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It’s been a pretty dreadful 24 hours for what we describe as the “Government”. On top of the stresses caused by the abuse scandal we now have what seems like a massive cock-up by the the Foreign Secretary and the Patel meetings in Israel.

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dr_spyn

First.

Corbyn's hubris about to get the better of him?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5058921/Jeremy-Corbyn-job-activist-convicted-election-fraud.html

AlastairMeeks

You have to wonder about the 34% who approve of the Brexit negotiations.

FrancisUrquhart

dr_spyn said:

First.

Corbyn's hubris about to get the better of him?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5058921/Jeremy-Corbyn-job-activist-convicted-election-fraud.html

Marsha-Jane Thompson reportedly submitted 100 fake voter registration forms and forged signatures on some of them while a housing officer in Newham, east London

About as surprising to find that Lewis Hamilton doesn't like to pay too much tax...

Sunil_Prasannan

AlastairMeeks said:

You have to wonder about the 34% who approve of the Brexit negotiations.

Or the 48% who voted Remain?

oxfordsimon

FrancisUrquhart said:

dr_spyn said:

First.

Corbyn's hubris about to get the better of him?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5058921/Jeremy-Corbyn-job-activist-convicted-election-fraud.html

Marsha-Jane Thompson reportedly submitted 100 fake voter registration forms and forged signatures on some of them while a housing officer in Newham, east London

About as surprising to find that Lewis Hamilton doesn't like to pay too much tax...

It won't harm Corbyn in the slightest. Which is utterly wrong. This person should not be permitted anywhere near the political/democratic process ever again. But Corbyn gets away with everything at the moment.

Scott_P

https://twitter.com/isabelhardman/status/927938077359779842

FrancisUrquhart

oxfordsimon said:

FrancisUrquhart said:

dr_spyn said:

First.

Corbyn's hubris about to get the better of him?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5058921/Jeremy-Corbyn-job-activist-convicted-election-fraud.html

Marsha-Jane Thompson reportedly submitted 100 fake voter registration forms and forged signatures on some of them while a housing officer in Newham, east London

About as surprising to find that Lewis Hamilton doesn't like to pay too much tax...

It won't harm Corbyn in the slightest. Which is utterly wrong. This person should not be permitted anywhere near the political/democratic process ever again. But Corbyn gets away with everything at the moment.

Obviously it is a Zionist smear....

dixiedean

The question arises again. Why did Fallon go? If Patel in particular, as well as Boris can stay, why him? Did he do anything much worse than we have heard?
Or had he simply had enough?

Richard_Nabavi

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

Scott_P

@tnewtondunn: No10: the PM only learned about Priti Patel's discussions to give aid to Israeli Army this morning, from @BBCJLandale. It gets worse.

dixiedean

FrancisUrquhart said:

oxfordsimon said:

FrancisUrquhart said:

dr_spyn said:

First.

Corbyn's hubris about to get the better of him?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5058921/Jeremy-Corbyn-job-activist-convicted-election-fraud.html

Marsha-Jane Thompson reportedly submitted 100 fake voter registration forms and forged signatures on some of them while a housing officer in Newham, east London

About as surprising to find that Lewis Hamilton doesn't like to pay too much tax...

It won't harm Corbyn in the slightest. Which is utterly wrong. This person should not be permitted anywhere near the political/democratic process ever again. But Corbyn gets away with everything at the moment.

Obviously it is a Zionist smear....

Or government incompetence crowding out other news?

TheScreamingEagles

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

Theresa May denied herself a majority, not the electorate.

SandyRentool

Looking at the middle graph:

CROSSOVER!!!

Laters...

Yorkcity

AlastairMeeks said:

You have to wonder about the 34% who approve of the Brexit negotiations.

I think they are in awe of the Jeeves and Wooster British comedy negotiations.

Scott_P

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

The EU have never cared about the size of her majority.

And Tezza tried to pitch losing it as a plus in Brussels

IanB2

FrancisUrquhart said:

dr_spyn said:

First.

Corbyn's hubris about to get the better of him?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5058921/Jeremy-Corbyn-job-activist-convicted-election-fraud.html

Marsha-Jane Thompson reportedly submitted 100 fake voter registration forms and forged signatures on some of them while a housing officer in Newham, east London

About as surprising to find that Lewis Hamilton doesn't like to pay too much tax...

Whatever the motivation for her crime, it can't have been political, in Newham, surely.

Richard_Nabavi

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

Theresa May denied herself a majority, not the electorate.

The electorate had more than a passing influence in the matter!

MikeSmithson

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

She should have quit in the weekend after the election she called to get a mandate for her approach to Brexit.

The default assumption with TMay must be that any big decision she makes is going to be wrong.

JonathanD

dixiedean said:

The question arises again. Why did Fallon go? If Patel in particular, as well as Boris can stay, why him? Did he do anything much worse than we have heard?
Or had he simply had enough?

Probably just had a bit more integrity and self-respect than them.

HYUFD

In actual fact May is now making significant progress towards a FTA having agreed to pay an exit bill

Public opinion does not really follow the broad details of the negotiations so is largely irrelevant until March 2019 and a clear outline of the Brexit terms implementing the Brexit a majority of them voted for is agreed.

dixiedean

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

But they didn't. She denied herself a majority by calling a vanity election, and utterly failing to prepare to fight it.
She had the majority...she pissed it away.
Her fault...no one else's.
Edit TSE is quicker and more succinct!

Richard_Nabavi

MikeSmithson said:

She should have quit in the weekend after the election she called to get a mandate for her approach to Brexit.

The default assumption with TMay must that any big decision she makes is going to be wrong.

I tend to agree. Even so, effectively negotiating Brexit as a minority government would be near-impossible for any PM. It was a catastrophic election result in the circumstances.

FrancisUrquhart

JonathanD said:

dixiedean said:

The question arises again. Why did Fallon go? If Patel in particular, as well as Boris can stay, why him? Did he do anything much worse than we have heard?
Or had he simply had enough?

Probably just had a bit more integrity and self-respect than them.

It is possible to have a good resignation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8t6KRstWIk

anothernick

oxfordsimon said:

FrancisUrquhart said:

dr_spyn said:

First.

