The Tories are in shock over a Hung Parliament.
Lack of clear winner raises questions about Brexit and prime minister Theresa May’s future.
Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn calls for May to resign, but isn’t that like the tail wagging the dog?
Jeremy Corbyn said the face of British politics has changed and called on Theresa May to resign after her snap general election left Britain with a hung Parliament 11 days before Brexit talks begin.
Speaking as he was returned as MP for Islington North, the Labour leader declared: “Politics has changed. Politics isn’t going back into the box where it was before. What’s happened is people have said they’ve had quite enough of austerity politics.”
The former chancellor George Osborne described it as a “catastrophic” result while another Conservative MP said: “She needs to go.”
A minister admitted there would be “fury” within the party among those who did not believe an election was necessary.
A difficult night for the SNP delivered one of the biggest scalps, with the party’s Westminster leader, Angus Robertson, losing his seat in Moray.
The former Lib Dem leader and deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, spoke out about the need for the government to be sensitive about huge societal divisions as he was defeated by Labour in Sheffield Hallam.
Holding on to his seat with a big majority, the Labour deputy leader, Tom Watson, said. “It looks likely to be a very bad result for Theresa May. She said: ‘It is a fact that if we lose just six seats, we will lose our majority and Jeremy Corbyn will become prime minister.’ We do not yet know the final result, but we intend to hold her to that.”
What Happens Next?
The final results are still not in, but Labour has no chance of winning, and reportedly the conservatives have no chance of an outright majority.
Conservatives will have a shot at putting together a coalition, but party leadership is in doubt. Should Theresa May stand down, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, Home Secretary Amber Rudd, and Brexit Secretary David Davis are obvious possibilities. The UK politics reporter for Bloomberg also mentions Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond and Defence Secretary Michael Fallon.
Theresa May will give a speech at 10:00 AM London time. Until then, and possibly even after then, speculation and confusion are the names of the game.
I suspect May will hang on, at least for a while. Then politicians do what they do, stay on and on until they are voted out.
DUP to the Rescue?
The key lies in the 18 other. The Democratic Unionist Part (DUP) also known as Northern Irish Unionists won 10 seats.
The Independent reports DUP: Who are the Democratic Unionist Party that could hold balance of power in a hung parliament?
The Democratic Unionist Party, whose controversial policies include blocking gay marriage, could hold the balance of power in the new Parliament.
The Northern Irish party is likely to be the Conservatives’ first port of call as they look to form a government without a majority. And it is likely to support the Tories as they attempt to do so.
If they manage to become part of the government and hold it up, however, they may be able to introduce the kinds of policies that have become controversial in Northern Ireland.
That has included moves by the party to oppose the introduction of same sex marriage in Northern Ireland, as well as lifting the ban on abortion. Those laws have been in place across the rest of the UK, but the DUP has helped block them in Northern Ireland in recent years.
Leader Arlene Foster all but confirmed that the DUP would never join a coalition with Labour. She said that she had “always said” the party would find it hard to work with Jeremy Corbyn.
Minority Government
It takes 326 for a parliamentary majority. If the Tories hang on with 318, then 10 votes from DUP will put them over the top, but barely.
Given that DUP has ruled out working with Labour, it appears only one workable coalition is possible.
What will DUP demand of Theresa May? Will that constitute a different form of tail wags dog?
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
There are masses of unintended consequences from this result.
At least the DUP are Unionists and for now the Scots are unlikely to call another independence referendum.
I can list at least 20 unintended consequences and that’s not an exhaustive list by any means.
If May stands down there could be a hard Brexit replacement as she was always a closet Remainer. Partly her downfall as she appears to stand for very little with strong conviction.
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Even in anti-terror she stated “enough is enough” but that’s NOT enough when people are lambs to the slaughter.
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How you do tell a politician is lying? Her lips are moving.
She may have said “Enough is enough,” but very little was done. It can’t be lost on the people that all of the perpetrators of the recent attacks were on police or intel radar and yet were walking around unhindered … one was even televised as a radical.
