UK GENERAL ELECTION 2017

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

UK GENERAL ELECTION 2017

Strongbow · All-time great

Nothing on TV except FBI and Election

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Congratulations Paul M :D :D :D

thejester · Satellite level

Congratulations to Toby Perkins. Solid win in my hometown of Chesterfield :)

thejester · Satellite level

Theresa May looks to be getting exactly what she deserves. This is what you get for calling an opportunistic election and taking the electorate for granted.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

thejester wrote:
Congratulations to Toby Perkins. Solid win in my hometown of Chesterfield :)

Pleased for Toby. Always comes across as someone who really cares about local issues and his constituents.

steven · Tennis legend

Big congrats to Toby and Paul, both very decent people from my experience despite being on different sides, as the forum doubles its representation in the House of Commons!

Jan · Hall of fame

Yes - well done to both and good luck!

paulisi · Tennis legend

Hung parliament - chaos will reign, nothing will get done quickly

indiana · Tennis legend

Jaggy1876 wrote:
Failing to see where the 22 seats in Scotland will go to. Like I said earlier awfully negative rushed and unnecessary election. Tories in Scotland are snakes campaigning on Indyref2 solely. Disgusting duping of the electorate. The impact of this election will be a complete disaster for Sterling as well. The irony of strong and stable when our economy will collapse again.

It was just the 21 seats the SNP lost in the end - 12 to the Tories, 6 to Labour and 3 to the Lib Dems plus they held on to Fife North East by just 2 ( two ! ) votes.

We probably left the rest of the UK a bit confused but up here it was indeed much more Indyref 2 than Brexit or pretty much most anything else.

And Nicola Sturgeon basically got what she deserved by having been going on about another independence referendum when there was little mood for it certainly anything like so soon after the previous one and many people would just like the SNP to get on with governing Scotland rather better than they have been.

Ruth Davidson and the Scottish Conservatives latched on to this mood before and more than anyone and basically said "let's indeed talk about it - a lot". One can say they were a bit one track, opportunist, spoke much more about this than anything else which many would say was much more relevant to this UK Election, but "snakes" for doing so? - I think not, whatever other faults they have. They are a political party and took advantage of the SNP's errors of judgement.

What Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP sewed Ruth Davidson and the Scottish Tories grew and Theresa May will today be very grateful for her additional 12 Scottish MPs or very bad would have been even worse. They showed a lot more nous and campaigning skill than she did in calling the election and then fighting an awful campaign.

And indeed, where I will agree with Jaggy, it is an election that has left us for now in a right mess.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jan wrote:
Yes - well done to both and good luck!

Ditto. Well done both of you smile

And to Etienne and anyone else who is involved in trying to run this country.

I wish you all the very best of luck !

JonH · All-time great

steven wrote:
Big congrats to Toby and Paul, both very decent people from my experience despite being on different sides, as the forum doubles its representation in the House of Commons!

Forgive my ignorance, I am new to this forum...who are Toby and Paul - presumably MP's but not sure of their names. Congrats anyway!

JonH · All-time great

I think this election showed us lots of things:

- independence in Scotland not wanted and therefore Sturgeon support fell away.

- Labour appealed to the younger voter and others and surprised everyone by running a strong campaign. And probably is where he wants to be - not winning but large enough to disrupt and make a noise. Perfect for Corbyn I would say.

- May isnt a leader. She made a stupid call to hold an election, ran an awful campaign with some serious mis judgments. She sidelined all of her other star players and made it all about her. Well, Britain didnt go with it and she has no authority or respect anymore. She has to leave.

- Brexit - do we REALLY want it? Cos this didnt prove to me that GB wanted Brexit. Referendums are taken at points in time, one year later does the UK really feel as it did 12 months ago - the new young voters who couldnt vote 12 months ago, feel differently. Personal view is we need to pull back from the whole thing, sort out the Government, maybe run the election again (presumably with Boris leading the Tories) work out if we really want Brexit and then move forwards

- Lib Dems have fallen away, no big hitters anymore and no real impact. Sad and disappointing.

- thank God UKIP fell apart...but now Farrage is coming back...oh crikey.

the addict · Tennis legend

.... and now the DUP holds the balance of power - who would have thought it !

JonH · All-time great

the addict wrote:
.... and now the DUP holds the balance of power - who would have thought it !

Shame the Revd Ian Paisley isnt around - imagine him and Theresa May forming an alliance - wow!