Westministenders: Strong and Stable Theresa Date with Destiny

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WELLLLL

Its just before 2.00am.

So far its the YouGov model all the way. Still a long way to go but, the Cons are not getting the top of their target list and Labour are doing very well in seats they just 'shouldn't be'.

Corbyn is now favourite to take the poison chalice of Brexit, but they may not be the largest party yet.

This is looking right now like 1974 not 1983.

May's potted regardless. I look forward to her resignation speech. Its still entirely possible that our next government is a Tory Minority under another leader.

The LDs are having a rough night so far. They are loosing deposits all over the place as they are squeezed out. But they still might hold the balance of power yet. Though they are pledged not to go into coalition.

Another election in the autumn? Brexit delayed and going soft and squishy?

Terrible speech - certainty, certainty, certainty....going into a period where it will be anything but certain.

Nice mention of the full title of the Conservative and Unionist Party though

5 years? She'll be lucky to last 5 weeks.

Well she successfully managed to say BUGGER all.

TM and Philip ashen faced at the door of No 10

What the hell has happened to us that some of our best political commentators are footballers

I know! Never thought I'd see the day where Gary Lineker would be my political soulmate.

She's been working on her personality issues then. Maybot

FFS carrying on as before with Brexit. On same timetable.

Is she on crack!?

PMSL at NS if she really is running the argument that the SNP "suffered" a vote squeeze. Look at seats like Mhairi's and Joanna Cherry et al and it is patently clear that they would have lost a dozen more seats if the anti SNP vote had not split 3 ways. I stand by my earlier comment that all her subliminal messaging and dissing Kezia were a deliberate strategy to protect the 40 odd old Labour seats at the expense of Angus and wee Eck.

If YouGov had asked I could have provided my multicoloured Scottish map based on the Council elections. It is very close to the outcome.

37% of vote share in Scotland is not a mandate for anything, especially when the starting point was 50%.

Post by an acquaintance on Facebook, about Theresa May:
"She'd have got away with it if it hadn't been for them pesky kids!"

Certainty

New soundbites:

"certainity" & "lets get to work".

Well that was a long night! My faith in humanity has been partly restored.

Bit worried about the prospect of a coalition with the dup though. Strange how a swing to the left can result in a coalition with the loony right. It doesn't feel democratic.

Patty....thats funny!

So she's not tootling a jolly little tune like Cameron did when he gaily chucked the towel in?

FFS carrying on as before with Brexit. On same timetable.

??!!

Deluded.

Can someone explain something to me.

IF TM has a deal with the DUP, she will still be short of one seat to get the full majority inst she?
So does it mean that she will still need the approval of someone else (and independent etc..) to be able to get through whatever she wants to do?

What about brexit (where she clearly refused to have any involvement from the HoC), does it stays the same too?

Ian Dunt‏*@IanDunt*

Fair enough to May, she keeps surpassing expectations. Her conference speech was the ugliest I've heard a British prime minister make.
The one about European interference in the election was the most embarrassing. And that just now was the most ludicrous

@iandunt
Fair enough to May, she keeps surpassing expectations. Her conference speech was the ugliest I've heard a British prime minister make.
The one about European interference in the election was the most embarrassing. And that just now was the most ludicrous.

Have the secret service hidden trumps phone??

Olennas I so wish this's wouold be the team (and tbh, this wouod onlly be fair. Aftyyer all this issue is so big that it shouldn't be meddled with internal politics, let alone the one of a party)

Lovely pictures on Twitter doing the round's of DUP members in South Africa during the 1980s supporting the apartheid regime. Oh Thersea what have you done?

Deluded
That's the word

Pinkpeppers:

Explanation of numbers in terms of rebellions:

650 - 6 Sinn Fein = 644 Seats Taken in the HoC
644 / 2 = 322 Seats for a Majority.
Conservatives 319. So in theory 3 short if you include the Speaker in their numbers.

With the DUP's 10 seats they are 7 over.

7 seats.

More than 7 rebels - either behind the scenes or in an actual vote - and May is in BIG BIG trouble.

And Ken Clarke is still there too.

Haha, of course, she lost because the EU!

She lists the plot really....

What about brexit (where she clearly refused to have any involvement from the HoC), does it stays the same too?

Well considering they gave up on adding a check back with parliament clause and it's just her words to go on, presumably it's all her.