At some point, people put 2 & 2 together and ask themselves, are the pols simply trying to scare us into what they want? Saying she would clamp down on the internet probably played no small part, along with the “dementia tax,” in turning off people who are waking up to the fact that these people are not on their side.
Finally, as un-sympathetic as he is, Corbyn at least comes across as caring for the rank-and-file, while they have nothing but scorn for the likes of Blair, Brown, etc. This is not your father’s Labour Party … this is your grandfather’s Labour Party.
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Don’t buy any stock of companies too dependent on the UK consumer.
Uncertainty will lead to more caution on the high street and increased stashing of cash for those able to do so or expecting to be increasingly taxed.
UK recession (give how we are so consumer dependent) straight ahead.
It might help rebalance the economy, painfully.
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– A falling GBP/USD ( and GBP/EUR) is a good recipe for a recession in the UK. More than anything else.
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Willy2, good for exports though. Real need to rebalance the economy but looks like the painful way if to happen at all.
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More Thomas Mair’s to do their patriotic duty
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What was Teresa May thinking in calling for Snap Elections in the first place? I suppose that’s going to be one of life’s little mysteries….
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Tories lost because their election manifesto promised to take away money from people:
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-Tories promised to take away several hundred pounds worth of winter heating supplement UK government has given to people from most people getting it
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-Tories promised to take away people’s inheritances to pay for hospital bills aka the “dementia tax” and later backtracked partially that one could keep 100k worth of inheritance.
Both of these promises were beyond idiotic in the first place but when the whole promise of Brexit was to make peoples lives better then these idiotic promises to take away money from people made them suspect that Brexit would be a disaster.
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The whole team who wrote the tories election manifesto should be fired on the spot and May should resign.
Most people are not policy wonks and they have only time and intelligence to understand simple things:
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Tories take away hundreds of pounds from my Granny and grandpa every year and take my granny’s and grandpa’s inheritance away from me and take away my inheritance to my kids = BAD vote somebody else.
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Farage was understandably upset because May has jeopardised whole brexit in her incompetence when she had everything she needed to pull it through but then started believing too good polls and then brought out an election manifesto from the Tories that was idiotic and incompetent.
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Tories should hire some normal people to go through their election manifesto before publishing it because the over-intelligent policy wonks writing it do not have a clue and they cost Tories the election.
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Some odd dealing was going on Katsaus, I don’t know what it was. Several key staff resigned just after the election decision.
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Probably true, but then what do you propose as an alternative. What is the alternative to a system where a party that promises more free stuff wins until the system is hopelessly bankrupt?
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Even Theresa Mays signature on the front of the manifesto lòoked negative.
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Projections now for Tories at 319 plus 10 DUP will get to 329. It was obvious why she called the general election because she thought she could benefit from it. Unfortunately Corbyn promised more free shit at same time May was introducing the dementia tax . It is almost as if she wanted to lose it????? However as disastrous as his policies would have been he did come across far more genuine In my humble opinion.
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I can certainly agree with that! All she had to do was bang on about holding the line on Brexit and hold to the policy status quo based on it having been the policy they won the last election on. But to mindlessly espouse the rightly named dementia tax and loudly hint at unspecified tax rises all wrapped up in the most lack-luster campaign possible was pure, unadulterated madness. It does almost seem they deliberately wanted to lose, although I suspect it was more the standard hubris of only listening to the ‘bubble’.
As to Corbyn, I agree he is very genuine in his beliefs, unfortunately they are also as near as damn the original 1930s Labour beliefs.
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Why on earth was May stupid enough to go to polls promising to take away peoples winter heating supplement and take away peoples inheritances?
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Total and complete incompetence from all people who took part in planning and writing the Tories election manifesto.
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May needs to go NOW and the inheritance robbery and winter heating supplement robbery needs to be hanged to her neck completely and Tories must keep them in place otherwise they will lose badly to labour next time.
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Now they barely became the biggest party because Labour’s Corbyn is a a loony-leftist and a terrorist-sympathizing-nutjob.