Corbyn's hubris about to get the better of him?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5058921/Jeremy-Corbyn-job-activist-convicted-election-fraud.html

Marsha-Jane Thompson reportedly submitted 100 fake voter registration forms and forged signatures on some of them while a housing officer in Newham, east London

About as surprising to find that Lewis Hamilton doesn't like to pay too much tax...

It won't harm Corbyn in the slightest. Which is utterly wrong. This person should not be permitted anywhere near the political/democratic process ever again. But Corbyn gets away with everything at the moment.

That's because all attention is concentrated on the government. It's incredibly gripping, a real live soap opera. Commentators have no time left to worry about the opposition. If it wasn't so tragic for the country it would be massively entertaining. You just don't know whether to laugh or cry.

williamglenn

HYUFD said:

In actual fact May is now making significant progress towards a FTA having agreed to pay an exit bill

There will be no FTA negotiations until after Brexit. May is making progress on getting to the point where we can discuss the arrangements for a continuity transition deal, which she wants to last for two years.

TheScreamingEagles

Richard_Nabavi said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

Theresa May denied herself a majority, not the electorate.

The electorate had more than a passing influence in the matter!

If only she hadn't called that snap election.

I wonder what Gordon Brown's autobiography says about the snap election of 2007.

MikeL

The poll does actually lead to a potential silver lining:

The public's expectations re any Brexit deal are now very low. Thus if in fact the Govt does somehow manage to get a deal which appears even remotely reasonable then they will have exceeded most people's expectations.

Scott_P

https://twitter.com/polhomeeditor/status/927941393833713669

Richard_Nabavi

MikeL said:

The poll does actually lead to a potential silver lining:

The public's expectations re any Brexit deal are now very low. Thus if in fact the Govt does somehow manage to get a deal which appears even remotely reasonable then they will have exceeded most people's expectations.

True, except that the middle graph shows that as astonishingly high number of people think we'll be better off economically. There's zero chance of that being right for the foreseeable future.

Ishmael_Z

OK Wegenerbois, answer this one:

"Portugal is part of Europe" is

A. True.
B. False.

Think carefully.

TOPPING

williamglenn said:

HYUFD said:

In actual fact May is now making significant progress towards a FTA having agreed to pay an exit bill

There will be no FTA negotiations until after Brexit. May is making progress on getting to the point where we can discuss the arrangements for a continuity transition deal, which she wants to last for two years.

oooh please sir, please sir, can we have an extension of Article 50 please. Thank you sir.

HYUFD

https://mobile.twitter.com/YouGov/status/927931675920789505

Yorkcity

Richard_Nabavi said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

Theresa May denied herself a majority, not the electorate.

The electorate had more than a passing influence in the matter!

To be fair Richard the electorate were not desperately asking for an election in April 17.

Sunil_Prasannan

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

Theresa May denied herself a majority, not the electorate.

The electorate had more than a passing influence in the matter!

If only she hadn't called that snap election.

I wonder what Gordon Brown's autobiography says about the snap election of 2007.

He still lost power in 2010.

HYUFD

williamglenn said:

HYUFD said:

In actual fact May is now making significant progress towards a FTA having agreed to pay an exit bill

There will be no FTA negotiations until after Brexit. May is making progress on getting to the point where we can discuss the arrangements for a continuity transition deal, which she wants to last for two years.

No, Barnier made clear negotiations for a FTA will start by Christmas.

There do not need to be negotiations for a transition deal, all that is required is ECJ jurisdiction in the UK, payment of the exit bill and free movement continuing for that 2 year transition period.

Danny565

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

Theresa May denied herself a majority, not the electorate.

The electorate had more than a passing influence in the matter!

If only she hadn't called that snap election.

I wonder what Gordon Brown's autobiography says about the snap election of 2007.

He must be the happiest man in politics right now, he can finally stop torturing himself with the what-might-have-beens.

HYUFD

Scott_P said:

https://twitter.com/polhomeeditor/status/927941393833713669

To aid Syrian war victims

Richard_Nabavi

Yorkcity said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

Theresa May denied herself a majority, not the electorate.

The electorate had more than a passing influence in the matter!

To be fair Richard the electorate were not desperately asking for an election in April 17.

True, although it seemed a popular move when she called it. In fact the general feeling at the time (not least on here) from all parts of the political spectrum was that it was a political masterstroke. So it might have been, if her campaign hadn't been so awful.

HYUFD

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

Theresa May denied herself a majority, not the electorate.

The electorate had more than a passing influence in the matter!

If only she hadn't called that snap election.

I wonder what Gordon Brown's autobiography says about the snap election of 2007.

He might have got the 42% and 318 seats May got rather than the abysmal 29% and 258 seats he did get 3 years later you mean?

Yorkcity

Any chance of May asking MPs from other parties to join her in a unity government , until we have left the EU an obtained a deal ?

Pong

fpt;

AlastairMeeks said:

Pong said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-41900744

That ain't justice.

He's 90. Do you think he needs deterring?

I expect he will be punishing himself already far more than any prison would.

He needed deterring.

The justice system needs to make it absolutely clear that if you get into a car and mow people down and kill them that there are consequences.

No?

I hope the driving after 70 rules are tightened up as a result of this. I doubt they will be.

Full retest @ 65 & every 3 years afterwards and/or compulsory telematics monitored by DVLA.

RobD

Pong said:

fpt;

AlastairMeeks said:

Pong said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-41900744

That ain't justice.

He's 90. Do you think he needs deterring?

I expect he will be punishing himself already far more than any prison would.

He needed deterring.

The justice system needs to make it absolutely clear that if you get into a car and mow people down and kill them that there are consequences.

No?

If he wasn't ninety he'd probably be seeing jail time.

Richard_Nabavi

Pong said:

fpt;

AlastairMeeks said:

Pong said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-41900744

That ain't justice.

He's 90. Do you think he needs deterring?

I expect he will be punishing himself already far more than any prison would.

He needed deterring.

The justice system needs to make it absolutely clear that if you get into a car and mow people down and kill them that there are consequences.

No?

You omitted the key words 'deliberately or recklessly'.

It was an accident, for heaven's sake.

TheScreamingEagles

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

Theresa May denied herself a majority, not the electorate.

The electorate had more than a passing influence in the matter!

If only she hadn't called that snap election.

I wonder what Gordon Brown's autobiography says about the snap election of 2007.

He might have got the 42% and 318 seats May got rather than the abysmal 29% and 258 seats he did get 3 years later you mean?

