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[Kathianne]

http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2017/04/18/britains_prime_minister_calls_for_june_snap_electi on_112301.html


Britain's Prime Minister Calls For June Snap Election By Jill Lawless (http://www.realclearworld.com/authors/jill_lawless/)April 18, 2017

LONDON (AP) -- In a shock announcement, Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday called for an early general election to be held June 8 to seek a strong mandate as she negotiates Britain's exit from the European Union.
Standing outside 10 Downing Street, May said she would ask the House of Commons on Wednesday to back her call for an election, just two years after the last vote and three years before the next scheduled date in May 2020.

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Interesting in that my understanding is that if she wins, as currently expected, it could speed Brexit along.

[Drummond]

http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2017/04/18/britains_prime_minister_calls_for_june_snap_electi on_112301.html



Interesting in that my understanding is that if she wins, as currently expected, it could speed Brexit along.

I doubt that it'd make much, if any, difference as to how quickly it'll be concluded (much of the pace will be dictated by the EU side, anyway !). The real point is that a win for the Conservatives will be seen as approval for all they have done to pursue Brexit thus far. So, it SHOULD take care of all those who've been carping about the Brexit outcome, and what's been done to pursue that carping, thus far.

I think it highly likely the Conservatives will not only win, but increase their majority in the House of Commons. That very increase will consolidate the 'approval' interpretation.

Her 'chief opposition' is the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn. He's been getting abysmal approval ratings .. which isn't surprising, as he's a throwback to the more extreme Socialist days of the 1980's ... a period which saw Labour as unelectable, under Michael Foot.

Corbyn, in typically delusional mode, says he 'welcomes' a chance of an election. But he's so much of a disadvantage to Labour's credibility that it's even possible that Labour itself will fracture under the weight of recriminations once they lose ... so badly ... :laugh:

[Abbey Marie]

I doubt that it'd make much, if any, difference as to how quickly it'll be concluded. The real point is that a win for the Conservatives will be seen as approval for all they have done to pursue Brexit thus far. So, it SHOULD take care of all those who've been carping about the Brexit outcome, and what's been done to pursue that carping, thus far.

I think it highly likely the Conservatives will not only win, but increase their majority in the House of Commons. That very increase will consolidate the 'approval' interpretation.

Her 'chief opposition' is the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn. He's been getting abysmal approval ratings .. which isn't surprising, as he's a throwback to the more extreme Socialist days of the 1980's ... a period which saw Labour as unelectable, under Michael Foot.

Corbyn, in typically delusional mode, says he 'welcomes' a chance of an election. But he's so much of a disadvantage to Labour's credibility that it's even possible that Labour itself will fracture under the weight of recriminations once they lose ... so badly ... :laugh:

"Should" in caps noted. It doesn't seem like OUR cranky libs over here will ever see Trump or his policies as legitimate.

[Drummond]

"Should" in caps noted. It doesn't seem like OUR cranky libs over here will ever see Trump or his policies as legitimate.

They hate to lose. Given any chance of it, they'll defy reality altogether ...

On Brexit .. there was a vote about the triggering of Article 50, the official first procedural step for arranging an EU exit. Such was the contempt on the Labour side for the original Brexit Referendum vote itself, that 47 of their MP's voted AGAINST IT ...

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/brexit-vote-47-labour-mps-defy-jeremy-corbyns-orders-and-vote-against-triggering-article-50-a3456031.html


More than 40 Labour MPs defied Jeremy Corbyn's orders and voted against the Government’s Brexit Bill.

Two Shadow Cabinet members had already announced their resignation from his frontbench over the vote.

And a total of 47 MPs voted to block The European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill, which paves the way for the formal Brexit process to begin under Article 50.