UK Parliamentary General Election 8th June 2017

[Tamas]

Funny thing is, during the election, May loved to say (and very rightly so) that Labour thought there's a "magic money tree" where the money for their planned spending would be coming from.

Then as it turns out, she can easily pull a billion extra pounds down from that tree when her own survival is at stake.

[Zanza]

The £1 billion Theresa May spent on votes of ten Ulster MPs could have replaced all flammable cladding on country's high flats – twice

Ouch

[Tamas]

When your entire political message is about the need to reduce public spending, suddenly spending a billion pounds on your own political survival is controversial, to say the least.

Just like how the American political cast fumbled Trump into th presidency, do will glaring Tory ineptitude and recklessness will put a communist useful idiot into No.10

[garbon]

Entire?

Anyway, your last two posts are basically the same post.

[crazy canuck]

Funny thing is, during the election, May loved to say (and very rightly so) that Labour thought there's a "magic money tree" where the money for their planned spending would be coming from.

Then as it turns out, she can easily pull a billion extra pounds down from that tree when her own survival is at stake.

Something similar is happening here in BC.  The right of centre government lost its majority in a recent election and in an effort to put off a non confidence vote they started promising all kinds of spending initiatives which they said could not be afforded during the election.  All for naught, as they are going to lose a confidence vote - likely tomorrow.

[Gups]

While it looks pretty grubby, I'm really not sure what choice there was. Nobody wants another election; no other party is offering to support the Tories; no other coalition is possible.

£1bn over two years is chicken feed really in the scheme of things.

[mongers]

While it looks pretty grubby, I'm really not sure what choice there was. Nobody wants another election; no other party is offering to support the Tories; no other coalition is possible.

£1bn over two years is chicken feed really in the scheme of things.

Well a £1,000 million political bribe on top of an unnecessary £130 million pound election, seems a big bill for the country to pay for someone's vanity project and desire for political power.

If she's shown such disastrous political skills and choice on those two matters, what other terrible decisions might she make on another key decision? 

[Valmy]

Georges Pompidou's vanity project cost about that. But at least France got a weird looking museum out of the deal.

[garbon]

Georges Pompidou's vanity project cost about that. But at least France got a weird looking museum out of the deal.

If by weird looking, you mean butt ugly.

[Richard Hakluyt]

While it looks pretty grubby, I'm really not sure what choice there was. Nobody wants another election; no other party is offering to support the Tories; no other coalition is possible.

£1bn over two years is chicken feed really in the scheme of things.

Well a £1,000 million political bribe on top of an unnecessary £130 million pound election, seems a big bill for the country to pay for someone's vanity project and desire for political power.

If she's shown such disastrous political skills and choice on those two matters, what other terrible decisions might she make on another key decision? 

The government is pretty terrible for sure. Which is another reason for marveling at Labour's inability to beat them at the election.

King Arthur's return from Avalon must be imminent 

[Crazy_Ivan80]

While it looks pretty grubby, I'm really not sure what choice there was. Nobody wants another election; no other party is offering to support the Tories; no other coalition is possible.

£1bn over two years is chicken feed really in the scheme of things.

Well a £1,000 million political bribe on top of an unnecessary £130 million pound election, seems a big bill for the country to pay for someone's vanity project and desire for political power.

If she's shown such disastrous political skills and choice on those two matters, what other terrible decisions might she make on another key decision? 

The government is pretty terrible for sure. Which is another reason for marveling at Labour's inability to beat them at the election.

King Arthur's return from Avalon must be imminent 

he'll restore Welsh rule over Britannia for sure.

[Valmy]

I have you know that Labour's performance has basically given every far left wing nut absolute certainty that their victory in the US is imminent. So thanks for that sucky Tories.

[citizen k]

I have you know that Labour's performance has basically given every far left wing nut absolute certainty that their victory in the US is imminent. So thanks for that sucky Tories.

And a new cult of personality is born for the progressive populists.

'Oh, Jeremy Corbyn!': how the Labour chant all started:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4_Yrwb4rh8

Jeremy Corbyn Delivers Inspiring Speech & Crowd Goes Wild!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RsSPOcVcNM

[Tamas]

Didn't Corbyn once again pledged to scrap Trident,mot his fans at Glastonbury? You know, the thing their manifesto said he would keep? He would be such a disaster as PM, trying to enact his lifelong communist dream.

[garbon]

Yes, the manifesto supports it but I believe guardian said final version has language on how nuclear is a last resort measure as opposed to how it is typically an everyday deterrent.