Why do we need a general election now?

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Conservative are obviously going to win. What's the point in doing this now?

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I don't know, but my Facebook feed is already full of remainers (Not retainers sorry for the autocorrect) talking about how we need to vote the tories out.

They might not stop Brexit, but could make it a very very 'soft' Brexit.

I think it's to stop the arsing about by the Lords. Because they'll find it far harder to play ping pong with legislation if May wins a good majority at a GE.

Also, remember the Tories came second across Scotland last time - it wouldn't take much of an increase in their share of the vote for them to be winning seats (especially if SNP vote splinters to a range of other parties).

Sorry if I'm being thick but article 50 has already been triggered so would the lib dems really be able to reverse it?

They could vote against the European Communities Act 1972 being repealed.

Bigger majority

Put poor Corbyn out of his misery

So people remember the existence of Tim Farron

So remainers can stop complaining

Thousands of reasons

Brexit and a power grab by the executive to try and make sure that they get the Great Repeal Bill through.

The Great Repeal Bill removes parliamentary scrutiny from law making.

This is EVERYTHING you need to know about the GE.

Do you want the government to just make laws without discussion, parliamentary or public?

It would mark a massive break from our centuries of democracy.

Its not about May, Corbyn, Farron or Sturgeon or anyone else.

It's a power consolidation.

Sucks for most of us. Labour is in disarray. LibDems haven't recovered. SNP is only in Scotland. The Conservatives may not have the majority support of the people who live in the country, but they will surely win the election under the circumstances.

Well and truly sucks for the majority of average people. The elite win again. :(

I can see Theresa doing another speech on the 9th june and Corbyn resigning the same day.
very very sad and i hope its not going to happen, but have a feeling it will.
Its an election on the back foot for labour and she and her cronies know this only too well. Lies and more lies will come and people will vote for it all. makes me feel ill. Maybe the school cuts that are coming will make people think twice, but i doubt it.

So remainers can stop complaining

Don't think that will ever happy (or that it necessarily should).

Unfortunately unless she kicks a puppy in the face live on air, the tories are going to win

That would probably just gain her support from UKIP swing voters, especially if the puppy in question is a German Shepherd, Pomeranian or other non-indigenous breed.

Too many sadistic bastards in this country who will be voting for more poverty, division, unequality, cuts and privatisation. Why why why why would anyone in their right mind ever vote for tories? How can you support their inhuman policies??

I vote Tory. I wouldn't call myself sadistic.

If everyone on the left and everyone who doesn't want brexit gets behind the Lib Dems then there is a small chance we can get the Tories out. I think we all need to forget about Labour for now.

I most like the Green Party but I've always voted Labour in the past to try and keep the Tories out. I will be voting for the Lib Dems now.

Funny how the BBC keeps playing the interview where she is adamant that she will not hold a snap election .
Would be quite amusing if she lost though.

Even if Labour changed leadership, the time is too short to get that person endeared and trusted by the public to be the PM.

Ewe be grateful the Scottish Nationalist are only in Scotland - there are other Nationalist parties in England though they don't wear sheep's clothing...

Labour will be wiped out. She will have a mandate.

It does rather make a mockery of the fixed term parliaments act,.

I really hope Corbyn has the sense to do the decent thing and resign once the party has been obliterated electorally. I've a horrible feeling he will just cling on, though.

Scotland might be interesting. Will the SNP retain all those seats, or will the electorate decide to give someone else a chance? And if so, who?

Election Prediction June the 8th 2017

Conservatives 44% (406) Seats Labour 23% (151) Lib Dems 15% (15) Ukip 7% (0) Snp 4.8% (55) Plaid 0.6% (4) N Ireland 1.6% (18)

The General Election will take place on the current electoral boundaries of 650 seats !

Any switch of Conservative voters to the Lib Dems will be wiped out by switch back from Ukip.

