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vidcapper View Member Profile	Sep 26 2019, 06:05 AM Post #1
Paul Hyett Group: Members Posts: 23,946 Member No.: 364 Joined: 4-April 06 No Gallery Pics	As above.


Harve View Member Profile	Sep 26 2019, 07:15 AM Post #2
drill me to the floor Group: Members Posts: 16,843 Member No.: 4,718 Joined: 3-November 07 No Gallery Pics	As long as we don't get Brexit in the middle of it, yes.


Freddie Kruger View Member Profile	Sep 26 2019, 07:42 AM Post #3
BuzzJack Platinum Member Group: Members Posts: 13,902 Member No.: 53 Joined: 7-March 06 No Gallery Pics	Yes, let's see whether the country wants Boris or Corbyn once and for all.


Tones and Iz View Member Profile	Sep 26 2019, 07:54 AM Post #4
resident woke weeb Group: Admin. Posts: 30,985 Member No.: 12,929 Joined: 3-February 11 No Gallery Pics	QUOTE(Common Sense @ Sep 26 2019, 07:42 AM) Yes, let's see whether the country wants Boris or Corbyn once and for all. ...until it is next required we have an election. Political outcomes aren’t permanent. I mean, I’m good with one if the resultant Parliament can find a way out of the current situation. Most clearly by forging a path to a vote on a Brexit deal. Therefore unsure because my support requires conditions, as with Harve, no Brexit in the middle of it or indeed anywhere near it.


vidcapper View Member Profile	Sep 26 2019, 08:59 AM Post #5
Paul Hyett Group: Members Posts: 23,946 Member No.: 364 Joined: 4-April 06 No Gallery Pics	QUOTE(Harve @ Sep 26 2019, 08:15 AM) As long as we don't get Brexit in the middle of it, yes. It'd be ironic if Labour won, and then got stuck with it...


RabbitFurCoat View Member Profile	Sep 26 2019, 09:48 AM Post #6
You brought the sun to guide you through Group: Members Posts: 23,206 Member No.: 118 Joined: 8-March 06 No Gallery Pics	No. At least 80% of the focus will be on one issue and for a general election that absolutely shouldn't be the case. If there's a vote it should be on that one issue.


Doctor Blind View Member Profile	Sep 26 2019, 09:50 AM Post #7
#38BBE0 otherwise known as 'sky blue' Group: Moderator Posts: 12,075 Member No.: 7,561 Joined: 27-October 08 No Gallery Pics	QUOTE(RabbitFurCoat @ Sep 26 2019, 10:48 AM) No. At least 80% of the focus will be on one issue and for a general election that absolutely shouldn't be the case. If there's a vote it should be on that one issue. Agreed - it is possible that it won't break the deadlock in Parliament anyway (see the Opinion Poll thread), however worth noting that the 2017 GE was predicted to be a Brexit dominated one and it was anything but in the end..


Michael Myers View Member Profile	Sep 26 2019, 10:34 AM Post #8
Coming for JonasStyle's WEV Group: Members Posts: 28,674 Member No.: 18,639 Joined: 18-April 13 No Gallery Pics	Not before the extension. If Bojo refuses, he goes to jail. If he does it, he will prove once again how he is all mouth and bad boy bluster. The second Labour call for a GE, he pushes it beyond Oct 31 and oops no deal.


Botchia View Member Profile	Sep 26 2019, 07:36 PM Post #9
Lusts for Life Group: Entertainment Mod Posts: 9,092 Member No.: 21,753 Joined: 12-April 15 No Gallery Pics	Parliament should be dissolved on 1 November after an extension has been secured to Article 50. Boris cannot be trusted to comply with the law while Parliament has been dissolved.


Klaus View Member Profile	Sep 26 2019, 08:11 PM Post #10
i thought i was flying but maybe im dying tonight Group: Entertainment Mod Posts: 16,282 Member No.: 17,160 Joined: 3-June 12 No Gallery Pics	Not whilst it can be abused to slip through a no deal


Rooney View Member Profile	Sep 26 2019, 08:13 PM Post #11
WINTER IS COMING Group: Global Mod Posts: 41,325 Member No.: 88 Joined: 7-March 06 User's Gallery	QUOTE(RabbitFurCoat @ Sep 26 2019, 10:48 AM) No. At least 80% of the focus will be on one issue and for a general election that absolutely shouldn't be the case. If there's a vote it should be on that one issue. Brexit will dominate us forever. If we leave there will be parties wanting to get us back in to the EU and if we don't leave there will be parties that also want us to leave again. The General Election will literally be about Brexit. Let's have a referendum on the Deal negotiated or staying in the EU and be done with it.


