OT. The futures Bright, the Futures Brexit!!!

[MadAmster]

...as long as elections don't end up "hung" and requiring a coalition of 5 parties to form a government and the coalition negotiations taking as much as 8 or 9 months before a new government is formed as happens frequently in the Netherlands and Belgium.

[Geoff Parkstone]

...as long as elections don't end up "hung" and requiring a coalition of 5 parties to form a government and the coalition negotiations taking as much as 8 or 9 months before a new government is formed as happens frequently in the Netherlands and Belgium.

they will be

[ramAnag]

Okay fair points.. I think centralist politics will be a thing of the past for a long time. I have never had a 'home' in politics, I have voted Conservative, Liberal and Labour.. Honestly I could not vote for any of them now. Maybe a new party will develop from the ashes?
Your comments about the Tories and the ERG could equally be aimed at Corbyn and the mess he looks after.

I have no time for any of the so called party leaders.

Politics will become a social media battle ground, much like we have today. Everyone's an expert and there is so much misinformation out there now. The big social media platforms know everything about you and tailor you reading input to match your views. Dangerous ground IMO.

We as a society need to find a way to manage social media, it's polarising everyone. I don't do Facebook, rarely go on Twitter but do like some forums.

Home on Saturday afternoon... Will have to watch Cardiff on the iPad.

Well I’ve never voted Tory and have to say, that now seems further away than ever.

As far as everything else goes in that last post - and this is unusual - I wholeheartedly agree with you on virtually all of it.

Now...can we send Johnson and Lord Snooty up to Scotland and have them locked up please?

[AngryRam]

Well I’ve never voted Tory and have to say, that now seems further away than ever.

As far as everything else goes in that last post - and this is unusual - I wholeheartedly agree with you on virtually all of it.

Now...can we send Johnson and Lord Snooty up to Scotland and have them locked up please?

You should try voting tory.. Will make you feel all warm and fuzzy.
Not sure how this scottish thing pans out. The high court in London are still sayings it's political, so nothing to do with them. Will just mean appeals I suppose and more money wasted. They will probably be back before it's sorted.

[Geoff Parkstone]

"You still didnt answer my question though? How do you see UK politics going forward if we stay?"

My view is mostly encapsulated in the post a couple back, but here's my dystopian vision of the future. I would say that, unless we get a centrist alliance created by a massively hung parliament, we had better get used to going to vote rather more frequently than every 5 years. This will happen if we remain or (less likely if we leave, as there are disgruntled elements in both of the major parties.

So out of 650 seats I would expect to see (if we remain)

Speaker 1
Scotch Malcontents 42
Welsh Malcontents 6
Irish Loyalists 10
Irish Malcontents 7
Green 15
Brexit 150 (ie leavers)
Labour 110 (squeezed as took no stance)
Tory 130 (split as root cause of problem)
LibDem (inc change) 175 (ie remainers)
Independents 4

If we leave then there wont be so many remain/leaver extremes, but we could have a centrist party ("party of national recovery") with perhaps 200-250 MP's opposed by polarised left and right wings in Tory and Labour hardcore areas. Brexiteers may return to their core homes on either the right or left, and remainers, renamed rejoiners, will coalesce around a green/LibDem alliance (and keep demanding another referendum on rejoining).

The Scotch self interest group will be after a further referendum on independence and want to rejoin the EU as a free standing quasi eastern european type of country, using the "Scrote" as its currency. It will pitch its tent wherever it can negotiate a 4th, 5th, 6th independence vote until everyone is sufficiently bored with it and will finally say "go". The Irish will start fighting each other again, and the Welsh, as usual, will lack relevance apart from in the Commons rugby team.

The House of Lords, suddenly thinking it might be relevant again, will sit and wait for planned legislation to be referred to it, and will not receive anything to vote on because the commons wont be able to agree on any. With no EU mandated legislation coming forth it will disband, recognising its own redundancy about 150 years too late.

[Trickytreesreds]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQaz7iMvEfE

[AngryRam]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQaz7iMvEfE

PMSL People have too much time on their hands.. Quite fancy Nicola now, nice body.

[AdiSalisbury]

Pot, kettle, black

[swaledale]

Pot, kettle, black

Indeed applicable to you which as close to a sentient comment as you have posted in this thread!

[ramAnag]

‘A Tory/Brexit alliance would romp it’. Really?

So why don’t you/they want a second Referendum?