Special General Election Day Q&A | The News Agents

A special polling day Q&A.
#generalelection2024 #uk #ukpolitics #keirstarmer #rishisunak #nigelfarage #reformuk #conservatives #labour #News #Politics #NewsAgents #EmilyMaitlis #JonSopel #LewisGoodall
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[@mackerbrew804]

Get the tories out everyone

[@stephfoxwell4620]

@@mackerbrew804 They're gone. The inevitability of gradualness.

[@Squarepeg57]

There’s still time to vote out the Tories!

[@stephfoxwell4620]

Wipeout to Help out everyone. Five hours to go.

[@BasiaofBrooklyn]

Hahaha.

[@chriselliott726]

Let's hope it's much worse for the Tories than they can ever have imagined.

[@Ninjjadog]

😂😂

[@kevinthepilgrim5441]

Congratulations for providing the most incisive commentary on the election. I’ve learned so much.

[@stevesretroloft]

Drink prepared for 22:00 for the exit poll - might set the alarm for 2-3 in the morning to watch the tories crying in sports centres across the country. I'll be watching the BBC to enjoy Laura K trying to put a positive spin on the result for the tories.

[@mir-dr]

Schadenfreude is the sweetest flavour.

[@Ninjjadog]

Or getting dragged off to the gulags 😂😂 Fkin hate her

[@Joe-og6br]

Laura K to a Labour MP "You only got a majority of 160, some polls said 200+ Has tonight been a failure for the Labour Party?"

[@shayZero]

I voted at 7:20 this morning and it was already busy. I know one little village hall isn't much to go on but it's the busiest I've seen it before

[@peterjhillier7659]

At 77 years of Age I have never voted Tory certainly never thought I would ever see this Country so low and divided all because of the curse of Brexit, I hope the Tories remain unelectable for decades.

[@turnerdali4676]

Hear hear.

[@karenstorch9285]

Brexit is not a curse, the way it's been "not implemented" is a curse! Britain will manage to turn it round and get it functioning the way it was intended to.

[@newpeasantsrevolt]

Total nonsense- at 77 you should know better! Its not Brexit it’s Tory cronyism, corruption and total incompetence

[@maxfracture2185]

@@karenstorch9285 We've left the EU, no longer in the single market or customs union, freedom of movement has gone. In what way has Brexit not been implemented?

[@vicicooper4720]

@@maxfracture2185 boxes of regulations still untouched, not leaving the ECHR and government effectively being run by quangos and the Civil Service - all remainers and lefties.

[@Nomoreanons]

Especiallly considering the relative young age of Lewis - he's enthusiasm and knowledge of election trivia is really impresssive!

[@OhSuseFish]

Long time podcast listener and have only just realised I could have been watching you all

[@elliotm]

Echoing some of the questions asked here, thank you all for the excellent coverage.

[@seanbradley2134]

This is my ‘go to’ podcast. Very bright connected people with fantastic discussions. Love it

[@HP_2435]

Gawd, I'm so excited! Wish I could hang out with the News Agents tonight - you guys are my people - total weirdos

[@jermaineishmael7225]

You guys have been brilliant, intelligent, balanced, fair, knowledgeable, Interesting and funny af, have really enjoyed your coverage helped me understand the ups and downs of what's going on, has been so enjoyable, going to miss this...THANK YOU! ❤

[@richardomahony8865]

You guys are just great.

[@richardjakobek7477]

Wonderful stuff, as always. I can’t wait for your first post election podcast.

[@markjlewis]

Love your observations, I'm genuinely addicted to your podcast. Your wealth of experience is second to none. Looking forward the exit polls in around 70 minutes time.

[@alexhuxley3355]

Q&A are the best bits

[@juliewake4585]

I had great hopes for Ed Miliband and still think he could have made it as a decent PM.

[@parshakamarsh]

He's currently still my local MP and standing again today

[@alanknight3778]

Well, it's morning here in New Zealand, so I've taken the day off to sit and watch the whole thing unfold.

[@FriedTheo]

I love these 3

[@doubledigital_]

do ya national service and vote out the tories!!

[@1701enter]

Thank you ! your enthusiasm is infectious!! Given that you were talking of wine and other beverages have you thought of a more inebriated pod cast ? that would indeed be epic

[@MalkWilliams]

That last comment from Lewis was an incisive piece of analysis! Looking forward to tonight!

[@catherinemartin6258]

Labours got six votes from my household.

