The Theresa May General Election thread (edited)

ICBM

And now she's re-arranging the deckchairs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40241229

Bringing back that wanker Gove… she detests him. Presumably she's just trying to make sure they'll all be dragged down with her.

Heartfeltdawn

Give is there to do for fracking what he did to education. I'm sure of it.open season!

equalsql

She's brought back Gove.. has she completely lost it. The mad bint needs to be sectioned.
Or perhaps he's the equivalent of a bucket of shit to keep the flies off her.

exocet

equalsql said:

She's brought back Gove.. has she completely lost it. The mad bint needs to be sectioned.
Or perhaps he's the equivalent of a bucket of shit to keep the flies off her.

A case of "inside the tent, pissing out rather than outside the tent.......?

Jalapeno

exocet said:

equalsql said:

She's brought back Gove.. has she completely lost it. The mad bint needs to be sectioned.
Or perhaps he's the equivalent of a bucket of shit to keep the flies off her.

A case of "inside the tent, pissing out rather than outside the tent.......?

Probably

richardhomer

She lost 8 ministers on Thursday - presumably the pool of 'talent' is therefore smaller. Perhaps she fancies Boris and Gove together at the cabinet table again?

AliGorie

Boris greeting Trump - yeah
what could go wrong

Axe_meister

I don't think Trump would have a clue of what to make of Boris, Boris may be a baffoon but he does have a very good command on the English Language and would just confuse the heck of of trump

octatonic

Axe_meister said:

I don't think Trump would have a clue of what to make of Boris, Boris may be a baffoon but he does have a very good command on the English Language and would just confuse the heck of of trump

Boris will eventually start speaking Latin at Trump.
I'd love to be in the room.

Clarky

marantz1300 said:

wrong
she's
wrong and unable

mended

JezWynd

AliGorie said:

Boris greeting Trump - yeah
what could go wrong

if Trump did the handshake thing, it could get very weird.

Fretwired

Did BBC and Skynews reporters have a bet on as to how many times they could call Jeremy Hunt Jeremy Cunt .. looks like it ..







:-)

Heartfeltdawn

JezWynd said:

Agree. It's flown under the radar but it's astounding that despite an all out attack on Corbyn by the DM, Sun, Times etc. their poison had zero effect. It's been reported that Murdoch stormed out of a party at the Times offices when the exit poll results came in.

Finally caught up with someone in the know who had a party invite. Absolutely true. Also a senior male figure upon hearing the exit poll result said "The stupid bitch has cocked it up". 

Bridgehouse

Heartfeltdawn said:
 Also a senior male figure upon hearing the exit poll result said "The stupid bitch has cocked it up". 

That's probably the most accurate thing the gutter press have reported this election...

Clarky

Bridgehouse said:

Heartfeltdawn said:
 Also a senior male figure upon hearing the exit poll result said "The stupid bitch has cocked it up". 

That's probably the most accurate thing the gutter press have reported this election…

she must have been Cameron's finest pupil

Fretwired

Bridgehouse said:

Heartfeltdawn said:
 Also a senior male figure upon hearing the exit poll result said "The stupid bitch has cocked it up". 

That's probably the most accurate thing the gutter press have reported this election...

Interesting piece in the Times. Momentum spent a fortune of a series of videos and a social media campaign that got the youth vote out and swung many floating voters behind Corbyn. One video was watched by 14 million people - Labour used social media effectively. The Tories stuck to the newspapers. Media commentators say the newspapers are dead - Corbyn's team outperformed the Tories where it mattered - on the Internet.  And the Tories still don't get it as Labour go on the offensive - Facebook is full of stuff on a daily basis.

May lost be 401 votes across a series of seats. That's all.

fields5069

Fretwired said:

Bridgehouse said:

Heartfeltdawn said:
 Also a senior male figure upon hearing the exit poll result said "The stupid bitch has cocked it up". 

That's probably the most accurate thing the gutter press have reported this election...

Interesting piece in the Times. Momentum spent a fortune of a series of videos and a social media campaign that got the youth vote out and swung many floating voters behind Corbyn. One video was watched by 14 million people - Labour used social media effectively. The Tories stuck to the newspapers. Media commentators say the newspapers are dead - Corbyn's team outperformed the Tories where it mattered - on the Internet.  And the Tories still don't get it as Labour go on the offensive - Facebook is full of stuff on a daily basis.

May lost be 401 votes across a series of seats. That's all.

That, there, is some of that "creative statistics" stuff. What does it mean? The Labour majority in Newport West went up by 2000 votes, but the Conservative vote went up 3000. So I guess that's not "lost votes", even though the situation is worse?

Sporky

fields5069 said:

Fretwired said:

May lost be 401 votes across a series of seats. That's all.

That, there, is some of that "creative statistics" stuff. What does it mean? 

I assume that 401 is the minimum number of votes required (in the right constituencies) to have changed the result to a Conservative majority.

It would be interesting(ish) to know the number required for a Labour majority for comparison...

Fretwired

Sporky said:

fields5069 said:

Fretwired said:

May lost be 401 votes across a series of seats. That's all.

That, there, is some of that "creative statistics" stuff. What does it mean? 

I assume that 401 is the minimum number of votes required (in the right constituencies) to have changed the result to a Conservative majority.

It would be interesting(ish) to know the number required for a Labour majority for comparison...

I think Labour were a long way off ... stats here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/12/theresa-may-just-400-votes-short-majority/

Sporky

Blimey - so over 50,000.

Interesting too that Labour need over 6,000 more votes to win each of their seats - that suggests some cunning work by the Conservatives in drawing up constituency boundaries. No idea if that is the case, but it suggests it.