UK General Election, June 8th 2017

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the Scottish Lib Dems and Labour should really form a temporary unity pact IMO.

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Yeah wtf is going to happen in Northern Ireland? Purdah means that an imposition of direct rule would be out of the question, I highly doubt the parties are going to go through the motions of conciliation while they're campaigning for the general ... maybe we'll have a second Assembly election at the same time as the general election?

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well, i guess elections in 2-3 years would have been painful for the tories.

hopefully the libdems overtake UKIP in fantasy minority vote country.

lol i forgot about ukip

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Well at least Labour will finally get rid of Corbyn once and for all, who is odds favorite to become leader after he goes?

I suppose that's like asking who will be President if a nuclear bomb hits Washington: it depends who survives.

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https://twitter.com/paulwaugh/status/854371831196913664

This is not an encouraging rumour.

Dear PLP,

We've had our differences, I know; but now is the time to move forwards and unite for the sake of our party and our movement. I want to see a strong united Labour Party in government!

Yours
Jeremy

P.S. You're all fired

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If May is successful and easily wins the election, Chancellor Kern might try the same and blow up the SPÖVP coalition before or after the summer recess, with snap elections in the fall.

big if true

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Vince Cable will stand again in Twickenham.  I'm going to go ahead and say that seat Leans (or even Likely) Lib Dem.

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It seems Tony Blair will campaign with LIB this time.

Rip lib dem revival

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Seems like the mail will play a subtle understated role this campaign:

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Klatetext and OSR do you mind fixing your links so they don't break the page?

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Are coal miners in the UK labour conservative or liberal democrats

Lol

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Don't know is this is FAKE NEWS but reports that we may be seeing a Corbyn dynasty

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Notorious fruitloop LibDem ex- MP John Hemming is standing again against notorious rent a gob Jess Phillips.

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As I said earlier it's because no voters are beginning to vote as 'unionist' voters. The SNP got 56 seats with 50% of the vote in 2015.

Labour are heading towards the levels of Pasok in Scotland. Much like Brexit we have absolutely no stance on independence

The PSC of Catalonia is probably the better comparison.

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BIG, if true. New national holidays? Not 1, not 2...not even 3 but 4 new national holidays!

COMING NEXT WEEK: Jeremy Corbyn pledges to create a Second Christmas.

Appropriate for the western politician most resembling Santa Claus!

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Will cyber physical systems be part of the Labour manifesto? This definitely sounds like a winning issue for Jezza.

Sounds like something a Doctor Who villain would say as part of his quest to become PM to convert the populace into cybermen.

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My instinct is these figures are the overinflated results you sometimes get at early campaigns, but i cant deny wanting to vomit as I read these figures.


Fun fact: the Communist Party aren't putting any candidates up for the first time.

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I see the Conservatives winning and holding their majority. However, I don't know if they'll keep their super majority, that remains to be seen.

In Britain it's actually called the 'rather smashing majority, old chap'. Do your research.

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I think a fair few voters (especially elderly) have detected to the Tories via UKIP as a sort of stepping stone like so:

2010: Labour
2015: UKIP
2017: Tory

I haven't done data analysis or anything though so take this with a pinch of salt

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I think there was a lot of wavering actually - I think Brown was lucky in that he was probably more appealing to such voters than Miliband or Corbyn (Gilliam Duffy aside), Cameron was such a rubbish fit for them and that the Tories had decided to abandon their Michael Howard era posturing.

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Yeah, poor Diane is probably a greater liability to us than Jezza himself.

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Just realised that Enfield North has selected Nick de Bois again. That means the constituency has had the same match-up (Ryan Vs NdB) in every election since 2001.  The area is definitely slipping Labour wards in a trend sense - probably not enough to save Ryan this time around  (hopefully she goes away for good), but enough that it may be the Tories last hurrah.

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This Labour manifesto seems like it could run Labour into the ground.

Nah Corbyn'a team has done that no matter the manifesto. Real people, especially swing voters, don't vote based on idealogies.

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Northern Ireland seats:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2017/revealed-full-list-of-general-election-candidates-for-18-northern-ireland-constituencies-35707610.html