Nope, like Mrs May, Gordon Brown dabbling with a snap election (or therein) despite repeated denials that they would do such a thing damaged them both, and neither of the Premierships ever really recovered.

Most sensible people acknowledge Mrs May was damaged by the events of June 8th.

TheScreamingEagles

Pong said:

fpt;

AlastairMeeks said:

Pong said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-41900744

That ain't justice.

He's 90. Do you think he needs deterring?

I expect he will be punishing himself already far more than any prison would.

He needed deterring.

The justice system needs to make it absolutely clear that if you get into a car and mow people down and kill them that there are consequences.

No?

He's been given a lifetime driving ban, there's no need for deterrence.

Given the extenuating circumstances of his life, and that it was an accident, it was a proportional sentence.

Sad to see you go all Daily Mail when it comes to sentencing and the judiciary.

Plus as I pointed out on the previous thread, it would cost us a lot to imprison him.

Ishmael_Z

Pong said:

fpt;

AlastairMeeks said:

Pong said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-41900744

That ain't justice.

He's 90. Do you think he needs deterring?

I expect he will be punishing himself already far more than any prison would.

He needed deterring.

The justice system needs to make it absolutely clear that if you get into a car and mow people down and kill them that there are consequences.

No?

There are consequences: he has received a suspended prison sentence and a lifetime driving ban. Duh.

Yorkcity

Richard_Nabavi said:

Yorkcity said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

Theresa May denied herself a majority, not the electorate.

The electorate had more than a passing influence in the matter!

To be fair Richard the electorate were not desperately asking for an election in April 17.

True, although it seemed a popular move when she called it. In fact the general feeling at the time (not least on here) from all parts of the political spectrum was that it was a political masterstroke. So it might have been, if her campaign hadn't been so awful.

Yes I agree in April 17 , there was not many predicting the actual result if any .I certainly thought she would win a Blair type landslide.It is the most surprising result in my lifetime.

HYUFD

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

Theresa May denied herself a majority, not the electorate.

The electorate had more than a passing influence in the matter!

If only she hadn't called that snap election.

I wonder what Gordon Brown's autobiography says about the snap election of 2007.

He might have got the 42% and 318 seats May got rather than the abysmal 29% and 258 seats he did get 3 years later you mean?

Nope, like Mrs May, Gordon Brown dabbling with a snap election (or therein) despite repeated denials that they would do such a thing damaged them both, and neither of the Premierships ever really recovered.

Most sensible people acknowledge Mrs May was damaged by the events of June 8th.

Wrong. Mrs May has secured her place in the history books with the highest Tory voteshare in 34 years and the second highest number of Tory seats in 25 years. Even if she did not do as well as hoped.

By failing to call a snap election history will record Brown got the second lowest Labour voteshare since WW2 and the lowest number of Labour seats for 23 years until Ed Miliband won even fewer in 2015. Even Corbyn outperformed Brown.

dixiedean

HYUFD said:

Scott_P said:

https://twitter.com/polhomeeditor/status/927941393833713669

To aid Syrian war victims

Not her call to make. You may assign the most admirable motives imaginable, but she was negotiating with a foreign power without the knowledge of her superiors or the Ambassador.
That is a clear breach of Ministerial Code.
By contrast, Boris is guilty of only being unprepared and winging it.
Fallon of being a bit creepy.
Only one has gone.

TheScreamingEagles

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

Theresa May denied herself a majority, not the electorate.

The electorate had more than a passing influence in the matter!

If only she hadn't called that snap election.

I wonder what Gordon Brown's autobiography says about the snap election of 2007.

He might have got the 42% and 318 seats May got rather than the abysmal 29% and 258 seats he did get 3 years later you mean?

Nope, like Mrs May, Gordon Brown dabbling with a snap election (or therein) despite repeated denials that they would do such a thing damaged them both, and neither of the Premierships ever really recovered.

Most sensible people acknowledge Mrs May was damaged by the events of June 8th.

Wrong. Mrs May has secured her place in the history books with the highest Tory voteshare in 34 years and the second highest number of Tory seats in 25 years. Even if she did not do as well as hoped.

By failing to call a snap election history will record Brown got the second lowest Labour voteshare since WW2 and the lowest number of Labour seats for 23 years until Ed Miliband won even fewer in 2015. Even Corbyn outperformed Brown.

Simple question.

Do you think Mrs May was enhanced by the result on June 8th?

A simple Yes or No will do.

anothernick

Richard_Nabavi said:

MikeSmithson said:

She should have quit in the weekend after the election she called to get a mandate for her approach to Brexit.

The default assumption with TMay must that any big decision she makes is going to be wrong.

I tend to agree. Even so, effectively negotiating Brexit as a minority government would be near-impossible for any PM. It was a catastrophic election result in the circumstances.

I doubt it would have been any easier if she had won a majority. She had already thrown away her only important negotiating card when she triggered article 50. And her rhetoric before the election was calculated to alienate the EU and make it less likely they would offer a good deal.

The EU wants to see the UK suffer - the official line might be that this is not a punishment process but that is not the reality. We can either crash out without a deal which will have devastating economic consequences far worse than anything suggested by project fear or we can accept their terms for a transitional deal. These will be pretty much a continuation of the UK's participation in the economic structure, including budget contributions, ECJ and the four freedoms, without any say in the political structure.

Either of these options will be humiliating, costly and a million miles from the world promised by the leave campaign. But the EU holds all the cards. If May had a majority it might have been easier for her to make the required concessions but they would still have had to be made.

TOPPING

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

Theresa May denied herself a majority, not the electorate.

The electorate had more than a passing influence in the matter!

If only she hadn't called that snap election.

I wonder what Gordon Brown's autobiography says about the snap election of 2007.

He might have got the 42% and 318 seats May got rather than the abysmal 29% and 258 seats he did get 3 years later you mean?

Nope, like Mrs May, Gordon Brown dabbling with a snap election (or therein) despite repeated denials that they would do such a thing damaged them both, and neither of the Premierships ever really recovered.

Most sensible people acknowledge Mrs May was damaged by the events of June 8th.

Wrong. Mrs May has secured her place in the history books with the highest Tory voteshare in 34 years and the second highest number of Tory seats in 25 years. Even if she did not do as well as hoped.

