This is not a country of Bulablu..neither is it a democracy of grabbing and running away with ballot box. Foolish olm that is supposed to be at the home for the elderly with drug past or present!

Torries conceded defeat with 24 hours until general elections polls open ~ In other words, the elections has not started, and they conceded defeat.....unlike what you get in Nigeria, where a deranged, old man with drug past would rather scheme, steal and kill just to answer president!

In an astonishing admission by work and pensions secretary Mel Stride on the eve of polling day, he said Sir Keir Starmer is likely to win more seats than Tony Blair in 1997.

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A cabinet minister has said Labour is heading for the biggest general election landslide in history, effectively throwing in the towel before polls have even opened.

In an extraordinary admission on the eve of polling day, work and pensions secretary Mel Stride said Sir Keir Starmer is on course to win a Commons majority with more seats than Sir Tony Blair in 1997.

That would leave the Tories with a handful of MPs and facing the danger of extinction. He alluded to the 1931 election in which Labour leader Ramsey Macdonald led the National Government to victory with a record 492 majority.

Mr Stride also said the opinion polls suggested Labour would win by a bigger margin than Sir Tony’s 178-seat majority, which saw Labour secure 418 seats..

Far from pitching the Conservatives as a party that can win, he said people should back the Tories as an opposition force “so we can hold this government to account going forward”.

Multiple polls suggest Labour Party is set for a historic victory on Thursday, with election experts at Survation suggesting there was a 99 per cent chance the party will take more than 418 seats, the number it achieved 27 years ago.

Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride has effectively conceded defeat in Thursday’s general election
Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride has effectively conceded defeat in Thursday’s general election (PA Wire)
Speaking to Times Radio, Mr Stride, who has been one of Rishi Sunak’s most loyal lieutenants during the election campaign, said: “Unless it's an extraordinary upset, which is highly unlikely, you're going to get a Labour government, you're going to get the change.”

He added: “We're not only going to get a Labour government, we're going to get a kind of supermajority, which is going to be this country with effectively a government that is not being held to account because the opposition is too small, too marginalised, too weak.

“And what we have to have is some balance within our parliament. And I think that is genuinely what is in play now.”

Referring to the 1931 election won by the National Government, he said it was vital to have enough Tory MPs left to challenge Labour.

Mr Stride said: ”I totally accept that where the polls are at the moment means that tomorrow is likely to see the largest Labour landslide majority this country has ever seen - much bigger than 1997, bigger even than the National Government of 1931.

“What therefore matters now is what kind of opposition we have and what ability to scrutinise government is there within parliament.”

In1931, Mr Macdonald led a coalition of Conservatives and Liberals, winning 554 of 615 Commons seats. In 1997, Tony Blair won with a 179 Commons majority, with the Conservatives reduced to 165 seats.

Mr Stride’s comments are the latest and most gloomy in a series of warnings by Conservative leaders who have given up on winning and are now focussed on avoiding a total wipe out - or Labour “super majority”.

Sir Keir said the warnings from top Tories including Mr Stride amount to “voter suppression”. The Labour leader said: “I think the Tories have run a very negative campaign and they’re failing to answer the question of what positive change they bring for the country.”

Pressed further, Sir Keir said: “It’s more of the same, it’s really voter suppression, it’s trying to get people to stay at home rather than to go out and vote.

“I say if you want change, you have to vote for it. I want people to be part of the change.”

It came as Suella Braverman urged the Conservative Party to “read the writing on the wall” and “prepare for the reality and frustration of opposition”. The party had to rediscover its “soul” and reconnect with the right to win votes, she warned.

Within hours, senior Tories hit back at her intervention. One former cabinet minister told The Independent: “I don’t know what she is thinking”. Another accused her of trying to burnish her diminishing credentials, which are thought to have diminished in recent weeks, suggesting it was the “last throw of the dice”.

A day before the general election, the former home secretary declared “it’s over” for the Tories and urged the party to conduct “a searingly honest post-match analysis” after its widely expected defeat.

A minister rejected the suggestion that the election is “over” for the Conservatives.

Andrew Griffith echoed Mr Stride’s warning that if the polls are correct, Labour will win a majority “unprecedented in modern history”.

But asked whether he agreed with Suella Braverman that it was over for the Tories, the science minister told BBC Radio 4’s World at One: “No, not at all.”

He added: “Nobody should be taking the British people for granted.

“I think what Mel was talking about was the very real jeopardy of a Labour government.”

The two senior Tories admitting defeat came just hours after Mr Sunak and Boris Johnson appeared alongside each other at a rally for the Conservative faithful. Mr Sunak hailed the “united Conservative Party” and insisted that the election result was “not a foregone conclusion”.

