UK election: Conservatives lose majority
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#2I hope the influence of the DUP in Belfast will at least put us on a footing to get immigration and borders sorted more quickly. Those factors will have the greatest effect on tech companies.
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#3I'm curious what the under-30s turnout is. I'm hoping this will inspire younger people & encourage them to engage more in politics.
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#4I'm hoping this puts a dampener or even better kills the May-driven Conservative manifesto pledge to "create a new internet".
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#5The result is quite ironic. It was supposed to be a 'bloodbath' for the conservatives and the extreme right. It looks like the left/hard left got the young out to vote.
This is largely a vote against austerity and possibly also against globalisation. I would hope that this also translates to a more moderate brexit.
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#6I'm curious what the under-30s turnout is. I'm hoping this will inspire younger people & encourage them to engage more in politics.
Hearing figures around 72%.
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#7Not familiar with hung parliaments in the UK - normally there would be new elections if a majority government can't be formed - correct?
So if LibDem/DUP and others refuse to even passively back either Labour or Conservatives then what?
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#8What does this mean for Brexit? If Theresa May is kicked out, can/will it be declawed? Can it be reversed?
Also, can someone explain to me the steps by which parties in Britain create coalitions (or whatever) and then put a new PM in place? I'm an American, so any reference to American politics is super helpful.
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#9To me it demonstrates the mastery of the ruling class at strategy. Just the ticket when you plan to want to rule something as complicated as a country!
Seriously, I'm completely apolitical, but this one is probably one of the worst strategic blunder, ever. Oh, perhaps that and Cameron's brexit gamble.
And it feels exactly like that; they are just gambling with the future of the country, repeatedly, with just petty objectives and personal power in play.
And it's on pretty much every sides of the political landscape, it's feels to me (as an adult) like a watching a gang of 10 years old all trying to pull on a rag, only difference being that we live on the rag :-)
Ok, rambling over. it's friday! :-)
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#10Man, it's been a bad time for Conservative mandates, hasn't it? Wasn't the Brexit vote set up by a Conservative prime minister to prove that Britain wanted to remain in the EU?