General Election - 8th June.

boltonbonce wrote:I remember an exchange with Bread,just after JC was elected Party leader,and I think I said something along the lines of 'I think I've got my Party back'.
Nothing since has changed my mind on that,and I was fair punching the air this morning.
OK,we didn't win,but what's been achieved is remarkable.
And he's done it in the face of a  series of disgusting personal attacks from the right wing media,and in spite of the dummy spitting antics of the PLP.
Well done that man.

boltonbonce wrote:What's been great to see,is the enthusiasm of younger voters.

In passing,is it me,or is May trying to pretend nothing's happened.

Natasha Whittam wrote:You sad bastards, celebrating defeat!

I am disgusted that the party I voted for came a miserable second.

I'm thinking of standing myself next time, just to make sure it's done right.

Natasha Whittam wrote:You sad bastards, celebrating defeat!

I am disgusted that the party I voted for came a miserable second.

I'm thinking of standing myself next time, just to make sure it's done right.

Natasha Whittam wrote:More importantly, are the DUP fox lovers or haters?

Sluffy wrote:What a complete mess the Conservatives have got us ALL in.

Cameron with the unnecessary 'Brexit' referendum in the first place, then May WEAKENING her power by embarking on a general election that wasn't planned for another three years (although I could see her logic for doing it).

Now we've got May having to form a coalition government with Arlene Fosters DUP who herself is a sort of 'mini-me' Theresa May with the massive on going scandal in Northern Ireland of the Renewable Heat Insensitive Scandal (link below)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_Heat_Incentive_scandal

It seems May has undermined her own authority to negotiate Brexit with the EU and such how can her position as Prime Minister be tenable and good for the country?

It seems to me that we've got a lame duck PM, leading the country into a Brexit deal propped up in power by the Northern Irish DUP (Northern Ireland voting to REMAIN in the EU - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-36614443 ) that probably the majority of the country no longer wants - certainly not the people of the party that will now be propping up the Government!!!

It's going to be a nightmare negotiating Brexit - the EU knowing she has failed disastrously to get the mandate from the country she sought - and in Parliament where all the other party's will be opposed to any sort of deal she is seeking to get.

I can't see this being good for anyone.

To my way of thinking the only way out of this stupidity is to re-endorse the will of the country to want Brexit - and the only way to do this is by a second referendum.

If it still returns the country's desire for Brexit, then it gives whoever is in government the mandate to continue (and shuts up the 'remoaners' and their pettiness and bitterness in steering Brexit through Parliament) and if it 'overwhelmingly' shows Remain then we then go cap in hand to the EU seeking a way to stay in the EU and end the Article 50 exit that we are currently going down.

The bigger picture needs to be addressed for the future of us all.

wanderlust wrote:And yet 43% of the electorate voted for them.

Sluffy wrote:What a complete mess the Conservatives have got us ALL in.

Cameron with the unnecessary 'Brexit' referendum in the first place, then May WEAKENING her power by embarking on a general election that wasn't planned for another three years (although I could see her logic for doing it).

Now we've got May having to form a coalition government with Arlene Fosters DUP who herself is a sort of 'mini-me' Theresa May with the massive on going scandal in Northern Ireland of the Renewable Heat Insensitive Scandal (link below)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_Heat_Incentive_scandal

It seems May has undermined her own authority to negotiate Brexit with the EU and such how can her position as Prime Minister be tenable and good for the country?

It seems to me that we've got a lame duck PM, leading the country into a Brexit deal propped up in power by the Northern Irish DUP (Northern Ireland voting to REMAIN in the EU - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-36614443 ) that probably the majority of the country no longer wants - certainly not the people of the party that will now be propping up the Government!!!

It's going to be a nightmare negotiating Brexit - the EU knowing she has failed disastrously to get the mandate from the country she sought - and in Parliament where all the other party's will be opposed to any sort of deal she is seeking to get.

I can't see this being good for anyone.

To my way of thinking the only way out of this stupidity is to re-endorse the will of the country to want Brexit - and the only way to do this is by a second referendum.

If it still returns the country's desire for Brexit, then it gives whoever is in government the mandate to continue (and shuts up the 'remoaners' and their pettiness and bitterness in steering Brexit through Parliament) and if it 'overwhelmingly' shows Remain then we then go cap in hand to the EU seeking a way to stay in the EU and end the Article 50 exit that we are currently going down.

The bigger picture needs to be addressed for the future of us all.