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Gin
18 Apr 17 10:03
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Laura Kuenssberg  @bbclaurak
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PM making a statement in Downing Street at 1115 - only normally used for most serious moments



Snap General Election???????
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Report Gin April 18, 2017 10:05 AM BST
Hmmmm....

On second thoughts we now have fixed - term parliaments?
Report David Fishwick Minibus Sales April 18, 2017 10:11 AM BST
she's going to resign as leader
Report Foinavon April 18, 2017 10:14 AM BST
The Queen stepping down?
Report GoBallistic April 18, 2017 10:15 AM BST
To announce the new Dr Who
Report anxious April 18, 2017 10:17 AM BST
Telling the country that Arry is in charge at Birmingham
Report Foinavon April 18, 2017 10:22 AM BST
More likely an announcement about the future of Arsene Wenger.
Report Life-Lucky April 18, 2017 10:34 AM BST
Please God .. not another election, haven't we suffered enough?
Report Life-Lucky April 18, 2017 10:35 AM BST
It looks like Guido's site has crashed!
Report CLYDEBANK29 April 18, 2017 10:39 AM BST
She's just rented a BMW 5 series for £60 and she's off to Margate?
Report 1st time poster April 18, 2017 10:41 AM BST
the government that brought in fixed term parliaments  and promised faithfully every month for 12 months there wont be a GE, so GE it is then, when did lying become the norm
Report jed.davison April 18, 2017 10:41 AM BST
Will be an official Government rebuke for Barry Hearn for ruining the World Snooker Championship by playing it on 9-ball tables.
Report cooperman April 18, 2017 10:42 AM BST
CLYDEBANK29   
Report 1st time poster April 18, 2017 10:42 AM BST
like gideon breaking all his fiscal laws ,will mrs may be jailed for breaking the fixed term parliament law
Report Life-Lucky April 18, 2017 10:46 AM BST
According to bbc she can get that fixed-term thing changed without too much bother
Report morpteh mackem April 18, 2017 10:47 AM BST
referendum on eu membership is messages im getting.
Report Life-Lucky April 18, 2017 10:48 AM BST
referendum on eu membership is messages im getting.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report scandanavian_haven April 18, 2017 10:50 AM BST
She's going to reveal who Brian Cox is ?
Report 1st time poster April 18, 2017 10:52 AM BST
so the fixed term parliament bill was really an unfixed term parliament bill,or what we used to have before gideon,cameron and co wet their knickers bringing in this must have fixed term bill to bring stable governments ,which low and behold has led to unstable governments,littlejohn couldnt make it up or maybe he has,the coalition and this tory government have been that incompetent the only thing they,ve actually delivered is the one thing they didnt want to deliver the refferendum and managed in their eyes to foook that up,they make blackadder look like winston churchill
Report TheBaron April 18, 2017 10:52 AM BST
She got 6 numbers up  on the lottery and you lot can go fuck yourselves.
Report anxious April 18, 2017 10:52 AM BST
Laugh
Report 1st time poster April 18, 2017 10:53 AM BST
downing street cat,s eaten her easter eggs
Report morpteh mackem April 18, 2017 10:54 AM BST
moyes is resigning hopefully
Report Gin April 18, 2017 10:57 AM BST
Laura Kuenssberg  @bbclaurak
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Hearing May will announce General Election for June 8th - one source not confirmed
Report 1st time poster April 18, 2017 10:57 AM BST
my sources say the uk will be deploying boaty mcboat face to the korean peninsular
Report anxious April 18, 2017 10:59 AM BST
So what happened to the new fixed term parliaments , same old song from the tories
Report 1st time poster April 18, 2017 11:01 AM BST
so the most important discussions in our lifetime according to everyone about brexit which already have a short time span ,now to be put on hold whilst mizz may proves she can beat jeremy corbyn in an election,or barcelona can beat sutton utd, FFS
Report Ovalman. April 18, 2017 11:02 AM BST
Moneytree has tipped a winner?
Report anxious April 18, 2017 11:03 AM BST
June 8th looks nailed on
Report Gin April 18, 2017 11:03 AM BST
Now you're just being silly Ovalman...........
Report 1st time poster April 18, 2017 11:04 AM BST
JUNE THE 8TH the day the labour party died,and i was a labour man all my life
Report anxious April 18, 2017 11:05 AM BST
Comrade the struggle never ends Cool
Report jed.davison April 18, 2017 11:05 AM BST
Not before time FTP, has moved so far away from its founding fathers' vision it deserves to die.
Report morpteh mackem April 18, 2017 11:05 AM BST
if can get rid of corbyn before general election might have a chance
Report anxious April 18, 2017 11:08 AM BST
She has a cheek using Downing street to make a party political broadcast ,outrageous cheek
Report 1st time poster April 18, 2017 11:08 AM BST
strange world when the very pseron calling an election is telling the snp they cant have a reff till the results of vrexit are known,wouldnt that be the time to hold a GE
Report alun2005 April 18, 2017 11:10 AM BST
This snap election is surely what Labour (and their record number of members) wants?

