Game of Morons: The UK General Election Thread

We have seen. They can't make the required seat number.

UK's rust belt? What is that, Liverpool to Hull?

So who is left to lead the Tories after they went through three sets of leadership in two years? Anyone out of kindergarten?

Turns out you were wrong!

UKIP leader Paul Nuttall to stand down, ostensibly because they failed to win any seats, possibly because he's realised he's a complete and hopeless cockwomble.

Does UKIP have any official stance on why they still exist?

So, under proportional representation, we'd have got this:

Conservatives 274
Labour 259
Lib Dems 47
SNP 20
UKIP 12
Greens 11
DUP 6
Sinn Fein 5
Plaid 3
SDLP 2
Ulster Unionist 2
Alliance 1
Other 4

Labour almost exactly where they actually are, but Tories down significantly and unable to form a majority even with DUP and UKIP support (despite UKIP gaining a huge number of seats under this system, which favours smaller parties). Labour, on the other hand, might pull off a "left of centre" rainbow coalition with the Lib Dems/SNP/Greens (actually, just the Lib Dems and SNP would put them at the 326 seat mark), which at the moment wouldn't get them a majority.

Farage needs beer money.

Looks like it's a Tory minority propped up by the DUP like I said.

Won't last long.

Now I want to become a British citizen just so I can vote for This Guy.

Looks like Lucifer.e

OK ... so is this right? It takes 326 seats to govern, the Tories have 318, and the DUP are going to ally with them and push them to 328?

But also there's something about Sinn Fein MP's not taking their seats? Does that change the majority threshold or not?

Sinn Fein don't take their seats because it involves am oath of allegiance to the Crown.
It you take that into account, the threshold is 321.

So when you guys gonna call an unbrexit vote? 2018?

So what does DUP get out of this? Some national government experience to put on tgere resume and a bump in spending for Northern Ireland?

They'll hope to soften Brexit a bit too.

Of course, if they got all that they wanted, the death penalty would be back, homosexuality would be banned and schools would be teaching creationism.
Which is why the Tories shouldn't be dealing with them.

This is going into my active vocabulary as of right fucking now

Boris Johnson?

Nevermind.

It appears we have a minority government.

So how fucked are Brexit negotiations? If the DUP extracts Soft Brexit guarantees, what does May have as a stick against the EU? Won't they just run over her?

she has absolutely nothing. she didn't have anything before either. nobody wants a hard brexit because everybody would be damaged by it. but the UK would hurt more, that's for sure. sooo... t'was a pretty dull blade anyway.

i'm rather sure there will be backpedaling. maybe even a second referendum of some kind. this time done right: legally binding and requiring a 2/3rds majority. no internal party fuckery to silence a few backbenchers.

the brits can stop brexit at any time if they wish to. they will lose their privileges in any case.

I'm not sure they can stop Brexit once they've triggered Article 15.

Article 50. Yes. Sure they can. The UK can just say STOP. The EU would have to stop too because without Britain willing to go, it would be like kicking them out. And that's not in any treaty.

Oversimplifying it of course. There's also a Exit Brexit clause in the EU's resolution on the topic. While it's not possible to stop an eventual revocation, the political price will be significant. Probably not as significant as going through with this foolery.

Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Nor should they want to.

God bless Britain for giving us a break from Trump news for almost a full day!

But for real, I swear between following France's election and trying to decipher the various British parties, this is the first time in my life I can ever remember this many Americans paying attention to elections that aren't our own, either on this board or in RL. Seems like the Parliament system requires a lot more teamwork so that one supermajority can't entirely steamroll another.

Also a big win: 72 percent of 18 to 24 yr olds voted on Thursday. I'm glad the kids learned our lessons and while they didn't win, they cut into May's majority so

But at least not terrorists.

How could Irish be terrorists, @Dinner ? They're not Muslim.

Eh... not so fast.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Resistance