Rolling Brexit Links/UK politics in the neo-Weimar era

may steps to the podium, unzips her human suit, reveals true reptilian form and announces the uk is formally under the dominion of the reptoid empire

then she eats a live baby

kuenssberg sez election 8 june

can they call a date before they go thru whatever the parliamentary rigmarole is?

because frankly if you can choose to ignore your own legislation, win an election (?) then lock yourself back in for 5 years, fuck that

btw before we start making a 2017 general election a rerun of the Brexit referendum would be monumentally fucking stupid for Labour kthx

Corbyn for P-oh ffs

Wonder if we'll get a response from him before bedtime

she's at the lectern early

election 8 june

ffs

unprecedented economic growth, HUGE confidence, country coming together but westminster is not, labour wants to grind economy to a standstill bla bla bla

Currently making a case for a dictatorship.

Other parties are endangering our economic security.

does parliament have to vote on this?

she's made it a second referendum, that speaks volumes

Erdogan has the right idea, it seems.

ok that answers the vote thing

because frankly if you can choose to ignore your own legislation, win an election (?) then lock yourself back in for 5 years, fuck that

yeah this was my first thought, does the fixed 5 year term still apply from this year???

if the tories win obv, hollow lol

"Decision will be all about leadership -- it's me or Corbyn"

PLP will tear itself apart, it makes no sense to stand on a non-Brexit manifesto and every Blairite will be demanding that's what happens

This is an appalling statement. Erdogan comparison isn't far off the mark.

ah well, this big unsightly boil needed a good lancing

Sweepie on turnout? Low 30s?

presumably every Tory candidate that stands will have to believe in her version of Brexit or they'd be massive hypocrites

what happens if the commons doesn't vote to support the motion? unlikely i know but still

if he loses the election will Corbyn go?

Then they're going against The Will Of The People and must be destroyed.

Genuinely surprised she slanders Labour/opposition like this. Really odd because her party's already the biggest. Erdo indeed. Trump will prob congratulate her in a min smdh

All made out to be enemies of democracy if they don't support it, despite May's ludicrous statement.

Would Labour agree to an election?

They've said they will in the past. Funny how NOW IS NOT THE TIME for the turmoil and uncertainty of a Scottish Referendum but it is for the peace and tranquillity of a General Election.

i'm not sure how unlikely a no vote is - all opposition parties should weigh up the tactical value of voting no

#votenoforthelulz begins here

MR JOHNSON YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO AN ELECTION

Nice shout-out to the "unelected House of Lords" too.

Projected Tory maj of 112 http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/homepage.html

Tory government threatening the Lords, Labour party torn apart on Europe, welcome to Bizarro Election

Who can trust polls anymore? Not that I'm not going into this one with a complete feeling of dread and defeatism.

pollsters cranking up for their important role in telling people that resistance is futile

Top stories on BBC website:

May to seek snap election on June 8
Trump congratulates Erdogan on poll win
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Not a good day, when all is said and done.

If anything the polls have been consistent in underestimating the right wing vote so that majority looks a little slim.

xp

i can see a real silver lining there

Is a LibDem surge def off the cards?

oh god any awful thing feels possible but yes

I can see them coming back, definitely. There's enough croissant-munching, latte-sipping wankers out there who would vote for them again.

A lot of hacked-off Teachers/NHS staff might go LibDem.

They're the only explicitly anti-Brexit English party so they could nick a few seats off the Tories here and there.

TM's statement was disgusting.

I don't think she believed most of it herself.

I understand why she wants an election and big majority, but the reasons she gave to justify it were totally bogus.

Worse, as people here have indicated, they were anti-democratic. She accused opposition parties of sometimes ... opposing, and taking different views from the government. She called this 'playing games', not doing what opposition parties are supposed to do.

It was utterly disgusting and I must say kudos to the people above who have compared it to Erdogan.

(Okay the Greens are as well but that's not going to happen)

croissants are good

Has someone done the legwork of finding all the Tory remain seats at risk to LDs? I can def see that being a thing

btw we are always told that the opposition does NOT oppose, that it is a shambles, that it has waved through Brexit, etc. None of us believe that Labour will affect Brexit. And clearly the LDs can't.

So this makes it plainer how deeply bogus it for TM to say 'sadly, I must call an election because the opposition are threatening to derail Brexit'. She knows that no one is capable of derailing anything and that this has often been remarked on.

She is a dreadful public speaker, incredibly insincere and desperately false.

Her statement was one of the vilest I have seen in UK politics for some time.

Gordon Brown will be thinking "If only I'd called a snap election, I wouldn't have ended up erm.. totally loaded!"

'people aren't getting 100% behind this thing that i personally opposed! it's disgraceful!'