Ot- May calls for election in June.

[mistaram]

ramAnag. Don't think ms Leadsom will be getting much of a post Wasn't she the one who said May wasn't fit to be PM because she didn't have children

[ramAnag]

ramAnag. Don't think ms Leadsom will be getting much of a post Wasn't she the one who said May wasn't fit to be PM because she didn't have children

Think she said that 'having her own children' would make her a better PM than May who apparently can't. She also approves of fox hunting and seems to share Trump's attitude to climate change. Lovely woman.

[swaledale]

So what do we think the result will be?

I reckon somewhere between 20 and 30 majority for the Conservatives which will make May look like a leader who has poor judgement, takes unnecessary gambles and is afraid to debate outside the protected environment of the Commons.

of course if the voting public had any sense they would desert in droves, certainly if Labour had called a referendum that wasn't needed to settle arguments within their own party, promised not have an election then called one 6 months later, refused to debate other candidates in public, overseen a policy which saw a reduction in Police numbers such that in a crisis troops had to be called in to assist, U turned on a major policy in their manifesto AND failed to cost the few policies they had in their manifesto, the right wing media would be ripping them to shreds!!!!

[roger_ramjet]

I can see you are going to be voting Tory then Swale

[mistaram]

Swales Think your about right 30+majority at least Still waiting to here what the cap on care fees is going to be Must be bad if they dare not tell us before election day She was a poor Home Sec and an even worse PM afraid the attacks have saved her Just as the Falklands save Thatcher

[Romanis]

Well it's all in Joe Public's hands now. To borrow a phrase that my friend Captain Obvious would agree with.

[swaledale]

I can see you are going to be voting Tory then Swale

To bloody right Rog, that Theresa May phewwww what a scorcher! Always had a thing about Vicars daughters! Well i went out with one in youth and she stretched the no *** before marriage rule to the limits!!

[Romanis]

To bloody right Rog, that Theresa May phewwww what a scorcher! Always had a thing about Vicars daughters! Well i went out with one in youth and she stretched the no *** before marriage rule to the limits!!

Well I don't think anyone could blame her!

[swaledale]

I think the guy who eventually married her was very lucky!

[KingCharlieGeorge]

I wish you'd let Romanis answer. Your serious answers are always a bit 'intimidating' and you operate on a level that has a higher financial awareness than many, including me.
So...seriously...as someone who understands the numbers but also has the morality - most of the time - of the decent liberal centre left...what do you actually hope that Thursday's outcome will be?

I think you'd accept the need for a fairer society with better public services...so tell us how we do it affordably and fairly and the job's yours.

I wish you wouldn't let Roger convince you so easily. He isn't an economics expert and proves it when he says the Tories have by and large controlled borrowing. They have done no such thing.

They have borrowed £1 TRILLION since 2010 and that was largely connected to QE which went into the pockets of the very wealthy; you know the people who bust the economy in the first place. If they had invested that in UK PLC & public services we would have had a return on our money and paid off at least part of the debt.

Just refer to the link I gave you earlier, which gives you plenty of ammo to answer Roger.