possible december 2019 election

[WreckTangle]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50221556

well, you heard it, we will be having another election, In we can vote between beano boris or comrade corbin, what are your thoughts?
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[bhinso]

"Mr Corbyn said Labour would back any moves by MPs to give 16 and 17-year olds and EU nationals with settled status the right to vote."

Can't think why.
Why not just allow Remainers and members of Extinction Rebellion to vote?

Also, I don't get this Liberal/SRP view that it should be held a few days earlier. Sounds a bit puerile.

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[stinkwheel]

There's not a general election until there's a general election. In the same was as there hasn't been a Brexit.
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[bhinso]

Apparently Dianne Abbot told Labour MP's who didn't want an election Tits or GTFO.

Or something like that.

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Corbyn is pushing for 16/17 year olds and EU citizens to get a vote.
It all makes sense now.

I didn't think he'd fancy a fair election.
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[Im-a-Ridah]

I disagree with lowering the voting age to 16 but only because it is a cynical policy by those who expect to receive their vote. It would be like saying that after people die they should be able to put in their will how they want their final vote to be cast. People can argue that 18 is an arbitrary number, and it is, but so is 16. 13 sounds far more reasonble to me as a voting age than 16, if we are going to move it because then they get to grow up voting.

[Easy-X]

Go for it! Let 16 year olds vote. They won't turn up so what odds does it make?

The bit about EU citizens is laughable! "I work here so I should get a vote!" By that reasoning I should get a vote in both constituencies I live and work in. Ooooh! Maybe a partial vote in some London elections too as I work up town from time to time

No, the only solid vote Labour have is from greasing the palms of the Imans although I'm sure Tory candidates do the same down the local synagogue
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I really hate to say it and I never thought it would come to this, but to settle the EU question I think I'd prefer a "confirmatory referendum" to a general election. A GE is about more than a single issue so the waters are going to be muddied; and are we likely to emerge in January with a similar-ish and still indecisive Parliament? I'm not sure I could put Farage's single-issue party into wider power even if I agreed with their Brexit stance.

I think a confirmatory referendum would still be close, and then there's the question of whether to address the criticisms of the first one, i.e. should have had a minimum turnout [65%?], a greater than [60%?] majority to pass, and how to phrase the question?

Three years of the media battering Leavers might have suppressed the Leave vote though. We'd be left only with the consolation of mocking Remainers when the EU is seen to have either sown the seeds of its own destruction or become a tyrannical empire.

[Hawkeye1250FA]

Couldnt give two figs what the voting age is.

Leave would still win a second vote.
Labour will still be obliterated in a GE.
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[Im-a-Ridah]

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Isnt Bercow on his bike this Thursday? An amendment should be brought to change the law on an election so that if the turnout is less than 75% then the parties should change their manifestos and have another until the voters either care or believe democracy will prevail. After the election if the winning party doesnt carry out its manifesto pledges within a set period another election takes place and this carries on until these betrayers of democracy, that people died to preserve, get the message that we wont stand it anymore.
Of course this wont happen. I'm never voting again, spoiling a ballot paper on principal or anything, it just isnt worth the effort of going to the polling station.
True democracy is dead. roll on the revolution.

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[Sister Sledge]

Where is Farage and his party in all of this? Will he be putting people forward or is it too late to get them together?

I think Boris will win over Corbyn.
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