Meanwhile Mr Johnson railed against Sir Keir’s Labour Party, warning it would “use a sledgehammer majority to destroy so much of what we have achieved”.

But, writing in The Telegraph, Ms Braverman said victory should no longer be the goal for the Tories.

“Thursday’s vote is now all about forming a strong enough opposition,” she wrote. “One needs to read the writing on the wall: it’s over, and we need to prepare for the reality and frustration of opposition.”

Ms Braverman blamed the situation on a fracture within the Conservative Party resulting from a rise in Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

She said: “It is notable that Labour’s vote share has not markedly increased in recent weeks, but our vote is evaporating from both Left and Right.

“The critics will cite Boris (Johnson), Liz (Truss), Rwanda, and, I can immodestly predict, even me as all being fatal to our ‘centrist’ vote.

“The reality is rather different: we are haemorrhaging votes largely to Reform. Why? Because we failed to cut immigration or tax or deal with the net zero and woke policies we have presided over for 14 years.

“We may lose hundreds of excellent MPs because of our abject inability to have foreseen this inevitability months ago: that our failure to unite the Right would destroy us.”

Ms Braverman said the Tories need “a searingly honest post-match analysis”, “because the fight for the soul of the Conservative Party will determine whether we allow Starmer a clear run at destroying our country for good or having a chance to redeem it in due course.

“Indeed, it will decide whether our party continues to exist at all.”

Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch warned against letting Nigel Farage into the Conservative Party (Lucy North/PA)
Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch warned against letting Nigel Farage into the Conservative Party (Lucy North/PA) (PA Wire)
The article will be seen as a premature pitch for the Tory leadership by Ms Braverman, positioning herself to be the champion of the party’s right wing after the election. She is likely to come up against business secretary Kemi Badenoch, among others, depending on which Tory big beasts manage to keep their seats on Thursday night.

Meanwhile Ms Badenoch’s camp has been hit by fears that delays sending out postal votes in her constituency could delay any potential bid for the Tory leadership.

Councils across the country are scrambling to ensure postal votes are delivered and returned on time amid concerns that some people could be left disenfranchised at the general election.

In Ms Badenoch’s North West Essex constituency, more than 2,600 postal ballots were not sent in time, leading to fears Labour could be entitled to challenge the result if she wins by a small margin.

That would force an immediate by-election, during which time Ms Badenoch would be ineligible to stand for the Tory leadership, The Times reported.

In her Telegraph article, Ms Braverman also lashed out at the Conservative Party for being willing to “fill our coffers” with money from Frank Hester after the Tory donor apologised for saying Diane Abbott “makes you want to hate all Black women” and “should be shot”.

She said Mr Sunak was right to call out racism exposed by Reform candidates, but “cries of hurt and anger look less powerful when the Conservative Party was perfectly happy to take the money from Frank Hester”.

She added: “Remarks about hating black women were glossed over in the name of filling our party coffers. I don’t follow the logic. Nor do the voters. Whatever ‘the smartest men in the room’ might privately think, the public are not in fact mugs.”


Asiwaju get ready to concede defeat in 2027....presidency is not a birth right.Once you are rejected, leave! Otherwise wait for Oduduwa republic where you can use amala or stomach infrastructure politics to remain! Tankio!!!

You mumu never do Peter Pandora Obi should have conceded defeat during the election as he as no way of winning even if APC fielded a dog.

BigkokoRep:
This is not a remain! Tankio!!!

And yet the Nigeria oppositions aren't interested in moving on from the election loss after a year

Oppositions from hell

helinues:
And yet the Nigeria oppositions aren't interested in moving on from the election loss after a year

Oppositions from hell

Everyone have moved on

Agbadorians are the ones trapped in the past due to guilty conscience.

For instance 99% of your posts here are about Obi, SE, IPOB

Doesn't seem you've moved on

Revealpanda:

Everyone is moved on

Agbadorians are the ones trapped in the past due to guilty conscience.

Toh

Na so confusion dey start oo

helinues:


Toh

Na so confusion dey start oo

Look yourself for mirror
You're definition of confused man

Revealpanda:

Look yourself for mirror
You're definition of confused man

Una dey use una wicked support to continue keeping Kanu in prison.

That's actually unfair

helinues:


Una dey use una wicked support to continue keeping Kanu in prison.

That's actually unfair

How's that your business?
Abi u don suddenly like Kanu

Hmm

30k stipends at work..... Carry on. No be me go spoil your hustle dear!

ObiPandora:
You mu.neber do Peter Peter Obi n should have conceded defeat during the election as he was no way of winning even if APC fielded a dog.

