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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: HAPPY2BME on June 09, 2017, 08:17:22 AM
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TURNING THE AIR BLUE BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg drops the C-bomb while discussing Theresa May’s disastrous general election result
BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg suffered an X-rated slip of the tongue last night when she accidentally dropped the C-bomb live on air during coverage of the General Election.
While discussing Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron’s seat she said he faced potential defeat, adding: “There’s chatter there about a re-c***.”
A third scoffed: “Laura Kuenssberg just said the word ‘c***’ on air when she probably meant ‘count’. Oh dear.”
While one tired viewer appeared to sum up the mood of many by pointing out: “When Laura Kuenssberg says c*** during the election broadcast you know it’s time to sleep.”
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/3761062/laura-kuenssberg-drops-cbomb-general-election-coverage/
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May's UK election gamble backfires as Tories lose majority
LONDON (June 9, 2017) — Spectacularly punished by voters who took away her majority in Parliament, a politically wounded Theresa May sought to soldier on Friday as Britain’s prime minister, resisting pressure to resign after the failure of her high-stakes election gamble made the massive challenge of untangling Britain from the European Union only more complex and uncertain.
With 649 of 650 seats in the House of Commons declared, May’s bruised Conservatives had 318 — short of the 326 they needed for an outright majority and well down from the 330 seats they had before May’s roll of the electoral dice.
May’s best lifeline appeared to be a possible — but also uncertain — deal with a Northern Ireland party that won 10 seats. Democratic Unionist Party leader Arlene Foster told British media that contacts will be made over the weekend. But she added that it would be “difficult for (May) to survive” and that “it is too soon to talk about what we’re going to do.”
In May’s camp, recriminations were immediate and stinging.
“This is a very bad moment for the Conservative Party, and we need to take stock,” Conservative lawmaker Anna Soubry said. “Our leader needs to take stock as well.”
The biggest winner was Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Labour’s increase in seats from 229 to 261 — with one seat still undecided — confounded expectations that his left-wing views made him electorally toxic.
https://www.onenewsnow.com/ap/world/mays-uk-election-gamble-backfires-as-tories-lose-majority
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UK Headed for Hung Parliament
Polls closed at 10 pm Thursday evening, and seat results have confirmed what was suggested by the official exit poll that Theresa May’s snap election gambit has failed, wiping out her party’s majority and lead. Britain now faces a hung parliament and no clear answer for who will be the Prime Minister in a week’s time.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/06/08/livewire-uk-snap-election-results/
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From the blog ..
Melinda Shreve • 17 hours ago
UK is now a muslim country, and the Monarchy will soon be gone. You let them in, now they will eradicate all non-muslims.
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From everything I have read, Labour also ran under Brexit implementation so it wasn't a factor in the vote.
Also May has enough seats to hold the PM, just not with the level of power she had before.
This is a bit sad but Brexit will continue apace. May might not but for now will.
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Question.
Why is someone who won the elections, getting more seats than any other party, the "loser"?
This is the same linguistic distortion of reality as when the primitives call slowing down the rise of government spending a "cut."
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Question.
Why is someone who won the elections, getting more seats than any other party, the "loser"?
This is the same linguistic distortion of reality as when the primitives call slowing down the rise of government spending a "cut."
She went from being at the head of a majority (Conservative party had over 50%) to a plurality. Losing overall number of seats = losing, especially when you expected to gain some.