Trains, Banks and Public/Private Ownership - Prev.Predict UK Gen.Election Result

[Zanza]

Read that DUP is religious-reactionary and opposes LGBT rights, abortion, is in favor of death penalty, does believe in creationism, doesn't believe in climate change etc. And that's a government party in Britain now? 

Reunite Ireland!

The Republic gets a gay half-Indian prime minister now. I think they moved on.

[Zanza]

May = Angela Merkel 2.0 or a cheap knock-off?

Cheap knock-off. Merkel won three elections and will win a fourth in September. She's back to her pre-immigrant crisis popularity.

[Zanza]

Corbyn is the best Labour campaigner since Attlee right after the war.

[Duque de Bragança]

Read that DUP is religious-reactionary and opposes LGBT rights, abortion, is in favor of death penalty, does believe in creationism, doesn't believe in climate change etc. And that's a government party in Britain now? 

Reunite Ireland!

The Republic gets a gay half-Indian prime minister now. I think they moved on.

More seriously, the reason Ireland is not so interested in Northern Ireland is because Ulster is home to many nutcases, and would be a hindrance, or so I was told by an Irishman. Still those bloody orangists deserve the Garda in Derry.

[Valmy]

From which party did the votes come from? I suspected that the UKIP voters were going back to Labour earlier.

[Duque de Bragança]

May = Angela Merkel 2.0 or a cheap knock-off?

Cheap knock-off. Merkel won three elections and will win a fourth in September. She's back to her pre-immigrant crisis popularity.

Well, I was thinking of Merkel's fine art of waiting out instead of takings decisions, and when she takes ones it's a disaster, but yes elections is a more important criterion though Merkel has the Große Koalition option if she gets a hung parliament.

[fromtia]

From which party did the votes come from? I suspected that the UKIP voters were going back to Labour earlier.

"UKIP lost their permanent seat on Questiontime."

[Valmy]

From which party did the votes come from? I suspected that the UKIP voters were going back to Labour earlier.

"UKIP lost their permanent seat on Questiontime."

Yeah and they clearly did not all go flocking to the Tories given what just happened.

[Zanza]

Rest of world: Don't Brexit it's a bad idea.
UK: Watch this..
Rest of world: Wtf?! Alright, just make sure it's a soft-
UK: HARD BREXIT!
Rest of world: Okay, christ. Just don't make it harder for yourselves.
UK: And we're going to do it without a government!
Rest of world: .. Why do you do what you do?

[Malthus]

Rest of world: Don't Brexit it's a bad idea.
UK: Watch this..
Rest of world: Wtf?! Alright, just make sure it's a soft-
UK: HARD BREXIT!
Rest of world: Okay, christ. Just don't make it harder for yourselves.
UK: And we're going to do it without a government!
Rest of world: .. Why do you do what you do?

The UK joins the US in the "hold my beer and watch this!" country club.

[HVC]

Rest of world: Don't Brexit it's a bad idea.
UK: Watch this..
Rest of world: Wtf?! Alright, just make sure it's a soft-
UK: HARD BREXIT!
Rest of world: Okay, christ. Just don't make it harder for yourselves.
UK: And we're going to do it without a government!
Rest of world: .. Why do you do what you do?

The UK joins the US in the "hold my beer and watch this!" country club.

Maybe the French have been right all along, maybe Anglo's are the bad guys.

[OttoVonBismarck]

The problem with Sanders/Corbyn style bribe policies isn't that they can't win elections, but that many countries have already tried them and had to reform them 20-30 years later. It's weird some people want to ignore that history.

[OttoVonBismarck]

I do generally think, as someone who is right-of-center, that the British left did need some form of identity opposite just being a watered down version of the Tories. The fact that Corbyn's message particularly resonates with young people tells me that the message they've settled on is the wrong one, maybe not at the ballot box, but definitely if they're ever in power again.

[garbon]

The problem with Sanders/Corbyn style bribe policies isn't that they can't win elections, but that many countries have already tried them and had to reform them 20-30 years later. It's weird some people want to ignore that history.

Many people weren't born then?

[viper37]

Around 100 hours to go till the likely result of the UK general election becomes apparent, so what are you predictions for the result?

I'll leave the poll open for the next 12-20 hours to give anyone interested a chance to express their opinion, before I lock it for prosperity.

Because of the practical limited to poll choices, the real world probabilities of some events and the possible confusion in political outcomes if labour does astonishingly well, I've left the last three polling options as non-numeric ones.

NB I've also intentionally left off all the possible Conservative coalitions with smaller parties, as it would be too complicated and it's quite likely a conservative minority government could function with the non-formal support of a handful of N.I. unionists, as has happened in the past.

I picked a minority Conservative government.