Surely they want to kick out the Tories at the earliest possibility, and Corbyn represents the 'proper Socialism' that this country has apparently been crying out for.

Remember, Miliband, Kinnock and Brown all lost elections because they weren't offering the public the 'proper Socialism' the general public craved. This is now the real product in front of the voter.
Report TELL DEL April 18, 2017 11:11 AM BST
No leaks about what this announcement is about, could be serious, looks like I picked the wrong day to give up smoking !
Report morpteh mackem April 18, 2017 11:12 AM BST
surely just another example of tories putting party first before the country, a la cameron gambling on winning the referendum vote.
Report donny osmond April 18, 2017 11:12 AM BST
she should have worn a hat
Report anxious April 18, 2017 11:13 AM BST
Donny welcome back my friend
Report donny osmond April 18, 2017 11:13 AM BST
cheers anxious

good to see you back too
Report donny osmond April 18, 2017 11:14 AM BST
may didnt mention our return
Report anxious April 18, 2017 11:14 AM BST
Indeed mine was month , was yours too
Report 1st time poster April 18, 2017 11:14 AM BST
HTF can you call a GE a few weeks after invoking article 50,surely  the GE should have come 1st
Report anxious April 18, 2017 11:15 AM BST
1tp your not going to vote tory are you
Report anxious April 18, 2017 11:15 AM BST
1ptp
Report David Fishwick Minibus Sales April 18, 2017 11:16 AM BST
Tory 2015 Election Fraud cover-up. She knew.
Report anxious April 18, 2017 11:17 AM BST
Yep good point Fish
Report 1st time poster April 18, 2017 11:17 AM BST
no i,ll be voting to kick mizz tuley out of my east cleveland seat,before her the libdems were in so might hold my nose and vote tacticaly for them
Report donny osmond April 18, 2017 11:19 AM BST
one month
Report anxious April 18, 2017 11:20 AM BST
thought so donny
Report donny osmond April 18, 2017 11:21 AM BST
corbyn should insist on getting outcome of last election fraud before voting for a new election
Report 1st time poster April 18, 2017 11:21 AM BST
like cameron she may have got the country mood wrong again,all the media will be focused on anyone campaigning for staying in the single market etc
Report Ovalman. April 18, 2017 11:22 AM BST
Disappointed she didn't mention Chit Chat once Sad
Report anxious April 18, 2017 11:24 AM BST
pure opportunism by the silent remainer , calling themselves patriots , that's the last thing they are
Report TELL DEL April 18, 2017 11:25 AM BST
More chaos just what we need !!!!
Report jed.davison April 18, 2017 11:26 AM BST
Where there is disorder TELL DEL.......
Report anxious April 18, 2017 11:29 AM BST
where there is despair may we bring hope
Report jed.davison April 18, 2017 11:30 AM BST
lol where there are labour seats, they will be lost
Report anxious April 18, 2017 11:31 AM BST
you sound jubilant Jed
Report anxious April 18, 2017 11:33 AM BST
East Manchester will stay as the peoples republic , this city a tory free zone Cool
Report PorcupineorPineapple April 18, 2017 11:34 AM BST
The PM says the country is coming together, but Westminster remains divided.

"In recent weeks Labour have threatened to vote against the final agreement we reach with the European Union.

"The Liberal Democrats said they want to grind the business of government to a standstill.

"The Scottish National Party say they will vote against the legislation that formally repeals Britain's membership of the European Union.

"And un-elected members of the House of Lords have vowed to fight us every step of the way.




