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UK General Election

Did Dimbleby just say, "Bloody Hell!" on a hotmike?

It looks like the Tories were running a 12-year old in a seat in Scotland, and Dimbleby just blurted out his surprise.
 
CapelDodger said:
More like an execution, I expect.
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From what I am reading on BBC website's election result section Tweet session,you might be right. They are not quite shouting for May's head..yet...but they are saying a lot of her advisors have got to go.
And I think every British poltical leader of every party..except the UKIP...will keep as much distance as possible between them and Donald Trump. May's looking like she was kissing up to Trump did not help any.
 
dudalb said:
And now the Orange Card might come back into play......
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What's interesting is that former leader and coalition partner with David Cameron, Nick Clegg, has lost his seat. Current leader Tim Farron is waiting for a recount as he might lose his seat.

But former leader of the Lib Dems Vince Cable has just been re-elected to parliament, so could he be the next leader?

Or perhaps Jo Swinson?
 
Puppycow said:
So if May is out, is it Boris Johnson's turn to lead the Tories?
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It's difficult to know. I can't imagine him being any good at it. I favour Ken Clarke, but he is a non-starter given his pro-EU stance.

They probably won't go for in-fighting if she can hold together a coalition of some kind such as with the DUP, or a small majority. It will only damage the party further and put them in further trouble.

Jacob Rees-Mogg has just been on to pretend that the party will be loyal. Hey, maybe he will take over from her.
 
The latest forecast is that the Tories will get 321 seats. With Sinn Fein forecast at 7, plus Speaker, that is exactly half of the seats. :boggled:

Will the DUP prop them up? Or will there be new elections in the fall?

As to May, such a result is a clear failure of her gamble. Various Labour politicians have already suggested that BoJo should succeed her. Because May is not incompetent enough, I guess. ;)
 
I don't know much about UK politics.

Are the Tories unlikely to get a coalition that would allow them to govern?
 
Bloody hell.

That is clearly an indictement and condemnation of "out out out" by the voters, imo. I wonder what our forumite hard brexiter would say...
 
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Giz said:
A disaster for May, and for the UK as a whole.

Blithering idiots, voting for Corbyn and co. Going to end up in the worst possible position for Brexit.
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Yes, my incurable optimism is feeling very severely dented. First Brexit, then Trump, now this. I'm shaking my head in disbelief. I think people in all three cases voted for change for the sake of it, not looking carefully at the wider picture. I'm old - it is not going to affect my remaining years that much, but what will the future be for my granddaughters and their future families I wonder.
 
Any chance Sinn Fein will take up their seats in order to thwart a Tory+DUP de facto coalition?
 
It appears Yougov was right and just about everyone else (myself included) were wrong.

Yay :thumbsup::o

McHrozni
 
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ddt said:
The latest forecast is that the Tories will get 321 seats. With Sinn Fein forecast at 7, plus Speaker, that is exactly half of the seats. :boggled:

Will the DUP prop them up? Or will there be new elections in the fall?

As to May, such a result is a clear failure of her gamble. Various Labour politicians have already suggested that BoJo should succeed her. Because May is not incompetent enough, I guess. ;)
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Looks like 318 or 319.

Presumably a coalition with the DUP.

Have Labour really been calling for Boris Johnson to be PM?

Weird.
 
angrysoba said:
Looks like 318 or 319.

Presumably a coalition with the DUP.

Have Labour really been calling for Boris Johnson to be PM?

Weird.
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It's the same principle as to why Democrats aren't too eager to impeach Trump: the enemy is shooting their own torso off, you don't stop that, you help and encourage him while you gather your strength to massacre him in the next cycle.

The country suffers, but that's normal in the game of thrones.

McHrozni
 
SusanB-M1 said:
Yes, my incurable optimism is feeling very severely dented. First Brexit, then Trump, now this. I'm shaking my head in disbelief. I think people in all three cases voted for change for the sake of it, not looking carefully at the wider picture. I'm old - it is not going to affect my remaining years that much, but what will the future be for my granddaughters and their future families I wonder.
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The bolded helps explain your voting preference...;)

As for your granddaughters, well young people voted overwhelmingly for Labour - I think they would say they were voting for the future they wanted and got denied it by the oldies...

Reminds me of that saying that goes something like "If you're not a socialist when you're young, you have no heart and if you're not a Tory when you're older, you have no head".
 
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