By failing to call a snap election history will record Brown got the second lowest Labour voteshare since WW2 and the lowest number of Labour seats for 23 years until Ed Miliband won even fewer in 2015. Even Corbyn outperformed Brown.

Giving Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf a run for his money.

Sunil_Prasannan

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

Theresa May denied herself a majority, not the electorate.

The electorate had more than a passing influence in the matter!

If only she hadn't called that snap election.

I wonder what Gordon Brown's autobiography says about the snap election of 2007.

He might have got the 42% and 318 seats May got rather than the abysmal 29% and 258 seats he did get 3 years later you mean?

Nope, like Mrs May, Gordon Brown dabbling with a snap election (or therein) despite repeated denials that they would do such a thing damaged them both, and neither of the Premierships ever really recovered.

Most sensible people acknowledge Mrs May was damaged by the events of June 8th.

Wrong. Mrs May has secured her place in the history books with the highest Tory voteshare in 34 years and the second highest number of Tory seats in 25 years. Even if she did not do as well as hoped.

By failing to call a snap election history will record Brown got the second lowest Labour voteshare since WW2 and the lowest number of Labour seats for 23 years until Ed Miliband won even fewer in 2015. Even Corbyn outperformed Brown.

Simple question.

Do you think Mrs May was enhanced by the result on June 8th?

A simple Yes or No will do.

YES.

SURVIVAL IS VICTORY

TheScreamingEagles

TOPPING said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

Theresa May denied herself a majority, not the electorate.

The electorate had more than a passing influence in the matter!

If only she hadn't called that snap election.

I wonder what Gordon Brown's autobiography says about the snap election of 2007.

He might have got the 42% and 318 seats May got rather than the abysmal 29% and 258 seats he did get 3 years later you mean?

Nope, like Mrs May, Gordon Brown dabbling with a snap election (or therein) despite repeated denials that they would do such a thing damaged them both, and neither of the Premierships ever really recovered.

Most sensible people acknowledge Mrs May was damaged by the events of June 8th.

Wrong. Mrs May has secured her place in the history books with the highest Tory voteshare in 34 years and the second highest number of Tory seats in 25 years. Even if she did not do as well as hoped.

By failing to call a snap election history will record Brown got the second lowest Labour voteshare since WW2 and the lowest number of Labour seats for 23 years until Ed Miliband won even fewer in 2015. Even Corbyn outperformed Brown.

Giving Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf a run for his money.

HYUFD

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

Theresa May denied herself a majority, not the electorate.

The electorate had more than a passing influence in the matter!

If only she hadn't called that snap election.

I wonder what Gordon Brown's autobiography says about the snap election of 2007.

He might have got the 42% and 318 seats May got rather than the abysmal 29% and 258 seats he did get 3 years later you mean?

Nope, like Mrs May, Gordon Brown dabbling with a snap election (or therein) despite repeated denials that they would do such a thing damaged them both, and neither of the Premierships ever really recovered.

Most sensible people acknowledge Mrs May was damaged by the events of June 8th.

Wrong. Mrs May has secured her place in the history books with the highest Tory voteshare in 34 years and the second highest number of Tory seats in 25 years. Even if she did not do as well as hoped.

By failing to call a snap election history will record Brown got the second lowest Labour voteshare since WW2 and the lowest number of Labour seats for 23 years until Ed Miliband won even fewer in 2015. Even Corbyn outperformed Brown.

Simple question.

Do you think Mrs May was enhanced by the result on June 8th?

A simple Yes or No will do.

In the sense that she did better than she likely would have done in a general election in 2020 yes she was in historical terms.

Brown's failure to call a snap general election in 2007, which would also have been pre crash, meant his election record will be recorded for posterity in the history books as far worse than it could have been.

Sunil_Prasannan

TheScreamingEagles said:

TOPPING said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

Theresa May denied herself a majority, not the electorate.

The electorate had more than a passing influence in the matter!

If only she hadn't called that snap election.

I wonder what Gordon Brown's autobiography says about the snap election of 2007.

He might have got the 42% and 318 seats May got rather than the abysmal 29% and 258 seats he did get 3 years later you mean?

Nope, like Mrs May, Gordon Brown dabbling with a snap election (or therein) despite repeated denials that they would do such a thing damaged them both, and neither of the Premierships ever really recovered.

Most sensible people acknowledge Mrs May was damaged by the events of June 8th.

Wrong. Mrs May has secured her place in the history books with the highest Tory voteshare in 34 years and the second highest number of Tory seats in 25 years. Even if she did not do as well as hoped.

By failing to call a snap election history will record Brown got the second lowest Labour voteshare since WW2 and the lowest number of Labour seats for 23 years until Ed Miliband won even fewer in 2015. Even Corbyn outperformed Brown.

Giving Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf a run for his money.

Committing suicide? Like when Arvel Crynyd crashed his A-wing into the star destroyer "Executor's" bridge?

TheScreamingEagles

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

Theresa May denied herself a majority, not the electorate.

The electorate had more than a passing influence in the matter!

If only she hadn't called that snap election.

I wonder what Gordon Brown's autobiography says about the snap election of 2007.

He might have got the 42% and 318 seats May got rather than the abysmal 29% and 258 seats he did get 3 years later you mean?

Nope, like Mrs May, Gordon Brown dabbling with a snap election (or therein) despite repeated denials that they would do such a thing damaged them both, and neither of the Premierships ever really recovered.

Most sensible people acknowledge Mrs May was damaged by the events of June 8th.

Wrong. Mrs May has secured her place in the history books with the highest Tory voteshare in 34 years and the second highest number of Tory seats in 25 years. Even if she did not do as well as hoped.

By failing to call a snap election history will record Brown got the second lowest Labour voteshare since WW2 and the lowest number of Labour seats for 23 years until Ed Miliband won even fewer in 2015. Even Corbyn outperformed Brown.

Simple question.

Do you think Mrs May was enhanced by the result on June 8th?

A simple Yes or No will do.

In the sense that she did better than she likely would have done in a general election in 2020 yes she was in historical terms.

Brown's failure to call a snap general election in 2007, which would also have been pre crash, meant his election record will be recorded for posterity in the history books as far worse than it could have been.

