The Theresa May General Election thread (edited)

ICBM

Bridgehouse said:

BREXTERMINATE! BREXTERMINATE!

She does look a bit like Patrick Troughton tho.

She looks much more like General Strax…

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/c8/89/49/c889498682bb46b3d6feb34f633f4c79.jpg

Bridgehouse

ICBM said:

Bridgehouse said:

BREXTERMINATE! BREXTERMINATE!

She does look a bit like Patrick Troughton tho.

She looks much more like General Strax…

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/c8/89/49/c889498682bb46b3d6feb34f633f4c79.jpg

marantz1300

she looks like she has a rat up her arse and is about to shit it over all of us.

Drew_TNBD

marantz1300 said:

she looks like she has a rat up her arse and is about to shit it over all of us.

I can't parse that metaphor.

marantz1300

she is using the election to push through her own agenda ,which will make life very hard for some and then claim she is doing the voters bidding.

if it works out, she is a hero.

if it fucks up, it's not her fault.

can you "parse" that ?

fretmeister

Tactical voting time

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19_yf4RL133fBKscvSbID4eRKwztzY9KSI_2BMaI1bU8/htmlview?usp=sharing&sle=true#

(Not my spreadsheet)

hywelg

Ravenous said:

He'll believe in anything that gets a vote...

No that was Tony Blair. Corbyn does have principles, they are just the wrong ones.....

Evilmags

The next three months will be filled with left wing tears. Labour is reaping what it sowed. Just hilarious really. Self righteousness and incompetence don't win elections. 

Sambostar

FFS what a waste of time and money. 

What a crock of piss poor politicians. 

I hope it rains all summer, I hope Odin raises all the roads to the ground and I hope Kim manages to get a few nukes off.

Sporky

Evilmags said:

The next three months will be filled with left wing tears. Labour is reaping what it sowed. Just hilarious really. Self righteousness and incompetence don't win elections. 

1) Labour haven't been left wing for decades.
2) Self righteousness and incompetence have won almost every election!

VimFuego

Sambostar said:

FFS what a waste of time and money. 

What a crock of piss poor politicians. 

I hope it rains all summer, I hope Odin raises all the roads to the ground and I hope Kim manages to get a few nukes off.

erm, all the roads are already on the ground. Honestly, what a shit god!!!

Bridgehouse

Sambostar said:

FFS what a waste of time and money. 

What a crock of piss poor politicians. 

I hope it rains all summer, I hope Odin raises all the roads to the ground and I hope Kim manages to get a few nukes off.

Apparently the Lib Dems are making booze free and pissing yourself obligatory.

Sambostar

Bridgehouse said:

Apparently the Lib Dems are making booze free and pissing yourself obligatory.

Seriously? This could swing my vote.

Bridgehouse

Sambostar said:

Bridgehouse said:

Apparently the Lib Dems are making booze free and pissing yourself obligatory.

Seriously? This could swing my vote.

To be fair it's the sort of tosh they normally come up with.

Mind you, given their track record on tuition fees, the reality will be booze up £10 a unit and there will be a tax on pissing yourself.

You'd be bankrupt the day after the election...

Heartfeltdawn

It's a backbench squashing move according to various discussion sources. But what direction do those backbenchers lie? If there was something definitive out there that wanted a larger majority thus to quell any Remain backbench mumbling, then it makes sense. But I get the impression that this is aimed at Leave backbenchers. Brexit will happen so why would this group be potentially difficult? 

Answer: if Brexit wasn't going to be as hard as they wanted. 

Can't wait to see the Conservative manifesto entry for their Brexit plans...

Kudos to Electoral Services here in Bristol. I'm already signed up to clerk at the regional mayor election in May. Theresa made her speech at 11am and I was emailed by ES at 1421 to ask if I fancied clerking on June 8th. There's going to be a lot of electoral departments across the country shitting absolute feathers at this announcement.   

dindude

Despite the polls, all this complacency around Corbyn being out of the race sounds dangerously like how Trump was missed (and to some extent Brexit). That really would be a hatrick for the idiots.

Heartfeltdawn

dindude said:

Despite the polls, all this complacency around Corbyn being out of the race sounds dangerously like how Trump was missed (and to some extent Brexit). That really would be a hatrick for the idiots.

For those of us who warned against complacency when it came to Trump, it was clear he had a much wider supporter base than his detractors believed possible. UKIP's popular vote numbers in 2015 was the indicator that Brexit and Trump could happen. 

With Corbyn, his supporter base is narrow. Put it this way, when he comes to a Labour city like Bristol and isn't welcomed that warmly, it's a pretty good indicator that he is not universally liked within his own party. Put that across the country and it doesn't look good for the Best of the Vest. 

A combined Farron and Corbyn kicking must result in serious discussions leading to the formation of a middle ground liberal party from the ashes of the Liberal Democrats and the jumpers from Labour. The time to grow and utilise some balls/vaginas is then. 

cruxiform

Cathy Newman in a leather jacket. Lovely. 

Fretwired

Fretwired

Drew_TNBD said:

scrumhalf said:

Just heard Abbott on the radio.

She's going to have to have one almighty fucker of a migraine for Labour to stand a chance.

Is that the excuse she'll use when Jezzer is getting a bit randy?

It didn't stop her before ... Jezzer's quite a ladies man.