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the snap general election thread

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  • kinger101
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    Good results for Sinn Feiin and DUP make a DUP supported Tory government (non-coalition) workable.
    "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance" - Confucius
  • kinger101
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    Three Lib dems who are all much better than the homophobe got their seats back too. Farron's days are numbered.

    Cable, Davy, Swinson
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  • chucknorris
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    Moby wrote: »
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    It's good news. It now means they can't pursue a hard brexit and will have to consider all us remainers as well in their calculations!
    David Davis a caretaker leader then we'll have another election in the autumn. The Labour Party will be energised by this.

    Although personally I think May should go, I don't think that she will, the brexit negotiations being so soon will probably save her (for now). I do hope that it puts a soft brexit back into the running though.
    Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one birdThe only time Chuck Norris was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistakeChuck Norris puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter".I've started running again, after several injuries had forced me to stop
  • setmefree2
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    Moby wrote: »
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    It's good news. It now means they can't pursue a hard brexit and will have to consider all us remainers as well in their calculations!
    David Davis a caretaker leader then we'll have another election in the autumn. The Labour Party will be energised by this.


    You seriously can't want a government "for the many not the few" - you will never win with that dumb message.

    You need to learn lessons too.

    You just lost.
  • BobQ
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    What a night.

    No winners, every party a loser, but Corbyn doing what many of us (me included) did not think possible.

    Sadly, it is Britain that is the loser. A lame minority Government propped up by the DUP, trying to negotiate with the EU from a position in which it will have no credibility

    May gambled for pure political advantage putting herself and her party's interests above those of the country, and now her arrogance is there for all to see. The election exposed her incompetence and that she was not the strong leader she pretended to be, just a vain politician.

    But the country is the loser.

    Great respect is due to the younger generation who (it appears) saw through the waffle of the establishment and finally got off their backsides to fight for something different. They may have to wait a little longer for the change they desire, however
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  • BobQ
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    lovinituk wrote: »
    How does he expect to be PM if he can't win against the least popular PM in decades? May couldn't have f!!ked up more. She was handing it out on a silver platter and Jezza still came 2nd. Now we will all suffer while there is so much uncertainty.

    This we will never know. Corbyn motivated 40% of the nation to support him. However bad May was would another leader have done as well? Or would they have done better? We will never know.
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  • chucknorris
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    BobQ wrote: »
    This we will never know. Corbyn motivated 40% of the nation to support him. However bad May was would another leader have done as well? Or would they have done better? We will never know.

    May would have never called an election if her opponent was someone else, Corbyn was a huge factor in May's (poor) decision to call the election.
    Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one birdThe only time Chuck Norris was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistakeChuck Norris puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter".I've started running again, after several injuries had forced me to stop
  • lovinituk
    lovinituk Posts: 5,711 Forumite
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    BobQ wrote: »
    This we will never know. Corbyn motivated 40% of the nation to support him. However bad May was would another leader have done as well? Or would they have done better? We will never know.
    Can they really come up with anyone worse than May? I'm not convinced.

    One thing we do agree on is the current situation we find ourselves in is not good for anyone.
  • Moby
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    setmefree2 wrote: »
    You seriously can't want a government "for the many not the few" - you will never win with that dumb message.

    You need to learn lessons too.

    You just lost.

    Naah...not even you believe that. The tories only won because the first past the post system disproportionately aided them. The popular vote was very close....something like 500k difference. You and others were predicting the demise of Labour a few weeks back. That's the point. We are back to two party politics and things are being shaken up.
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