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2017-06-09 Britain

Britain's Election Disaster: Tories Lose Majority

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-06-09 03:02|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Maybe, just maybe, if the Tories weren't imitating Labor with respect to Islamic invasion...

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-06-09 05:53|| 2017-06-09 05:53|| Front Page Top

#2 So this Trump's comeuppance, right? Or at least it is bad news for Trump? Or more Russian meddling?

Posted by Bobby 2017-06-09 07:38|| 2017-06-09 07:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Ulster Unionists will give them just a majority.

May's response to the London Bridge attack lost them the election.

Posted by phil_b 2017-06-09 08:39|| 2017-06-09 08:39|| Front Page Top

#4 It could be the remainaics in the Tory party tried to throw the election.
I saw zero campaigning and the campaign management was awful.
Then all the terrorism happened and the response was dismal.
Plus Corbyn ran a Trump style meet the people thing where he went up and down the country. He mainly met activisits BUT they liked it and went out. TMay? Did feck all.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-06-09 08:51|| 2017-06-09 08:51|| Front Page Top

May says she will hold free vote on allowing foxhunting if elected.

I blame ~~footballers~~ Fox hunting.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-06-09 08:55|| 2017-06-09 08:55|| Front Page Top

#6 Kinda like a British Jeb Bush?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-06-09 10:06|| 2017-06-09 10:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Actually, the DUP are right up Pence's street.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-06-09 10:56|| 2017-06-09 10:56|| Front Page Top

#8 London has a Muslim mayor and he's apparently feeling no blowback over the latest attack there. The Brits may be done. They apparently have no will to fight.

Posted by Crusader 2017-06-09 11:15|| 2017-06-09 11:15|| Front Page Top

#9 "May's response to the London Bridge attack lost them the election."

I thought she had a tough response, was that what did her in, or was it too little too late? Or did I misread her response entirely?

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-06-09 12:55|| 2017-06-09 12:55|| Front Page Top

#10 The problem is that the trajectory of the country is not really affected by political events or elections. Brits will not be able to vote themselves out of this trajectory.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2017-06-09 14:55|| 2017-06-09 14:55|| Front Page Top

#11 I paraphrase. She said something like, 'We couldn't have predicted it, and there was nothing we could do to stop it.'

My response was must not have read any Israeli news for the last 10 years.

Posted by phil_b 2017-06-09 15:36|| 2017-06-09 15:36|| Front Page Top

#12 I can understand how Conservatives lost, but I cannot fathom how Labour, after Rotherham, gained seats.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-06-09 16:01|| 2017-06-09 16:01|| Front Page Top

#13 "We couldn't have predicted it, and there was nothing we could do to stop it"

I remember that. It sounds just like typical American political blather that indicates they will do better without taking blame for failure. I guess I underestimated the response that would get.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-06-09 16:03|| 2017-06-09 16:03|| Front Page Top

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