# UK Snap Election: 8 June 2017 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [April 18, 2017, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-snap-election-8-june-2017/784690 "2017-04-18T10:08:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 47
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-snap-election-8-june-2017/784690/923 "2017-06-08T22:22:59Z")
The pound is currently down about 1.4% against the dollar. Could be interesting to see what it does if it is a hung Parliament. ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-snap-election-8-june-2017/784690/924 "2017-06-08T22:26:20Z")
As someone pointed out, the exit poll contained 76 seats that were too close to call - that’s about 12% of the entire Parliament is in the balance. We’re not going to know for hours … probably 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-snap-election-8-june-2017/784690/925 "2017-06-08T22:28:23Z")
As usual, the Dope is much more interesting than the verbiage on the BBC. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-snap-election-8-june-2017/784690/926 "2017-06-08T22:29:17Z")
Hey, if it gets the dollar to parity I’ll figure out a snap vacation. Always wanted to see England in the summer (as opposed to the darkest part of winter.) ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-snap-election-8-june-2017/784690/927 "2017-06-08T22:31:12Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Hey, if it gets the dollar to parity I’ll figure out a snap vacation. Always wanted to see England in the summer (as opposed to the darkest part of winter.) Why not wait for the Brexit negotiation and bring the whole extended family… ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-snap-election-8-june-2017/784690/928 "2017-06-08T22:31:21Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > As usual, the Dope is much more interesting than the verbiage on the BBC. George Osborne and Ed Balls are the studio pundits on ITV. Osborne is actually being quite entertaining. I wonder if he’s regretting his recent career change though. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-snap-election-8-june-2017/784690/929 "2017-06-08T22:32:02Z")
Under what circumstances would May give up the leadership of her party? ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-snap-election-8-june-2017/784690/930 "2017-06-08T22:34:22Z")
OMG … a possible Portillo moment for Amber Rudd ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-snap-election-8-june-2017/784690/931 "2017-06-08T22:35:12Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Under what circumstances would May give up the leadership of her party? I really don’t think she’s liking being PM as much as she thought she would. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-snap-election-8-june-2017/784690/932 "2017-06-08T22:35:51Z")
> [@up\_the\_junction](#): > > Why not wait for the Brexit negotiation and bring the whole extended family… Because I don’t like the in-laws. Good point on the exchange rate, though. Trying to decide whether to listen to the BBC World Service on the way home or if I should just wait until I’m home and fire up the iPlayer on the PS3. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-snap-election-8-june-2017/784690/933 "2017-06-08T22:38:55Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Under what circumstances would May give up the leadership of her party? I suspect the party will take it from her regardless of her ideas on the matter. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-snap-election-8-june-2017/784690/934 "2017-06-08T22:40:27Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Trying to decide whether to listen to the BBC World Service on the way home or if I should just wait until I’m home and fire up the iPlayer on the PS3. There’s not too many seats declare before 2am BST, and the floodgates open at about 3am ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-snap-election-8-june-2017/784690/935 "2017-06-08T22:40:53Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I suspect the party will take it from her regardless of her ideas on the matter. Yes. The Tories have a reputation for being ruthless. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-snap-election-8-june-2017/784690/936 "2017-06-08T22:41:26Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > May will surely have to resign, right? Prime Minister Boris Johnson? > … He and our own lovely Donny Boy could do an awesome TV or online show. Call it something like _All Bluster All The Time_. Maybe they’d have so much fun together with that they’d forget to actually bother to govern and that’d let both countries put somebody useful in charge. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-snap-election-8-june-2017/784690/937 "2017-06-08T22:43:41Z")
Imagine a minority Tory administration holding the threat of letting the clock run out on the Brexit talks. ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-snap-election-8-june-2017/784690/938 "2017-06-08T22:44:05Z")
Whoa! SNP’s former leader Alex Salmond might have more time for fishing. Very soon. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-snap-election-8-june-2017/784690/939 "2017-06-08T22:49:06Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > May will surely have to resign, right? Prime Minister Boris Johnson? Maybe David Davis? ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-snap-election-8-june-2017/784690/940 "2017-06-08T22:52:41Z")
At this rate Ruth Davidson … ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-snap-election-8-june-2017/784690/941 "2017-06-08T22:53:26Z")
3-0 to Labour now, doesn’t the mercy rule kick in at 9-0 or something? ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-snap-election-8-june-2017/784690/942 "2017-06-08T22:54:49Z")
> [@up\_the\_junction](#): > > At this rate Ruth Davidson … A lesbian, Scottish Tory as PM. :eek: This is not Lambs lieing with Lions. It’s Lambs pegging the Lion and running off with his missus. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-snap-election-8-june-2017/784690.md?page=46) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-snap-election-8-june-2017/784690.md?page=48)