With better leadership Labour would be the biggest party now and have the majority and form the next government.
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May’s childlessness showed in the fact that she was ready to rob peoples inheritances away from their children because anyone with kids would realize INSTANTLY what a bad, stupid and election losing policy that would be.
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She told the truth.
Hard choices are needed to be made.
Deficits out to the horizon and 1.7 Trillion of GBP debt already.
When I first saw the manifesto I was taken by how negatively her signature appeared.
A real downer, no positivity at all. My heart sank.
I think she is already tired.
Some positivity desperately needed as I can see a recession heading down the line with reduced consumer spending adding to the problem. Already talk of saving as much as people can, just in case. Good for the individual but can tip the economy over.
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Bad policy choice have to be balanced by good policy choices. From what I hear about London real estate, an tax on foreign buyers would go a long way to win over even the Millennials.
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Theresa might !
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Electorate worldwide has been rejecting women politicians of late: Hillary in USA, Le Pen in France, and now May in UK. Merkel is the survivor. Tories have only themselves to blame for selecting a leader lacking rudimentary counting skills, and needlessly squandering a majority. May was against Brexit before she was for it, and is just reverting to form. Perhaps EU will reward her with a lifetime pension. Just when EU was beginning to look hopelessly incompetent on Brexit, UK Tories seized defeat from the jaws of victory. Obviously, UK leaders are not what they used to be. Really sad to see the degeneration. If only importing more terrorist overflow from France, Germany and EU states could correct the problem.
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Not yet.
DUP will hold influence – more conservative attitudes??
Also, looks like no BREXIT Tories lost seats. Their voice has NOT BEEN diluted in the party. In Parliament – yes diluted – but not in the party.
Possibly their voice is even concentrated (attempts to dilute Brexit Tories influence in the party hasn’t succeeded) as new Tories would have had allegiance to May.
Throw Labour a bone that on Brexit there will be more money for what they want etc. etc and it gets to be a strange mix.
No one can know the future but first level thinking wont help.
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True, Tories are more of a Brexit party now but if they can not form a government it does them no good.
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I hope DUP demands much more conservative policies from Tories because now Tories can be much more conservative and tell voters that they have to do it because of DUP.
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Usually politicians all over EU blame EU for stupid policies they make.
Now Tories could make good policies and blame it on DUP to those Tory voters who are not so conservative.
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DUP leaders father was shot by IRA thugs and her school bus was bombed by IRA when she was young and a friend sitting next to her was grievously injured..
There is no way she will have anything to do with IRA loving Labour and IRA fan Corbyn.
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DEMOCRATIC UNIONIST PARTY (DUP):
:: Wants proper border controls and a tougher immigration policy
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Well put.
Corbyn is a very dangerous man.
Never met with the IRA – but why are there photos of him at IRA Paramillitary events with Sinn Fein with guns shot in parade etc by masked men?
DUP will be on side and relish the chance to get one over on Corbyn and his supporters.
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” Wants proper border controls and a tougher immigration policy.”
Excellent, can we have some of them here.
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Well this was Theresa May election to lose, and looks like she a bang up job of doing that.
I had my issues with Theresa May back when she was Home Secretary with her compulsory ID card policy’s (that was defeated), and the ‘Great British Firewall’ (also defeated)
But I was at least willing to give her the benefit of the doubt when she became Prime Minister.
She was thrown into a position she didnt vote for and wouldnt envy anyone who would have to see it through.
But after the terrorist attacks and she said she was going to get tough, did she say anything about Real boarder control, no. did she say anything about giving the police powers to actively hold people they suspect of being terrorists beyond the norm, no. Did she say anything about trying to break up know radical groups, no.
She went back to this draconian ideology that nobody wants, and doesnt work.
And that effects everyone’s rights instead of just going after the ones responsible.
I really hate this passive way with dealing with problems, its like oh I can be seen being ‘ist’ so I’ll do it to effect everyone, at which point people rightfully shout it down. I see it as quite cowardly.
