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In reply to the discussion: UK Labour leadership: Corbyn awaits election result [View all]T_i_B
(14,749 posts)3. Snap election yes, but for different reasons
So she can smash Labour on a pro-leaving the EU platform and then shit on everyone who got her where she is with a landslide majority. Theresa May or may not decide to screw the anti EU fanatics then. Personally I suspect that we'll only pull back once it becomes blatantly obvious that it's causing serious economic damage.
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Nobody in the Conservative Party is looking over their shoulder for Jeremy Corbyn
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Sep 2016
#20
Labour isn't going to split. They will stay together and deal with the next election,
StevieM
Sep 2016
#9
You can still topple a parliamentary government with a non-confidence vote
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Sep 2016
#21
I can't see May losing a no confidence vote. That would mean Conservative MPs voting to topple her.
StevieM
Sep 2016
#23
Right, the British have been voting Conservative for lack of an ineffectual communist alternative
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Sep 2016
#29