[@michellegormley236]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 wow

[@greyvoice7949]

Six fools... Labour started the Rot although one John Major was an absolute disaster for the Country! You obviously have not worked it out yet... But you have plenty of company!

[@michaelm8529]

​@@greyvoice7949blame the Tories for being absolutely incompetent. They broke their own laws while denying people attending their own parents funerals. For that alone, they don't deserve a single seat

[@hornetgamer8980]

I won't sleep until the King has done the necessary.

[@stephfoxwell4620]

About 11.20am tomorrow then.

[@hornetgamer8980]

@@stephfoxwell4620 the alternative is waking up with the Tories still in charge ;)

[@stephfoxwell4620]

@@hornetgamer8980 The Tories were finished 4 years ago.

[@davidgormley7990]

Seppuku?

[@alundavies1016]

If the Tories follow the GOP playbook as much as they have so far, maybe Sunak will stamp his foot and refuse to go to Buck House!

[@geezerbutler4582]

Get the curry and beers in This is going to be epic

[@gavindoyle692]

For once the time difference will work in my favour. As I live in Guadalajara 🇲🇽, where we are 7 hours behind BST, the exit poll will come out at 15:00 our time. So I will be able to watch everything with interest on Thursday afternoon and evening, and get to bed at a sane hour.

[@michaelm8529]

Washington lad at the beginning!! My home away from home. Congrats to your sister George

[@DustyCarlyon]

Well 3 Labour votes from our home in Samantha Niblett's constituency. Holding thumbs for her.

[@catherinemartin6258]

Got six votes from my household for labour and Amanda hack .

[@tonysadler5290]

For my daughter's future (and the rest of us come to think of it), thank you all 🎉. 3 votes for Labour from our house in Monmouthshire.

[@jamiemcmillan7660]

Jon, it’s “Once more, with feeling!”

[@utopiate75]

I'm not sure I want it to be over. Watching the Tories disintegrate over the last few weeks has nourished my soul.

[@vicicooper4720]

Hope you are going to enjoy living under a statist, marxist regime. You do know Starmer used to be a trotskyist?

[@chrislaing7153]

Guys - Great edition of TNA. Love to hear how it works behind the scenes. Would love to have a follow up as a wash up from tonight - war stories from C4 and LBC studios.

[@JjLl2221]

I’ll be multi screening from Canada. Looking forward to your coverage this afternoon from the west coast

[@Verixx]

You guys have done a fantastic job over this election. Love Lewis' politics nerdery. You all deserve a vat of wine and gums when this is over.

[@MyRainbowangel]

5.30 pm have voted but it's a changed vote. Have a great election and loving the podcast

[@biscuit4259]

Why and who?

[@mrpocock]

If the Tories are the largest opposition party but the minority of the opposition seats, can the Lib Dems and others form a coalition opposition? Is that constitutionally a thing?

[@finger3181]

No, but opposition parties often vote together to defeat the government. But if the Lib Dems are the main opposition, I can't see them ever joining the conservatives. They did once and it finished them as a party for years. Can't see them doing again

[@tonysadler5290]

They could form a coalition, but it's a stretch to claim to be the largest opposition party, however it would be up to the Speaker to recognise who commands the support of the largest opposition group - under this arrangement they might just swing it. I recon either way it'd would be challenged in the court - therefore I think the court would decide it's up to the Speaker.

[@allanfarran364]

I don’t normally vote but voted Labour today. I would have voted for anyone to get the crooked Torys out.

[@tonysadler5290]

Well done 🎉 😊, all the best !

[@karenstorch9285]

Shame you couldn't bring yourself to vote REFORM . Do you really think Liebour is going to be an improvement

[@PeppermintPatties]

Thank you for voting! Nothing ever changes if we don't vote when we have the chance. ❤️

[@markbriten6999]

​@@karenstorch9285why would anyone vote for a lying lazy grifter.... Oh they did for bozo. Only difference he was more subtle then national front sorry Nigel Fartage

[@karenstorch9285]

Why do you feel the need to resort to slander and untruths. Reform is supposedly the party with individuals who do that, surely not Labour voters. I think you are in need of a mirror to look into. Hateful response. Sad.

[@patriciakeegan7819]

Will be going to bed at usual time. ❤

[@markbolsover3145]

fascinating, in the era of podcasts & "im-mediate" media, to get an insight into the culture of the *build-up* to coverage of an election as it unfolds. ... thank you.

[@user-iq4js7kj1y]

Time for a sweepstake as to who with be the first sitting Tory MP to lose their seat?

