UK Snap Election: 8 June 2017

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.

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 :slight_smile:

As usual, the Dope is much more interesting than the verbiage on the BBC.

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…

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.

Under what circumstances would May give up the leadership of her party?

OMG … a possible Portillo moment for Amber Rudd

I really don’t think she’s liking being PM as much as she thought she would.

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.

I suspect the party will take it from her regardless of her ideas on the matter.

There’s not too many seats declare before 2am BST, and the floodgates open at about 3am

Yes. The Tories have a reputation for being ruthless.

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.

Imagine a minority Tory administration holding the threat of letting the clock run out on the Brexit talks.

Whoa! SNP’s former leader Alex Salmond might have more time for fishing. Very soon.

Maybe David Davis?

At this rate Ruth Davidson …

3-0 to Labour now, doesn’t the mercy rule kick in at 9-0 or something?

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.