General Election....

[ToraToraTora]

....lefties all having wet dreams again. Granted we are in a hole, which is why we won't be having an election. Would you call a contest unless you had the best chance of winning? Next election will be Autumn 2024. Shortly after which the hard of rithmetic will realise that Labour did in fact need the largest swing in history to overturn the Tory majority and the PM is still the PM. Who will you choose after Rodders goes?

[Untitled]

they might be persuaded to call an election if they think they would lose less badly than they might lose next year

i would not do it if i was tory leader but it is not inconceivable

[Hymie]

Well if the Tories want to win the next general election – my advice would be to stop digging.

[bednobs]

do you have a link lol

[gulliver1]

17.24 Do you have a spade ?

[MrsCheese]

No such thing and left or right now, all political parties singing off the same hymn sheet, two cheeks of the same ***.

[bazwillrun]

"Sorry just realised I am on a hackers thread ..I'm out of here ..Bye"

you havent got a clue, have you...do you even know what hacking means ?...nah, didnt think so...

[Gromit]

Sunak is not stupid. May tried a snap election because she had inherited a small majority and it backfired and she ended up with no majority and at the mercy of each looney faction. She was fighting revolts and rebellions until she had to jack it in.
The narrative that every will be shít in 20 months ignore the fact that things ain’t great now.

[ichkeria]

“Shortly after which the hard of rithmetic will realise that Labour did in fact need the largest swing in history to overturn the Tory majority and the PM is still the PM.”

You are predicting the tories will still be the largest party after an election?
Maybe, but that’s the only conceivable way Sunak could stay in office.
And just now it seems unlikely

[Untitled]

“ Would you call a contest unless you had the best chance of winning? ”

this is exactly why the fixed term parliament act was a good idea… it is absurd that the uk government can now control the timing of an election to its advantage

[ToraToraTora]

untitled: "it is absurd that the uk government can now control the timing of an election to its advantage " - it's not a new thing, it's been that way for ever except from 2011 to 22. Brought in as one of the Lib Non Dems' conditions for getting into bed with Cameron.

[ToraToraTora]

Yes I think that's right gromit.

[Old_Geezer]

Fixed terms were a ridiculous idea. We were governed to a date rather than well for the long term. Plus there was inevitably less stability. One would normally be astounded that parliament could have been so foolish, then one recalls the ludicrous legislation they've passed of late. Still no doubt they will eventually put the motorways back to a safe state, and tell all the motorised scooters users/owners that the mock trial has obviously failed and ban them from public places. But will they compensate the abused taxpayer whose public money they squandered ?

[Togo]

Who says it is Sunak will be leading the partygate party I have just put a youtube video up on the Boris resignation thread. Guess what ... the deputy chair of the committee, Bernard Jenkins, apparently attended a birthday party during lockdown and knew it but concealed it from the house and committee. The process is rotten.