Current Affairs 2017 General Election

2017 general election

  • Lib Dems

    Votes: 24 6.5%

  • Labour

    Votes: 264 71.0%

  • Tories

    Votes: 41 11.0%

  • Cheese on the ballot paper

    Votes: 35 9.4%

  • SNP

    Votes: 4 1.1%

  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 4 1.1%
  • Total voters
    372
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roydo said:
Indeed.

It will be to get the Queens Speech through, then May will duck and weave to get some sort of traction re Brexit, then lose a Confidence vote, resign, and another GE before Christmas.

Gamble will be that Corbyn was a high water mark this week, (who knows?), and the Tory high command wont make the same mistakes again.
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The DUP must negotiate July and marching season first. That could be an eye opener for some in London etc
 
LouReedwalkonthewildside said:
Won't May have to give some of them a position in government, a job so to speak.
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No it will be supply and demand on votes like the Queens speech, the budget etc with their input of a special deal also to help the DUP to get back in place in the Irish neither Parliment, its messy tbh
It will buy her time to,make way for another conservative leader maybe, no way would she survive another election in October as that is being muted!
 
hullefc said:
The Tories/May never dealt with this during this Brexit election that wasn't a Brexit election after all.
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To be fair, it should have been debated in the referendum really. That was the cause of this chaos, a vote based on lies, fabrication, and ignorance.

Democracy eh? Great stuff.
 
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roydo said:
I have actually been a counter in a few elections believe it or not.

You are watched, like a hawk, by 2 or 3 members of the main parties. Like a small desk, with a pile of ballot papers, that you count into bundles of 25 iirc, for each party. These are then counted by the party members, (their own obvs), then put into another pile, then counted again, in like bundles of 500 or so.
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how can the same cards be counted differently. mind boggles
 
roydo said:
Think thats actually the Tory plan.

Based on concluding that this was a Corbyn high water mark, they have traction in Scotland, (seems mad typing that, but strange days), and have a semi competent campaigner in the hot seat.

This DUP thing is purely to get the QS through.
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I don't believe last night was in the script whatsoever for the Tories. Utter catastrophe for them. Yes, they effectively won but lets be real, they lost and lost in a big way.

I think the Scottish votes were a rejection of IndyRef 2 and Labour can make inroads there ahead of a second snap election, especially if Dugdale gets her act together and gets in line.

Aye, Davidson has done an unreal job helping the Tory party win multiple seats for the first time something like 30 years in Scotland but still, if Labour can finally get a grip up there and get their act together, they can flip those anti-IndyRef 2 voters who went CON last night.
 
There's no convicted terrorists in the DUP leadership. Unlike their main adversaries. Obviously they aren't your stereotypical Westminster party. But this isn't a place with a particularly normal history either. Simplistic mudslinging seems to be all I see on twitter today.

Just saying...
 
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