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To ask if you think there could be a general election before the end of the year?

60 replies

Snickerdoodles · 11/07/2018 00:10

What do you all reckon? Would be interested to hear your thoughts.

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givemesteel · 11/07/2018 07:30

No, the Conservatives have to call it and they will not risk it.

I don't think JRM will end up PM, he's not even got any serious ministerial responsibility atm.

Got to be between Boris and Sajid Javid if there's a vote of no confidence, but I don't think there will be,think May will struggle on until Brexit is done.

But I don't think there's any way the tories will fight another election with May so they'll get rid of her post Brexit.

bellinisurge · 11/07/2018 07:31

No. Hope not. Hate the Tories but I hate Corbyn and his acolytes too.

BertrandRussell · 11/07/2018 07:32

September. Deffo.

GhostofFrankGrimes · 11/07/2018 07:33

The Tories need to stay and see their Brexit fuck up through. No other party should be lumbered with what amounts to a eurosceptic civil war waging in the Tory party for 40 years.

Roomba · 11/07/2018 07:35

I don't know, but found it interesting that my local Labour councillors were out knocking on doors last night, the future Labour parliamentary candidate has also been around this week introducing herself and I've had the Green Party knocking on my door too. Having heard very little from any of them over the last year, something certainly seems to have stirred them into action!

CambridgeAnaglypta · 11/07/2018 07:36

What would Brenda say?

longwayoff · 11/07/2018 07:39

Probably. Oh god. O god o god o god. There's nobody to vote for.

French2019 · 11/07/2018 07:46

If there is an election, I can only hope that a credible new anti-Brexit party emerges in time for me to vote for it. I feel utterly disenfranchised at the moment.

NoSuchThingAsAlpha · 11/07/2018 07:48

I think Boris and Mogg are all talk and no trousers. Neither wants to be in power when we Brexit because they both know it'll be a complete shambles, at least for the first few years. I suspect Boris is paving the way for a leadership challenge after the event, so he can say he's cleaning up May's mess.

ConstantlyCold · 11/07/2018 07:50

Seriously worried so many are saying Boris will be PM. I’d think I’ve rather have Gove.

SandyFagina · 11/07/2018 07:54

There will be one after March next year when the shit starts to truly hit the fan.

DeloresJaneUmbridge · 11/07/2018 07:59

Dunno if there will be a GE but predict a Tory win if so...too many people dislike Corbyn for a Labour win.

ConstantlyCold · 11/07/2018 08:08

Dunno if there will be a GE but predict a Tory win if so...too many people dislike Corbyn for a Labour win

If Labour would actually establish a decent position on Brexit (ie bin it altogether or a very very soft one) I would vote for Corbyn. And I’m extremely nervous of a Corbyn government, only 1 month ago I couldn’t imagine voting for him.

NameChangedAgain18 · 11/07/2018 08:12

The Tories need to stay and see their Brexit fuck up through. No other party should be lumbered with what amounts to a eurosceptic civil war waging in the Tory party for 40 years.

^This. If there was an election soon, I would vote Tory for the first time in my life.

onedayiwillmissthis · 11/07/2018 08:17

I am have sadly arrived at the point where I truly don't care anymore. It will make no real difference.

No party (with any serious chance of power) really give a shit about the country or the majority of the people in it.

Once in power they all just look after themselves. Their hypocrisy and duplicity sicken me.

longwayoff · 11/07/2018 08:18

If Corbyn times it right and says we will stay in EU he will walk it. Then we can watch the labour party fighting one another instead of this lot.

Shiftymake · 11/07/2018 08:27

Why on earth would people want Boris as PM? The Russians did a good job unsettling the UK with their propaganda but I am amazed that people still want Brexit- just what Russia wants which is a weaker UK. And Boris is a perfect lapdog, just like Trump is. I do think that there will need to be some sort of vote/election soon though, this whole thing is crashing and I do not want the UK to crash and burn. People here will be voting Labour, despite Corbyn.

annandale · 11/07/2018 08:34

Boris as Prime Minister. I guess if we get the leaders we deserve, we are all disgusting opportunists with no loyalty.

Lucky I guess to have a decent LD mp to vote for.

Glumglowworm · 11/07/2018 08:45

I hope not, there’s been enough shuffling and putting it off already, including one waste of time GE. Just get on with bloody Brexit (I’m a remainer). It’s gonna be shit, it was always gonna be shit. But if the government doesn’t get some kind of deal in place before we stumble out it’s gonna be even shittier

I’m not a fan of Theresa May but both Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mog are abhorrent human beings and would be far worse as PM.&

TattyTshirt · 11/07/2018 09:01

Probably not. Nobody wants to take responsibility for Brexit. They know it's an impossible task. Both the main parties want May to be in the firing line. Once May has had a battering from those who know they can't do better there will be a reshuffle of both parties and a GE.

SunnyCoco · 11/07/2018 09:06

Yes October 2018

Lottapianos · 11/07/2018 09:11

Please stop making my blood run cold with predictions of Boris or JRM as Prime Minister. The pair of them turn my stomach. They don't deserve to have a sniff of power

safariboot · 11/07/2018 09:21

I hope not. The last thing we want with just a few months left to sort out brexit is a general election. Tory leadership infighting would be bad enough.

SinisterBumFacedCat · 11/07/2018 09:23

No, they are hedging their bets until Brexit, and have TM pinned as the fall guy if and when it goes tots up, I think to a certain extent she's thinking the same way and only sees this her role as temporary. it's next year I'm worried about, BJ is seen as toxic and deeply unpopular in the capital but that didn't stop Trump, who has already aligned himself with him. Idiots will vote for him because of his personality, not his politics. JRM frightens me, if he ever becomes pm we should nail the coffin on Britain as a civilised country and get out of here!

Lottapianos · 11/07/2018 09:26

'Idiots will vote for him because of his personality, not his politics. '

You're right. Although what the actual fuck is so marvellous about his personality has always escaped me. I have a friend who thinks he's the greatest thing since sliced bread and we have had to just stop talking about it for the sake of my blood pressure