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The idea that Labour don't want an election is absurd. They've been demanding one since last year. The only reason they're voting against one now is that Johnso
by OscarCunningham 7y ago
The idea that Labour don't want an election is absurd. They've been demanding one since last year. The only reason they're voting against one now is that Johnson would pull the UK out of the EU whilst Parliament was dissolved. They'll support an election as soon as possible if there's another extension.
- growlist 7y ago...because the extension is a cynical tactic to attempt to hurt the Conservatives' popularity. Suspect either of Corbyn or McDonnell are terminally unpopular with the public though, but they'll roll out their voter fraud tactics as seen many times in the past, so we might end up with them after all. And god help us if that happens.
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoThe Conservative coalition the Fixed Term Parliament Act into being knowing it requires a super majority to end a government early. That was the cynical idiocy. It's broken our parliament. The LibDems, who proposed it, clearly were not thinking at all when they shat that idea out. Why wouldn't every non-Conservative politician, including Corbyn et al, vote against a controversial government getting their way? Especially when BoJo threw away his own majority by ejecting MPs. Are you saying that if roles were reversed the Tories would not so vote?
- mytailorisrich 7y agoIt's one thing to demand something when you know you won't get it, it's quite another when you know you will get it. Obviously the truth is that they want a general election only if they reckon they can win it, which at the moment is dubious.
- OscarCunningham 7y agoOkay, I was wrong.
- OscarCunningham 7y agoHah, I was too quick to doubt myself.