Oh I so hope that result is accurate

The stats really illustrate how unfair the system is though. I'm no fan of ukip but despite many more votes they get 0 to SNP's predicted 55

ty 2015 Votes 2015 Seats Pred Votes Gains Losses Net Change Tactical
Fraction Pred Seats
CON 37.8% 331 44.0% 75 0 +75 30% 406
LAB 31.2% 232 23.0% 0 81 -81 15% 151
LIB 8.1% 8 15.0% 7 0 +7 15% 15
UKIP 12.9% 1 7.0% 0 1 -1 30% 0
Green 3.8% 1 3.0% 0 0 +0 0% 1
SNP 4.9% 56 4.9% 1 2 -1 0% 55
PlaidC 0.6% 3 0.6% 1 0 +1 0% 4
Minor 0.8% 0 2.5% 0 0 +0 0% 0
N.Ire 18 0 0 +0 0% 18

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List of predicted seat changes
Seat County/Area Predicted Change MP as at 2015
Alyn and Deeside Clwyd CON gain from LAB : Mark Tami
Barrow and Furness Cumbria CON gain from LAB : John Woodcock
Batley and Spen West Yorkshire CON gain from LAB : Jo Cox
Bermondsey and Old Southwark Southwark LIB gain from LAB : Neil Coyle
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk Borders CON gain from NAT : Calum Kerr
Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham CON gain from LAB : Gisela Stuart
Birmingham Erdington Birmingham CON gain from LAB : Jack Dromey
Birmingham Northfield Birmingham CON gain from LAB : Richard Burden
Birmingham Yardley Birmingham LIB gain from LAB : Jess Phillips
Bishop Auckland Durham CON gain from LAB : Helen Goodman
Blackpool South Lancashire CON gain from LAB : Gordon Marsden
Bolton North East Western Manchester CON gain from LAB : David Crausby
Bradford South West Yorkshire CON gain from (TV) LAB : Judith Cummins
Brentford and Isleworth Hounslow CON gain from LAB : Ruth Cadbury
Bridgend Mid Glamorgan CON gain from LAB : Madeleine Moon
Bristol East Bristol area CON gain from LAB : Kerry McCarthy
Bristol South Bristol area CON gain from LAB : Karin Smyth
Bristol West Bristol area LIB gain from LAB : Thangam Debbonaire
Burnley Lancashire LIB gain from LAB : Julie Cooper
Bury South Western Manchester CON gain from LAB : Ivan Lewis
Cambridge Cambridgeshire LIB gain from LAB : Daniel Zeichner
Cardiff Central South Glamorgan LIB gain from LAB : Jo Stevens
Chester, City of Cheshire CON gain from LAB : Chris Matheson
Chorley Lancashire CON gain from LAB : Lindsay Hoyle
Clacton Essex CON gain from UKIP : Douglas Carswell
Clwyd South Clwyd CON gain from LAB : Susan Elan Jones
Copeland Cumbria CON gain from LAB : Jamie Reed
Coventry North West Coventry and Solihull CON gain from LAB : Geoffrey Robinson
Coventry South Coventry and Solihull CON gain from LAB : Jim Cunningham
Dagenham and Rainham Barking and Dagenham CON gain from (TV) LAB : Jon Cruddas
Darlington Durham CON gain from LAB : Jenny Chapman
Delyn Clwyd CON gain from LAB : David Hanson
Derbyshire North East Derbyshire CON gain from LAB : Natascha Engel
Dewsbury West Yorkshire CON gain from LAB : Paula Sherriff
Dudley North Black Country CON gain from LAB : Ian Austin
Dunbartonshire East Glasgow area LIB gain from (TV) NAT : John Nicolson
Ealing Central and Acton Ealing CON gain from LAB : Rupa Huq
Edinburgh South Edinburgh area NAT gain from LAB : Ian Murray
Ellesmere Port and Neston Cheshire CON gain from LAB : Justin Madders
Eltham Greenwich CON gain from LAB : Clive Efford
Enfield North Enfield CON gain from LAB : Joan Ryan
Exeter Devon CON gain from LAB : Ben Bradshaw
Gedling Nottinghamshire CON gain from LAB : Vernon Coaker
Great Grimsby Humber area CON gain from LAB : Melanie Onn
Halifax West Yorkshire CON gain from LAB : Holly Lynch
