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Predict the UK election result.

Predict the result of UK General Election 2017

  • Conservative majority of 100+

    Votes: 7 10.9%

  • Conservative majority of 76 to 100

    Votes: 4 6.3%

  • Conservative majority of 51 to 75

    Votes: 9 14.1%

  • Conservative majority of 26 to 50

    Votes: 7 10.9%

  • Conservative majority of 1 to 25

    Votes: 14 21.9%

  • Hung parliament

    Votes: 19 29.7%

  • Labour majority of 1 to 25

    Votes: 3 4.7%

  • Labour majority of 26 to 50

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Labour majority of 51 to 75

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Labour majority of 76 to 100

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Labour majority of 100+

    Votes: 1 1.6%
  • Total voters
    64
  • Poll closed .
What was I thinking? Strongandstablestrongandstablestrongandstable....

Reigate MP Crispin Blunt says it's all the silly voters fault for not voting the way he thinks we should have done.

He said, as it became clear there was no overall majority: "If you end up with numbers like that, the electorate plainly have got it wrong. They've presented the country with a situation where it is going to be extremely difficult to put together a governing coalition."
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How dare we have opinions and vote accordingly!
 
Agatha said:
I was right about the hung Parliament, but I underestimated the LibDems and overestimated the SNP. My constituency went Tory, and I've already emailed and tweeted my new MP to find out whether he's happy about the proposed pact with the appalling DUP.

This whole thing must call Theresa May's future into question. The 12 Tory MPs who lost their seats (13 if Kensington & Chelsea's recount results in a Labour gain) have lost them as a direct result of May's arrogance.
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They have indeed lost Kensington. I thought Corby had really lost his mind when he backed overriding the 5 year rule, now? :boggled:
 
Agatha said:
What was I thinking? Strongandstablestrongandstablestrongandstable....

Reigate MP Crispin Blunt says it's all the silly voters fault for not voting the way he thinks we should have done.



How dare we have opinions and vote accordingly!
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That reeks of Bertolt Brecht's "Die Lösung", about the 1953 GDR uprising:
After the uprising of the 17th of June
The Secretary of the Writers' Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?
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It will not be long before the bookies start giving odds on how long May can survive as PM.
 
I keep on hearing from the pundits that the only reason May is still PM is the Brexit Negotiations start next week, and the 1922 Committee(The Tories Tribal Elders) feel it's important that the start of the negotiations not be delayed,which a leadership crisis would do,and once negogiations are started, May will be expendable. One thing is sure, the 1922 committee is notorious for being ruthless with failure,and yesterday was a massive failure.
 
dudalb said:
I keep on hearing from the pundits that the only reason May is still PM is the Brexit Negotiations start next week, and the 1922 Committee(The Tories Tribal Elders) feel it's important that the start of the negotiations not be delayed,which a leadership crisis would do,and once negogiations are started, May will be expendable. One thing is sure, the 1922 committee is notorious for being ruthless with failure,and yesterday was a massive failure.
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In part, May's elevation to Prime Minister is what began talk of a general election in the first place. If someone took over from her then would they pursue the same course or a different one? If it is the same, then wouldn't a leadership challenge be superfluous? If it is different then wouldn't it just prompt calls for yet another election? If that's the case, then it would make a mockery of the last election.

But party stability is only one concern for certain politicians. May has to be wondering who the Francis Urquart types are in her party. This is one reason why she will avoid a cabinet reshuffle.
 
Darat said:
This isn't the time for such matters Agatha, we need steady and stable government and need to concentrate on Brexit. Remember if it hadn't been for the perfidious Labour not keeping their promise to be wiped out we wouldn't be having this disruption!
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What do you think are the chances for good progress in the Brexit negotiations. and for any kind of stability? For myself, I know that whatever happens is not going to alter the rest of my life that much, but I'd like to be able to thinkthat the future is going to be reasonable for my sons and granddaughters.
 
SusanB-M1 said:
What do you think are the chances for good progress in the Brexit negotiations. and for any kind of stability? For myself, I know that whatever happens is not going to alter the rest of my life that much, but I'd like to be able to thinkthat the future is going to be reasonable for my sons and granddaughters.
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Well, by May's own reckoning her chances were not strong enough before the election. And logically they must be far worse now. So she and her party's confidence of success are low.
 
angrysoba said:
Well, by May's own reckoning her chances were not strong enough before the election. And logically they must be far worse now. So she and her party's confidence of success are low.
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Yes, I think she should ask the electorate if they really intend to give her a mandate.

Meanwhile, Donald Tusk can send another couple of tweets which essentially say "Tick tock".
 
SusanB-M1 said:
What do you think are the chances for good progress in the Brexit negotiations. and for any kind of stability? For myself, I know that whatever happens is not going to alter the rest of my life that much, but I'd like to be able to thinkthat the future is going to be reasonable for my sons and granddaughters.
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Too late for that, we have already decided to leave the EU.
 
Darat said:
Too late for that, we have already decided to leave the EU.
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Thank you for your reply. I suppose that, if the under-18s had been allowed to vote in the referendum, there might have been a win for the remain vote. I don't suppose there is any chance of the end of the negotiations resulting in a cancellation of the exit.
 
Darat said:
Never didn't understand you but again I'd say "and when hasn't that really been the case?" Apart from two blips in recentish times it has always been the case that you have a choice of a Labour or Conservative government.
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The impact is in the size of the majority; Theresa May got a higher vote share than 1987, but has a minority government rather than a 100 seat majority. Similarly Jeremy Corbyn votes are higher than 2005 but he still lost.

Are the current leaders poor, or just unluckier than their predecessors?
 
Aber said:
The impact is in the size of the majority; Theresa May got a higher vote share than 1987, but has a minority government rather than a 100 seat majority. Similarly Jeremy Corbyn votes are higher than 2005 but he still lost.

Are the current leaders poor, or just unluckier than their predecessors?
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I think, possibly, 'Minority party' = 'UKIP' = 'Barefaced liars' in the eyes of a lot of people who wavered from the two largest parties.
 
Only in La La land would a party get more seats than all their direct opponents put together and people would call it a loss.

Less than 10 years ago the SNP had 6 seats. They had 491K votes. Now they have 35 seats and around double the vote.

2015 was a freak result. SNP still have a mandate in Scotland.
 
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