Snap UK General Election On 8 June

uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/brexit-five-possible-scenarios-uk-100411294.html

This is an extract from the above article:

2. A softer Brexit
Many will look at Theresa May’s drubbing on Thursday and demand more change over Brexit. There was an 8% swing from Conservatives to Labour in constituencies that voted to remain in last year’s referendum, suggesting her uncompromising stance played a big part in the government’s downfall. But Labour also limited the scale of its losses to the Tories in leave-voting constituencies to just 1% by playing a clever game of fudging its Brexit position. The Liberal Democrats’ loss of seats such as Sheffield Hallam also suggests there is little support in the north for backtracking entirely over Brexit.
If Labour hopes to shift the country’s negotiating stance it needs to tread very carefully, especially if another general election lurks around the corner. One option might be to try to find a way to remain in the single market, with tweaks to EU freedom of movement rules rather than wholesale new immigration controls. This was attempted by David Cameron before the referendum, but British negotiators would be in a much stronger position now to try again.

Some interesting points:

“There was an 8% swing from Conservatives to Labour in constituencies that voted to remain in last year’s referendum, suggesting her uncompromising stance played a big part in the government’s downfall.”

I find the scenario of Tory Leavers voting Labour in revenge for the Brexit vote to be the equivalent of turkeys voting for Christmas when many would probably suffer financially under a Labour government.
In the centenary year of the Bolsheviks seizing power in Russia, the expression “Useful Idiots” usually attributed to Lenin is an apt description of these people if they have indeed voted that way.

“But Labour also limited the scale of its losses to the Tories in leave-voting constituencies to just 1% by playing a clever game of fudging its Brexit position.”

That speaks for itself, the Conservatives failed to hold Labour to account on the specifics of just about everything, not just Brexit.

“The Liberal Democrats’ loss of seats such as Sheffield Hallam also suggests there is little support in the north for backtracking entirely over Brexit.”

Not entirely sure about Sheffield Hallam, I would suggest that was the student vote but there is definitely little appetite for backtracking completely on Brexit up here.

“One option might be to try to find a way to remain in the single market, with tweaks to EU freedom of movement rules rather than wholesale new immigration controls.”

I can hardly see Corbyn and indeed most of the Labour party agreeing to that.

All in all, a complete shambles largely created by an inept Tory campaign, they need to get their fingers out and quickly get their act together on policy and presentation, not just Brexit, as despite all the hype, Corbyn has not triumphed:

www.conservativehome.com/thecolumnists/2017/06/iain-dale-no-corbyn-hasnt-pulled-off-a-triumph-a-defeat-is-a-defeat-is-a-defeat.html

Failure to extract digits will result in the nightmare scenario of a Marxist government full of Labour moderates who will be happy just to remain MP’s.

As the second post on this thread says, “more uncertainty”

So it will be the Tories + DUP. Boy are you guys in for a fun time. Despite stiff opposition Arlene Foster is without doubt the worst party leader in these islands. Financially illiterate,(cash for ash scheme) mired in corruption scandals,somewhere to the right of the Aylatollahs on social issues and a bigot to boot. After a few months of her and her band of nutters (creationists,climate change deniers and paramilitary supporters) parading themselves on national TV Corbyn will be a shoe in for PM when the next election comes around. Enjoy!

Seems her constituents disagree with your assessment as she increased her majority considerably. Wonder if she was one of the counters?

 Of course they agree,dont forget the DUP is the party of the late Ian Paisley,basically Scottish Presbyterians who share their DNA with the Christian right of the USA Republican Party with whom they have a lot in common. Not the kind of people most in the Uk would like doing business with.

adrianc You read the Guardian too much. 

1975 - 67.2% yes vote, 64.6% turnout. 43.4% of electorate.
2016 - 51.9% leave vote, 72.2% turnout. 37.5% of electorate.

My point, however, was that an individual MP is elected for five years at most. That MP is one of 650 people who vote on legislation. Each individual MP has virtually zero impact. B'sides, very few seats are ever a simply binary choice.

That was a big con.   The voting that took place in the '70s was the thin end of the wedge and we were told that it was purely to ease trading with Europe, and we would still make our own laws   Do you think that the public at the time would have agreed to allow Europe to have so much power over us, bearing in mind a lot of the population had fought in WW2 to keep our sovereignity.   I for one was overjoyed with Brexit vote.