Because it's injustice to allow a Mandate tief enjoy his stole in peace!

If Sukni dare do 1/100 of what the Mandate tief Asiwaju did, a judge will make sure they lock him away for a long time!

So you judge for your self if Asiwaju was anywhere near what a candidate should be?

helinues:
And yet the Nigeria oppositions aren't interested in moving on from the election loss after a year

Oppositions from hell

BigkokoRep:
Because it's injustice to allow a Mandate tief enjoy his stole in peace!

If Sukni dare do 1/100 of what the Mandate tief Asiwaju did, a judge will make sure they lock him away for a long time!

So you judge for your self if Asiwaju was anywhere near what a candidate should be?

You are still nursing the election loss hangover. Trust me

Talk about injustice to KANU now, they brand you IPOb....this people sef?

Revealpanda:


How's that your business?
Abi u don suddenly like Kanu

Kanu will die in prison

BigkokoRep:

Talk about injustice to KANU now, they brand you IPOb....this people sef?

ust like Asiwaju will die in so ock, right?

ObiPandora:
Kanu will die in prison

Osanooaaaa!!! Foelectionwey I no contest ni or the one I contest. You don start ohh, if i unleash my Abido Shaker on you now, it will look like I carry you for mind

helinues:


You are still nursing the election loss hangover. Trust me

BigkokoRep:
Osanooaaaa!!! Foelectionwey I no contest ni or the one I contest. You don start ohh, if i unleash my Abido Shaker on you now, it will look like I carry you for mind

You are not talking/engaging with your village people. Express yourself in a way we can comprehend

BigkokoRep:
Osanooaaaa!!! Foelectionwey I no contest ni or the one I contest. You don start ohh, if i unleash my Abido Shaker on you now, it will look like I carry you for mind

You are not engaging with your village people. Type something we can all comprehend with

Sunak betrayed Ms. Braverman. Sunak, an immigrant himself wants to send other immigrants to Rwanda. Sunak will oversee the most embarrassing election loss for the Torries in 50 years! The votes will count, this is not a Bulablu country where old, deranged men encourage miscreants to go on stealing spree!

This is the UK where democracy and rule of law is apply without fear or favor! Even the monarch dey collect wotowoto!

I am so tiired. These remote work no be here faa.... Sitting down eyes glue to a large PC screen for 6 hours na beans I go get your time yomrrow

helinues:


You are not engaging with your village people. Type something we can all comprehend with

BigkokoRep:
I am so tiired. These remote work no be here faa.... Sitting down eyes glue to a large PC screen for 6 hours na beans I go get your time yomrrow

Another incoherent bunkum

If Tinubu die overnight today he already lived an accomplished life while Kanu is still living a life of lunatic n miscreant

BigkokoRep:
ust like Asiwaju will die in so ock, right?

That adult baby called helinues is the wisest fool on nairaland,

He will soon retire same way the lizzard or chicken griller that called Buhari darling daddy for 8yrs and the other wild animal called yarimo has retired.

ezegold4we:
That adult baby called helinues is the wisest fool on nairaland,

He will soon retire same way the lizzard or chicken griller that called Buhari darling daddy for 8yrs and the other wild animal called yarimo has retired.

Is it duplex or bungalow that I am currently occupied in your Oblongata?

Hmm

ezegold4we:
That adult baby called helinues is the wisest fool on nairaland,

He will soon retire same way the lizzard or chicken griller that called Buhari darling daddy for 8yrs and the other wild animal called yarimo has retired.

No one takes him seriously on nairaland. Forget those bot generated likes he gets when he posts nonsense. He is an hungry urchin who is just trying to save face on nairaland.

The Sun front page backing Labour
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General election 2024
The Sun backs Labour on eve of election as Times also offers cautious support
After years of critical coverage, tabloid backs Labour for first election since 2005, saying: ‘It is time for a change’

The Sun newspaper has made an abrupt volte-face on the eve of the general election, putting its support behind the Labour party for the first election since 2005.

The Times, another News UK title, also offered cautious support for Starmer and his party, albeit seemingly as a result of the newspaper accepting Labour will win anyway.


After years of fiercely critical coverage of Labour and personal attacks on the leader it called “Sir Softie”, the Sun took the surprise move of endorsing the party on Wednesday with the simple message: “It is time for a change … Which means that it is time for Labour.”

The move was welcomed by the Labour leader who said: “I am delighted to have the support of the Sun. It shows just how much this is a changed party, back in the service of working people, and that is the change on offer tomorrow in this election.”

In an editorial, the Times told readers that “democracy requires change” and tellingly stopped short of urging people to vote Conservative to keep a potential Labour administration in check.