HYUFD

dixiedean said:

HYUFD said:

Scott_P said:

https://twitter.com/polhomeeditor/status/927941393833713669

To aid Syrian war victims

Not her call to make. You may assign the most admirable motives imaginable, but she was negotiating with a foreign power without the knowledge of her superiors or the Ambassador.
That is a clear breach of Ministerial Code.
By contrast, Boris is guilty of only being unprepared and winging it.
Fallon of being a bit creepy.
Only one has gone.

She is the Secretary of State for International Development, as much a Cabinet Minister as Boris is and it fell within her remit.

Scott_P

https://twitter.com/johnrentoul/status/927947706529714179

williamglenn

The decline in people confident we will get a good deal is precipitous. Now crossing over with the 'don't knows'...

HYUFD

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

Theresa May denied herself a majority, not the electorate.

The electorate had more than a passing influence in the matter!

If only she hadn't called that snap election.

I wonder what Gordon Brown's autobiography says about the snap election of 2007.

He might have got the 42% and 318 seats May got rather than the abysmal 29% and 258 seats he did get 3 years later you mean?

Nope, like Mrs May, Gordon Brown dabbling with a snap election (or therein) despite repeated denials that they would do such a thing damaged them both, and neither of the Premierships ever really recovered.

Most sensible people acknowledge Mrs May was damaged by the events of June 8th.

Wrong. Mrs May has secured her place in the history books with the highest Tory voteshare in 34 years and the second highest number of Tory seats in 25 years. Even if she did not do as well as hoped.

By failing to call a snap election history will record Brown got the second lowest Labour voteshare since WW2 and the lowest number of Labour seats for 23 years until Ed Miliband won even fewer in 2015. Even Corbyn outperformed Brown.

Simple question.

Do you think Mrs May was enhanced by the result on June 8th?

A simple Yes or No will do.

In the sense that she did better than she likely would have done in a general election in 2020 yes she was in historical terms.

Brown's failure to call a snap general election in 2007, which would also have been pre crash, meant his election record will be recorded for posterity in the history books as far worse than it could have been.

Napoleon lost at Waterloo, May won most seats in 2017 and most votes.

Scott_P

HYUFD said:

She is the Secretary of State for International Development, as much a Cabinet Minister as Boris

True

HYUFD said:

and it fell within her remit.

Not so much

OldKingCole

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

Theresa May denied herself a majority, not the electorate.

The electorate had more than a passing influence in the matter!

If only she hadn't called that snap election.

I wonder what Gordon Brown's autobiography says about the snap election of 2007.

He might have got the 42% and 318 seats May got rather than the abysmal 29% and 258 seats he did get 3 years later you mean?

Nope, like Mrs May, Gordon Brown dabbling with a snap election (or therein) despite repeated denials that they would do such a thing damaged them both, and neither of the Premierships ever really recovered.

Most sensible people acknowledge Mrs May was damaged by the events of June 8th.

Wrong. Mrs May has secured her place in the history books with the highest Tory voteshare in 34 years and the second highest number of Tory seats in 25 years. Even if she did not do as well as hoped.

By failing to call a snap election history will record Brown got the second lowest Labour voteshare since WW2 and the lowest number of Labour seats for 23 years until Ed Miliband won even fewer in 2015. Even Corbyn outperformed Brown.

Simple question.

Do you think Mrs May was enhanced by the result on June 8th?

A simple Yes or No will do.

In the sense that she did better than she likely would have done in a general election in 2020 yes she was in historical terms.

Brown's failure to call a snap general election in 2007, which would also have been pre crash, meant his election record will be recorded for posterity in the history books as far worse than it could have been.

You are Boris Johnson and I clain my £5

Roger

An MP committing suicide was so inevitable.....

Couldn't Boris have done the decent thing.....

Scott_P

https://twitter.com/iandunt/status/927948101666697217

HYUFD

williamglenn said:

The decline in people confident we will get a good deal is precipitous. Now crossing over with the 'don't knows'...

What is 'a good deal'? For most Leavers it is leaving the EU with a FTA and ending free movement and replacing it with a points system and ideally paying as little money as possible to the EU.

For Remainers 'a good deal' is leaving free movement in place in order to retain membership of the single market.

Nobody will be entirely happy whatever the deal that is agreed.

Scott_P

@GuardianHeather: May's spokesman also unable to say when/whether the PM had learned of the idea that Patel had discussed providing UK aid to Israeli army.

@GuardianHeather: “As to whether or not we ever had a specific conversation about that particular aspect of foreign aid – it may well be that we didn’t".

MarkHopkins

Scott_P said:

//twitter.com/iandunt/status/927948101666697217

We no longer have anything resembling a coherent British foreign policy

I guess he wasn't around during the fiascos of the last Labour administration.

Scott_P

https://twitter.com/patrickwintour/status/927943166149431296

rottenborough

Scott_P said:

https://twitter.com/iandunt/status/927948101666697217

Political scientists will spend decades analysing the total collapse of functioning government since May was sort of re-elected.

HYUFD

Scott_P said:

https://twitter.com/iandunt/status/927948101666697217

Or we have a Foreign policy which is no longer explicitly pro EU and anti Israel and left liberals can't stand it!

OldKingCole

MarkHopkins said:

Scott_P said:

//twitter.com/iandunt/status/927948101666697217

We no longer have anything resembling a coherent British foreign policy

I guess he wasn't around during the fiascos of the last Labour administration.

Robin Cook was good ..... 1997 Administration ...... and after that, IIRC Hague.

We (fairly) recently lost three Scots before their time; John Smith, Robin Cook and Charles Kennedy.

Sean_F

Richard_Nabavi said:

MikeSmithson said:

She should have quit in the weekend after the election she called to get a mandate for her approach to Brexit.

The default assumption with TMay must that any big decision she makes is going to be wrong.

I tend to agree. Even so, effectively negotiating Brexit as a minority government would be near-impossible for any PM. It was a catastrophic election result in the circumstances.

If she and her MP's had any sense of purpose, they could do it. With DUP backing on major issues, the government has an effective majority similar to Churchill's in 1951.

But, we have a PM who plainly doesn't want the job, or have any idea what she's doing in office.

Sunil_Prasannan

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

Theresa May denied herself a majority, not the electorate.

The electorate had more than a passing influence in the matter!

If only she hadn't called that snap election.

I wonder what Gordon Brown's autobiography says about the snap election of 2007.