[@markbriten6999]

That's basically all of them then. Loooong odds

[@user-iq4js7kj1y]

Who had Sir Robert Buckland then?

[@anonymouse68]

John Sople said "kiss the ring", fnarr, fnarr!

[@HongKongShooey]

George Washington should go to bed now and get up at midnight and stay up until he leaves for his train.

[@ColinSmith2001]

The exit poll tonight will likely be pretty accurate on the national voting picture, but with so many of the "Tory seats that may be just about possible to hold" swinging on maybe a few hundred votes, the size of the FPTP majority might take a bit longer to become clear?

[@chrismclaughlin6323]

in bed trying to nap. taken a holiday tomorrow alarm set for 9.30 oh yes

[@Republic73uk]

Looking forward to a long night...

[@AllAboutHealthandFitness33]

Worrying times.

[@kenmay1572]

Exit polls are fine but no Portillo moments to see and I hope to see dozens of them.

[@stevenwilliamson6236]

Chris Patton was an under minister in NI and did the policing report.

[@stevenwilliamson6236]

Alan Johnson talking to Lansmann in one of the Corbyn elections was interesting.

[@Claymore5]

I've already loaded the fridge with alcohol - it could be a long night....

[@quangobaud]

Boo! Boo! Boo! Boo to you, sir! ... Oh, hello, Emily. 🎉 Say hello to Caroline Wyatt for me. She is the best of us and a future Pope.

[@harlangrove3475]

US general elections are Tuesday after the 1st Monday in November, so on 2-8 Nov, never on 1 Nov when that's a Tuesday.

[@johnkeilloh2682]

I didn’t vote Reform, none of my friends or family votes reform and I don’t know anyone who voted reform

[@al1356]

You’re not looking very hard are you. If it’s a low turn out that will help Reform even more

[@johnkeilloh2682]

@@al1356 I don’t live in an area that people would vote for an English national party, their leader wouldn’t come to my constituency

[@greyvoice7949]

So you want more of the same and are a huge part of the problem... Democracy does not exist and whoever you vote for it will be an establishment party so more of the same thanks to people like you! But you do need to get out of your echo chamber... Considering Reform voters are all over the internet... Are you young or old? If you are old then you must be walking around with your head in a bucket given the ever cycle of Labour , Tory , Labour , Tory... And things just continually get worse , never better. Almost like they all have a competition to wreck the Country the most!

[@SunofYork]

All down to the share of the vote by constituency now... Has reform hurt the cons while not gaining many seats themselves

[@markbate5583]

Do the rules on broadcasting apply to News Agents which is a bit between broadcasting and not broadcasting?

[@rogeredwards2411]

Sunderland, Teesside? Please Jon. Wearside!

[@unlikeable8619]

I voted Labour...really want a George Orwell's 1984 society

[@polmcsuibhne7657]

i voted LABOUR get all the Tories out ...forever

[@brianyule1289]

Jon would be advised to wear a false moustache and fake nose if hes visiting Sunderland anytime soon having said it's on Teesside.

[@Linda-go2lux]

Sunderland is Wearside !

[@GeorgeCarlinsToothbrush]

Tyneside and WEARSIDE!!!

[@c1carnage933]

Tories on set for BIBLICAL OBLIVION !!!

[@Simply1ism]

Will a massive majority mean that in the Commons that MPs will need to sit on the opposing sides seats 😂

[@user-vt9yu6fg8n]

Wearside not Teeside Mr Sopel!

[@M_Bamboozled]

There must also be an Abraham living in Lincoln.

[@lukeelgon6399]

In the halcyon days of my preteen innocence, our junior school mock election was far more important than the real thing. Anyway, we were sure that the country was bound to follow our well reasoned campaign speeches. Imagine our shock when the 60 percent win by Jo Grimond in our school vote in 1959 wasn't emulated the next day nationally.

[@kellypaws]

"An intensely personal moment." Would you seriously try to make me feel sympathy for people that have spent *14 Years* stirring up hatred and demonising the most defenceless people? I think not. I have less than no sympathy for any of them at all.

[@rhone81]

Vote early, vote often.

[@accountnamewithheld]

Vote Reform!

[@varunsarna460]

'No Goodall' hahaha

[@BasiaofBrooklyn]

I just canceled a very young US friend who was going to come round because she'd never understand and I don't want to try and explain 'hung parliament'.And I don't want to talk. Am I really mean?

[@colinbaker3916]

Sunderland is Wearside, not Teesside.

[@Teasehirt]

Reform 2024

[@biscuit4259]

Christ!

