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

[Snickerdoodles]

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

Would BJ seriously want to take over now, when he would end up taking the flack for a Brexit compromise that a large proportion of the population didn’t want (which will inevitably happen).

He just wants to flounce around for a while and look like the ‘man of the people’ (which he isn’t) and let someone else try to sort this mess out so he can then criticise it afterwards.

Labour would win any election.

But if I were in the Labour Party I'd wheel out Chuka Umunna at the last minute as leader for a certain win. Not personally a fan... he looks a bit cold , but he is more acceptable to more people than Jeremy Corbyn.

Of course JC and his crew (or the crew with JC as figurehead) would not be happy with this to say the least.

Furthermore I think Labour need to train up some potential ministers, instead of the shadow lot they have at the moment. The current shadow cabinet would be a dire embarrassment in office.

Some amount of snowflakes on here. No I don't think they'll be a GE but Boris or JRM will be in number 10 Imo

"Snowflakes": the fascist's insult of choice for those who dare to show a bit of empathy.

I don't think there will be an election. The ERG haven't got the numbers to win a vote of no confidence in May. I think she'll hold on and be forced to climb down on most of her red lines to get a deal. It will be BINO and then there will be a vote, resulting in a hung parliament. Ten years time we'll be asking to rejoin the EU in full and enough boomers will have died off to make it politically viable.

But on the other hand, Fitzsimmons, every generation of "Millennials" grows older, has to pay more tax, raise a family etc etc and starts to grumble about what the country's coming to.

I know many boomers who were die-hard Labourites in their youth... and then became more conservative with a small which translated into Conservative with a big C at election time.

Absolutely IrmaFayLear I agree that people do become more conservative as they age. I've seen it myself amongst my peers as a generation x'er. However I think there are other factors at play. The decreasing influence of traditional media and its ability to shape opinion for one. The millennials I know seem far more aware of global and political events than I did at their age. Plus there seems to be a huge amount of resentment in their generation against the boomers (rightly or wrongly) which may drive their desire for political change.

This is all so interesting. I guess time will tell, with regard to holding a general election soon.

I doubt it, although I would welcome it

No to an election and no to a change of PM.

We don't elect Prime ministers, we elect by constituency candidate. I can categorically say I've never voted for May, Cameron, Brown, Blair, Major et al . I wish people would understand this simple fact.

We wont have an election after the last fiasco. This parliament still has 4 years to run, and run it will.

Boris will not jump for leadership yet, until the Brexit fiasco is done and dusted.

They will leave TM with the poisoned chalice that the others were too spineless to pick up and run with. Then there will be a challenge for leadership.

I think that there might be one before March next year, after there is some form of agreement on Brexit (so, probably very early next year, rather than the autumn), to allow the government to say that they went to the country with an agreed plan in their manifesto, and so escape any blame if it goes wrong. They did their best to negotiate a deal, and it was then the electorate who voted for it. Nobody on the Conservative benches - not even the real hard liners - will want to go down in history as the ones who either totally fucked the economy or broke the union (which is a plausible result if the deal ends up with a hard border in Ireland).

I'm not saying this is what will definitely happen, as we don't yet have any visibility over what the post-Brexit UK will look like in terms of trade agreements and border controls, but going to the country might exonerate them it all does go tits up.