General Election June 2017

Corbyn is threatening to vote down the queens speech

Ruth Davidson talking to DUP last year.

Feel for her. I think she's going to emerge as a leader.

https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/873530187270549504

To be clear, Mrs May is the sort of strong and stable leader that used to be anti gay:

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10426/theresa_may/maidenhead/divisions?policy=826

Tho her most recent record has improved.

I like this article:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/10/corbyn-stun-critics-cares-people-poverty-inequality

May - we've agreed a deal with the DUP.
DUP - na mate.

Shambles continues.

It's OK, they released the news of the agreed deal by mistake. Which is only one excuse better than claiming their account had been hacked.

This shambles is worrying. At this rate Labour will be in by Christmas, and they do not want the reins in this poisoned chalice of a parliament. Let the weakened Tories own the inevitable disastrous Brexit and then fuck off into oblivion for a decade or so.

Osbourne just called May 'a dead woman walking' on the Andrew Marr show

oof

Thatcher famously stated that anyone over the age of 30, who used a bus, was clearly a failure.
Strangely, 'Name' Tories are only too willing to throw colleagues under them.
For more detail, see George Osborne on the Marr Show.

Michael Fallon utterly unconvincing on Marr right now

Won't miss when he disappears from the front line

The trouble is, like syphillus, he will always be around to haunt us.
As Tory MP for Sevenoaks, majority almost 22,000 and scarcely any swing Con to Lab,
he will be an MP for as long as he wants to be, and, will always be backed by Tory HQ, as he is always willing to appear on any show and offer support for the weakest Tory policy/worst Tory decision/unsupportable Tory colleague.

Apart from his drunkdriving conviction, it does make me wonder what other 'indiscretion' the Tory Whips have in their Black Book about him.

Corbyn on Marr. Ooof.

Class act

What happened?

Marr didn't talk down to him in his usual patronising cunt voice for a change?

He had a previous period out of favour with Tory HQ,
when he was not given a fast track to a safe seat,
and,
flounced out of Westminster.
But, of course, the Tories look after their own, and he spent a while here;
http://www.newschoolsnetwork.org/

I wonder what soft landing pad position will be found for him?

Corbyn looked pretty majestic against Marr to me.

(Still high)

Mark Steele tearing IDS a new one on BBC5Live.
John Pienaar very happy to go to the News Update to save his friend from a well deserved refutation.

Do you think that's ultimately in the best interest of the UK and all EU / UK to EU immigrants though?

A full exit with no Norway agreement is going to be bedlam (also for NI border) economically and practically.

Labour is more open to Norway style I think.

This. I assume that Brexit is inevitable whether the Torys or Labour are in power, but I assume also that the terms of Brexit will be largely identical (i.e. whatever the EU tells them to accept) for both.

In that case, I feel the Torys genuinely could be buried for years if they're the ones that fuck it up

Still a bit of a pyrrhic victory for the country though. all those years of us wallowing in the shit post brexit will then be blamed on labour for the next 50 years.

Corbyn looked poised and confident, he is growing as a statesman and the election result hopefully addresses many of his critics.

It really feels to me that Corbyn has shown integrity can still be respected by the British public. Even though people may disagree with some of his principles he is now commanding respect, whereas May has shown herself to be spineless and weak and is now being hammered for it.

I think the risk with Tories dropping out to WTO and screwing EU people here / UK people abroad is greater.

If it's a 100% sure either will accept Norway style anyway...yep then let the Tories take the fall. They started it.

But party before country has its risks... A WTO exit with Tories running human rights and benefit laws is going to really fuck people over...