General Election - December 12th, 2019

[Mike D]

The people will fall for the buffoon's bluster and tub thumping but the members of parliament hate him.

Sadly this is very true I know staunch Labour supporters (the Brexit supporting variety of course) who think that he's great our very own Trump.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

For the purpose of calculating the official majority (or minority as it is now) she is a Labour MP and has not resigned the Labour whip.

She is also a ****.

 

[west didsblue]

53.9% leave to 46.1% remain according to BBC

Which is slightly more to the point.

He's got every chance of retaining the seat as a Lib Dem if the pro Brexit vote is split between BXP and the Tories. Also his Bracknell seat doesn't cover the whole of the Bracknell Forest local government area (used for the EU ref) so it's difficult to tell if his seat is actually Leave or Remain. The other parliamentary constituency in Bracknell Forest is Windsor.

 

[joe123]

I agree he looks a **** in the chamber.

he sounds like a (posh) kid who hasn't done his homework and crumbles when asked by the teacher why not, literally no answers

 

[Mike D]

For the purpose of calculating the official majority (or minority as it is now) she is a Labour MP and has not resigned the Labour whip.

If you are going to use that analogy what about Justin Greening and Alister Burt who has all but joined the Lib Dem's (maybe they will be the next to walk across to the Lib Dem benches?) There's plenty more who are giving Boris the bird right now for his hard man tactics.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

Which is slightly more to the point.

He's got every chance of retaining the seat as a Lib Dem if the pro Brexit vote is split between BXP and the Tories. Also his Bracknell seat doesn't cover the whole of the Bracknell Forest local government area (used for the EU ref) so it's difficult to tell if his seat is actually Leave or Remain. The other parliamentary constituency in Bracknell Forest is Windsor.

And the referendum in 2016 was over 3 years ago and a lot has changed. Brexit now is not what it was then. Back then brexit polls were circa 50:50 right now brexit support generally is low 40's and no deal is sub 30%. Add in the fact that the brexit party might split the vote and it is wide open.

 

[aguerrrroooooooooooo]

I don't often watch parliamentary discussions but when I do I have to wonder what drives people to stay in positions of such power. The pressure must be immense and I don't know how any normal person could want to to be prime minister in these circumstances

 

[BobKowalski]

Apparently the pound had a mini revival when Lee crossed the floor. Very unpatriotic our currency.

 

[aguero93:20]

Apparently the pound had a mini revival when Lee crossed the floor. Very unpatriotic our currency.

£rai£or.

 

[west didsblue]

And the referendum in 2016 was over 3 years ago and a lot has changed. Brexit now is not what it was then. Back then brexit polls were circa 50:50 right now brexit support generally is low 40's and no deal is sub 30%. Add in the fact that the brexit party might split the vote and it is wide open.

I think you're understating Brexit support slightly. Most of the recent polls I've seen have a combined Tory / BXP total of 45% - 47%, with no sign of it increasing or decreasing. The only change seems to be what proportion choose the Tories and what proportion choose the BXP. I suspect any residual Labour Leavers are cancelled out by Tory Remainers, with the other parties at more or less 100% remain (Edit: maybe not more!).