To think there should not be a snap General Election...

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...after Theresa May's victory. It seems that the Lib Dems, Greens and even Labour's election coordinator think so, but surely with the UK needing stability after Brexit, Labour being in the worst possible place to be a credible opposition, and the public only recently voting (1 year in GE and weeks ago in referendum) surely it's the last thing we need. Besides, I couldn't stand another months of electioneering...

I think/hope you are probably right about the number of UKIP MPs, mother. I suspect they would get more than now, but probably only just into double figures.

However, sadly, the evidence is that you are not right about left of centre voters. Most of the vote that UKIP picked up in 2015 in traditional Labour areas came from people who had previously voted Labour, not Tory. UKIP is currently far more of a threat to Labour than to the Tories. This may change in the future, as it dawns on Kippers that it is impossible for the Tories to deliver what has been promised but, just at the moment, I fear a GE would wipe Labour out.

We shouldn't and won't have a snap election. Do posters really think it would just be a 'normal' election?

Tories would have to campaign for Brexit, Lib Dems would campaign to ignore the referendum and stay in Europe. God knows what Corbyn/Labour would do. We would have no more information on what Brexit means so it would just be a rerun of the referendum with MP's elected not on their politics but on EU stance. The country would tear itself apart and it really would be a disaster.

@TimeforaNNChange

MNHQ - there have been the most appauling and unfounded allegations made about Theresa May on this thread - the person who made them has not justified or defended them, and they have been repeatedly quoted in order to seek clarification.

This is exactly the sort of internet conduct that the "Reclaim the Internet" campaign is trying to address - bullying, harassment and attack from behind a screen.
www.reclaimtheinternet.com/

Please, could you delete all unfounded comment designed to denigate an individual from this thread? Thanks

I have reported this comment so it is seen by MNHQ.

Hi Time,

Thanks for this, we have removed that posts and subsequent posts that copied it, now.

Thank you, Rebecca!

As an active member of a political party I'm electioned out. No I didn't vote for the tories under TM but I didn't vote for them under DC either. I think the 5 year general election strategy is sensible. If the ruling party changes leader in that time so be it. Tony Blair changed to Gordon Brown.
Sometimes you don't get the result you want in an election, that's no reason to keep trying to rerun it.
I agree that if BJ had acted like a triumphant winner after Brexit and been visible and acted like a PM in waiting instead of looking embarrassed by it all and disappearing for family cricket games he would have probably became PM. I'm glad we've got TM instead. With the current labour party self destruction I'm not keen on a labour pm. They should have given Jeremy Corbin another 6-12 months and started stabbing him too early. They could probably have persuaded him to leave if he couldn't cope with TM and was seen to cope poorly with Brexit negotiation debates.

Corbyn