General Election 2017 | Cabinet reshuffle: Hunt re-appointed Health Secretary for record third time

How do you intend to vote in the 2017 General Election if eligible?

  • Conservatives

    Votes: 80 14.5%
  • Labour

    Votes: 322 58.4%
  • Lib Dems

    Votes: 57 10.3%
  • Green

    Votes: 20 3.6%
  • SNP

    Votes: 13 2.4%
  • UKIP

    Votes: 29 5.3%
  • Independent

    Votes: 3 0.5%
  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 2 0.4%
  • Sinn Fein

    Votes: 11 2.0%
  • Other (UUP, DUP, BNP, and anyone else I have forgotten)

    Votes: 14 2.5%

  • Total voters
    551
  • Poll closed .
318 Tory + 10 DUP - 1 Speaker = 327. With 7 Sinn Féin abstentions that's a working majority of 10.

Surely May has to go though? It's very hard to overestimate what a disastrous political calculation and what an emphatic rejection of her mandate this has been.

It could be Boris' awful working majority, or fecking Anna Soubry's awful working majority, but Theresa May can't possibly govern with straight face now.
 
Surely May has to go though? It's very hard to overestimate what a disastrous political calculation and what an emphatic rejection of her mandate this has been.

It could be Boris' awful working majority, or fecking Anna Soubry's awful working majority, but Theresa May can't possibly govern with straight face now.
You'd have thought so. That government couldn't last and the Tories can't go into another election with May so...
 
The government does provide free education. Higher education is specialist education and if it is to be free it should serve the economy and country.

Higher education does serve the country and economy by creating well educated problem solvers and critical thinkers, the area of greatest need in modern society. The Tories just want trained marmosats to serve their lizard overlords on zero hour contracts.
 
is this a good labour result? what does this mean for brexit?

Considering the expectations, it's a very good Labour result. There were important gains in London, Wales and Scotland.

As for Brexit...well this could jeopardise matters considerably. Who knows how long it will take to forma coalition for instance, or what changes to strategy might be demanded. Labour has no standing commitment to withdraw from ECJ jurisdiction IIRC, while others may seek to continue single market membership. We're in a mess which suits only our opponents.
 
Why has it taken until now for Labour to suggest free student loans? Was a very cynical attempt to get the student vote.
Also: Successful. It's there to stay until either they win or the students stop turning out.
 
What do you propose happen when there is too much competition for jobs that nobody with a degree can get one... because everyone has a degree? Plus the effects of higher immigration?

Nobody said anything about unlimited Uni places. And if that happens we need different Uni courses but since most Uni courses shouldn't be job specific I'm not sure why that would happen unless managed by a Tory. If we had always followed Tory educational policy we would have an iron lung that weighed .5kg and worked on a solar panel the size of a small coin, but we would never have found a cure for polio.
 
I might also make the top end of town pay at least a little bit of tax. Fecking commie that I am.
 
Feck, Goldsmith won Richmond back.
 
Did not know Goldsmith's first name was Frank.