Poll: Poll: Prime Minister Theresa May calls General Election on June 8th

[platypus]

Lets just hope that snake Farage is too busy making things up over on Fox news to come back and make things up over here.

 

[LOAM]

It's not Corbyn I'm worried about, it's the delusion in his staff team.

True enough they are so deluded they will jump at the chance of turning it round in 8 weeks

 

[neoboy]

She's Pregnant with Donald's Child and plans to declare war on the Scilly isles

Don't be silly.

 

[datalol-jack]

They stand for a lot. They're just completely split over the central issue of today/this period.

In all fairness, as per the Labour thread in SK, their recent policy blitz and updates have put forth a more or less Ed Miliband-maxi option on the table. The policies are popular individually, but Corbyn and McD are personally struggling against the incumbents with the voters, and the policies still lack detail on funding options. Hence nobody listens.

 

[cheesyboy]

I'm voting UKIP and if I decide otherwise nearer the time it would be the Greens.. This area is being destroyed but the current party and well I'll not vote this lot

Is there much overlap of policy or ideals between UKIP and Green?

 

[platypus]

So democracy is working then? If the general population lack confidence in labour they should have less seats. I don't think it neccessarily means more seats for the conservatives though, more likely a few here and there, with fringe parties rising up the ranks further.

Great democracy is working.

Except it isn't great, is it? There's an outside chance that with the current seats distribution the Tories can be held in check (you can argue about how ineffectual Labour are at another time). Having the Tories freed from this check, and furthermore freed from the further checks of the EU is not a situation I ever want to be in. If thats democracy you can stuff it. We have one of the most authoritarian governments in the world, I don't think democracy is about handing them even more power, and enabling them to weasel out of the designed checks on that power.

 

[Destination]

Hilariously the BCC are now talking about polls.
Like polls matter in a post truth world

 

[No1newts]

A very cynically clever move as there is essentially no opposition so that's another 4-5 years of punishment for anyone other than the rich.

Be interesting if the Lib Dems or another campaign from a platform of cancelling Brexit, that would be hurling a cat into the pigeon coop.

 

[jsmoke]

Should be easy win for Cons, Labour in the shadows for another decade I think.

 

[MikeTheNative]

I voted Lib Dems last time and will vote for them again this time. Not like it matters though, I live in a Conservative stronghold. Interestingly though we were one of the few places to actually vote remain in Wales.

 

[Housey]

Wise move from the PM's standpoint.

 

[Jono8]

Be interesting if the Lib Dems or another campaign from a platform of cancelling Brexit, that would be hurling a cat into the pigeon coop.

That is exactly what the Lib Dems will do I think.

 

[doodah]

Hasn't May repeatedly said there wouldn't be a snap election/or one in 2017?

 

[branddaly]

What kind of PM starts the 2-year Article 50 time bomb ticking then wastes 10% of the time window on an election? Such an opportunist move, putting party before country.

 

[gettothechopper]

Be interesting if the Lib Dems or another campaign from a platform of cancelling Brexit, that would be hurling a cat into the pigeon coop.

more recently they have been suggesting single market access etc rather than cancel Brexit (which i think is the correct direction)

Timmy Farr just said as much on twitter

 

[On Holiday]

Absolutely won't be a general election.

Hopefully I'll know before June if I'm moving to a far superior country!

 

[No1newts]

Hasn't May repeatedly said there wouldn't be a snap election/or one in 2017?

and you believe a word a politician says

 

[Destination]

What kind of PM starts the 2-year Article 50 time bomb ticking then wastes 10% of the time window on an election? Such an opportunist move, putting party before country.

In what was does it waste anything, mainly the same civil servants and privately employed teams will be managing the same negotiations, which will be so slow, because thus far, no one has a clue where to start.
Europe haven't even started their side of things yet.

 

[sityeuropa]

and you believe a word a politician says

You know situations can change. The world is not frozen.

 

[XeNoN89]

What kind of PM starts the 2-year Article 50 time bomb ticking then wastes 10% of the time window on an election? Such an opportunist move, putting party before country.

Because they will likely be able to make the whole process smoother with a larger majority in parliament.