PM Seeks General Election For June 8th

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  • Malthusian
    Malthusian Posts: 10,936 Forumite
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    Fatbritabroad wrote: »
    Anyone else think that would be even worse from an economic investment pov.

    The stockmarket certainly does.

    But no, it's not that likely. If you could really win a general election simply by promising to cancel Brexit, Labour would have got rid of Corbyn months ago, elected a plank of wood with "Centre-Left" drawn on it as their leader, and campaigned as a single-issue Stop Brexit party.

    The Lib Dems will only pick up people who are a) swing voters (so we're already talking less than 20% of the population) b) anti-Brexit (so less than half of that minority) c) are willing to overlook the betrayal of the student vote d) and the culture of sexual assault within the party e) and their loony Bible-thumping leader.
  • jimjames
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    Malthusian wrote: »
    their loony Bible-thumping leader.

    For a moment I thought you were talking about the Tories.
    Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.
  • Keep_pedalling
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    Why was this posted in savings and investments?
  • jimjames
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    Keep_pedalling wrote: »
    Why was this posted in savings and investments?

    Impact on investments? FTSE down by nearly 2%, largest amount since last year
    Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.
  • Fatbritabroad
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    jimjames wrote: »
    Impact on investments? FTSE down by nearly 2%, largest amount since last year
    Its a correction!

    time to buy at these much better valuations!

    Sarcasm btw
    :T
  • Keep_pedalling
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    jimjames wrote: »
    Impact on investments? FTSE down by nearly 2%, largest amount since last year

    But none of that was mentioned by the OP, it's just an announcement that everyone is a,ready away of.
  • Thrugelmir
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    jimjames wrote: »
    Impact on investments? FTSE down by nearly 2%, largest amount since last year

    That's a reflection of the currency markets movement to the news.
  • AnotherJoe
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    Pound up = FTSE100 down (and coincidentally oil down which hits the FTSE100 as well , BP down 2.5% or so i think?)
  • [Deleted User]
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    edited 18 April 2017 at 2:15PM
    Gadfium wrote: »
    A clever move by May.
    Labour have no chance of winning under Comrade Corbyn, the LibDems will offer no real alternative and UKIP have disappeared up their own fundaments.

    The Tories will get a landslide and be the authors of the hardest of hard Brexits.
    We might as well rename the place Airstrip One.
    Indeed and it's a very cunning move by May - pretend to go along till 2020 and then abruptly give minimal notice of election. It's not only likely to prevent Corbyn getting his ragbag side to come together in time.

    The SNP is in principle the only political lot sufficiently united to be able to scupper aunty May's lemming rush into a rock hard Brexit. Aunty well knows SNP are limited in their number of MPs simply by geography. There was a rumour some time recently that SNP might set up local constituency offices south of the border and field parliamentary candidates for 2020. If this were in place SNP might become bigger than Labour in Westminster. Aunty May's cunning plan is to scupper that SNP idea by giving them no time to organise it for June.
  • fatbelly
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    Doesn't she need a 2/3rds majority in parliament to get this through?

    That would need Labour mps to vote for it - are they really going to do that?
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