Post Match Thread: Election 2017

[The perfect fumble]

Unfortunately the "Blairites" as you call them are still the only Labour members who have ever actually won an election.

This is a fad and will pass. Centrist politics will ALWAYS win.

No, it won't, it rarely does, it didn't last night, in 2015 or in 2010.

 

[Blue Hefner]

"Election? What election? Back to work everyone".

That's it, in a nutshell

 

[Skip Donoghue]

Nah, a few of their MPs might but their members and electorate are dead against it, go look at the referendum result in NI.

Ok cheers it's all a little in the air at the minute what a mess

 

[SWP's back]

That's 20 years ago. There's an extra 10 million people in the country now. Not sure why thats shocking.

Ok. Try this. Blair's vote share was 1% higher.

 

[Toney’s bookie]

No, it won't, it rarely does, it didn't last night, in 2015 or in 2010.

There wasn't a centrist option to vote for last night, or arguably in 2015. No one won in 2010.

 

[Gabriel]

Just as a little background information, there were 10 by-elections in the two years following the election in 2015. Moreover, there were 21 by-elections over the course of the 2010-2015 parliament.

Keeping a supply and confidence government together will require great tact, and starting the Brexit negotiations and then changing leader in the summer could have major implications.

Fascinating times ahead.

 

[Chippy_boy]

Unfortunately the "Blairites" as you call them are still the only Labour members who have ever actually won an election.

This is a fad and will pass. Centrist politics will ALWAYS win.

And to think Theresa May started out by saying (effectively) governing for the many not the few, saw her lead accelerate to +20 points and then decided to say she'd take peoples' homes off them, stop increasing their pensions, take their winter fuel allowance off some of them and make kids go hungry at school. What a complete cretin she is.

She genuinely had the opportunity to seize the biggest Tory majority in 30 years and has all on her own, fucked it right up. She'll be lucky if she is not humanly put to sleep, let alone lose her job.

 

[The perfect fumble]

I am sure you are right. As I say, I mentioned it only half tongue-in-cheek.

I do wonder how some of the Labour centrist MPs are feeling this morning though? Pleasantly pleased and surprised, or monumentally pissed off.

I'll happily take silent and neutered.

 

[Damocles]

No, it won't, it rarely does, it didn't last night, in 2015 or in 2010.

Ed Miliband was not a centrist ffs

 

[SWP's back]

Errrr? I like her and so does my wife, that's pretty amazing in itself.

Just showed the clip to my wife and she just asked if she was pissed and that she acted "like a drunk aunt at Christmas".