General Election 2017 | Cabinet reshuffle: Hunt re-appointed Health Secretary for record third time
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It's actually a step back from the social media hype world. Everything gets overplayed these days just to get some air time.
Sometimes you need to apply a filter and look through the crap.
The reason May is staying is the rest of the party are surely too nervous to bring in a new PM when Corbyn does have good momentum. It's smart on their part. Boris is actually one of the most intelligent guys on the planet, but is so lacking tact and credibility that much like early Corbyn it would take a real gamble to put him out there. There are a few other MPs worthy of note, but that maybe don't have the long term history.
May makes sense to continue, yes wounded, but she has 5 years to fix that and in the mean time if Conservatives are smart they will start profile raising some of the support staff to ensure there are other potential leader options to face off against Corbyn.
And even Corbyn still has a lot more work to do. He is by no means on a clean slate. He has scraped himself off the ground and fought a good battle, he is a great surviver and a great check and balance and opposition, but there would need to be a massive change in opinion for him to get a majority and without that a coalition of chaos would constantly be thrown at him.
I almost voted for him!
I am Irish and live in the North. I do have a unique perspective also because I lived in a red state in the US for a decade and can tell you that the DUP and the far right fundamentalists who live in the deep south are literally cut from the same cloth. Lots of Ulster Scots heritage where I lived. The DUP would be considered Tea Party in the US and hard right Tories/UKIP in Britain.
We live in interesting times.
Nope, that is null and void given Tories move earlier mate. It's a simple and easy counter swipe.
Always, always vote Buckethead!
Not to mention they are corrupt as feck and have wasted hundred of millions of UK tax payers money, literally the burned it up in smoke.
Have to admire those still willing to defend her now. It sure isn't the easiest of sells
I honestly can't figure if you're a troll or not
Nah, they're just establishing a holding position, which might even be sustainable short-term but there's pressure on TM coming from everywhere, her personal credibility is shot.
Let's say that anyway - who would your preferred successor be, Red?
The anti 3rd runway at Heathrow thing put me off. Something about he wouldn't need it to land his flying saucer, or something.
There is nothing chaotic about the largest voted party in Northern Ireland and the largest party in the UK excluding northern Ireland joining together. It actually makes a lot of sense.
They've lost that talking point, the 'terrorist sympathiser' talking point and their parrots in the right wing press have proven utterly useless in the space of 24 hours.
I guess we'll have to wait and see exactly how things pan out but, in terms of a football metaphor, these results for Labour, aren't that far from United's season. Not exactly where we'd like to be, but a big improvement on where we were not that long ago. After the overwhelming disappointment of the Brexit and Trump votes, this is definitely a relative high point.
You'll see it will be chaotic and anything that goes wrong in the coming weeks will be labelled as such.
Here whats the craic? Was the homie Corbyn a success?
Jesus it's not even that bad a manifesto all things considered.He'll send you to the phantom zone if you disagree!
i don't think its a 100% a negative result, but its far from a positive result either.
my take away is Labour did better the expected but still lost, Tory did worse then expected then still won.
He was but the fuppin DUP have legitimate power now. Shite
Norman Smith suggesting the possibility of a second referendum - surely there's <5% chance?
Post May in 5 years? As I said I'm honestly not completely clear. There were one or two local MPs touted last night, but unless you are in one of the hot seats I worry about getting sufficient draw. This next 5 years Conservatives need to think very carefully about this from a profile perspective.
I think it's a real shame that Boris hasn't grown any tact, as I just think he may have burnt that bridge forever, but intellect wise if you read about him or hear from some of the inner circles, he is supposed to be an absolute genius.
Corbyn I worry will always be just a nice guy with some good ideas. It's hard to hide from some of the questions over his credibility and strength of leadership, e.g. On Nuclear weapons, his failure to recall key information in interviews and his shockingly bad education.
As a centrist I'm never a million miles off the right PM for Labour pulling me over with the right centrist policies. I met Chuka Umunna and he is incredibly credible. Him dropping out of the Labour leadership was a real shame for the country. David Miliband also was about as sharp as they come. Labour have been on the fringes of brilliance with highly credible characters and those doors have shut.
it any one still thinks this is a good result, watch this video about the DUP:
http://www.independent.co.uk/551d4806-f963-40d0-8573-06c0b7ba06b4
http://www.independent.co.uk/551d4806-f963-40d0-8573-06c0b7ba06b4
It might be a relative high point if Labour is your primary concern. If surviving Brexit is your primary concern though then it's rather less positive given that you seem to have elected a patched up hard brexit government whose current leader has just been massively undermined.
His education means nothing. Part of the problem with modern Politics is career politicians. feck em.
Not expecting her to survive much more than 5 months, let alone 5 years.
I mean, Jeremy's basically the definition of a career politician.
fecking hell since when could Mandelson appear in daylight?
Andrew Neil needs to be careful or he'll be harvesting his organs by the end of this interview.
Andrew Neil needs to be careful or he'll be harvesting his organs by the end of this interview.
Yeah, sorry. I've heard that line off my dad a million times, forgot!
I don't know that much about them, but some of their views on important matters and the things they involve themselves in really doesn't sit right with me. Worrying partner for the tories.
I wonder if Ruth Davidson will take a stand against the DUP. Probably not.
Mandleson saying corbyn's polices weren't innovative enough........right........
I mean, Jeremy's basically the definition of a career politician.
Depends on your definition I guess. I associate career politicians as people who go to the top Universities to study Politics, they all follow the same route into Politics and form their little gangs right from the get go. Correct me if i'm wrong, but Corbyn never went to University?
Why do the Torys keep getting so many votes in the UK?
We've got lots of Tories.
Possibly very ignorant question since I don't know the dynamics of NI politics very well, but if Sinn Fein actually sat in their seats, wouldn't that mean Maybot and her DUP mates would lose their collective majority?