Off Topic General Election

General Election called

What will you do?

(A tip, there is no Brexit party to vote for)

 

Yes there is,they already in power and will double their majority no problem.

 

My hope is that Labour are decimated (actually, I hope for far worse)

 

They will all be decimated,Lab,Lib,and Jimmy crankies snp won't do great IMO.There leaders will all resign,which will be good but it won't worry Mrs May as she will have a massive majority to override any stay whiners.

 

The timing is another example of her dishonesty and contempt for the electorate. What would happen if she lost (no I don't think she will either) - she has triggered Article 50 and NOW she goes for an election. If she was going to do this she should have called it before article 50, she's had 9 months.

Oh and who said "The next general election should be in 2020" ?

 

Don't forget Mrs May was one of yours,she just believes in representing the people.

 

So much for fixed term parliaments.
You got to wonder how bad the news is that coming down the track. there is no other reason for calling an early election apart from political opportunism.

I will be voting liberal democrat

 

I will vote tactically, for whoever has the best chance of beating the conservatives

I expect the conservatives to win a bigger majority, as there is no credible opposition

I expect them to continue to provide very little detail on the substance of Brexit, but to claim they now have a mandate for whatever they end up doing

I expect the liberals to do moderately better, but that's all

I expect labour to be smashed

I am less confident Labour has it in them to learn from being smashed

I see no sign of any alternative centre left realignment

I think we will remain as ****ed as we are today

Happy Easter

 

its a very shrewd move on Mays part.
Decimate labour in the local elections and then go straight into a general election meaning Corbyn cant be ditched.
One question how much extra does it cost to have two elections local/ national rather than having both at the same time. There is a cost for this vanity project and austerity policies seem to say there is still no money to be squandered.

 

I'll be voting Tory

 

Never happy are you Victor,you wanted another vote,well you've got it,between her kicking your arse and you voting Liberals,looks like you're going to have a sore arse summer.

 

Had to happen one day,I agree you're fooked

 

Political opportunism if you ask me masked in the name of unity with the Artical 50 legislation now in the bag.

Miles clear in the polls so Labour will be wiped out and May given a 100+ majority which I'm not sorry about, May needs the mandate and she'll get it on June 8th so it can no longer be used against her as an unelected PM like so many before.

 

May needs a parliamentary two thirds majority to get around the fixed term parliament and Labour have promised to vote with the government.

 

The Turkeys are voting for an extra xmas

 

I'm voting for the PM's party.

 

I am going to have stop reading you on political threads

It's not a second vote it's a GENERAL election - guess why it's called that. All sorts of factors come into play, not least how friggin useles Labour are

But you are right she will try to claim it's a mandate for Brexit when she wins (and she still won't have told you which version)

 

That's the one bit of good news in this

 

Are you starting for a third vote even before you lose the second.​

 

I'd like a second one

When it's clear what a **** up we have got from the first one

This isn't a second vote on brexit