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    Breaking News - PM Calls for General Election

    Theresa May to make statement at 11.15

    No prior details available.

    "PM will give details"

    #2
    Breaking News - PM Calls for General Election

    "Wenger Out"?

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      #3
      Breaking News - PM Calls for General Election

      Fessing up to an affair with Edwina Currie?

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        #4
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        God (impersonated by Matt Le Tissier) has contacted her to say that no way he'd have voted Leave?

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          #5
          Breaking News - PM Calls for General Election

          According to the rumour mill, it could be to announce a snap general election.

          Because of this: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-s-conservatives-are-21-points-ahead-of-labour-in-a-new-poll-a7685271.html

          (Theresa May’s Conservatives are 21 points ahead of Labour in a new poll, giving the party their greatest lead while in government since 1983, shortly before Margaret Thatcher’s second victory at the ballot box.

          The poll, conducted by ComRes for The Independent, gives the Tories 46 per cent of the vote share, 25 per cent for Labour, 11 per cent for Tim Farron’s pro-EU Liberal Democrats and 9 per cent for the embattled Ukip under Paul Nuttall’s leadership
          .)

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            #6
            Breaking News - PM Calls for General Election

            It is an election. How can she call it?

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              #7
              Breaking News - PM Calls for General Election

              What happened to "Politics is not a game..."?

              Game on.

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                #8
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                This is a horrible, petty, spiteful speech. No surprise, I suppose.

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                  #9
                  Breaking News - PM Calls for General Election

                  Accuses other parties of playing political games. So plays her own.

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                    #10
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                    It was a no brainer to call an election, but it's going to be a fucking horrible campaign with a fucking horrible result at the end of it.

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                      #11
                      Breaking News - PM Calls for General Election

                      Perfect timing- wants to avoid accusations of illegitimacy as an unelected leader taking the UK out of the EU. Labour are in utter disarray and May will have noted that Labour have been campaigning on a "making Brexit work for the ordinary voter"platform thus neutering their one possible trump card- in every constituency and in every way stand as the anti-Brexit vote. UKIP have lost their raison d'etre and Scotland, well, fuck them.

                      A Tory not quite landslide- bingo.

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                        #12
                        Breaking News - PM Calls for General Election

                        When will we hear from Corbyn? I'm guessing half four. (Not saying what day though).

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                          #13
                          Breaking News - PM Calls for General Election

                          Going to be a shitty couple of months ahead. Wish I could go into hibernation for a bit.

                          (Edit - just realised I will be in a remote cottage in Dumfries & Galloway that week. Thank christ).

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                            #14
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                            Am I being dim? (Don't all answer at once.) What happens if the opposition parties vote against holding an election? Surely not in Labour or even the SNP's interest to call one now. Or does she not need 2/3rds of MPs to support this? I'm confused.

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                              #15
                              Breaking News - PM Calls for General Election

                              She does need two thirds, and Corbs has said she can have it.

                              http://labourlist.org/2017/03/jeremy-corbyn-labour-would-not-block-an-early-general-election/

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                                #16
                                Breaking News - PM Calls for General Election

                                Fussbudget wrote: Am I being dim? (Don't all answer at once.) What happens if the opposition parties vote against holding an election? Surely not in Labour or even the SNP's interest to call one now. Or does she not need 2/3rds of MPs to support this? I'm confused.
                                Labour have said repeatedly they'd support a GE - i.e. repealing the Fixed Term Parliament Act, which I guess will have to go to a vote soon. I think they could also use the time to call 'no confidence', but not sure how that would work.

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                                  #17
                                  Breaking News - PM Calls for General Election

                                  Though oddly the article below that (edit - i.e. the one in my previous post) headline doesn't seem to match it, does it?

                                  Anyway, no response as yet from the red corner, but others are getting busy already.


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                                    #18
                                    Breaking News - PM Calls for General Election

                                    Thanks Kev and John

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                                      #19
                                      Breaking News - PM Calls for General Election

                                      Not that I think there's any likelihood of Labour winning, but in the circumstances do they want to? Labour would get absolutely slaughtered carrying out Brexit. Is the only positive situation here Labour losing by a smaller margin than expected?

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                                        #20
                                        Breaking News - PM Calls for General Election

                                        I knew I was out of touch with UK politics, but I didn't know I was this out of touch.

                                        (Slightly interesting fact: in NZ there is no fixed-term law, it's still the PM's choice as it once was in the UK, and yet we have known the election date for months: it's September, announced at the start of the year. His predecessor did the same, thinking that you lose more by playing silly buggers than you gain by waiting. So a system that gives the PM a privilege isn't used, while one in the UK that supposedly doesn't is casually tossed aside. Hmm).

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                                          #21
                                          Breaking News - PM Calls for General Election

                                          Casually tossed aside by the party that introduced it only one general election after they introduced it.

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                                            #22
                                            Breaking News - PM Calls for General Election

                                            Lucy Waterman wrote: When will we hear from Corbyn? I'm guessing half four. (Not saying what day though).
                                            It was about 35 minutes. I hope that was quick enough.

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                                              #23
                                              Breaking News - PM Calls for General Election

                                              Lay me down the most plausible scenario in which the Tories fuck this up. I can't think of one, but surely it must exist. Massive turnout amongst the yoof for the most likely anti-Brexit candidate in their constituency?

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                                                #24
                                                Breaking News - PM Calls for General Election

                                                Any predictions?

                                                CON: 380-390
                                                LAB: 180
                                                LIB DEM: 18
                                                SNP: 53

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                                                  #25
                                                  Breaking News - PM Calls for General Election

                                                  Remain organising the anti-Tory vote constituency by constituency.

                                                  Which requires Labour and everyone else to work together which is... not likely.

                                                  Edit: @Flynnie

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