2017 General Election thread

[Gt Yarmouth Shrimper]

I hope we keep this thread open for a) The right wingers on here who are conspicuous in their absence and b) another election will be along soon.

 

[EastStandBlue]

Gove to deputy PM seems to be doing the rounds...

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

Gove to deputy PM seems to be doing the rounds...

just shows what a lack of talent there is available

 

[RHB]

Gove to deputy PM seems to be doing the rounds...

If that happened then he could always stab Boris again. Didn't he and Theresa May hate each other with a vengeance back in the day?

 

[Gt Yarmouth Shrimper]

Gove to deputy PM seems to be doing the rounds...

Environment.

 

[MK Shrimper]

The climate change denier as Environment secretary. ****ing hell........ #omnishambles.

 

[EastStandBlue]

The climate change denier as Environment secretary. ****ing hell........ #omnishambles.

Don't be too dismayed, Defra sec's an impossible job. It already has one of the smallest budgets in Whitehall and a substantial amount of it is pledged towards flood defences. Trying to find wiggle room in that budget is nigh on impossible given the political nightmare involved with cutting flood defences, and that call will come.

Plus, as public Brexiteer in Chief he's going to have to spend much of the next two years telling a lot of angry farmers that they're getting the square root of **** all when their EU farming subsidies are withdrawn. That'll be fun.

Oh, and his first job will be to defend the government over its indefensibly poor air quality plan.

He's on a hiding to nothing.

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

Don't be too dismayed, Defra sec's an impossible job. It already has one of the smallest budgets in Whitehall and a substantial amount of it is pledged towards flood defences. Trying to find wiggle room in that budget is nigh on impossible given the political nightmare involved with cutting flood defences, and that call will come.

Plus, as public Brexiteer in Chief he's going to have to spend much of the next two years telling a lot of angry farmers that they're getting the square root of **** all when their EU farming subsidies are withdrawn. That'll be fun.

Oh, and his first job will be to defend the government over its indefensibly poor air quality plan.

He's on a hiding to nothing.

he will have fun explaining to the farmers that their EU subsidies will be ending

 

[MK Shrimper]

Is it troubling when people you are friends with on Facebook indicate why they voted Tory? Me, me, me and me and **** the rest of you.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Is it troubling when people you are friends with on Facebook indicate why they voted Tory? Me, me, me and me and **** the rest of you.

Don't befriend Tories.:winking:

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

Is it troubling when people you are friends with on Facebook indicate why they voted Tory? Me, me, me and me and **** the rest of you.

If these friends of yours voted red or blue for the reason of "Me, me, me and ****" etc I suggest you vet your friends.
Many people I do count as friends voted Tory as they believe May would be better than JC; AND that Labour will destroy what ever is left of the UK economy. Their opinions.

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

Bit worrying that those charged with negotiating a good deal with the EU insist that you shouldn't show your hand, yet they announced they had cut a deal with the DUP, only for the DUP to announce it was still under discussion. Talk about looking desperate - and these are the people negotiating with the EU.

 

[OldBlueLady]

sorry you we're talking about a replacement for May (I was still thinking on Cooper) - does anyone fit that description?

Pretty sure he wouldn't do it, but I was thinking of Hague. Someone with gravitas, an accent and skilled with speaking.

Is it troubling when people you are friends with on Facebook indicate why they voted Tory? Me, me, me and me and **** the rest of you.

I've plenty of Tory friends, and I've not seen anyone do that.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Queens Speech delayed. Already going well this new Government. :facepalm:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Queens Speech delayed. Already going well this new Government. :facepalm:

The "coalition of chaos" has started.It's just under May's leadership.:smile:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-40243782

 

[londonblue]

Pretty sure he wouldn't do it, but I was thinking of Hague. Someone with gravitas, an accent and skilled with speaking.

He can't. I still want him to take over as the permanent presenter of HIGNFY.

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

Pretty sure he wouldn't do it, but I was thinking of Hague. Someone with gravitas, an accent and skilled with speaking.



I've plenty of Tory friends, and I've not seen anyone do that.

Hague has experience and probably less divisive that the other options so if the Tories intend on sticking around he is probably not a bad option for the country but if the young vote is the new battleground I can't see him inspiring the enthusiasm needed to inspire potential new Tories

 

[Uncle Leo]

Queens Speech delayed. Already going well this new Government. :facepalm:

May's incompetence might well have something to do with it, but the fact that the legislation has to be written on vellum is also a factor. Honest. Seriously.

 

[Uncle Leo]

but if the young vote is the new battleground I can't see him inspiring the enthusiasm needed to inspire potential new Tories

Disagree.

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

The "coalition of chaos" has started.It's just under May's leadership.:smile:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-40243782

if the Tories operating as a minority government they would not be delaying the Queen's Speech. This sounds like DUP will be calling the shots a lot more than anyone would hope.