But yeah I real let down, was hoping she may of learnt from her past, but obviously hasnt and now its bit her in the backside.
Not that strong support for Corbyn is anything to be happy about, not only is there support for a Communist, but a terrorist supporter and anti-Semitic, its all we need more political cucks.
Used to have some respect for the Lib Dem’s, because they used to be quite reasonable holding the middle ground between the parties (which wasnt always easy to do)
But these days they act like a bunch of snowflakes, and they still havent excepted that the majority voted for Briexit.
So yeah there were only 4 candidates in my area, and I knew who I wasnt voting for.. so it went to the independent.
When does the revolution start?
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I’d be very surprised if the DUP were allowed to have a material role in any government. It would be a slap in the face for Northern Irish catholics and could well trigger some residual idiots to start “the troubles” up again, even though most of the community would oppose it. I don’t think any U.K. politician would make that faustian pact – but you never know the venality of politicians.
May needs to go. We need another hung election in six months time resulting in Corbyn being thrown out, then a sensible election in a year’s time with adult candidates and a reversal of Brexit.
This won’t happen of course, because it is the era of the clowns – both here and in the U.K.
What a pointless waste of time.
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Reversal of Brexit would mean kissing “lie when it is serious” Junckers egomaniacal ass and giving all your power for Brussels to do what ever incompetent plan they see fit.
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Brexit is the only choice.
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Clear as mud:
That has included moves by the party to oppose the introduction of same sex marriage in Northern Ireland, as well as lifting the ban on abortion. Those laws have been in place across the rest of the UK, but the DUP has helped block them in Northern Ireland in recent years.
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– I still think that May is gone within say 2 weeks.
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Is this bad? One possibility: May to be replaced by someone more hardline on Brexit. Corbyn has to be kept on by the Labour party. What’s not to like?
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I don’t think this will happen with a Tory/DUP coalition. Northern Ireland was overwhelmingly in favour of remain.
I have said, and still believe so, that PM May’s worry was the United Kingdom, not Brexit. I don’t believe that she has a position on a ‘hard’ vs ‘soft’ Brexit. PM May called this election to avoid demands for another referendum on Scottish Independence, and in this, she has been successful. The SNP got pasted.
So she has Scotland and Wales now solidly behind Brexit – but Northern Ireland, who will have to coalesce with the Tories, is the odd man out.
The form that Brexit takes now, will depend upon the demands of the DUP. Under Cameron, the Liberal Democrats in coalition got almost nothing. It will be interesting to see how the DUP operates when they are sharing real power.
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DUP was campaigning for Brexit as a party.
There will be brexit if Tories and DUP can find a common ground.
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They will find common ground and how surprising if all these votes for Labour resulted in a more right wing Government with DUP influencing policy against various liberal-left ideas.
Unintended consequence again.
Interesting way to blow through MSM BS.
Cameron “won” with 306 seats vs Brown
Brown “lost” with 258 seats vs Cameron
May “lost” with 318/9 seats vs Corbyn
Corbyn “won” with 261/2 seats vs May
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That is because of the expectations game. Cameron was not expected to win as many seats as he did. And Brown was expected to win many more seats than he did.
And in this case, the media had May increasing her lead over Labour from 100 to 150 or even 200. She ended up almost halving it instead.
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i think you could accuse Theresa May of spectacularly misjudging the situation.
(there was never any need to call an election in the first place)
she should have tried watching Tom Dwan.
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PM May is damned if she does, damned if she doesn’t.
If she resigns, another unelected leader will be put forward. If she doesn’t resign, she has not won a majority, although she can argue that she received the most votes.
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Mad dogs and Englishmen out in the noonday sun, pretty well sums it up. Doesn’t matter if Labor has lost confidence in Ms May, it only matters if the Conservatives find her leadership or lack there of wanting. I believe there is a six or seven day grace period between the election and the requirement to form a government. We may not know until the last day if Ms May is in or out. As for the party, a would think the conservatives might wish to have a Brexit hardliner as PM since Ms May has been a bit ineffectual with the European idiots. If she stays, the EU idiots will think they have a free hand to demand whatever they wish. If I were a conservative MP I would be pushing for the ouster of Ms May.
