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It's been a success for the SNP apparently....

Then onto the obituaries for Salmond & Robertson 😂

I had to laugh when I heard NS say that earlier this morning.

I would be more inclined to call it a spectacular own goal (although I doubt she will see it like that).

In the interests of balance it goes without saying that the same can be said of TM.

To even try to spin the SNP results as a 'success' is borderline delusional, IMO. I just hope that losing so many votes, seats and big hitters will send a clear message to NS and the SNP that the majority of us up here want IndyRef2 like we want a cup of cold sick.

Indeed Charm - one has a distant memory of the J Major years no wonder Blair won !

Good speech by TM, just getting on with the job.

Good speech by TM, just getting on with the job.
And in such delightful company.

Good speech?

It was a copy/paste of any speech she's made in the last six weeks

I give her two months, if that.

Can't imagine many moderate Tories will be happy about relying on a group of creationists who are anti abortion and gay marriage.

Good summary Charm and indeed in terms of Brexit - people didnt massivly go for the lib dems.

Had to lol at Jezza on sky news, has obvs been doing too much 'maths practise' with the lovely Diane....

Jezza:
"We are ready to do everything we can to put our program into operation...
...The party who has lost in this election is the Conservative party."

Interviewer to Jezza:
"Well that's not quite true is it? Labour is the party that lost"

Jezza:
"We gained 3 million more votes..."

Conservative votes: 13,650,900
Labour votes: 12,858,653

😂😂

Also all the other parties' MPs falling over themselves to say that TM has been given a clear message that people wanted Jezza and rejected her - hence she must resign immediately....

TM: 42.4%
JC: 40%

My maths may be rusty but I think that more people endorsed TM than Jezza....??!!

'Good Speech'

She spoke about providing 'certainty' She is bloody deluded and reminds me of her 'nothing has changed' mantra after the social care U turn, where she did indeed change the Manifesto but refused to acknowledge this.

I was roaring with laughter at her speech.

Jezza:
"We gained 3 million more votes..."

He is correct.
JC was taking about the fact Labour got 3 million more votes than in the last election.

But he still didn't get enough to form any sort of govt, so how exactly is he proposing to 'put his program into operation'?

My maths may be rusty but I think that more people endorsed TM than Jezza....??!!

Err. Would that it were that simple. TM lost because she called a gratuitous election, with the stated intention of obtaining her own clear mandate and shot herself in the foot by ending up with fewer seats than she started off with. That is a loss.

Politically she didn't just lose - she turned herself into a dead [wom]man walking.

It's the price of hubris. She is fatally damaged and there is no way back for her. It's just a matter of time before she falls.

Well if all the other parties got together, he could put it into action. This won't happen but I suppose he felt it was worth a try.

Surely anyone with half a brain would recognise that using the word "stability" in a speech today is insanity? The whole "strong and stable" mantra made May a laughing stock anyway, and we can all see for ourselves that the current situation is the reverse of stable.

Stability my arse...

Looks like brexit will be a shambles.
Brexit was always going to be a shambles. The lack of any plan or forethought guaranteed this.

The woman is unhinged

Brexit was always going to be a shambles

Yep, thankfully it will be less of a shambles due to the election results.

Tory (hard brexit) - lose seats
UKIP (hard brexit) - history
Labour (pragmatic Brexit) - gains
Lib Dems (no Brexit) - as you were.

Bottom line - no mandate for hard Brexit.

Labour Party manifesto

Freedom of movement will end when we leave the European Union

Im not surprised so many believe JC is a soft brexit/2nd ref man, think many voters did.

Richard Branson missed a bullet ....... wonder what hes thinking today? Wonder if hes joined the dots yet and realised his funding of the remain campaign, almost got a man in charge who would have stripped him of his rail business and taxed the arse of him. Theres still alot of ironic poetry to shake down in all this lot.

Labours approach to Brexit is free of jingoism and sabre rattling. Mays hard line stance was waffle and yet damaging. She will be seen as a joke by the EU.

Any Leavers in the mood for some sort of compromise, soft Brexit? Something that does reach out and recognise that almost half the country didn't want any sort of Brexit and tries to accommodate them?