Don't mean to be funny, but isn't this that SOVEREIGNTY nonsense they were banging on about a year ago.
Report TheBaron April 18, 2017 11:35 AM BST
Best thing Labour could do is Corbyn step down and someone else take over.  Have to be quick though.
Report David Fishwick Minibus Sales April 18, 2017 11:37 AM BST
best thing Labour could do is have all those Blairite usurpers to, instead of moaning and running to the right-wing press at the drop of every hat, get behind their twice-elected leader
Report anxious April 18, 2017 11:38 AM BST
Correct fish
Report zorrostrikes April 18, 2017 11:40 AM BST
stupid - she is miles above in every poll, personally, Corbyn looks like a trotsky bampot.
But that's irrelevant, this will be another brexit vote? It a way of subverting the first vote. All those jelly bellied 'let's stay together, right now, in sweet harmony.." Tw@ts will run out to the voting booths and vote for Corbyn.

one world government - we're sorry - take us back. we don't want to sort out Brexit. it's too complicated.
Report The Leopard April 18, 2017 11:44 AM BST
1.03 still available on election
Report The Leopard April 18, 2017 11:45 AM BST
1.02
Report David Fishwick Minibus Sales April 18, 2017 11:48 AM BST
anxious    18 Apr 17 11:38 
Correct fish


*get behind the policies of
Report scandanavian_haven April 18, 2017 11:59 AM BST
Tim Farron for Prime Minister
Report zorrostrikes April 18, 2017 12:03 PM BST
june 8th, it'll be warm, more racism. which will be put down to brexit? like racists need an excuse. this is another few degrees on the cooker hob.

48 percenters in a general election? you only need 3o percent usually?
Report TELL DEL April 18, 2017 12:19 PM BST
"like cameron she may have got the country mood wrong again...."

Theresa May "There will be no early General Election". So a U turn and she's changed her mind....."Politics is not a game" she said, when she was telling everyone she wasn't going to call a general election. So she has literally launched her campaign with a broken promise.

And didn't she also say now is not the time for a Scottish independence referendum. So how on earth is now "the time" for a General Election ? She may have played her hand very well, or could back fire on her and a disaster waiting to happen, very mixed feelings about this !

The unknown factor here is just how bad Labour will poll with Corbyn. Some unlikely things could happen.....
Report The Leopard April 18, 2017 12:21 PM BST
Corbyn will win ....GET ON NOW !
Report moisok April 18, 2017 12:23 PM BST
I want to see wee nicky
Report scandanavian_haven April 18, 2017 12:30 PM BST
Sky are embarrassing, interrupting their reporter to bring breaking news.....of David Cameron's tweetCrazy could they not wait another minute
Report Joel April 18, 2017 12:31 PM BST
In April, May calls June election.
Report jed.davison April 18, 2017 12:35 PM BST
S****s Joel, the lot of 'em.
Report jed.davison April 18, 2017 12:36 PM BST
Banned now that word. Would have screwed up your posting preferences back in the day Laugh
Report Platini April 18, 2017 12:58 PM BST
wee Nicky talking about massive U-turns  LaughLaughLaughLaughLaugh
Report Injera April 18, 2017 5:19 PM BST
Facinating times indeed (assuming we don't all get blown to hell by Kim..)

Labour will be madder than mad if they make this about Brexit. They lost votes to UKIP and the Cons last election and then they lost the EU Ref.

All they can do it is limit the damage and make this about rents, NHS etc. Try not to lose more than 50 seat, get shot of Jezza and move on.

Lib Dums will make it about Brexit and will gain seats. 20? But they're a protest movement now.

Cons will take many of the 4 mill UKIP votes and more Labour ones IF they oppose Brexit.
Report TheBaron April 18, 2017 6:25 PM BST
So what about Ukip, anyone voting for them?
Report akabula April 18, 2017 6:54 PM BST
Platini
wee Nicky talking about massive U-turns


wee nicki constantly made reference to the fact that May was unelected as leader as did Donny and anxious on here.
All now complaining that she's decided to go to the people for a mandate. LaughLaughLaugh
Report David Fishwick Minibus Sales April 19, 2017 12:04 AM BST
...at precisely the same time the 2015 election fraud cases are coming to a head. they are, truly, vermin.
Report sofiakenny April 19, 2017 12:26 AM BST
totally agree fishy.Angry
Report kincsem April 19, 2017 1:54 AM BST
Bit disappointed she didn't announce she was applying to join the EU.
Report akabula April 19, 2017 2:56 AM BST
There you go Fishy, yet another reason why Theresa has done the right thing.
Report guinness2dear April 19, 2017 2:58 AM BST
Never even saw this fred today - yesterday
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