As far as Corbyn forming a minority government, those who voted for him and his party will soon find out what they really voted for, which is more debt from expensive government programs, more refugees and more terrorism, and more unemployment. Not that the conservatives offer a much better solution other than Brexit and stopping the refugee influx.
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There will be another election this year and Corbyn will gain more seats then
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Sounds ridiculous and partisan, but if England did vote in their version of Maduro then they deserve the terrible economy that goes along with it
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People are getting sick and tired of endless corporate socialism and heartless “:free” markets for the masses. Reflate Wall Street with bailouts and Deflate Main Street with austerity. They are finally reacting to it, all over the world. Even Trump’s election fit that pattern. He campaigned as a right-wing populist, and well to the left of Clinton on issues like trade.
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I see no evidence that actual working people have any sympathy for freeloading socialists.
Your support base is with government, academia, and welfare. You lost two elections so far because you don’t represent the middle class and think your warped beliefs are universal when they are not.
Socialism kills. Socialism causes economic suffering. Always and everywhere.
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Working people are realizing that *they* are being referred to as “freeloaders” by the Wall St fat cats and their henchmen. They can see that Wall St wants to raid their Social Security, Medicare etc. The old “Cadillac Queen” card does not play any more. This is the era of
“reflate Wall Street with bailouts; deflate Main Street with austerity”. People are wising up to that. Better late than never! It took 37 years though.
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“Crony Capitalism kills. Crony Capitalism causes economic suffering. Always and everywhere.” There fixed it for ya… Indoctrination is a terrible disease, time to take your Medex!
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Uh oh…. George Soros’s troll army is so full of sh!t that they can’t convince even themselves — Soros will have to find some more leftist academic terrorists to support instead of you comment trolls
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Theresa May got a tiny bit of power for a few weeks, and it instantly went to her head. How would internet censorship protect UK citizens from terrorism if Scotland yard already knows the people they should be (but aren’t) watching? It wouldn’t. How would a super powerful Tory party help the average Joe Q England on the street? It wouldn’t. Why doesn’t May just tell Juncker to “piss off” — in as many words, or in diplomatic speak — she isn’t losing friends in Brussels either way, but she would reduce uncertainty to the British economy.
But any of the things that would help the rank and file Brit recover from the mismanagement of Tony Blair et al — it all got back burnered for a silly power grab.
England just jettisoned a group of self centered bureaucrats in Brussels — why would they vote for one in London? Time for all the useless public servants in the G7 to put constituents first, and big government second. Period, no buts
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DEAL STRUCK WITH THE DUP.
May might just make a come back if she now exhibits some balls and FIGHTS for survival of the Union, Britain as the United Kingdom and herself.
Now is time to show her mettle like Thatcher had to in the Falklands. Respect to those that battle.
Never give-up, never give-in, become dangerous by fighting to shock your enemies just when they think they have you on the back foot.
I want to see her succeed for the entire country. We deserve better than chaos.
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She just lost her majority because she put party politics above the good of the nation — something all to common in G7 politics lately.
What makes you think she learned from her mistake / arrogance overnight?
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Possible shift to the right whilst prioritising the people of the UK to spike Labour?
Righter wing socialism? Is that possible?
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Votes seem pretty well split — as though voters believe that none of the parties really has a plan to deal with reality. Right or left wing socialism is still socialism, and bigger government spending is proven to make matters worse for everyone except the freeloaders (bureaucrats, academics and welfare).
When May started babbling about how she and she alone could decide what things you are allowed to read on “her” internet… it became very obvious that she was out to increase her own power, just like a socialist. The freeloader class wasn’t going to give up anything — regular pensioners would get short changed, young people would get a half-wit education of only the topics her party approved of, and the middle class would get lots of extra taxes.
