According to Tory MP Crispin Blunt "the electorate simply got it wrong"
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General Election 2017
- Thread starter Giraffe
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East Preston Gull
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I think that now I am starting to sober up a bit, hits the nail on the head.
May did not get her whitewash and Corbyn actually lost.
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- Aug 7, 2003
- 7,820
No I haven't, but I'm not talking about the press.
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
May deserves to go, spectacular own goal and proves what a poor leader of the conservatives she is however there appears no other person in the making to take on this mantle
Dorset Seagull
Once Dolphin, Now Seagull
How on earth can a Brexit negotiation continue if we have another election in 6 months time and Labour gain power. It's not as if we can restart the clock with a new 2 year negotiation??
mikeyjh
Well-known member
After the uprising of the 17th June
The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?
I've been proven wrong.
I mocked, scoffed and I doubted, but the people have spoken, and I've learnt that Kirsty Adams actually can cure illness.
Total ****ing cock up isn't it.
mikeyjh
Well-known member
Slight nuance but I think because they couldn't stomach a second referendum is probably closer to the truth.....
Machiavelli
Well-known member
With you on this. The Tories have to play everything safe at the moment. They've inched over the line in so many seats that look very vulnerable if they go the country again in the near future. The 'momentum' is with Labour and this will only continue if there's a tryst with the big hitters in the PLP, plus even with some within the Lib Dems. Labour need to reconfigure and really present themselves as a government-in-waiting, and this will really force the Con/DUP likely coalition to tread very carefully.
And I'm back in the game!
Did someone slip some drugs into my cider last night? John McDonnell seems to be saying that Labour, with fewer votes and fewer seats than the Conservatives, have some sort of right to form a government now.
Ah, here we go, Andrew Marr is now on and basically saying he's talking shit.
Did someone slip some drugs into my cider last night? John McDonnell seems to be saying that Labour, with fewer votes and fewer seats than the Conservatives, have some sort of right to form a government now.
Ah, here we go, Andrew Marr is now on and basically saying he's talking shit.
Welcome.
Along with the SNP of course. Still fewer seats, but aligned in politics in level of delusion.
highflyer
Well-known member
- Jan 21, 2016
- 2,435
I suspect that they know that. What they are signalling is that they did far better than expected and will not start doing deals that will put them into a position that a) compromises the strong platform they stood on and b) puts them in a position that is simply unsustainable.
They know, we know, the Tories know. The only possible government is minority Tory and that will be a disaster. It's going to be another election fairly soon.
That is what the Labour messaging is now focussed on I suspect.
The leader of the DUP, the most likely partners in a Tory government, has said it may be "very difficult" for Theresa May to survive as PM.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
I think McDonnell is on the drugs....living in cloud cuckoo land
Machiavelli
Well-known member
I'm all for it, but the paradox is that this election has seen the unlikely return of two-party politics (in England at least). This doesn't augur well for PR. One thing's for certain and that's 'normality' and predictability is off the agenda, so what materialises out of this is up for grabs.
pb21
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- Apr 23, 2010
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Well they do have a right to try, they will obviously fail though.