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Anja Fri 07-Dec-18 13:04:07

Theresa May will lose the vote on Tuesday.

Do you agree?

And then what will happen next........let’s see whose prediction is the closest. Perhaps let this thread run about 2 weeks and see who got it right, or nearly right.

Declare a winner just before Christmas.

Over to you ?

Jane10 Fri 07-Dec-18 18:30:32

DH thinks this next vote will fail but there'll be another one which will just squeak through due to lackof/fear of alternatives.

Nicenanny3 Fri 07-Dec-18 17:53:25

She will lose the vote, if she doesn't cancel it first. There will be no general election because of the fixed term. If there is not a no confidence vote against her she's so pigheaded and deluded she will just carry on and try and get an amendment to the backstop etc from the EU if they won't budge we will leave on WTO terms next year ZIPPEE ? and she will carry on until the next general election is due unfortunately.

GrannyGravy13 Fri 07-Dec-18 17:49:29

If JC and his cronies get in I shall seriously consider moving abroad, to a non EU Country obviously!!!

Day6 Fri 07-Dec-18 17:41:51

I predict the Conservative party has well and truly cooked it's goose.

It's a gift for the communists, hard left, anarchists, anti-establishment brigade, blinkered students and Marxist Labour party. They must be gleeful.

All those who say "Oh I could never vote Tory" have the above, led by Jeremy Corbyn, as an option.

It really brings it home that we only have two options, Conservative or Labour. A political see-saw.

Corbyn to be PM - and power once again handed to him by Theresa May. Ye Gods.

The EU and a Labour government. Deep joy - not. TM has sold the voting public, and the UK, down the river.

Democracy is dead.

Maggiemaybe Fri 07-Dec-18 17:30:16

I predict that TM will lose next week’s vote, she’ll go shortly afterwards, the unctuous Michael Gove will smarm his way to the top job (God help us), and we’ll have a cliff edge Brexit.

And I might just take to my bed and pull the covers over my head.

Jane10 Fri 07-Dec-18 17:01:49

'Right minded'? That always means 'people who agree with the person who said right minded'!
Theresa won't run away. I bet she wishes she could though.

maryeliza54 Fri 07-Dec-18 16:56:26

Well I’d like the Tories to get in because obvs they are utterly wonderful and not scary at all

kittylester Fri 07-Dec-18 16:54:47

cherrytree, I do wish you hadn't done that!! tchgrin

kittylester Fri 07-Dec-18 16:52:50

I predict more bad feeling every where.

Labour are really scary (especially John MacDonnell, as marmight said) but I suspect they will have to get in so the people who think they are our best bet can see the absolute mess they will make of the job.

paddyann Fri 07-Dec-18 16:47:58

why would any right minded ..and I dont mean right wing person vote for the tories.They are destroying lives on a daily basis all while their cohorts get richer by the minute.When the crash happened the richest had about 100billion now its 700 billion.What does that tell you about austerity? Its NOT a necessity its ideological made to punish the poor and reward the rich.There was a tory just last week who said bring on another crash ,its a license to print money .Meantime there are people who will have no income over christmas because of UC and 130.000 children in homeless units .Doing a great job eh those pillars of the community/tory crooks and clowns

maryeliza54 Fri 07-Dec-18 16:46:25

Jolly comforting to know that the Tories are not at all dogmatic and completely openinded re welfare benefits, fairer taxation and improving public services

maryeliza54 Fri 07-Dec-18 16:43:10

I predict she will lose the vote. After that I think I will just run away

Nonnie Fri 07-Dec-18 16:31:03

I find it hard to understand how TM can keep saying the same old, same old unless she has something tucked up her sleeve we don't have a clue about. Hasn't it been made abundantly clear to her that she will lose the vote? Someone suggested bribery and I don't want to believe it but how can she think she will win? How can JC think he could do something different? It all seems so obvious to me but not to them, maybe I am too stupid to get it. The EU hold all the cards, why isn't that obvious? They are only doing what we would do in the same circumstances.

notanan2 Fri 07-Dec-18 16:12:57

(In practice that'll prob mean voting cons back in. I am not particularly a cons fan but it would be necessary IMO to keep the scary dogmatic labour party out)

Day6 Fri 07-Dec-18 16:12:53

I suspect all Remainers in Parliament will pass this deal - one in which our Prime Minister showed her Remainer colours and betrayed the British public.

It will appeal to Remainer MPs and those who can be bribed by future roles/jobs/honours will ensure enough self-serving politicians will delight in locking the handcuffs which bind us to Brussels.

They do of course have to throw away the key as well.

The EU have said take it or leave it. Federal Europe here we come. angry

notanan2 Fri 07-Dec-18 16:09:20

I will vote for pretty much anyone else to keep labour OUT they are scary at the mo!
I dont think I am alone. I will tactically vote against them even if that means voting for someone I usually wouldnt vote for.
Sincerely, an ex labour voter.

Opal Fri 07-Dec-18 16:07:11

Dear God, please don't let the far left Labourites get in, even a no deal would be better than that for the country. Jeez …

nigglynellie Fri 07-Dec-18 15:58:01

Cameron is the most appalling coward/completely arrogant fool that ever set foot in the H of C. Setting up a referendum without proper guidelines, a ballot paper where only one answer could be given as the alternative was impossible, then, having created a load of shite, running for the hills, and now criticising Mrs May, who had to pick up this shite and who has more courage in her little finger than that oaf has in the whole of his miserable body, for not doing her job properly!! Frankly he needs putting in the Tower for treason! Awful, awful man!

nigglynellie Fri 07-Dec-18 15:47:08

What on earth would a G.E solve?! Unless of course labour have got a secret deal running with the EU! As it appears, the EU are not prepared to negotiate any further with the UK, so whoever goes to Brussels will, it would seem, be told to ' go away!' which will resolve precisely nothing!!
Why does everyone call another referendum a people's vote? Is it to appear folksy, cosy and all inclusive? A bit like 'call me Dave' or is the word referendum deemed too difficult for the ignorant homophobic, IQ deficient brexiteers to understand? Personally I find dumbing it down pretty patronising!
As DH said, (frivolously) Come back Guy Fawkes, all is forgiven!!

Chewbacca Fri 07-Dec-18 15:44:28

Cameron isn't ashamed Marmight. If he had felt any shame, he'd have apologised for what he's done months or years ago. He hasn't. He's only criticised how TM for how she's dealt with the pile of shit he left her with. angry

Marmight Fri 07-Dec-18 15:32:19

We'll eventually remain, but when? as will TM - for a while. No one wants her job, even JC, for all his blustering, so long as that ghastly McDonnell man doesn't get his foot in the door. I see more troubled times ahead. What a bl***y shambles. Cameron should be ashamed ....

MiniMoon Fri 07-Dec-18 15:00:22

Has JC laid out his plan for Brexit? He doesn't like TM's deal, so what would his party like to see done? Does he have an answer to the NI backstop problem?
I think that TM will win, but I wouldn't like to bet on it.

loopyloo Fri 07-Dec-18 14:58:53

By Christmas 2019 please or even 2020.

loopyloo Fri 07-Dec-18 14:57:37

I think things will be modified before the vote. I don't think TM can afford a cataclysmic loss. Somehow the can will be kicked down the road. I think we will end up with a Norway type agreement.

lemongrove Fri 07-Dec-18 14:52:45

Well, so far we have had every possibility there is! grin
I think that May’s deal should be accepted by the House,
But have no conviction that it will be.
Since a GE election would solve nothing, can’t see that as an outcome.