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

imagine being below salmond, not only a bladdy jock nationalist, but also up in court on a litany of sex crimes charges

my first thought was Salmond and Adonis are too high!

notice also that diane abbott is almost at salmond levels. wonder why a black woman would be almost as unpopular in the uk as a separatist who might be a serial sex criminal?

I'm being facetious

tbf she did cause 40 million Chinese ppl to starve to death by both playing footsie with Portillo and sending her spoilt brats to a private school:p

Find it pretty funny hard Brexiteer Cromblyn is more popular than remain hero Nicola Sturgeon

no nationalist figure is going to be popular in england.

Nervous lol

Oh obv British (including Labourite Attlee nostalgia, 2012 FBPE nostalgia, love-bombing during indyref) and/or English nationalism are expected and welcomed

Whats the rationale behind no election? This is looking bad surely? This mythical perfect time to have an election, it won't come. Either Labour have better policies and the public have had enough of a decade of austerity, or they haven't.

People who don't want an election now....when is the preferred time?

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

Then I guess the answer is no, they haven't had enough - maybe we overestimated the effects of the last decade and people are generally happy enough overall.

if the election is only about Brexit, then I no longer understand what the Labour Party is actually for

but assuming you're right, and maybe you are....when should an election be?

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.