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UK General Election - 8th June 2017 |OT| - The Red Wedding

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Emily Thornberry overdosing on smug

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Baleoce

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Call me naive but.. if Tories fall short of an outright majority, and if every party sticks to their word and tells Tories to sod off, Labour should get the first real shot at a coalition? (Also, from the exit polls, not that they're to be trusted as gospel, that seems like quite a large defection from SNP to presumably Labour, I guess it was to be expected).
 
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Do we know how many seats they expect to have and what this means for the majority needed?

4 or 5. If 4, amount needed for majority is 323. If 5, then amount needed for majority is... 323. So no real difference.

Their possible 5 is against an Alliance candidate, who are a Lib Dem sister party and would not go into coalition with anyone. So really, pretty inconsequential.
 

kirblar

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The issue so far is that the tories aren't making overall gains right now.
That's not an "issue", it's a good thing!

I was just pointing out that if that trend is happening in the UK, it's not unique to them- the realignment is happening here too. Clinton aggressively targeted those types of upper/upper-middle-class "Romney Republican" areas in the '16 election and they remain Dem's top pickup opportunities in '18.
 
fuck ken clarke being bough by the the tobacco lobby and other stuff but he's like a benchmark for a tory I don't want to throw up at the sit eof. would love him to finally get an unlikely cameo spell as leader
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twobear

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'Gains' in Chelsea and Kensington doesn't necessarily mean they've gained the seats, no? Just that Labour increased their vote share over 2015.
 
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