Another Election This Autumn?

[Georgiesmum]

Ive heard people saying they expect we will have another election this Autumn. Do you think this is likely to happen?

[-Talbot-]

The latter is based on a few meetings that happened 20+ years ago, and Corbyn never gave them any political power.



A few meetings?
You state that as if it were fact ... how do you know it was 'a few' Krom?

If it were within Corbyn's capacity do you think he would or wouldn't have given them power?

[vulcan42]

I take it then that if Jeremy Corbyn wins this next election and it's another hung parliament, labour supporters will be quite happy for him to form an alliance with Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA?

[scooping]

Think May's in so much do-do that she could be gone at any moment. Sky this morning says Boris sounding out colleagues. A little too brazen and too early methinks. David Davis/ Boris, Leadsom, Patrick Mercer and Anna Soubry clearly the ones to watch. Soubry would be interesting because she's a remainer, untainted by high office and personable. It would be a move to the centre.

[Jackdaw33]

David Davis for me. Honest, straightforward, plain-speaking.

[Togo]

Two problems then. May is now dead "man" walking and the majority has gone. Easy, find a way to make Nigel leader of the Conservatives then call the election. Majority of 60 before Christmas. :))
Stranger things have happened.

[Hopkirk]

Anna Soubry wouldn't allow Brexit, so civil war of sorts would break out

[Cloverjo]

Please, not Boris as PM. A few months ago it seemed ludicrous that we might have Trump as POTUS and Boris as PM. If that actually happens I'll feel as if I've gone through some kind of weird looking-glass, like Alice.

[Bigbad]

Not Anna Soubry! That woman has done nothing but whinge, whine, complain and moan since Brexit.

[-Talbot-]

Jackdaw33
David Davis for me. Honest, straightforward, plain-speaking.



Isn't he one of the few Tories who voted to let jihadists back in the country?

[Cloverjo]

Just seen this on Twitter.

Tory minister on #r4today says they will have a vote on reducing time limits on abortion in exchange for DUP support.

I don't want to start an argument about abortion here, but this is horrendous, if it's true.

[-Talbot-]

Good post, Vulcan ... and of course they would.

[dannyk13]

Was there a vote on that?

[Kromovaracun]

"labour supporters will be quite happy for him to form an alliance with Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA?"

Er, no. Why would you think that? :/

God the desperation of Conservatives to drag this back to some trivial meetings Corbyn had decades ago to smoke over what their party is doing is breathtaking.

[scooping]

Don't agree that Soubry 'would not allow' Brexit. But, yes, she could frustrate, delay and water-down the process. But can 't see how they could move to the right. They've got to reach the centre. Then people like Soubry might well be in prime position.

[-Talbot-]

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/277578/Factsheet_15_Deprivation.pdf

[Old_Geezer]

Yeah right Vulcan. He can come to an arrangement with whatever party he likes, but even he has more sense than align with them; with the consequence of the Liberals taking over from Labour as one of the two main parties in the future.

[-Talbot-]

http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2014-05-07&number=266&display=allvotes&sort=name

[Kromovaracun]

Talbot

A few is all that has ever been alleged. Corbyn invited SF to parliament once, and was photographed doing so again in the 90s. All that's ever been said about his contact is that he did it a few times.

And yeah he definitely would have given SF power if he could. That would not be in his power even if he were pM though, so if he won then we'd have a PM with republican sympathies who couldn't do anything. Can't say that terrifies me.

This deal with the DUP however could seriously destabilise NI because there is a significant risknof returning to direct rule and it destroys the govt's claims to be impartial in a way that some stupid opinions 20 years ago never could.

[Old_Geezer]

Kromovaracun, Vulcan seems to be implying the DUP is the political mouthpiece of the Unionist terrorists as much as SF is the political mouthpiece of the Nationalist terrorists, so if it is ok to ask for support of one it must be ok to ask for support of the other.

[Old_Geezer]

No one would agree to something that is likely to return the troubles to the area. A change in the present situation is a long way (probably many generations) off.