The newspaper said Starmer was “clearly a sensible man, flexible and pragmatic, a patriot committed to his country’s defence at a time of increasing geopolitical instability”, and also had praise for the shadow health secretary, Wes Streeting, for showing a “willingness to reject Labour orthodoxy and seek new solutions to the NHS’s forever crisis”.

While saying the paper “wants the next government to succeed”, however, it also said that Starmer’s party “has yet to earn the trust of the British people” and had been “sparing with the truth about what it will do in office”.


Speculation about who the Rupert Murdoch-owned Sun would support has been rife since Rishi Sunak called the general election on 22 May, with an editorial that day calling the decision to call an early poll an “almighty punt”.

But less than 24 hours before polling stations open, the Sun changed the main story on its site to one displaying its newspaper front page, featuring a background picture of a football pitch, a small picture of the England manager, Gareth Southgate, and the headline: “As Britain goes to the polls it’s … time for a new manager (and we don’t mean sack Southgate).”

The editorial begins by praising Sunak, but says that while he has “many policies which we support … put bluntly, the Tories are exhausted”.

It goes on to argue that the Reform UK party is a “one-man band which at best can win only a handful of MPs”, while the Liberal Democrats are dismissed as “a joke”.

This, it adds, “means that it is time for Labour”. It praises Starmer for changing “his party for the better”, saying that he has rooted out antisemitism, been solid in support for Ukraine and Israel and promised to build the “new houses and infrastructure we need”.

The Sun has fiercely criticised Starmer over the last few years, and took down Neil Kinnock in 1992. Composite: The Sun
There were doubts that the Murdoch-owned paper would endorse a Labour leader who had brought prosecutions against more than 20 journalists after the hacking scandal, including charges against News UK’s now chief executive, Rebekah Brooks. The former Sun editor Kelvin McKenzie had said it would be an “outright outrage”.

The leader may obliquely refer to this stating: “Common sense values are what The Sun believes in … Freedom of speech, a free Press and freedom for our journalists to expose hypocrisy and wrongdoing.”

But while the Sun’s backing of Starmer may be lukewarm, it is undeniable. It warns that the “ex-remainer” wants “closer ties with Brussels” and says he has a “mountain to climb, with a disillusioned electorate and low approval ratings”. However, it adds: “But, by dragging his party back to the centre ground of British politics for the first time since Tony Blair was in No 10, Sir Keir has won the right to take charge.”

The endorsement of the Sun has traditionally been seen as a key moment of electoral significance in election campaigns. In 1995, Tony Blair flew to a News Corp conference on Hayman Island off the coast of Queensland, Australia to meet Murdoch and was duly endorsed by the Sun in the 1997 election.

After its monstering of the then Labour leader, Neil Kinnock, in the run-up to the 1992 election – and his subsequent defeat – the tabloid’s front-page headline declared: “It’s the Sun wot won it.”

The Sun’s endorsement of Labour, which will appear in its print edition on polling day, has come far later than in previous elections. In 2009 the tabloid switched its support from Labour to the Conservatives seven months before polling day, with the announcement timed to cause maximum damage to the then prime minister, Gordon Brown. In the 2017 election, it backed Theresa May’s Conservatives three weeks before polling day.

Labour has put substantial effort into winning over the Sun’s readers, including buying full-page adverts on the outlet’s website for the final week of the campaign – to the annoyance of some of the party’s politicians.

Among Britain’s other main newspapers, the Financial Times, the Sunday Times, the Guardian, the Observer, the Independent, the Daily Mirror and the Sunday Mirror have backed Labour. The Daily Telegraph and its Sunday edition, the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and the Daily and Sunday Express have pledged their support to the Tories.

General election live: Sunak says he will take full responsibility for election result after Tory minister predicts Labour landslide – as it happened.

Rishi Sunak fearful of losing his seat, sources!

The man who was happy planning to deport people fearful for their own safety just weeks ago, is now suddenly fearful of losing his seat!

Chaiii....this life no balance at all! G-d is certainly a humbler of the proud and wicked.

Na so G-d go humble and shame Asiwaju!

ObiPandora:
You mumu never do Peter Pandora Obi n should have conceded defeat during the election as he as no way of winning even if APC fielded a dog.

Abi o

Now see the irony of life....as NIGERIA LP, omoyeebos and everyone sane opposed the Torries and wish them huge losses, these online miscreants famous for their foolishness will support Torries because one vseless Baterian mistakenly back Torries.

What they don't know is that Ronu UK chapter were getting it wotowoto from Sunak, and many of them were earmarked to be deported from UK to Nigeria!

Make una get sense Ronu people Biko!!!