Government doesn’t work for taxpayers anymore… and like it or not, businesses that don’t serve their customers (even monopolies) eventually go out of business. Its big government’s turn to follow GM/UAW down the drain
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‘Just like a socialist’
That is my philosophical entertainment for the day.
Everything a politician does is in the name of the greater majority, or the future geater majority. Even acting in the name of a minority is in the name of all minorities, who together form a majority, and when the previous majority then become a minority, they are included as well.
Ultimately it is about the biggest minority of all, the individual, and politicians do all they can to set a perfect example, by taking care of themselves first.
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You ‘have to’ do something about your mod. algo Mish, threw a perfectly mundane comment into waiting.
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Fish I think that this election result is for the best.
While PM May has a number of good policies, she has a real totalitarian/control streak – one of her campaign pledges, for God’s sake, was to make Britain “the global leader in the regulation of the use of personal data and the internet”. To date one of her main achievements as PM is the “Investigatory Powers Act, introducing the first ever most extreme cyber surveillance law ever passed by a democracy.”
Her response to the terrorist attacks was not to control immigration or vet immigrants or vet those who were returning from war zones or to keep better track of known suspects; no it was to take away everyone else’s freedoms with more intensive internet surveillance and censorship.
This is Stazi stuff.
Cameron and Clegg blocked May’s investigatory powers act when she was Home Secretary. I hope that having to deal with a hung Parliament will moderate her policies again. Otherwise she will see the end of her political career. The British people will see to that, if they have not already.
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Yes, but the people pushing these agendas will remain and will continue trying to get them passed. They see politicians as their publicly chosen mouthpieces, enablers to legislative adjustment. The public are the only counterweight, their distraction a priority.
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Without a crystal ball – I am pleased with the outcome. A minority government under Theresa May (if the Commons agree) with a good strong Opposition under a confident Corbyn, and a party that really must listen to the Scots, Welsh and the no -longer “little” Northern Ireland. UKIP no long wanted nor needed and wishy-washies out the window. They won’t last long but everyone will be heard as we pull together through the Brexit negotiations.
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Shows what a divided country we live in. My town (largest ex-mining town in the country) voted Tory for the first time in 93 years and London is a sea of red.
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Good luck to the miners and their districts.
No surprise to see another election before year end and next time they need to come out fighting.
Telling the truth will not go down well. Corbyn had influence as he made promises the country won’t be able to keep without going bankrupt or truly stagnating under a tax load.
First casualty in politics is truth about the choices available.
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Theresa May should. Have gone for hard Brexit..
But the Tories deserve to be punished for allying themselves with Us neocons. And bombing Libya.
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Mayday Mayday – hard Brexit sinking
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I wouldn’t be too sure about that. The reality of the choice at the end of the day is Hard Brexit or no Brexit. The Norway option, most touted as the soft Brexit model, is in fact no Brexit, just membership of the EU without representation or influence, For me it s a no-brainer, Brexit is Brexit. What happens after is the real question. Do we have the same reasonably comfortable relations as we did pre 1970, together with the Commonwealth links we abandoned at accession? Do we have a preferential Trade agreement? Do we maintain Scientific and technical collaborations? In all of these things Britain has the least to lose and the EU, or certain parts of it, the most.
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HT – Hard Brexit more likely. Read up on the influencers and their increased influence and likelihood of replacing May with “one of their own”.
Throw in a few promises of goodies for socialist supporters and it’s in the bag now.
Many socialists in the UK are very anti-EU.
The leader of the Exit group stood down from Parliament as an MP this time round but she was Labour through and through. Her seat has remained as a Labour holding so she wouldn’t have been turfed out, just decided she wanted to change and spend time with her grand-children.
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Hard Brexit was and is going to happen. The EU can’t afford to allow any country to leave (because then most will leave). England can’t afford to bankroll all the EU’s mistakes anymore than they could fund 1/3rd of the mistakes.
The cost of negotiating vastly exceeds the cost of just walking out.