He might have got the 42% and 318 seats May got rather than the abysmal 29% and 258 seats he did get 3 years later you mean?

Nope, like Mrs May, Gordon Brown dabbling with a snap election (or therein) despite repeated denials that they would do such a thing damaged them both, and neither of the Premierships ever really recovered.

Most sensible people acknowledge Mrs May was damaged by the events of June 8th.

Wrong. Mrs May has secured her place in the history books with the highest Tory voteshare in 34 years and the second highest number of Tory seats in 25 years. Even if she did not do as well as hoped.

By failing to call a snap election history will record Brown got the second lowest Labour voteshare since WW2 and the lowest number of Labour seats for 23 years until Ed Miliband won even fewer in 2015. Even Corbyn outperformed Brown.

Simple question.

Do you think Mrs May was enhanced by the result on June 8th?

A simple Yes or No will do.

In the sense that she did better than she likely would have done in a general election in 2020 yes she was in historical terms.

Brown's failure to call a snap general election in 2007, which would also have been pre crash, meant his election record will be recorded for posterity in the history books as far worse than it could have been.

Napoleon lost at Waterloo, May won most seats in 2017 and most votes.

I think TSE may be referring to Wavre, the same day as Waterloo, and France's last victory in 1815 campaign.

anothernick

MarkHopkins said:

Scott_P said:

//twitter.com/iandunt/status/927948101666697217

We no longer have anything resembling a coherent British foreign policy

I guess he wasn't around during the fiascos of the last Labour administration.

But they were coherent fiascos, supported by both government and parliament. And everyone knew where we were going, even if we didn't want to get there.

Scott_P

HYUFD said:

Or we have a Foreign policy which is no longer explicitly pro EU and anti Israel and left liberals can't stand it!

You really think funding the Israeli army is UK Government policy now?

Wow

Roger

HYUFD said:

Scott_P said:

https://twitter.com/iandunt/status/927948101666697217

Or we have a Foreign policy which is no longer explicitly pro EU and anti Israel and left liberals can't stand it!

Were you really a failed Tory candidate at the last election or was that just Mark's sense of humour?

Scott_P

https://twitter.com/telegraph/status/927952189640904705

Ishmael_Z

Ishmael_Z said:

OK Wegenerbois, answer this one:

"Portugal is part of Europe" is

A. True.
B. False.

Think carefully.

Too difficult, obv.

Is this easier?

"Portugal is part of Europe" is

A. True.
B. False.
C. Yebbut.

Take your time.

BannedInParis

Sunil_Prasannan said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

Theresa May denied herself a majority, not the electorate.

The electorate had more than a passing influence in the matter!

If only she hadn't called that snap election.

I wonder what Gordon Brown's autobiography says about the snap election of 2007.

He might have got the 42% and 318 seats May got rather than the abysmal 29% and 258 seats he did get 3 years later you mean?

Nope, like Mrs May, Gordon Brown dabbling with a snap election (or therein) despite repeated denials that they would do such a thing damaged them both, and neither of the Premierships ever really recovered.

Most sensible people acknowledge Mrs May was damaged by the events of June 8th.

Wrong. Mrs May has secured her place in the history books with the highest Tory voteshare in 34 years and the second highest number of Tory seats in 25 years. Even if she did not do as well as hoped.

By failing to call a snap election history will record Brown got the second lowest Labour voteshare since WW2 and the lowest number of Labour seats for 23 years until Ed Miliband won even fewer in 2015. Even Corbyn outperformed Brown.

Simple question.

Do you think Mrs May was enhanced by the result on June 8th?

A simple Yes or No will do.

In the sense that she did better than she likely would have done in a general election in 2020 yes she was in historical terms.

Brown's failure to call a snap general election in 2007, which would also have been pre crash, meant his election record will be recorded for posterity in the history books as far worse than it could have been.

Napoleon lost at Waterloo, May won most seats in 2017 and most votes.

I think TSE may be referring to Wavre, the same day as Waterloo, and France's last victory in 1815 campaign.

He's more likely referring to something a little like this:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-French-Won-Waterloo-Think/dp/1780893086

BannedInParis

Incidentally, I still find it amazing that grown men are arguing about this.

May won. There is literally no doubt about that - she won the most seats, most votes and has enough support to get a Queens' speech through. That she permanently and fatally damaged her standing to achieve that victory will always overshadow it and, indeed, her.

There is a very famous saying in our language that covers this precise scenario. Can we just start using that instead of shitposting over and over and over.

Please.

Roger

If Prity Patel doesn't resign it will be a miracle. Even by the shoddy standards of this government she surely has no chance of remaining in office. She should be in a race with Boris but being junior and her offence being much more serious it's bound to be her.

OldKingCole

BannedInParis said:

Sunil_Prasannan said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

Theresa May denied herself a majority, not the electorate.

The electorate had more than a passing influence in the matter!

If only she hadn't called that snap election.

I wonder what Gordon Brown's autobiography says about the snap election of 2007.

He might have got the 42% and 318 seats May got rather than the abysmal 29% and 258 seats he did get 3 years later you mean?

Nope, like Mrs May, Gordon Brown dabbling with a snap election (or therein) despite repeated denials that they would do such a thing damaged them both, and neither of the Premierships ever really recovered.

Most sensible people acknowledge Mrs May was damaged by the events of June 8th.

Wrong. Mrs May has secured her place in the history books with the highest Tory voteshare in 34 years and the second highest number of Tory seats in 25 years. Even if she did not do as well as hoped.

By failing to call a snap election history will record Brown got the second lowest Labour voteshare since WW2 and the lowest number of Labour seats for 23 years until Ed Miliband won even fewer in 2015. Even Corbyn outperformed Brown.

Simple question.

Do you think Mrs May was enhanced by the result on June 8th?

A simple Yes or No will do.

Brown's failure to call a snap general election in 2007, which would also have been pre crash, meant his election record will be recorded for posterity in the history books as far worse than it could have been.

Napoleon lost at Waterloo, May won most seats in 2017 and most votes.

I think TSE may be referring to Wavre, the same day as Waterloo, and France's last victory in 1815 campaign.

He's more likely referring to something a little like this:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-French-Won-Waterloo-Think/dp/1780893086

You couldn't call Dunkirk a victory, could you. Greatest ever Escape, maybe.

Sandpit

Sad to hear the news about Carl Sargeant.

