Current Affairs 2017 General Election

[The binman chronicles]

I don't know. I really don't know. Ever since Cameron agreed to hold the bloody referendum in the first place it has been one mess after another.

Is the correct answer

But in the meantime I don't want the country to be paralysed, so May has to do her deal with the Irish, with SF abstaining they are only 5 or so short anyhow. When discussing brexit in Europe May's hard brexit views will have to be tempered due to not having the majority. We get a far more balanced deal surely?

But it is also good for Labour that they have to struggle to get things through and we know May has to go at somepoint.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Who is causing all the mess? It's the Tories. They look like they're going to die a slow death and we have to wait that out. I don't see why EU27 wouldn't allow a pause or extension. It wouldn't make sense for them to play hardball on that.

It's a stain on all their houses to be honest, although yes, the Tories come out of this infinitely worse. Labour have their share of Brexiteers though (including their leader and chancellor), and they expertly avoided Brexit as much as humanly possible during the campaign.

 

[Moomin]

A personal reflection only mate, but I think the Brexit team we were going to send - and their mindset - was an extension of the Empire days. They were going to try and bulldoze it. As soon as Macron won that was a no-hope strategy.

Embrace the chaos.

Vote Lord Buckethead to save us.

 

[orly]

And bear in mind - the old-timer Tories who makes up the likes of 92 Group will have been livid with last night, but it won't compare at all with the unbridled rage of May making a coalition / agreement with the DUP. The big beasts will be moving against her right now.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Is the correct answer

But in the meantime I don't want the country to be paralysed, so May has to do her deal with the Irish, with SF abstaining they are only 5 or so short anyhow. When discussing brexit in Europe May's hard brexit views will have to be tempered due to not having the majority. We get a far more balanced deal surely?

But it is also good for Labour that they have to struggle to get things through, we know May has to go at somepoint.

Depends on the mood of the EU folk I'd have thought. If they saw Britain as a partner then they could take clemency on the people of Britain if not its leaders and be conciliatory. If our political leaders have rankled them to the extent that it's tit-for-tat however, then you can only imagine them wanting to take advantage of the lame duck our prime minister is.

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

I don't know. I really don't know. Ever since Cameron agreed to hold the bloody referendum in the first place it has been one mess after another.

The Tories have screwed us for generations to come. First Cameron and that ridiculous referendum. Second May and her inability as home secretary to get a grip on immigration/policing/terrorism that led to the surge of retarded UKIP supporters and ultimately led to our exit from the EU. Now follows up with another major tory gaffe in calling a general election, just weeks before the Brexit negotiations are due to start and then running an abysmal out-of-touch election campaign that sees us in the right mess we are now in.

I've had enough - I'm off to Botswana

 

[Blue 1]

Ironic that the Tories spent the campaign calling Corbyn a terrorist sympathiser, and will now have to get into bed with former terrorists in order to get anything through.

I, for one, am not having those proddy bitches.

 

[orly]

Embrace the chaos.

Vote Lord Buckethead to save us.

I do embrace it mate, I absolutely hate polarised, Reagan-era politics of good one side, evil the other.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

The Tories have screwed us for generations to come. First Cameron and that ridiculous referendum. Second May and her inability as home secretary to get a grip on immigration/policing/terrorism that led to the surge of retarded UKIP supporters and ultimately led to our exit from the EU. Now follows up with another major tory gaffe in calling a general election, just weeks before the Brexit negotiations are due to start and then running an abysmal out-of-touch election campaign that sees us in the right mess we are now in.

I've had enough - I'm off to Botswana

Can't argue with that. They've been terrible.

 

[davek]

The neo-liberal grip on politics is finally broken in Britain. We now have a clear choice between the market and social democracy.

Corbyn has succeeded in his historical mission.

 

[orly]

He's absolutely trashed her for weeks, I was wondering actually if they'd remain non-committal

Don't underestimate how much he hates her

Wrote the above about George Osborne on wednesday.

Gideon was absolutely loving it last night. Beyond his wildest dreams. He's directly contributed to Twickenham to Lib Dems, Battersea to Labour and potentially, Kensington to Labour through his drip-drip-drip attacks on May in the Evening Standard (London circulation). He was always just to shrewd and bitter to take the humiliation of being sacked.

 

[gonetomorrow]

A lot of the people who voted Brexit didn't back May yesterday because, while they want an independent Britain, they don't want one with constant austerity.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Depends on the mood of the EU folk I'd have thought. If they saw Britain as a partner then they could take clemency on the people of Britain if not its leaders and be conciliatory. If our political leaders have rankled them to the extent that it's tit-for-tat however, then you can only imagine them wanting to take advantage of the lame duck our prime minister is.

Very true, but they may see it as a way of avoiding a hard brexit and maybe keep free movement and trade. I expect them to go down this route first but if the commons rejects that then the tit for tat mentality could come into play forcing a no deal and another GE.

 

[The T-Dex]

Wrote the above about George Osborne on wednesday.

Gideon was absolutely loving it last night. Beyond his wildest dreams. He's directly contributed to Twickenham to Lib Dems, Battersea to Labour and potentially, Kensington to Labour through his drip-drip-drip attacks on May in the Evening Standard (London circulation). He was always just to shrewd and bitter to take the humiliation of being sacked.

Still, wouldn't mind if he did a dead

 

[Kenshin]

So is there still any chance of Labour taking power or will May still hang onto power for another 5 years?