Hammersmith Hammersmith and Fulham CON gain from (TV) LAB : Andy Slaughter
Hampstead and Kilburn Camden CON gain from LAB : Tulip Siddiq
Harrow West Harrow CON gain from LAB : Gareth Thomas
Hartlepool Teesside CON gain from LAB : Iain Wright
Hove East Sussex CON gain from LAB : Peter Kyle
Hyndburn Lancashire CON gain from LAB : Graham Jones
Ilford North Redbridge CON gain from LAB : Wes Streeting
Lancaster and Fleetwood Lancashire CON gain from LAB : Catherine Smith
Luton South Bedfordshire CON gain from LAB : Gavin Shuker
Mansfield Nottinghamshire CON gain from LAB : Alan Meale
Middlesbrough South and Cleveland East Teesside CON gain from LAB : Tom Blenkinsop
Newcastle-under-Lyme Staffordshire CON gain from LAB : Paul Farrelly
Newport East Gwent CON gain from LAB : Jessica Morden
Newport West Gwent CON gain from LAB : Paul Flynn
Norwich South Norfolk CON gain from LAB : Clive Lewis
Oldham East and Saddleworth Eastern Manchester CON gain from LAB : Debbie Abrahams
Penistone and Stocksbridge South Yorkshire CON gain from LAB : Angela Smith
Scunthorpe Humber area CON gain from LAB : Nic Dakin
Slough Berkshire CON gain from LAB : Fiona Mactaggart
Southampton Test Hampshire CON gain from LAB : Alan Whitehead
Stalybridge and Hyde Eastern Manchester CON gain from (TV) LAB : Jonathan Reynolds
Stoke-on-Trent Central Staffordshire CON gain from (TV) LAB : Tristram Hunt
Stoke-on-Trent North Staffordshire CON gain from LAB : Ruth Smeeth
Stoke-on-Trent South Staffordshire CON gain from LAB : Robert Flello
Tooting Wandsworth CON gain from LAB : Sadiq Khan
Tynemouth Newcastle area CON gain from (TV) LAB : Alan Campbell
Wakefield West Yorkshire CON gain from LAB : Mary Creagh
Walsall North Black Country CON gain from LAB : David Winnick
Walsall South Black Country CON gain from LAB : Valerie Vaz
Westminster North City of Westminster CON gain from LAB : Karen Buck
Wirral South Merseyside CON gain from LAB : Alison McGovern
Wirral West Merseyside CON gain from LAB : Margaret Greenwood
Wolverhampton North East Black Country CON gain from LAB : Emma Reynolds
Wolverhampton South West Black Country CON gain from LAB : Rob Marris
Workington Cumbria CON gain from LAB : Sue Hayman
Worsley and Eccles South Central Manchester CON gain from LAB : Barbara Keeley
Wrexham Clwyd CON gain from LAB : Ian Lucas
Ynys Mon Gwynedd NAT gain from LAB : Albert Owen
York Central North Yorkshire CON gain from LAB : Rachael Maskell

Seats whose winner changed due to tactical voting effects are marked '(TV)'.

Note that the MP's name given is the person who won the seat in 2015. That person may not necessarily be the candidate for the same party in the next election.
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If your a remainer , there isnt any point voting labour really.

Corbyn would have to go if they lose big time ( which they probably will)
He would be pushed if he doesnt go quietly surely?
Might be time for the lib dems to appeal to the 48 percent that want remain. i live in a tory stronghold with a leaver MP, so no hope around here of any different faces, but have to see what the lib dem person has to say!

It's a blatantly dishonest piece of political gerrymandering by May, no more, no less. We don't need an election now, if anything we should be concentrating on Brexit negotiations rather than spending 7 weeks electioneering.

I really hope the LibDems at least step up, ensure the election focusses on Brexit and give May cause to regret this.