Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Mind Vicky was right on something.

This is what happens when you publicly make fun of someone whose incompetent at her job , you put out she's not well the day before the vote , then Diane Abbott gets sympathy votes and increases her majority to 35,000 quite amazing , and did you know Corbyn's changed the face of British politics , who have thought .

Yes it's looking ugly

Clegg can now join his school mate DC and pal Osbourne and write a book about where he lashed up and ruined the chances of the Lib Dems.

77552 - fortunately all 3 of my children were bright enough to go to good unis and get proper degrees in worthwhile subjects ......

2 of them used their degrees directly in their future employment

though a BSc for the 3rd was not directly useful, it certainly helped in other ways ..... his greatest help in his future life, apart from being an excellent communicator, was to get holiday jobs in the field into which he wanted to go


adult education for the less academic is assuredly best learnt in the real world ...... hence the need for apprenticeships for them and not just for those who already have good academic qualifications

Just in and it raised a smile:

“Strong and stable.”

That little phrase was always something of a hostage to fortune. Now it looks downright hilarious, in a blackly comic sort of way.

Just over six weeks ago, an apparently popular prime minister succumbed to the temptation to take on an apparently unelectable opponent to shore up her majority and put Britain into a comfortable negotiating position ahead of Brexit.

Instead, we’ve got a hung parliament. And the possibility of another general election. And a stalled Brexit negotiating process on which the clock is ticking.

“Strong and stable.”

Oops...



One good thing is that our friends in 'Bonnie Scotland' now stay part of the UK. I'm sure the Queen will be quick to console the PM with this one.

in practice, the tories will have a slim overall majority
318/319 seats + 10 DUP takes them over the line from which one then subtracts 7 x SF

thus there are in practice 643 westminster seats of which the tories+DUP account for 328/329 leaving "others" with 315/314

There's god awful crap being spouted by supposedly experienced journo's and MP's/commentators .

the unstated killer for the tories was their suicidal dementia tax in the manifesto

Without a doubt cynic, suicide note. Every cloud has a silver lining Ruth Davis!

i suspect you mean ruth davidson .... strangely she isn't actually an mp

When I said i'd received 8 or 9 letters from the Treesa and one from Lab , after last election they changed the tory candidate for this term , anyway a 93 vote Lab majority turned into a 9,176 landslide for Labour , so over doing it lost a lot of votes me thinks .

Wasn't all bad news.. Alex Salmond and Angus Robertson were among the high-profile casualties as the SNP lost more than a third of its seats in the general election. And Nick Clegg lost his seat.

Ruth Davidson, yes pity she isn't cynic. If not for her we would have woken up to Jezza as PM.

if not for that appalling manifesto blunder, there'ld have been a big tory majority

Fred wanted to join the Monster Raving loony party, but they said he was to extreme.

So it's the Con/Dup party now dust yourself off and get stuck in . Apparently all the other parties won .

A positive statement from TM and showing a strong hand and not refering to her personal defeat. Loose a battle but win the war - Good for her. Now the troops need to stand behind their leader ever more than before.

Mrs May cannot survive for long. That manifesto and her presidential campaign killed her chance of gaining a majority. The Tory's will get rid of her once the dust has settled. The one bit of good news is that my local Tory was returned despite a strong challenge from the Lib-dem who held this seat until 2015.

Manuel,

Your wife must be from good genetic stock.

"The unstated killer" was that many people examine the tory failures in office and lack of Brexit policies and trying to cover up the previous tory party's dishonest smart arsed reasoning for having a referendum and dismissal of a large proportion of the more "unfortunate" and less off voters by prolonging unnecessary austerity for party political reasons.

Also, the secrecy and dishonesty over the possible outcome of the Brexit negotiations.

Simply, more people didn't trust May or her government.

Also, the voters saw Corbyn as more acceptable and honest than portrayed by the vitriolic sneering right winged press.

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Personally, I feel sorry for Clegg who I thought, in general, and respect his decision to support the previous coalition, and appeared, to be honest, intelligent and thoughtful and had decent standards. (The country needed a coalition government and stability, which he enabled.

I will miss Salmond, and a little surprised that Sturgeon played her hand so badly.