PMs change and lol we're all gonna die (but brexit will never end)

An election outside university term time is really not a good thing for Labour, several seats in university towns are knife-edge majorities as it is.

That I can understand! What was this December 9 idea that was floating about? I lose track!

I no longer understand what your shtick is actually for tbh.

So many students aren't registered to vote at uni though, but still are at home. 2017 was virtually outside term time, unlike 2015 right in the middle of exams.

The point re December 9th isn’t students but ruling out three days of sitting time that could be used to force through the WAB.

Right, but we're not talking about a few days difference in December (or are we?), we're talking about an election is a bad idea and it would be better to have one...at an unidentified point in the future when Brexit is no longer an issue? Which is where I get lost

Labour doesn’t support the 9th or the 12th afaict. Because it doesn’t want an election it might lose.

Which then goes to my initial question....when is this election where this is no longer a concern?

Labour doesn’t support the 9th or the 12th afaict. Because it doesn’t want an election it might lose.

You seriously think the election is going to be about anything other than Brexit?

― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 bookmarkflaglink

It definitely has to be. Brexit will play a bigger role but..

would enjoy a series of labour campaign videos that are adverts for a user-paying uk health service

Nah, u'd end up persuading a good chunk of ppl that it's a good idea

don't forget that every other person who gets sick apart from me is a scrounging parasite wasting NHS resources

see also: the entire welfare state

when I'm going deeper into my overdraft after getting completely skull-fucked by the local "Not For Profit" veterinarian practice it really drives home how important the NHS still is to the social fabric of the UK, despite the Tories and New Labour's best attempts to PFI it beyond recognition. the fucking cunts.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/29/margaret-hodge-reselected-by-local-labour-party

:'(

shit just got real

tbh I share anvil’s confusion, there’s no way this doesn’t come across as a ridiculous u-turn? No deal has not been taken off the table but labour have reversed their position anyway as they were always going to

Labour are, they would like you to know, ready.

man with the white beard bearing gifts...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/29/downing-street-signals-compromise-on-potential-general-election-date

here we here we here we fuckin go

http://giphygifs.s3.amazonaws.com/media/DI7e2Jau7wdcQ/giphy.gif

Would 11th Dec stop the WAB from going through?

not on my birthday ffs

The new wheeze it seems is to back the election, but with an amemdment enfranchising EU settled citizens. This seems likely to make govt pull the bill.

enfranchise everyxunt imo

is boris officially PM after he calls an election? or does he only stop being PM when he loses?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_the_United_Kingdom_by_length_of_tenure

Yeah he’s PM until he loses.

SNP and Lib Dem MPs are apparently lobbying the Speaker John Bercow not to select an amendment expected from Labour to demand votes for 16 and EU citizens.

They don't want to look bad by voting against 16 year-olds and EU nationals getting the vote.

— Matt Dathan (@matt_dathan) October 29, 2019

don’t vote against it then you fannies

What a bunch of cunts

16 and 17 year olds can vote for Holyrood elections though, no?

Lib Dem Brexit spokesperson Tom Brake MP says if Labour push for an amendment to give the vote to 16 and 17-year-olds it could make a pre-Christmas election “unachievable”https://t.co/Suxj6kflbt pic.twitter.com/z4HTkPxrlL

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) October 29, 2019

Yes, and in IndyRef. But the claim is that it'd take too long to register everyone in time for a December election, so we'd be looking at election next year if this passes. Over to Bercow for bantz. xp

16 year olds can already register to vote - just can’t vote until 18+

Make it a public holiday while we're at it

Love the optics of the Lib Dems handwringing over votes for EU citizens.

Lib Dems now say they'll back amendments to give votes to 16 & 17-year-olds and EU citizens.
My tweet about some Lib Dem and the SNP MPs apparently trying to lobby the Speaker's office not to call the amendment was wrong. They're not.

— Matt Dathan (@matt_dathan) October 29, 2019

skeptical the votes are there for these to pass

they should just write socialism or barbarism on the ballots

— hannah proctor (@hhnnccnnll) October 29, 2019

https://imgflip.com/s/meme/Two-Buttons.jpg

tbh I share anvil’s confusion, there’s no way this doesn’t come across as a ridiculous u-turn? No deal has not been taken off the table but labour have reversed their position anyway as they were always going to

Delighted to be the @LibDems candidate for Kensington for the next GE. The community deserves better than @Conservatives pursuing a reckless hard Brexit & out of touch with modern Britain & Corbyn’s @UKLabour & their assault on property rights & pensions https://t.co/0f0N7au4bf

— Sam Gyimah MP (@SamGyimah) October 29, 2019

Lib Dems got 6% of the vote in Kensington last time. Brexit Party running Jay Aston, lol.

That's a Tory gain then

You could even say that was the plan

An election is the worst possible way to resolve Brexit and all who have supported it have done so out of failure. But now it is happening it must be about stopping @BorisJohnson and his hard ruinous Brexit

— Alastair PEOPLE’S VOTE Campbell (@campbellclaret) October 29, 2019

omg just double checked that, *the* Jay Aston :D

imagine capitalising public shitshow PEOPLES VOTE in your handle still

it is Halloween tbf