No confidence vote is passed if one side has bigger numbers than the other, no 2/3rds required. Fixed term parliament act means there has to be a 2/3 majority in the HoC to call an early election if the govt want one. Usually the opposition would always jump at the chance, however Trampy Trampface is a busted flush and knows he can't win. He's been calling for one for 2 years, now it seems he doesn't want one.
if the predictions are right, they will lose 11 seats up here as will labour lose most of theirs. that means a certain party will gain 17. that will blow a certain tory argument apart. no?
I wouldn't be so sure that Ruth going means the seats will also go. Despite what some say, not everyone in Scotland voted to remain, Sturgeon isn't as popular as she believes and Boris isn't as unpopular as some say. The nationalists just happen to be the most vocal. I'll put a charity bet on with you that a certain party won't gain 17 seats.
Ruth is stepping down as leader of the Scottish tories but not stepping down as a Scottish mp and your right rob in that 38% of Scots who were able to vote, voted to leave the eu. I also agree with you, no way the snp will win 17 seats. The trouble the snp has is that it claimed project fear beat them in 2014, awakening Scots to what Project fear is. They can now see the snp using those exact same techniques to stop brexit. You have to ask though, Brexit should be a gift to the snp as we leave, they don't like it and their case to leave the u.k. would be golden and yet, they keep trying to stop brexit, you have to ask why is that? it's certainly puzzling
i'l put a charity bet with you that there are big gains. I will donate another £10 to the snp for every seat they win. you?
The following is something I’ve just seen on Facebook. And we all know Facebook is the font of all knowledge Conservatives for Europe have done a 10,000 MRP poll of Great Britain. It says a snap election would produce...another hung parliament! Con: 311 (-6) Labour: 242 (-20) Lib Dems: 21 (+9) SNP: 52 (+17) Plaid: 4 (-) Green: 1 (-) Others: 1
YouGov Scottish subsample average since 24th July: SNP 44.4% Conservatives 19.3% Liberal Democrats 12.8% Labour 11.4% Brexit Party 7.0% Greens 4.0% Westminster seat projection: SNP 52 (+17) Liberal Democrats 4 (n/c) Conservatives 2 (-11) Labour 1 (-6)
If the poll was equally spread throughout the U.K., I'd be very surprised with those results, do you have the polling company who did that El? and do you fin have have a link for that?
fin I asked if you had a link silly, I can see it was you gov, it's just I looked on there website and can't find it
