2017 UK General Election - The Verdict: It's MAYDUP

[aCunningPlan]

UK PM Theresa May announces plan to call snap general election on 8 June.

She said Britain needed certainty, stability and strong leadership following the EU referendum.

I think this is the smartest move the Torys could make, things are heading downhill for them and only looked to get worse. With Corbyn not looking like a viable PM to Middle England, supposedly, and the Conservatives holding a reasonable lead in the opinion polls this is the time to make the most of whatever advantages they have.

Labour is constrained by the Brexit result, although they could see this as an opportunity to go for broke and go full socialist and see how deep the discontent for politics as usual lies.

As far as the SNP is concerned they could make Indyref2 part of their manifesto and really get the ball rolling on getting Scotland back into the EU.

And then the Lib Dems...are they relevant?

So much to unfold, I love elections! I feel I need to binge watch The Thick of It again.

 

[The Speaker]

Hard to see anything happening other than a bigger Conservative majority. Will be interested to see how the SNP fare.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Brexit is going to be a cluster* and disastrous for England. May clearly doesn't rate her government's chances at spinning that bullshit in 2020, so here we are.

 

[aCunningPlan]

Is this man ready?

 

[ep2018]

This is what Turnbull should have done straight after he toppled Abbott

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Hard to see anything happening other than a bigger Conservative majority. Will be interested to see how the SNP fare.

Conservatives will win, majority size doesn't really matter (an election 25 months after the last one will gall a good number of people). May achieves her goal of kicking the "Empire 2.0" Year 1 election down the road to "Empire 2.0" Year 3.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Is this man ready?

The right wing media will find new ways to pretend to be offended at his mannerisms.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

 

[Bomberboyokay]

 

[darth_timon]

Unfortunately Labour and the rest aren't organised enough to push out the Tories at this point, which is what May is banking on.

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[Bomberboyokay]

Labour MPs' distaste for Corbyn could be a positive. They'll be freelancing, sounding "authentic" while their Conservative counterparts recite lines given to them.

 

[HairyO]

Clever move by a clever politician. Brexit happens easily, exactly how they want.

 

[spinynorman]

Labour MPs' distaste for Corbyn could be a positive. They'll be freelancing, sounding "authentic" while their Conservative counterparts recite lines given to them.

You'd like to think the Blairite campaigners would finally stop trying to undermine their leader, but it seems their born to rule (Labour) attitude means they'd rather destroy the party than have it actually be left wing.

 

[Hank Scorpion]

Smart move from May. Conservatives will be pushing close to 400 seats - something reminiscent of 1983.

Not convinced that there's any hope in this for Labour, even in the aftermath. No matter what the result, the party will remain a very unhappy marriage of two divided wings.

Lib Dems should claw themselves back above 10%, and make a handful of gains in some of their stronger, Remain, heartlands.

UKIP to fizzle without Farage as leader or the appeal of delivering Brexit. Voters will bleed to the Tories over time or just stay home. I doubt they'll get above 10%

SNP to maintain its iron grip. Probably only a seat or two switching to Conservatives/LD as Labour to fade into further irrelevance.

 

[tandino]

Ticks a lot of boxes for May and the Conservatives. They are at the peak of their power and there's little surprise that they're wanting to capitalise on their good fortune. It might weaken the arm of the hard-line Brexiteers on her backbench as well.

I don't understand how Labour could be competitive. They're lining up to get smashed worse than '83

 

[Generalissimo]

If, as expected, the Tories win but Scotland votes mainly anyone-but-the-Tories, it will make Scottish secession a near certainty.

 

[The Speaker]

If, as expected, the Tories win but Scotland votes mainly anyone-but-the-Tories, it will make Scottish secession a near certainty.

Not really.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

It might weaken the arm of the hard-line Brexiteers on her backbench as well.

May is a hardline Brexiteer. Hard Brexit is what England's going to get. Where she differs with the backbench is they want parliamentary oversight of negotiations and the EU powers given to them. She wants both those things going directly to the executive (herself).

 

[Bomberboyokay]

May too chickenshit to debate. David Cameron and Gordon Brown mustered up the courage. https://www.theguardian.com/politic...t-participating-in-tv-debates-before-election

 

[Sainteric]

Hard to see anything happening other than a bigger Conservative majority. Will be interested to see how the SNP fare.

The hold 54? Out of 59 scottish seats unless they stand in north england they will probablyhold or lose a few.

 

[Maggie5]

May to win in June, bank it.

 

[The Speaker]

May is a hardline Brexiteer. Hard Brexit is what England's going to get. Where she differs with the backbench is they want parliamentary oversight of negotiations and the EU powers given to them. She wants both those things going directly to the executive (herself).

She supported remain, as did almost all of her cabinet bar Davis, Johnson and Fox, and Johnson's support for it was iffy, and as did most Conservative MPs, because they are liberals wearing blue.

 

[Sainteric]

May is a hardline Brexiteer. Hard Brexit is what England's going to get.

This is just scare campaign its in neither the eu or uk for a hard exit.

 

[Ned_Flanders]

This is just scare campaign its in neither the eu or uk for a hard exit.

This is crap

Its not inthe eus interest to accept its people being banned from freedom of movement in the uk, but uk peeps get freedom of movement in the eu

Its not in the eus interests to set up separate rules for the city to ensure it remains the european financial capital

Soft exit cant occur, because the uk hardliners will never agree to europeans getting the same rights and wants in the uk that they are wanting in the eu - esp on freedom of movement

 

[Bomberboyokay]

She supported remain, as did almost all of her cabinet bar Davis, Johnson and Fox, and Johnson's support for it was iffy, and as did most Conservative MPs, because they are liberals wearing blue.

What's it like being far right?