BS: UK General Election

Subject: RE: BS: UK General Election
From: David Carter (UK)
Date: 18 Apr 17 - 10:48 AM

Labour have lost my vote by not opposing article 50. I will be voting Lib Dem, if I thought it didn't matter I would vote for Left Unity. But it does, and the Lib Dems are the only English party with a coherent European policy.

Subject: RE: BS: UK General Election
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Apr 17 - 10:48 AM

As she has an overall majority, the only conceivable reason for this abject U-turn is that she's running scared of her hard-right backbenchers and is hoping for a bigger majority that will leave her untrammelled. As Labour were doomed to lose the 2020 election in any case, the upside is that she may be in power until 2022 only, not until 2025. Organise!

Subject: RE: BS: UK General Election
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 18 Apr 17 - 10:30 AM

i used to love elections when i was a kid. we got a day off school. in fact we were threatened with violence if we came to school by mistake on that day.

since then, i haven't enjoyed them much.

Subject: RE: BS: UK General Election
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 18 Apr 17 - 09:33 AM

There was a brilliant article in the Irish Times last week describing the Brexit negotiations as a "an exercise in damage limitation".
I wonder if this is part of it
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: UK General Election
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 18 Apr 17 - 09:23 AM

I've nothing against lengthy campaigns - there's more chance the mask will slip and the lies be revealed.

I always try to work out some way in which, win or lose, there's some positive outcome. A Labour victory seems a remote hope, but it's possible to envisage that the focus of an election might stop the squabbling and backstabbing in the Labour camp, and they get together and pull off a 1945 victory, which nobody then believed possible.

A Tory victory, and a big Tory victory, is harder to see in a positive way - but it could at least increase the chances that when the Scots have another vote on independence they will go for it. I think that once it sinks in that the Conservatives have brought about the end of the United Kingdom and "Great Britain" that might bring about a wide revulsion against them on the part of the English voters.

Subject: RE: BS: UK General Election
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 18 Apr 17 - 09:03 AM

Live bbc news lunch time.... was that May's resignation speech...???

Subject: RE: BS: UK General Election
From: Raggytash
Date: 18 Apr 17 - 08:56 AM

7 weeks and 2 days.................. thankfully I will be away for most of it.

Subject: RE: BS: UK General Election
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 18 Apr 17 - 08:47 AM

Quite interesting.
At least the campaigning will be very limited in timescale.

Subject: RE: BS: UK General Election
From: Allan Conn
Date: 18 Apr 17 - 07:30 AM

I was thinking will they stop campaigning for the forthoming local elections now? However to tell you the truth there is no local campaigining going on here in Scotland anyway. Certainly not from the Tories. The only leaflets I've got through from them mention no local issues and no local candidates. Only the constitution!

Subject: BS: UK General Election
From: Stu
Date: 18 Apr 17 - 07:12 AM

Here we go again. Now we have six weeks of campaigning before we have another general election, which is going to centre around Brexit. This is a huge vote and massively important for the UK and beyond.

Please keep discussion civil.