[British Electoral Politics @electpoliticsuk]

Westminster Voting Intention:

REF: 26% (=)
LAB: 24% (=)
CON: 16% (-1)
LDM: 15% (-1)
GRN: 11% (+1)
SNP: 3% (=)

Via @YouGov, On 6-7 July,
Changes w/ 29-30 June.

[America News @AmericaPartyX]

MAGA is the past.
Woke is a distraction.
The Middle is the future.
America Party is the Party of the Middle Majority.

[Shottery Politics @SGGSPoliticsDep]

This will either be big or it won't.

[British Electoral Politics @electpoliticsuk]

NEW:

John McDonnell, Diane Abbott and Clive Lewis have all said they will not leave Labour to join Jeremy Corbyn’s new party.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Encouraging

[British Electoral Politics @electpoliticsuk]

NEW:

Jeremy Corbyn had not agreed to this announcement being made and is reportedly “furious and bewildered” with it.

[Sarra Jenkins @LGS_Politics]

Y12 - *Add this to your case study*!! 26 sessions, 48 amendments considered, vote-a-rama, 3 Republican noes, and Vance casting tiebreaking vote!! Now back to the House 😬

[Jon Sopel @jonsopel]

The political ineptitude and mismanagement of this is epic. The whips office, the Downing St operation, and DWP should be hanging heads in shame. And truly disastrous for Keir Starmer and what’s left of his authority

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame!

And they will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth.

[@SOT6FPolitics @sot6fpolitics]

The welfare bill passes! But 42 Labour MPs vote against it. That's too many for the whip to suspend but Starmer will be relieved he avoids a defeat, although he did have to make some drastic changes to keep backbenchers happy. All Cabinet ministers vote with the party #CMR

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

If this insane spending bill passes, the America Party will be formed the next day.

Our country needs an alternative to the Democrat-Republican uniparty so that the people actually have a VOICE.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: No 10 has now confirmed major U-turns on the welfare reform Bill:

- All current PIP claimants will forever remain on the existing system and assessment

- Planned changes to PIP assessments for new claimants from November 2026 will now be subject to a Ministerial review, led by the Minister for Social Security and Disability, with input from disabled people and organisations

- The UC health element will be protected in real terms for all existing recipients and new claimants who meet the severe conditions criteria

- Billions in more funding for job support will be brought forward

[@SOT6FPolitics @sot6fpolitics]

Either Starmer will have to delay the vote or compromise on the bill. Backbenchers can have power, with over 100 threatening to vote against their leader.

[Shottery Politics @SGGSPoliticsDep]

BBC News - Warwickshire County Council leader resigns, leaving 18-year-old in charge - BBC News
https://t.co/MMtAO6qWt4

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

See how your MP voted here: https://t.co/QIbnVVevl1

Labour: 291 ✅ 25 ❌
Tories: 8 ✅ 96 ❌ (incl Badenoch)
Lib Dems: 63 ✅ 2 ❌
DUP: 5 ❌
Green: 4 ✅
Reform UK: 4 ❌ (no Farage vote)
Plaid Cymru: 4 ✅
SDLP: 2 ✅

Other MPs abstained, including the Cabinet