PM Seeks General Election For June 8th
alanq
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Just announced that there will be a vote in parliament tomorrow to authorise this.
Just announced that there will be a vote in parliament tomorrow to authorise this.
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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.0 -
One horse race that if she wins gives her the mandate to proceed on Brexit etc on her own terms.0
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Could also impact SNP and scupper their ambitions - often pays to play the waiting game, let everyone show their hands and then strategically out manoeuvre them. Time will tell!0
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The Coalition was limited in what it could do by virtue of being a coalition. The Conservatives are limited by their thin majority. If they get a bigger majority there's a better chance of a coherent set of policies, if only on Brexit. But that's where a coherent set of policies is most urgently needed, that and what's to be done about the budget deficit.
Given the state of Labour, Libdems, and UKIP you'd have to say she'd deserve a decent majority. I'd be interested to see what happens to the SNP. Apparently as a government they're pretty bad. Will the voters respond to that?
I'd prefer a conservative/libertarian government but that's not on offer, so Conservative it will have to be. "May in June", ho, ho, ho.Free the dunston one next time too.0 -
She's got this one in the bag. Labour are unelectable right now, and nobody came away from the last goverment thinking "wow, aren't coalitions great, we should have more of them".
She also potentially has any Brexit supporters who might be wavering from other parties, while being unlikely to lose the votes of any Remainers.0 -
I'd be interested to see what happens to the SNP. .“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” --Upton Sinclair0
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It's not remotely likely but as the lib dems have positioned themselves as the anti brexit party it would be very interesting if they got enough support to overturn the referendum. Anyone else think that would be even worse from an economic investment pov. We'd be in chaos0
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Fatbritabroad wrote: »It's not remotely likely but as the lib dems have positioned themselves as the anti brexit party it would be very interesting if they got enough support to overturn the referendum. Anyone else think that would be even worse from an economic investment pov. We'd be in chaos
You're right. It's not even remotely likely.0 -
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The Coalition was limited in what it could do by virtue of being a coalition. The Conservatives are limited by their thin majority. If they get a bigger majority there's a better chance of a coherent set of policies, if only on Brexit. But that's where a coherent set of policies is most urgently needed, that and what's to be done about the budget deficit.
Given the state of Labour, Libdems, and UKIP you'd have to say she'd deserve a decent majority. I'd be interested to see what happens to the SNP. Apparently as a government they're pretty bad. Will the voters respond to that?
I'd prefer a conservative/libertarian government but that's not on offer, so Conservative it will have to be. "May in June", ho, ho, ho.
A Tory victory will put to bed the unelected leader bit and it would be a surprise if any of the other parties managed to close the gap.
I can't see the budget deficit being a major issue as we've only ran a surplus 7 times in 50 years..
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