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Theresa May is done. Ruth Davidson likely to replace her. Which would mean the first lesbian prime minister. More Eurocuck than Canada or Sweden…
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Some big money men are quite relaxed with the result as they reckon it will lead to a more pragmatic government.
Idealogues and extremists not welcome.
The idea is this will keep the Tories from veering too far right under the influence of weird backbenchers as they will need to move a little towards the Labour side that are considered extreme Left and need to be locked out of Government. We shall see.
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I love coming here and seeing all the old white men fussing and fuming about the world. Don’t worry you old guys, you’ll be dead soon enough and you won’t need to worry about it any more. Meanwhile the world will go on fine without you. And I say this as someone with seven children and five grandchildren. Right now the old white men are just blocks to progress in the world.
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So why reference them?
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1) Cameron’s referendum proposal
2) Brexit vote
3) May’s anticipated election proposal
One shot in the foot after another. When will this great country stop this suicidal political incompetence?
You need a Macron-like replacement of the current political elite.
In the meantime, the EU will move on, liberated for the moment from UK sabotage of further integration.
So long & thanks for all the fish!
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The referendum was long demanded and so popular that it had to be included as an election pledge.
A vote is a vote.
I did not like the re-election idea. What it has done though is shift the coincidence of the Brexit date 2019 with the next election. It has given her a refreshed mandate, albeit reduced in numbers .
Macron is no replacement unless continuity means change.
The EU and its liberated integration is just a f*fest in everyone’s face that the UK had trouble tolerating.
If you call disapproval sabotage you don’t know what you are about.
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The people are divided 50/50. This is the outcome our Masters desire.
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And here’s what the number of seats would have been based on a proportional distribution of the seats:
Pro Act Votes Party
276 318 13 650 900 Conservative
260 261 12 858 652 Labour
020 035 00 977 569 Scottish National Party
048 012 02 367 048 Liberal Democrat
006 010 00 292 316 Democratic Unionist Party
005 007 00 238 915 Sinn Fein
003 004 00 164 466 Plaid Cymru
011 001 00 524 604 Green Party
012 000 00 593 852 UKIP
002 000 00 095 419 Social Democratic & Labour Party
002 000 00 083 280 Ulster Unionist Party
001 000 00 064 553 Alliance Party
000 000 00 020 958 The Yorkshire Party
000 000 00 016 119 National Health Action
000 000 00 005 869 Christian Peoples Alliance
000 000 00 004 642 British National Party
000 000 00 003 890 Monster Raving Loony Party
000 000 00 003 580 Women’s Equality Party
000 000 00 002 321 Pirate Party
000 000 00 001 913 English Democrats
000 000 00 000 771 Workers Revolutionary Party
000 000 00 000 469 Social Democratic Party
004 001 00 186 135 Others
650 649 32 158 241 Total
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A little better on the eyes ?
Pro Act Votes Party
276 318 13,650,900 Conservative
260 261 12,858,652 Labour
020 035 00,977,569 Scottish National Party
048 012 02,367,048 Liberal Democrat
006 010 00,292,316 Democratic Unionist Party
005 007 00,238,915 Sinn Fein
003 004 00,164,466 Plaid Cymru
011 001 00,524,604 Green Party
012 000 00,593,852 UKIP
002 000 00,095,419 Social Democratic & Labour Party
002 000 00,083,280 Ulster Unionist Party
001 000 00,064,553 Alliance Party
000 000 00,020,958 The Yorkshire Party
000 000 00,016,119 National Health Action
000 000 00,005,869 Christian Peoples Alliance
000 000 00,004,642 British National Party
000 000 00,003,890 Monster Raving Loony Party
000 000 00,003,580 Women’s Equality Party
000 000 00,002,321 Pirate Party
000 000 00,001,913 English Democrats
000 000 00,000,771 Workers Revolutionary Party
000 000 00,000,469 Social Democratic Party
004 001 00,186,135 Others
650 649 32, 158, 241 Total
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The Barren Cat Lady screwed up bigtime.
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