Current Affairs 2017 General Election

[Donald Twain]

Just got back from work. Did she really use her victory speech?

She did and sounded completely crackers!

 

[peteblue]

No way will this see 5 years. The more moderate tories (contradiction in terms perhaps) will hopefully reject most of the tat that the anti-women party will throw forward. Another election before the end of the year, allowing Labour to finish the job!

I agree that she will probably not contest the next election, but if Corbyn is still in office then there will be another Conservative win. He did well, offered free gifts to everyone while the tories did sod all and still couldn't win, the tories will not make the same mistake twice....

 

[tsubaki]

She did and sounded completely crackers!

I saw bits of it and couldn't really believe what I was watching. I did put it down to only having two hours of sleep.

 

[Connor]

 

[tsubaki]

I agree that she will probably not contest the next election, but if Corbyn is still in office then there will be another Conservative win. He did well, offered free gifts to everyone while the tories did sod all and still couldn't win, the tories will not make the same mistake twice....

It all depends on what Cooper et al do now. If they rejoin the fold they could be in for a good next election. If they stay out, he could still win but you'd expect the next Tory leader would realize who the unpopular ones nationally are in Labour and go after them instead.

 

[peteblue]

I'm delighted by the strength of the pro-union vote across the UK. Hopefully that puts independence issues to bed for the foreseeable.

I think this was one of those little recognised yet powerful successes......

 

[flibbyflob]

DUP probably been googled more today than in the previous history of google combined.

 

[bluerobert]

We've got the Christian ISIS propping up our government. I hope people understand that the troubles look very much back on.

Anti gay
Anti abortion
Anti women's rights
Religious bigots
Supporters of terrorism

The best part of it is they dont even need to be radicalised because our government already did that during the troubles when they funded, encouraged and provided resources to them. Ontop of that they don't believe kids should play outside on a Sunday because of you know, God.

 

[bluerobert]

DUP probably been googled more today than in the previous history of google combined.

I had the misfortune of living under them for a few years. Absolute joke of a policical party

 

[peteblue]

It all depends on what Cooper et al do now. If they rejoin the fold they could be in for a good next election. If they stay out, he could still win but you'd expect the next Tory leader would realize who the unpopular ones nationally are in Labour and go after them instead.

Cooper would be a disaster. There is still a dearth of real talent within Labour and the internal politicking won't go away just because they won an extra 29 seats against an incumbent government who produced a woeful election campaign. It ended up more about personality than anything else and May doesn't do personality. There are too many Labour people on the tv shouting that they won in order to justify Corbyn. The reality is that they still lost, did much better than expected but still lost........

 

[tsubaki]

despite being a contemptible Cheshire beakhead, Osborne has been on top form since last night

 

[ToffeeTim]

We've got the Christian ISIS propping up our government. I hope people understand that the troubles look very much back on.

Anti gay
Anti abortion
Anti women's rights
Religious bigots
Supporters of terrorism

The best part of it is they dont even need to be radicalised because our government already did that during the troubles when they funded, encouraged and provided resources to them. Ontop of that they don't believe kids should play outside on a Sunday because of you know, God.

ISIS?

State of this post. Criticise them deservedly all you want but don't talk utter crap. Imagine if someone called a nationalist party ISIS. There would be outrage, and rightly so.

 

[tsubaki]

Cooper would be a disaster. There is still a dearth of real talent within Labour and the internal politicking won't go away just because they won an extra 29 seats against an incumbent government who produced a woeful election campaign. It ended up more about personality than anything else and May doesn't do personality. There are too many Labour people on the tv shouting that they won in order to justify Corbyn. The reality is that they still lost, did much better than expected but still lost........

As leader I agree. Swap her for Abbott though and it is a vast improvement. The problem the PLP has is that McDonnell and Thornberry (!) did well, and Gardiner was probably the revelation of the entire campaign, so there aren't that many top jobs left for them to be given.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

How can the Govt be seen to be even handed in NI if they're in bed with the DUP?

Embarrassing

 

[Connor]