With all the allegations about lots of people flying around at the moment, it’s sadly unsurprising to hear that someone has taken that option.

HYUFD

Sunil_Prasannan said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

Theresa May denied herself a majority, not the electorate.

The electorate had more than a passing influence in the matter!

If only she hadn't called that snap election.

I wonder what Gordon Brown's autobiography says about the snap election of 2007.

He might have got the 42% and 318 seats May got rather than the abysmal 29% and 258 seats he did get 3 years later you mean?

Nope, like Mrs May, Gordon Brown dabbling with a snap election (or therein) despite repeated denials that they would do such a thing damaged them both, and neither of the Premierships ever really recovered.

Most sensible people acknowledge Mrs May was damaged by the events of June 8th.

Wrong. Mrs May has secured her place in the history books with the highest Tory voteshare in 34 years and the second highest number of Tory seats in 25 years. Even if she did not do as well as hoped.

By failing to call a snap election history will record Brown got the second lowest Labour voteshare since WW2 and the lowest number of Labour seats for 23 years until Ed Miliband won even fewer in 2015. Even Corbyn outperformed Brown.

Simple question.

Do you think Mrs May was enhanced by the result on June 8th?

A simple Yes or No will do.

In the sense that she did better than she likely would have done in a general election in 2020 yes she was in historical terms.

Brown's failure to call a snap general election in 2007, which would also have been pre crash, meant his election record will be recorded for posterity in the history books as far worse than it could have been.

Napoleon lost at Waterloo, May won most seats in 2017 and most votes.

I think TSE may be referring to Wavre, the same day as Waterloo, and France's last victory in 1815 campaign.

I think that sounds more appropriate, yes

Sunil_Prasannan

BannedInParis said:

Incidentally, I still find it amazing that grown men are arguing about this.

May won. There is literally no doubt about that - she won the most seats, most votes and has enough support to get a Queens' speech through. That she permanently and fatally damaged her standing to achieve that victory will always overshadow it and, indeed, her.

There is a very famous saying in our language that covers this precise scenario. Can we just start using that instead of shitposting over and over and over.

Please.

It was Mohammed al Sahaf who drew up the original version of these graphs - I just posted them on Twitter

https://twitter.com/Sunil_P2/status/876894066478329857

SouthamObserver

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

Theresa May denied herself a majority, not the electorate.

The electorate had more than a passing influence in the matter!

If only she hadn't called that snap election.

I wonder what Gordon Brown's autobiography says about the snap election of 2007.

He might have got the 42% and 318 seats May got rather than the abysmal 29% and 258 seats he did get 3 years later you mean?

Nope, like Mrs May, Gordon Brown dabbling with a snap election (or therein) despite repeated denials that they would do such a thing damaged them both, and neither of the Premierships ever really recovered.

Most sensible people acknowledge Mrs May was damaged by the events of June 8th.

Wrong. Mrs May has secured her place in the history books with the highest Tory voteshare in 34 years and the second highest number of Tory seats in 25 years. Even if she did not do as well as hoped.

By failing to call a snap election history will record Brown got the second lowest Labour voteshare since WW2 and the lowest number of Labour seats for 23 years until Ed Miliband won even fewer in 2015. Even Corbyn outperformed Brown.

I doubt Theresa May will be remembered for getting the highest Tory vote share in 25 years. At best, that will be a footnote.

HYUFD

Scott_P said:

HYUFD said:

Or we have a Foreign policy which is no longer explicitly pro EU and anti Israel and left liberals can't stand it!

You really think funding the Israeli army is UK Government policy now?

Wow

Actually aid to Syrian civil war victims supplied by the Israeli army

anothernick

Sean_F said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

MikeSmithson said:

She should have quit in the weekend after the election she called to get a mandate for her approach to Brexit.

The default assumption with TMay must that any big decision she makes is going to be wrong.

I tend to agree. Even so, effectively negotiating Brexit as a minority government would be near-impossible for any PM. It was a catastrophic election result in the circumstances.

If she and her MP's had any sense of purpose, they could do it. With DUP backing on major issues, the government has an effective majority similar to Churchill's in 1951.

But, we have a PM who plainly doesn't want the job, or have any idea what she's doing in office.

Who is only staying in office because her party fears that the strain of a leadership election would test it to destruction.

HYUFD

Roger said:

HYUFD said:

Scott_P said:

https://twitter.com/iandunt/status/927948101666697217

Or we have a Foreign policy which is no longer explicitly pro EU and anti Israel and left liberals can't stand it!

Were you really a failed Tory candidate at the last election or was that just Mark's sense of humour?

I increased the Tory voteshare in a town council by election in August relative to the 2016 local election result in the same ward even though I did not win yes and am on the list for the district elections next year, I have never stood in a general election.

dixiedean

HYUFD said:

Scott_P said:

HYUFD said:

Or we have a Foreign policy which is no longer explicitly pro EU and anti Israel and left liberals can't stand it!

You really think funding the Israeli army is UK Government policy now?

Wow

Actually aid to Syrian civil war victims supplied by the Israeli army

And explicitly stated to be NOT Govt policy in the Hof C today.

HYUFD

SouthamObserver said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

Theresa May denied herself a majority, not the electorate.

The electorate had more than a passing influence in the matter!

If only she hadn't called that snap election.

I wonder what Gordon Brown's autobiography says about the snap election of 2007.

He might have got the 42% and 318 seats May got rather than the abysmal 29% and 258 seats he did get 3 years later you mean?

Nope, like Mrs May, Gordon Brown dabbling with a snap election (or therein) despite repeated denials that they would do such a thing damaged them both, and neither of the Premierships ever really recovered.

Most sensible people acknowledge Mrs May was damaged by the events of June 8th.

Wrong. Mrs May has secured her place in the history books with the highest Tory voteshare in 34 years and the second highest number of Tory seats in 25 years. Even if she did not do as well as hoped.

By failing to call a snap election history will record Brown got the second lowest Labour voteshare since WW2 and the lowest number of Labour seats for 23 years until Ed Miliband won even fewer in 2015. Even Corbyn outperformed Brown.

I doubt Theresa May will be remembered for getting the highest Tory vote share in 25 years. At best, that will be a footnote.

A significant footnote nonetheless

AlastairMeeks

David Goodhart has been getting a hard time on twitter today about his Somewheres/Anywheres divide from the political scientists.

