Well this is going to be fun, there's not enough time to repeal the Fixed Term Parliaments Act 2011 so she either needs a two third majority to vote for an early election or there are two votes of "no confidence" in 14 days.
Two thirds would be 434, the Tories only have 330 MPs, between them the Lib Dems, SNP, etc. only have 91 including the Speaker, if Labour refuse to play ball then then Theresa May is going to have to vote twice that she has no confidence in her own leadership!!
Stupidest thing May could do. Talk about giving UKIP a foothold, this has played right into their hands.
Not really, UKIP's numbers have been dropping ever since the Referendum, since the beginning of March they've averaged 10.6%, 2% down on 2015 but almost half what they were getting n June last year.
I agree re the above comments about UKIP. I think this is a smart move by May,Labour are in disarray & her Brexit strategy seems to have taken the sting out of UKIP.I've never voted Lib Dem in my life but I'm seriously considering doing so(I live in Madrid so I'm obviously anti-Brexit).I think many people will do the same but at the moment I can see no further than a Tory victory-& I've never voted for them in my life either!
I agree re the above comments about UKIP. I think this is a smart move by May,Labour are in disarray & her Brexit strategy seems to have taken the sting out of UKIP.I've never voted Lib Dem in my life but I'm seriously considering doing so(I live in Madrid so I'm obviously anti-Brexit).I think many people will do the same but at the moment I can see no further than a Tory victory-& I've never voted for them in my life either!
The Lib Dems are optimistic after winning Richmond Park, they're resurgent in their old stronghold of the West Country and will be looking to regain seats they lost to the Tories that voted Remain in the South and in London.
And they have be a leader who wanted a second referendum on brexit?? Quite ironic for a leader whose party has the word "democrats" in their name.
Why? Just because there's a vote for something it doesn't mean you have to accept it and stop opposing it if you feel its wrong. Nothing is ever over, the is no "in the end".
Douglas Carswell, ex-Tory, ex-UKIP, now sitting as an independent Aaron Banks, ex-UKIP money man, standing as an independent pro-Leave candidate UKIP will want their own candidate, maybe they could tempt Farage out of retirement And the Tories will obviously be looking to win the seat back.
Getting awfully crowded on the right side of the political spectrum......
I would love Labour to be really radical and campaign on a platform of Anti Brexit., and a reversal of the referendum, which was an advisory one in any case. There would be an uproar of course, but I tell you what, there will be an awful lot of floating voters who would go for it. And I think that those voters who went from core Labour to UKIP are by definition no longer Labour's core vote. The Baby boomer generation are now starting to die off, and in my opinion, their prejudicies and attitudes should die off with them, they are not going to be alive to witness the effects of Brexit on our younger citizens. Labour should make an unashamed push for the youth vote in this country, and for the disaffected Remain vote.
If necessary, a campaign of tactical voting with other parties.
Because like it or not the referendum was a democratic vote.
Clearly in the lib dems view there should keep on being more votes until they get the result they want
so was the General Election, we have those at regular intervals because people change their minds and vote for someone else. The Lib Dems are as much entitled to call for a second Referendum as the SNP are to call for theirs, if it then delivers a Remain vote UKIP and the rest are equally entitled to call for a third Referendum.
Nothing is set in stone, apart from Ed Miliband's reliance on bad PR advice......
Judging by my Facebook. So the majority of my age group of people in the 25 - 30 section seem to be deadlocked on backing Labour or full on switching to Lib Dem off the back off an Anti Brexit movement. All think its a Conservative Majority Win though and we are Doomed XD
Not sure why we needed another... unless those who weren't happy with the result thought it a good idea to keep going until they got the result they wanted. ;wink
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Edit: And has just confirmed it again.
Two thirds would be 434, the Tories only have 330 MPs, between them the Lib Dems, SNP, etc. only have 91 including the Speaker, if Labour refuse to play ball then then Theresa May is going to have to vote twice that she has no confidence in her own leadership!!
Beeee-zar
No, but the effect is the same for parents, since the school is closed.
SNP get a chance to hammer home IndyRef2 consolidating another GE
Labour in Turmoil / Lib Dems riding on Brexit
Conservatives taking a gamble but pretty much throwing away the Union imo to do it.
#bustedflush
Because like it or not the referendum was a democratic vote.
Clearly in the lib dems view there should keep on being more votes until they get the result they want
Douglas Carswell, ex-Tory, ex-UKIP, now sitting as an independent
Aaron Banks, ex-UKIP money man, standing as an independent pro-Leave candidate
UKIP will want their own candidate, maybe they could tempt Farage out of retirement
And the Tories will obviously be looking to win the seat back.
Getting awfully crowded on the right side of the political spectrum......
There would be an uproar of course, but I tell you what, there will be an awful lot of floating voters who would go for it. And I think that those voters who went from core Labour to UKIP are by definition no longer Labour's core vote. The Baby boomer generation are now starting to die off, and in my opinion, their prejudicies and attitudes should die off with them, they are not going to be alive to witness the effects of Brexit on our younger citizens. Labour should make an unashamed push for the youth vote in this country, and for the disaffected Remain vote.
If necessary, a campaign of tactical voting with other parties.
And they could win. ;ok
Nothing is set in stone, apart from Ed Miliband's reliance on bad PR advice......
The remainers would I suspect not be claiming the original vote was advisory had the result gone the other way..
Not sure why we needed another... unless those who weren't happy with the result thought it a good idea to keep going until they got the result they wanted. ;wink