[@henryblunt8503]

Oh dear, Mr Sopel, you have managed to offend both the Wearsiders, who will feel you've confused them with Middlesbrough, and all of us living on the banks of the Tees who really don't want our lovely river to be associated with Sunderland, thank you very much.😂

[@thomasscottwilliams6672]

How do podcasters redefine their questions when they are journalists on the traditional media such as the neutrality of the bbc

[@graemearnott5816]

George from Washington should just stay up all night and just sleep on the train! ( p.s. Washington like Sunderland is in Wearside, not Teesside as Jon mis-spoke I'm afraid - that sort of thing matters up here (where we often feel overlooked or under-favoured for our neighbours on the Tyne and Tees) which is why there's so much rivalry over even seemingly minor matters like getting the vote counted quickly) ).

[@abdultuaheb123]

Audio not working

[@dlamiss]

you are lucky

[@flamboyentpromotions3471]

No the exit poll was right in 1992, it was the polls b4 that were wrong

[@jamiemcmillan7660]

Who ate Emily’s laptop?

[@user-iu7ji8ik1s]

Get the snp out

[@cameirusisu1024]

stay up? lightweight lewis will bottle out as he has done at all recent elections.

[@pennyyoung2291]

Wearside! Not Teesside🤪

[@StuartReynolds-wy8hu]

VOtE DefOrM

[@biscuit4259]

Morfed tevo

[@janpetersen7440]

I just found out that 'FPTP' actually comes from British horse racing (first horse to pass the finish line wins). Interesting that politicians are put in the same category as horses. 🤔

[@LONDONGUY100]

Bit odd. On the subject of the Friday handover nobody mentioned that assuming he wins, Starmer does not go to the Palace till after Sunak has been to the Palace.....to formally resign....and get his P45. There is no vacancy till that has happened. In this process that is the final and very public humiliation for the loser.

[@Ulleskelf]

The best speech was from Reg Keys, the father of a serviceman killed in Iraq, at Sedgefield. Tony Blair had to stand there impassionately and listen to him being decried for sending the armed forces to that war.

[@markbriten6999]

Difference is Tony Blair took it. Tories would be on the media having a go at 5 mins past

[@maxfracture2185]

@@markbriten6999 Farage would have sued Keys.

[@markbriten6999]

@@maxfracture2185 yes proving that he's evil

[@J-wm4go]

Voted Green in a *very* safe Labour seat as a warning to the party that, once in power, they need to offer much more than they’ve hinted at so far to keep my vote

[@MaShip-tb1lt]

Sadly it’s an English election

[@bunnyhunny2936]

Get the Tories out! Awful party full of narcissistic egomaniacs

[@dannyquinn9128]

There's no audio.

[@tonysadler5290]

Is your sound on?

[@dannyquinn9128]

@@tonysadler5290 yes every other video is working for me. I thought my headphones were broken to start with

[@dannyquinn9128]

​@@tonysadler5290it's working now.

[@user-ol3xe5fz4u]

FFS..it was my mothers birthday.."it was all about me"..pathetic

[@TheVedabuss]

No audio folks, abort!

[@mattylumley5538]

Niche nit-picks : Sunderland/Newcastle rivalry is Tyne & Wear, not Tyne & Tees (that's Middlesbrough)

[@Nebuchadnezzar-Wildebeest]

Mister Sopel - geography FAIL; Newcastle versus Sunderland is NOT "Tyneside versus Teeside"!!!!

[@douglasfielder4621]

Stop talking over each other because we can't understand anything.

[@jn4126]

Get the torries out by getting the new torries in! Aint democracy sweet ...

[@misterpwood]

Just lost all respect for Jon after that Tyneside Teeside comment. Sunderland is not in Teeside.

[@dermotcooper4713]

What do you lot know about Ted's piano? Emily, you were 4 years old........

[@chazardlondon8883]

My drink is ready! Not because of this though. Nothing will change, drink to that.

[@vicicooper4720]

These people behave exactly like they were at an Islington dinner party.

[@parshakamarsh]

The word smug could have been invented for them

[@maxfracture2185]

It's called a discussion. We used to have them 14 years ago.

[@fornothing312]

...or maybe a dinner party in some kind of soulless London suburb where bank managers and estate agents live. People in Islington would probably have a better idea of what a podcast is supposed to be.

[@vicicooper4720]

@@maxfracture2185 What I am seeing is a supercilious, superior believing, smug and sneering fest. Words may sound like a discussion but body language and tone say otherwise.