UK General Election 8th June: Shake it all about?

[Junkenstein]

I think I've run the well dry on the candidate. Awkward questions and responses from everything from first past the post to a reliance on the collapse of ukip and the subsequent hope racists prefer her. Will type up highlights if anyone wants a laugh.

[Junkenstein]

Tory candidate charged.

In other news, the conservative slogans look to be increasingly written by Murdoch. "Magic money tree" kept getting used and that's the cover image and text on today's sun.

[Cain]

Well, a magic money tree is the only way to explain how the Tories are going to plug a £750 million deficit in NHS funding.

[Vanadium Gryllz]

It does seem odd that the Tories' latest strategy seems to be attacking costings when their manifesto was the only (?) one uncosted.

[Cain]

Well, UKIP's is also uncosted, but to be fair, that's because Paul Nuttall lost the data at Hillsborough.

[Vanadium Gryllz]

ONE MORE DAY.

Everyone ready for a round of crippling depression on Friday as we wake up to increased Conservative majority?

[P3nT4gR4m]

ONE MORE DAY.

Everyone ready for a round of crippling depression on Friday as we wake up to increased Conservative majority?

If you're actually getting depressed over any shitty tv soap opera, my advice is to seek professional help

[Vanadium Gryllz]

ONE MORE DAY.

Everyone ready for a round of crippling depression on Friday as we wake up to increased Conservative majority?

If you're actually getting depressed over any shitty tv soap opera, my advice is to seek professional help

Fair point.

s/crippling depression/horrormirth and medication

[Vanadium Gryllz]

Exit poll suggests hung parliament.

You were right about the reality tv.

[P3nT4gR4m]

I always liked the sound of that, "Hung parliament". Unfortunately the reality failed to meet expectation. Zombie Thatcher at the end of a rope would look fucking sweet right about now.

[Cain]

Yup, exit polls show Tories being 12 short of an absolute majority.  However, it would require a Labour-SNP-Lib Dem and Green Party or Plaid Crymu pact to ensure more votes than the Tories would have under those projections.

On the plus side, hopefully the Tory backbenchers will ritually disembowel May for ruining their majority.  At the very least, history will judge her as the PM who decided to unnecessarily lead the UK into EU negotiations with a hung parliament.  That judgement will likely be as harsh as the one Cameron will have, when people start looking back to determine who fucked this all up.

[Faust]

And meanwhile the clock continues to tick. Strong and stable results this evening. An outright loss would have been better for her historically, rejected outright by the populace would have in a way decisevely got her off the hook instead of this halfhearted effort.

[Junkenstein]

Clegg gone, Salmond gone, May talking coalition with DUP.

Current argument seems to be about who rings the EU to delay negotiations till the 3rd of never.

[Cain]

I thought the DUP previously said that May would have to stand down?

This is ridiculous.  PM says "I need mandate to go to Europe", proceeds to piss away a 20 point lead and has to enter into a power sharing arrangement with another party to avoid rule by minority government, but still refuses to step down.  By any metric, while the Labour Party didn't win the election the Tories certainly lost.

The backbenchers are going to murder her.  It'll only take a few Tory rebels to bring this house of cards crashing down, and after the last month, I suspect there is more than a few who want May gone.

[Junkenstein]

It gets funnier, Murdoch reported to be "fucking livid" and stormed out of an election party after the vote numbers came in.

Various people in all parties calling for may to go. 50/50 there, she's deluded enough to take this as a win.