Suedehead2 View Member Profile	Sep 26 2019, 08:46 PM Post #12
BuzzJack Legend Group: Admin. Posts: 28,154 Member No.: 3,272 Joined: 13-April 07 No Gallery Pics	QUOTE(Rooney @ Sep 26 2019, 09:13 PM) Brexit will dominate us forever. If we leave there will be parties wanting to get us back in to the EU and if we don't leave there will be parties that also want us to leave again. The General Election will literally be about Brexit. Let's have a referendum on the Deal negotiated or staying in the EU and be done with it. If we leave, governments will have to spend years renegotiating deals with the rest of the world. The only way to give future governments time to tackle the issues that led to the Leave vote is to revoke Article 50.


TheJü-Pumpkin View Member Profile	Sep 26 2019, 09:54 PM Post #13
they're girls - and cousins too!! Group: Members Posts: 4,433 Member No.: 22,895 Joined: 21-January 16 No Gallery Pics	No, they need an extension first. At this stage trying to force an election would be yet another stalling tactic by team Boris.


Kath View Member Profile	Sep 26 2019, 10:02 PM Post #14
BuzzJack Legend Group: Members Posts: 20,615 Member No.: 2,980 Joined: 24-February 07 No Gallery Pics	NO! Not until 'no deal' is taken OFF the table! I just hope Jeremy Corbyn is sensible enough (I'm sure he's well-advised) to not be goaded into agreeing to one sooner - because that is all Boris's blustering is about - and it eats him up that Corbyn hasn't fallen for it so far!


vidcapper View Member Profile	Sep 27 2019, 04:29 AM Post #15
Paul Hyett Group: Members Posts: 23,946 Member No.: 364 Joined: 4-April 06 No Gallery Pics	QUOTE(Kath @ Sep 26 2019, 11:02 PM) NO! Not until 'no deal' is taken OFF the table! I just hope Jeremy Corbyn is sensible enough (I'm sure he's well-advised) to not be goaded into agreeing to one sooner - because that is all Boris's blustering is about - and it eats him up that Corbyn hasn't fallen for it so far! What if No Deal is still on table in 2022, there would then have to be a General Election, whether Remainers like it or not...


Michael Myers View Member Profile	Sep 27 2019, 10:59 AM Post #16
Coming for JonasStyle's WEV Group: Members Posts: 28,674 Member No.: 18,639 Joined: 18-April 13 No Gallery Pics	Is that an immediate election? No? Do we know what will happen by then? What, no? Is youe post a ridiculous attempt at making a brexshit argument? Yes? Oh.


vidcapper View Member Profile	Oct 10 2019, 07:53 AM Post #17
Paul Hyett Group: Members Posts: 23,946 Member No.: 364 Joined: 4-April 06 No Gallery Pics	Another point that seems to have been missed is that - Labour could not force a GE if the Tories didn't cooperate since it needs 2/3's of MP's to trigger one. IRO the no-confidence option - even if the opposition defeated the Tories, they could not muster the strength to form a majority, or even a stable coalition, so we'd shortly have to have a GE anyway.


Suedehead2 View Member Profile	Oct 10 2019, 08:01 AM Post #18
BuzzJack Legend Group: Admin. Posts: 28,154 Member No.: 3,272 Joined: 13-April 07 No Gallery Pics	QUOTE(vidcapper @ Oct 10 2019, 08:53 AM) Another point that seems to have been missed is that - Labour could not force a GE if the Tories didn't cooperate since it needs 2/3's of MP's to trigger one. IRO the no-confidence option - even if the opposition defeated the Tories, they could not muster the strength to form a majority, or even a stable coalition, so we'd shortly have to have a GE anyway. Have you missed all the discussion over a potential interim PM?


vidcapper View Member Profile	Oct 10 2019, 08:15 AM Post #19
Paul Hyett Group: Members Posts: 23,946 Member No.: 364 Joined: 4-April 06 No Gallery Pics	QUOTE(Suedehead2 @ Oct 10 2019, 09:01 AM) Have you missed all the discussion over a potential interim PM? TBH, yes.


Suedehead2 View Member Profile	Oct 10 2019, 08:30 AM Post #20
BuzzJack Legend Group: Admin. Posts: 28,154 Member No.: 3,272 Joined: 13-April 07 No Gallery Pics	QUOTE(vidcapper @ Oct 10 2019, 09:15 AM) TBH, yes. Given that the ex-Tories and the Lib Dems have said they would not back a Corbyn-led government, various other names such as Ken Clarke, Harriet Harman and Margaret Beckett have been suggested as alternatives. The logic is that it is better to have someone who has no ambition to stay in the job in the long term and would not be aiming to win an election as PM. So far, Labour are proving reluctant to back that idea.