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AND HERE WE GO - THE 2019 GENERAL ELECTION THREAD

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didn't see the debate and listening to the replys, i didn't miss owt. Why oh why TV keeps putting lame duck presenters on to host these shows and QT is beyond me.
 
See the Tory Party campaigns twitter account had changed its name to FactCheckUk and is claiming they won the debate and retweeting sycophantic tweets. I wish I could say this was a joke but it is true.

You know if some foreign despot was doing this we'd all think what a sorry state they are in. This is what we have now been reduced to. Embarrassing. See they have changed it back now as I suspect it backfired on them.

Here's what the proper fact checkers had to say.
https://twitter.com/x/status/1196887778736390146
 
Doon frae Troon said:
Of course, a whiff of power and they will be in like Flynn
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Not a direct reply to your post but continuing the discussion...........

Assuming we get another hung parliament and there is no coalition where does that leave us? If we accept that situation the likely result will be Conservatives as the biggest party (with no majority), Labour in 2nd place, SNP 3rd and Lib Dems 4th what happens in terms of moving forward? Do we essentially have a puppet government that can't get any of their policies through parliament? We would then have the possibility of a Remain majority in parliament with Labour (?), SNP and Lib Dem, could they then take control of parliamentary business and bring forward a 2nd referendum against the wishes of the government?
 
Kellfire said:
1-0 Labour from the debate. 2-0 Labour from the attempt to deceive the public by the Tories on Twitter. Pathetic.
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Not sure I’d agree with 1-0 on the debate. If anything a 0-0. Both were poot
harpo_72 said:
They know they can get away with it though.
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Or it’s another ‘dead cat’ to distract from the farce of a debate.
 
Good question there on the ITV Elections Interviews programme. Paraphrasing but...... "If Brexit doesn't happen and we remain then does that blunt the SNP demand for a 2nd independence referendum as their position is based on Scotland being taken out of the EU against its wishes"?
 
Doon frae Troon said:
No, the SNP have 35 MP's the MRLP have none.
Jeez the objections are getting a bit thin and weird.
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What moral right does a party ,that wants to take a region of a country away from the government of that country and form a new country, have to interfere and make any influence on the future of a country that they want to be no part of?
When Scotland is a country ( which it isn't yet as defined by the U N) then it can talk and deal with the United Kingdom on the basis of being a sovereign nation in its own right. Until then they should keep schtum on matters that only concern the Country they no longer wish to be part of. They should only comment on and interest themselves in matters pertaining to the question of the separation of Scotland from the United Kingdom.
 
2blue said:
Crystal ball for sale.... needs some attention.... haha
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Too clever for your own good perhaps?

I have not attempted to use a crystal ball as you put it merely expressed which option I think fulfills the result of the referendum.
 
Average debate with no real time for the leaders to provide detail as they were cut short. The audience was too ‘whoopy whoopy’ for my liking. I didn’t hear anything I’d hadn’t heard before, apart from Labour saying they will negotiate a sensible Brexit deal in three months. If the current government took over two years to get where we are now, I’m missing how Labour will do it in three months?
 
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