PeterMannion

Roger said:

If Prity Patel doesn't resign it will be a miracle. Even by the shoddy standards of this government she surely has no chance of remaining in office. She should be in a race with Boris but being junior and her offence being much more serious it's bound to be her.

She won't resign and May won't sack her...

MikeSmithson

HYUFD said:

SouthamObserver said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

Theresa May denied herself a majority, not the electorate.

The electorate had more than a passing influence in the matter!

If only she hadn't called that snap election.

I wonder what Gordon Brown's autobiography says about the snap election of 2007.

He might have got the 42% and 318 seats May got rather than the abysmal 29% and 258 seats he did get 3 years later you mean?

Nope, like Mrs May, Gordon Brown dabbling with a snap election (or therein) despite repeated denials that they would do such a thing damaged them both, and neither of the Premierships ever really recovered.

Most sensible people acknowledge Mrs May was damaged by the events of June 8th.

Wrong. Mrs May has secured her place in the history books with the highest Tory voteshare in 34 years and the second highest number of Tory seats in 25 years. Even if she did not do as well as hoped.

By failing to call a snap election history will record Brown got the second lowest Labour voteshare since WW2 and the lowest number of Labour seats for 23 years until Ed Miliband won even fewer in 2015. Even Corbyn outperformed Brown.

I doubt Theresa May will be remembered for getting the highest Tory vote share in 25 years. At best, that will be a footnote.

A significant footnote nonetheless

Still bollocks and very tedious when you ignore one simple fact. CON increased vote share by 5.8% at GE17 - alas LAB went up 9.8%

Ishmael_Z

PeterMannion said:

Roger said:

If Prity Patel doesn't resign it will be a miracle. Even by the shoddy standards of this government she surely has no chance of remaining in office. She should be in a race with Boris but being junior and her offence being much more serious it's bound to be her.

She won't resign and May won't sack her...

am I missing something here? She offered funding for hospitals for providing medical services to refugees, and the catch is simply that the hospitals happen to be run by the army? isn't that a bit pathetic?

HYUFD

MikeSmithson said:

HYUFD said:

SouthamObserver said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

Theresa May denied herself a majority, not the electorate.

The electorate had more than a passing influence in the matter!

If only she hadn't called that snap election.

I wonder what Gordon Brown's autobiography says about the snap election of 2007.

He might have got the 42% and 318 seats May got rather than the abysmal 29% and 258 seats he did get 3 years later you mean?

Nope, like Mrs May, Gordon Brown dabbling with a snap election (or therein) despite repeated denials that they would do such a thing damaged them both, and neither of the Premierships ever really recovered.

Most sensible people acknowledge Mrs May was damaged by the events of June 8th.

Wrong. Mrs May has secured her place in the history books with the highest Tory voteshare in 34 years and the second highest number of Tory seats in 25 years. Even if she did not do as well as hoped.

By failing to call a snap election history will record Brown got the second lowest Labour voteshare since WW2 and the lowest number of Labour seats for 23 years until Ed Miliband won even fewer in 2015. Even Corbyn outperformed Brown.

I doubt Theresa May will be remembered for getting the highest Tory vote share in 25 years. At best, that will be a footnote.

A significant footnote nonetheless

Still bollocks and very tedious when you ignore one simple fact. CON increased vote share by 5.8% at GE17 - alas LAB went up 9.8%

Even on seats alone and completely ignoring voteshare, May got the 2nd highest number of Tory seats in 25 years

OldKingCole

Ishmael_Z said:

PeterMannion said:

Roger said:

If Prity Patel doesn't resign it will be a miracle. Even by the shoddy standards of this government she surely has no chance of remaining in office. She should be in a race with Boris but being junior and her offence being much more serious it's bound to be her.

She won't resign and May won't sack her...

am I missing something here? She offered funding for hospitals for providing medical services to refugees, and the catch is simply that the hospitals happen to be run by the army? isn't that a bit pathetic?

So the resources supplied can enable the Israeli Army to use the cost of them elsewhere.

IanB2

HYUFD said:

MikeSmithson said:

HYUFD said:

SouthamObserver said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

I do admire the irony of the electorate denying Theresa May the majority she needed to be able to negotiate effectively with the EU, and then complaining that she won't get a good deal.

Theresa May denied herself a majority, not the electorate.

The electorate had more than a passing influence in the matter!

If only she hadn't called that snap election.

I wonder what Gordon Brown's autobiography says about the snap election of 2007.

He might have got the 42% and 318 seats May got rather than the abysmal 29% and 258 seats he did get 3 years later you mean?

Nope, like Mrs May, Gordon Brown dabbling with a snap election (or therein) despite repeated denials that they would do such a thing damaged them both, and neither of the Premierships ever really recovered.

Most sensible people acknowledge Mrs May was damaged by the events of June 8th.

Wrong. Mrs May has secured her place in the history books with the highest Tory voteshare in 34 years and the second highest number of Tory seats in 25 years. Even if she did not do as well as hoped.

By failing to call a snap election history will record Brown got the second lowest Labour voteshare since WW2 and the lowest number of Labour seats for 23 years until Ed Miliband won even fewer in 2015. Even Corbyn outperformed Brown.

I doubt Theresa May will be remembered for getting the highest Tory vote share in 25 years. At best, that will be a footnote.

A significant footnote nonetheless

Still bollocks and very tedious when you ignore one simple fact. CON increased vote share by 5.8% at GE17 - alas LAB went up 9.8%

Even on seats alone and completely ignoring voteshare, May got the 2nd highest number of Tory seats in 25 years

Most of this is more of a comment about the falling away of a third party challenge in England, for the first time since 1970, than it is of particular credit to either Tory or Labour.

Yorkcity

HYUFD said:

Roger said:

HYUFD said:

Scott_P said:

https://twitter.com/iandunt/status/927948101666697217

Or we have a Foreign policy which is no longer explicitly pro EU and anti Israel and left liberals can't stand it!

Were you really a failed Tory candidate at the last election or was that just Mark's sense of humour?

I increased the Tory voteshare in a town council by election in August relative to the 2016 local election result in the same ward even though I did not win yes and am on the list for the district elections next year, I have never stood in a general election.

Well good luck HYFUD , you always fight your corner with politeness.