Brexit and the waning days of the United Kingdom

[Sheilbh]

They have to drag them politely and not injure them.

(Sounds flippant but it is true)

Also it needs to be a"serious disturbance" - apparently the Met are checking with the NHS and Fire Brigade regularly but they say it doesn't really impact then, so that hasn't been met.

[The Brain]

Can't they just order them to move? And when they don't put 24 rounds in their chests?

[Josquius]

Heh. Channel 4 news interviewing Jeremy hunt.
The interviewer closes with "Jeremy Hunt. The chancellor. Today's chancellor. Thank you"

[Sheilbh]

Truss approval at -61%; Starmer 47 points ahead on best PM. Among people who voted Tory in *2019*, the Tories only have an 11 point lead on Labour (37% v 26%).

Obviously won't happen like this (insert boring methodological caveats) - but plugging those numbers into an election calculator gets you this map:

LAB: 515 (+313)
LDM: 47 (+36)
SNP: 42 (-6)
CON: 22 (-343)
PLC: 4 (=)
GRN: 1 (=)

Labour Majority of 380.

With a 15 point Labour lead, the Tories are reduced to under 150 seats. But current polling is even worse and looking far more like a 1993 Canadian style rout.

[Josquius]

BRB. Gotta masturbate over a photo of thatchers grave.

[PJL]

The map is incorrect, the Tories would only have 21 seats, as the independent candidate (Claire Wright) is forecast to win in East Devon if she stood again.

[The Larch]

GRN?

[Sheilbh]

GRN?

Greens.

[The Larch]

GRN?

Greens.

Brighton remains true. 

And PLC?

[garbon]

GRN?

Greens.

Brighton remains true. 

And PLC?

Plaid Cymru

[The Larch]

GRN?

Greens.

Brighton remains true. 

And PLC?

Plaid Cymru

Just realized it after posting. 

What's the black spot around Manchester  then?

[Sheilbh]

Just realized it after posting. 

What's the black spot around Manchester  then?

The Speaker - Chorley in Lancashire.

Speakers run unopposed by the normal parties (the Greens ignore it and UKIP used to - Farage ran against Bercow in 2010) and aren't a party MP because they're meant to be outside party politics.

[The Larch]

Just realized it after posting. 

What's the black spot around Manchester  then?

The Speaker - Chorley in Lancashire.

Speakers run unopposed by the normal parties (the Greens ignore it and UKIP used to - Farage ran against Bercow in 2010) and aren't a party MP because they're meant to be outside party politics.

Aaah, the weird rule about the speaker, learnt about it back in the day thanks to Jay Foreman.

[OttoVonBismarck]

That map hurts my head, for a country of 60 million? Ya'll need to reduce the number of constituencies by like 200 or more.

[Tonitrus]

If anything, we should should scrap our artificial limit and go back to the original US Constitutional ratio of House Reps per persons.