The 2017 UK General Election Thread - Voting open today from 7am - 10pm

[Denster]

Just had a call back from a lady out walking dogs. She thought i was a customer who wanted his dog walking. Instead i convinced her to vote conservative.

"Oh you like dogs? Do you know who hates dogs? Jeremy strawberry floating Corbyn that's who! He eats dogs and will make you eat them too!"

Pretty much.

[Glowy69]

What time tomorrow is the exit poll likely to be released? 10pm?

I have to work Friday so can't stay up all night but before going to bed I want to find out how bad it's going to be!

10pm on the dot. Then you can go to sleep wrapped in the warm blanket of Conservative hegemony.

Lovely.

The absolute meltdown if Labour win or its a hung parliament.

I would love it, but I just can't see it.

I expect that the Tories will increase their majority, but not by as much as they hoped.

Im just holding onto the hope of what happened in the referendum last year, everyone expected a remain landslide... but you're right I cant see anything other than mrs burns getting the victory he soulless husk desperately needs.

[Green Gecko]

Just had a call back from a lady out walking dogs. She thought i was a customer who wanted his dog walking. Instead i convinced her to vote conservative.

You bastard!

[Denster]

Just had a call back from a lady out walking dogs. She thought i was a customer who wanted his dog walking. Instead i convinced her to vote conservative.

You bastard!

[Moggy]

Just had a call back from a lady out walking dogs. She thought i was a customer who wanted his dog walking. Instead i convinced her to vote conservative.

You bastard!

Just look at it from her point of view. A known pervert approaches you in the park and starts ranting about his love for Theresa May.

Wouldn't you say you were voting Tory just to get rid of him?

It's more likely that she will be so terrified by the encounter that she will now be voting for Corbyn and making sure all of her friends do as well.

Well done Denny.

[That]

"A known pervert"

[DML]

'Zangief from Streetfighter approached me in the park earlier. He'd put on a few pounds, but he told me to vote Conservative.

All I can take from this is is that May is a puppet of Putin.

I'll vote Labour.'

[Nibble]

So we could be looking at a situation that, when the likely Conservative victory transpires, these arseholes, rather than getting on with the business of Brexit negotiations, are going to be holding yet another leadership contest. Jesus Christ. How anyone can consider these banana splits as strong and stable is strawberry floating beyond me.

I think they are well aware that the Brexit negotiations are not really going to happen. May has been saying for a while that "no deal is better than a bad deal" because she knows that she cannot possibly get anything that will satisfy the right wing of her party. That's one of the main reasons for this election, to solidify her grip on power once the gooseberry fool starts hitting the fan in a couple of years.

Things have gone badly for her though and she now looks weak and ripe for a knife in the back. Boris is calculating enough to not do the stabbing himself though, he will wait for her to resign or somebody else to stab her before he jumps in.

If I was one of the more moderate Brexit/Conservative voters I'd be strawberry floating livid if what you say is the case, i.e. no worthwhile negotiations actually occurring.

That’s the thing though, what worthwhile negotiations can they do? For free trade the EU will not compromise on free movement and Theresa May cannot compromise on that either. The only possibility would be if we paid a big fee to retain free trade, but that is not going to be acceptable to the Leavers.

I expect we will eventually get to a stage where tariffs are agreed and the rights of citizens living in the UK and the EU are sorted out. I doubt that will be happening in the next 2 years though.

Yeah, I agree with your analysis of the situation. I just think that if the Tories hold a leadership contest after winning the election then surely they can no longer pretend (and indeed are no longer pretending) that the Brexit negotiations are of primary importance. Hasn't May, herself, been saying during her campaigning that the Brexit negotiations are more important to her than the election itself? If I was a Leaver or Tory voter who'd voted based on the promise on getting a good (or better) deal through strong negotiation with the EU, but could see that they were, now, no longer even trying, I would, as I said before, be strawberry floating livid.

[Garth]

twitter.com/paulwaugh/status/872387115715350528

[Moggy]

twitter.com/paulwaugh/status/872387115715350528

Utter bollocks. Grumpy David saw a photo of her on a train and she looked fine to him.

[_/\_YUNGSTAR_/\_]

I heard that if Labour gain power "stupid" will be classed as a long term disability and anyone that votes Labour will get full entitlement.



IT'S A JOKE........

[Cuttooth]

I heard that if Labour gain power "stupid" will be classed as a long term disability and anyone that votes Labour will get full entitlement.



IT'S A JOKE........

Well at least you'll be gracious and not moan about it.

[jiggles]

I heard that if Labour gain power "stupid" will be classed as a long term disability and anyone that votes Labour will get full entitlement.



IT'S A JOKE........

savage

[Hexx]

He's given them some bad press, but unsurprisingly the ES comes out Tory.

twitter.com/George_Osborne/status/872400484648329220

Can't help but think that comment will reflect a lot of people's opinions.

[Moggy]

I heard that if Labour gain power "stupid" will be classed as a long term disability and anyone that votes Labour will get full entitlement.



IT'S A JOKE........

Good news for you then!

[Hypes]

Seems to have been more chaos in the Conservative party over this election

[KK]

Currently sat on a bus filled with Wallington grammar students all discussing politics. Asian and white. All Tories.

[Hypes]

I heard that if Labour gain power "stupid" will be classed as a long term disability and anyone that votes Labour will get full entitlement.



IT'S A JOKE........

Good news for you then!

No I think he's not voting Labour so he'll have the disability but not the entitlement. Yungstar, so brave

[Tineash]

What a vibrant and diverse press we have.

[DML]

My seat has suddenly had a surge in Labour voters, and now I dont know whether I'm voting them of Lib Dem tomorrow. Both the Tory and Lib Dem candidates are pretty weak, but Portsmouth has never been Labour... No idea what I'm doing.

The YouGov poll has it as a toss up between Lab/Con, but the bookies odds has Labour at 33/1...