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Helsing
Aug 23, 2003

DON'T POST IN THE ELECTION THREAD UNLESS YOU :love::love::love: JOE BIDEN
After repeatedly saying that there wouldn't be an early election, British PM Theresa May has called a snap election.

The New York Times posted:

LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain on Tuesday called for a snap election for June 8, clearly anxious that her thin majority in Parliament would weaken her hand in complicated negotiations on the British exit from the European Union.

In breaking her often-repeated vow not to call an early election before 2020, Mrs. May emphasized the need for unity in Parliament before undertaking what promises to be complex and tortuous negotiations on Britain’s exit from the bloc, or “Brexit.”

“The country is coming together, but Westminster is not,” Mrs. May said in a sudden appearance outside the prime minister’s residence at 10 Downing Street, adding that she had “only recently and reluctantly come to this conclusion.”

Having fired the starting gun for two years of talks with Brussels and the other 27 members of the European Union only last month, Mrs. May is already facing divisions within her own Conservative Party. She is clearly counting on a strong performance in June — before those talks get serious and difficult, before the British economy is seen to be hit and before critical German elections in the fall — to carry her government through the exit, hard or soft, which she has promised to deliver.

Ed Balls, death is certain, etc.

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Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
She was facing losing a majority because of an expenses scandal at the last election so this basically dodges that issue since labour are polling so badly. Of course had the tories not cheated in the last election they might not have won and brexit wouldn't have happened

DesperateDan
Dec 10, 2005

Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.
I wonder what wonderful scandals noted rascal eduardo millibando would have ended up in had the tories not cheated their way in



Everything is hosed and everyday things are hosed further, and in far more seemingly implausible ways

Paper With Lines
Aug 21, 2013

The snozzberries taste like snozzberries!
Well at least Corbyn will finally get his test and if he gets owned and all ya'll cry to death, maybe the Labour Elite who know what they are doing cane take back over.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Paper With Lines posted:

maybe the Labour Elite who know what they are doing

lol

Comrade Cheggorsky
Aug 20, 2011


Ed Balls

logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler
I think how "british" elections work is that somehow, ed balls becomes the new king

Comrade Cheggorsky
Aug 20, 2011


https://twitter.com/dril/status/13511172998
this analysis is old but still valid

some plague rats
Jun 5, 2012

by Fluffdaddy
This def explains the weird feeling of creeping dread I was experiencing all day yesterday

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

I'm hearing that May won't do any debates either, lmao.

lorn Wayne
Jan 7, 2006

:staredog::meowth::pipe:

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

I'm hearing that May won't do any debates either, lmao.

that's cos she's poo poo at it.

tv will still go ahead with them, she may or may not change her mind, everything will continue to not matter.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

I'm hearing that May won't do any debates either, lmao.

Bumbling old man who is incompetent smashes her at PMQ's almost every week so letting her go up against someone like Sturgeon would be catastrophic for her

A Big Fuckin Hornet
Nov 1, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
Why is Corbyn so unpopular now? i know the rank and file hate him but i thought he had decent popular support once?

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
i'm voteing lib dem as a protest, so they keep the tories honest in their inevitable coalition

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Andrei Dorkovsky posted:

Why is Corbyn so unpopular now? i know the rank and file hate him but i thought he had decent popular support once?

general incompetence, knifing in the back constantly by his own MP's and the press going hard against him

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Corbyn was too beautiful for a land as foul as the UK.

Mainwaring
Jun 22, 2007

Disco is not dead! Disco is LIFE!



Corbyn often has good policies but is fundamentally bad at the job of being leader of the opposition. He'd probably be a pretty good shadow work and pensions secretary or something idk.

Condiv
May 7, 2008

Sorry to undo the effort of paying a domestic abuser $10 to own this poster, but I am going to lose my dang mind if I keep seeing multiple posters who appear to be Baloogan.

With love,
a mod


Mainwaring posted:

Corbyn often has good policies but is fundamentally bad at the job of being leader of the opposition. He'd probably be a pretty good shadow work and pensions secretary or something idk.

Problem is, the other wing is way worse at leading, as shown by them taking the political opportunity of Cameron making GBS threads himself so spectacularly he resigned to knife their leadership in the back.

lorn Wayne
Jan 7, 2006

:staredog::meowth::pipe:

Condiv posted:

Problem is, the other wing is way worse at leading, as shown by them taking the political opportunity of Cameron making GBS threads himself so spectacularly he resigned to knife their leadership in the back.

gove/boris might slither out of the shadows once again this time and do some casual knifing.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
:pray:

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/s...D108%23lastpost

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
Premier Corbyn will be a thing, he will brexit from the eu to create a new socialist utopia and every county will join in, starting with France after Mélenchon is elected.

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
why do the brits get their own election thread separate from the euro election thread? doesnt seem right

Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

Jose posted:

general incompetence, knifing in the back constantly by his own MP's and the press going hard against him

Condiv posted:

Problem is, the other wing is way worse at leading, as shown by them taking the political opportunity of Cameron making GBS threads himself so spectacularly he resigned to knife their leadership in the back.

lorn Wayne posted:

gove/boris might slither out of the shadows once again this time and do some casual knifing.

Ages ago in one of the Fashion SWAT frontpage articles, Dr. Thorpe described the early history of Britain as something like "their entire political system revolved around slitting each other's throats and hurling the bodies into a bog." It's nice to see things haven't changed all that much.

Peel
Dec 3, 2007

labour right is incompetent and opposed by the press, corbyn is more incompetent and seen as terrifying anathema by the press

the meaningful battle has for a while been to secure a left wing power base in post-corbyn labour

Peel
Dec 3, 2007

the tories will win the election with an increased majority though, i guess shortly before the cps reveals that actually the whole last parliament was illegitimate

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

Kurtofan posted:

why do the brits get their own election thread separate from the euro election thread? doesnt seem right

one word

BREXIT

R. Mute
Jul 27, 2011

Kurtofan posted:

why do the brits get their own election thread separate from the euro election thread? doesnt seem right
anglo arrogance, camarade

Comrade Cheggorsky
Aug 20, 2011


jeremy corbyn pulling off a don trump style election upset would result in a lot of lols but its unlikely. Why? its time for some jam theory

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
anything that isn't an increased tory majority is going to result in lols

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
TV companies are all going ahead with debates whether or not May turns up lol

Calibanibal
Aug 25, 2015

do we really need a separate election thread for every island nation on earth. like where's my new caledonian election thread

the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

Calibanibal posted:

do we really need a separate election thread for every island nation on earth. like where's my new caledonian election thread

:justpost:

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

seeing a few peeps in UKMT saying they don't know what Corbyn's policies are and that they don't like his personality

I see a lot of what I consider malicious ignorance instead of outright stupidity in that thread, what is it with you people

lorn Wayne
Jan 7, 2006

:staredog::meowth::pipe:

Calibanibal posted:

do we really need a separate election thread for every island nation on earth. like where's my new caledonian election thread

just countries that matter

so yeah you can delete this one

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

lorn Wayne posted:

just countries that matter

so yeah you can delete this one

We should nuke whatever country you're from imo

lorn Wayne
Jan 7, 2006

:staredog::meowth::pipe:

Jose posted:

We should nuke whatever country you're from imo

the UK? go for it.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
i've been advocating it in the UKMT thread for a few years now

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ent...4b0de5bac42b5fd

No hope.

Comrade Cheggorsky
Aug 20, 2011


a progressive alliance isn't even viable so it doesn't matter

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im on the net me boys
Feb 19, 2017

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Jeremy Corbyn retire bitch

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