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Atlantic Xpat Jun 8th 2017 12:04 pm

Re: June 8th poll
 
You can live stream BBC News through twitter: https://twitter.com/i/live/861732137824788481

Looks like its going to be an interesting (and long night). Robert Peston just tweeted number of conclusions - Corbyn is here to stay at the labour party (win or lose), May is toast which means Boris is favourite to replace her(!), Blairism is dead & politics is back to left vs right as per 25 years ago.

May you live in interesting times!

not2old Jun 8th 2017 1:02 pm

Re: June 8th poll
 
find ITVnews to be ahead of everyone else

http://www.itv.com/news/topic/general-election/

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JamesM Jun 8th 2017 1:18 pm

Re: June 8th poll
 
The beginning of the end for Brexit. The timeline is shredded now.

Even Farage thinks there could another referendum now.

BristolUK Jun 8th 2017 1:30 pm

Re: June 8th poll
 

Originally Posted by not2old (Post 12269145)
find ITVnews to be ahead of everyone else

Yes, that's weird. ITV currently having 40 results more than BBC

Danny B Jun 8th 2017 1:38 pm

Re: June 8th poll
 
Prime Minister Corbyn


BristolUK Jun 8th 2017 1:49 pm

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Collaborator Clegg lost his seat. :rofl::rofl:

He looks as sick as a parrot.

Partially discharged Jun 8th 2017 2:27 pm

Re: June 8th poll
 
Just watched via Sky News the Maidenhead results where the Monster Raving Loony Party got a mention and a smirk (from Theresa May). Quite a surreal moment and Pythonesque in its delivery.

https://twitter.com/HikChadirchi/sta...216704/photo/1

Danny B Jun 8th 2017 3:01 pm

Re: June 8th poll
 

Originally Posted by Partially discharged (Post 12269159)
Just watched via Sky News the Maidenhead results where the Monster Raving Loony Party got a mention and a smirk (from Theresa May). Quite a surreal moment and Pythonesque in its delivery.

https://twitter.com/HikChadirchi/sta...216704/photo/1

What about mr Fish finger!


JamesM Jun 8th 2017 3:21 pm

Re: June 8th poll
 

Originally Posted by Danny B (Post 12269161)
What about mr Fish finger!


Brilliant!

dave_j Jun 8th 2017 4:31 pm

Re: June 8th poll
 
Well, well, well..
I don't mind admitting that I got it completely wrong.
No landslide, just a minor earthquake.
So, will brexit be hard or soft with the DUP pulling the strings and a hard brexit faction in the party?
And whose strings will they be pulling after May does the decent thing?
Will Bojo strap on the truss of power? Will Gove grasp the back stabbing dagger once again? Or will all be sentenced to the oblivion of the Westminster undercroft by a resurrected Thatcher?
More good TV on the way.

BristolUK Jun 8th 2017 10:36 pm

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I laughed at this bit from the guardian...


For May, who demanded an election she’d previously insisted she didn’t want, in order to win a mandate for a Brexit she’d originally opposed...
:rofl:

JamesM Jun 9th 2017 3:54 am

Re: June 8th poll
 

Originally Posted by dave_j (Post 12269183)
Well, well, well..
I don't mind admitting that I got it completely wrong.
No landslide, just a minor earthquake.
So, will brexit be hard or soft with the DUP pulling the strings and a hard brexit faction in the party?
And whose strings will they be pulling after May does the decent thing?
Will Bojo strap on the truss of power? Will Gove grasp the back stabbing dagger once again? Or will all be sentenced to the oblivion of the Westminster undercroft by a resurrected Thatcher?
More good TV on the way.

This new May "government" won't last till Christmas.

Brexit, if it happens, will take years and years.

Stinkypup Jun 9th 2017 6:51 am

Re: June 8th poll
 

Originally Posted by Danny B (Post 12269161)


:thumbup:
I have to say I would have voted for Mr Fishfinger for PM with Lord Buckethead and Elmo in the Cabinet

Almost Canadian Jun 9th 2017 6:53 am

Re: June 8th poll
 

Originally Posted by dave_j (Post 12269183)
Well, well, well..
I don't mind admitting that I got it completely wrong.
No landslide, just a minor earthquake.
So, will brexit be hard or soft with the DUP pulling the strings and a hard brexit faction in the party?
And whose strings will they be pulling after May does the decent thing?
Will Bojo strap on the truss of power? Will Gove grasp the back stabbing dagger once again? Or will all be sentenced to the oblivion of the Westminster undercroft by a resurrected Thatcher?
More good TV on the way.

What, exactly, is a soft brexit? Isn't it being in the EU without having any say in what happens
?

JamesM Jun 9th 2017 7:01 am

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Originally Posted by Almost Canadian (Post 12269668)
What, exactly, is a soft brexit? Isn't it being in the EU without having any say in what happens
?

That is my guesstimate.

Basically we keep free trade but also accept free movement.

We no longer partake in the EU parliament or it's affairs. Their laws are not our laws although I suspect as is the case with most things we'd have to adapt their laws to do business with them so we'd take on laws we now have no say in.

You may know a lot more about the law aspect than I given your profession.


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