http://linkis.com/independent.co.uk/EbSPT

 

LAB 34%

CON 33%

UKIP 16%

LIB 6%

Jeremy Corbyn has just called for a snap general election - as have Tim Farron and Caroline Lucas (defacto leader of the Greens).

 

This country is a right state.

This country is a right state.

 

I've been at a wedding in a Devon country manor with NO phone signal or wifi and I was half expecting Nicola to have taken over as PM and annexed Cornwall when I got back home. Good to see Drake is still #1.

Jeremy Corbyn has just called for a snap general election - as have Tim Farron and Caroline Lucas (defacto leader of the Greens).

While hoping that May does no such thing!

Labour would be obliterated in a election this year under Corbyn. And we have the scary prospect of UKIP potentially gaining seats in the North :/ Let's not have an election. Thanks.

I've been at a wedding in a Devon country manor with NO phone signal or wifi and I was half expecting Nicola to have taken over as PM and annexed Cornwall when I got back home. Good to see Drake is still #1.

Hahahaha :lol:

 

As long as Greater Manchester is on her list of places to save from UKIP and the Tories too!

 

 

She is still slaying though. In her constituency, all EU residents have been receiving a letter from her and the MP for the same seat reaffirming what she's being saying since the 24th, that they are welcome and valued and that the government really wants them and loves them and etc etc.

Hahahaha :lol:

 

As long as Greater Manchester is on her list of places to save from UKIP and the Tories too!

She is still slaying though. In her constituency, all EU residents have been receiving a letter from her and the MP for the same seat reaffirming what she's being saying since the 24th, that they are welcome and valued and that the government really wants them and loves them and etc etc.

Manchester, Trafford and Stockport will be game. Annex Salford Quays and we're all set.

Well it's basically Trafford anyway and it even has it's own postcode in M50! I'm well game for switching from Salford to Trafford, even if it's Tory.

I was just thinking, it's surely unprecedented the political mess that's going on atm? It looks like Theresa winning has now just about saved the Tories from a split, but Labour is in complete disarray and god knows what will happen there, the Lib Dems have been wiped out, UKIP are surging in support (sadly), Scotland is becoming more and more separate from the rest of the UK and looks pretty much set for independence in the next few years.

 

On top of all this, people are actually WANTING a general election? As if we need any more uncertainty and instability at this time.

I was just thinking, it's surely unprecedented the political mess that's going on atm? It looks like Theresa winning has now just about saved the Tories from a split, but Labour is in complete disarray and god knows what will happen there, the Lib Dems have been wiped out, UKIP are surging in support (sadly), Scotland is becoming more and more separate from the rest of the UK and looks pretty much set for independence in the next few years.

 

On top of all this, people are actually WANTING a general election? As if we need any more uncertainty and instability at this time.

I can't help feeling that at least some of this turmoil would have been avoided if the Lib Dems had won around 20 or so seats at the last election instead of eight. If they had appeared more viable than they do at the moment, Labour and the Tories might have been less likely to behave as if they only needed to worry about one opponent. We might even have seen more of Tim Farron making a positive case for EU membership in the coverage of the referendum campaign.

It's also very ironic that since Brexit the two parties who are showing the most leadership, looking most capable, acting as a force of good for their country, not dissolving into squabbles and infighting and wars of words et al are the two parties who actively don't want to be within 300 miles of Westminster - the SNP and Sinn Féin. Granted the former more so than the latter.

The clown car that's the Tory Leave squad have shown themselves up since the result, but I honestly don't think there's a word that can be said against Theresa May on leadership and capability the last two weeks, aside from the immorality of the EU citizen bargaining chip move (and even then, that's basically her down to a T).

Aside from the fact that it's taken over two weeks for the Government to stabilise and for someone in the party to start leading? She was quieter than a church mouse until she started to campaign for the PM job.

Aside from the fact that it's taken over two weeks for the Government to stabilise and for someone in the party to start leading?

'She hadn't won the leadership election yet' is a point you're holding against her?

Haven't updated this in 3 months, but now that Theresa May's honeymoon period as Tory leader is coming to a close, Jeremy Corbyn has consolidated his position as Archduke of the Labour Party, and the main parties' conferences have concluded, let's take a look at the most recent Opinion Poll, carried out by ICM for The Guardian -

 

Conservative 43%

Labour 26%

Liberal Democrat 8%

SNP 4%

Plaid Cymru 1%

Green 6%

UKIP 11%

Other 1%

 

That gives the Conservatives a 17 point lead over Labour, with all other opinion polls from the last 2 months also giving them a sizable lead.

The SNP's 4% will still translate to 50+ seats and this poll has UKIP down as being dethroned *.*

 

PC look to pick up a seat and the LibDems actually lose even more seats.

Jeesus qhy are the Labour polls so low!!!!

Jeesus qhy are the Labour polls so low!!!!

 

 

Clue. Initials: JC. Also all the in-fighting. Voters do not like a divided party.

Clue. Initials: JC. Also all the in-fighting. Voters do not like a divided party.

Perhaps, then, people need to be reminded about what Tory MPs and ministers were saying about each other just a few month ago in the referendum campaign. Or maybe they need to read stories like this...

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/o...on-brexit-terms

 

The Tories are at least as divided as Labour, probably more so. It's just that their friends in the press don't bother to report it.