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Originally Posted by Riley.

Theresa May made a mistake calling this GE and I'll tell you why. If she had stuck to the plan of leaving the GE until 2020 then she would have a victorious sweep against Corbyn and secured a Conservative government until 2025. Now when she wins this GE in May, the Labour Party gain a new leader, and IF this leader is respectable to the electorate and May stuffs up Brexit, Labour will win the 2020 election. Which is annoying for me as a Tory but all your Reds should jump on this band wagon.

Agree with this, no one anti-Tory should be particularly bothered by this news. We had several years left of the current term, anyway, and a Tory win at the next GE is pretty much a dead cert whether it's 2017 or 2020. This way we have Tories until at least 2022... but the way things stood before, it was 2025.

2022 is a much more realistic timeframe for a viable alternative to be put together, IMO.


...also, is it just me, or are these dates starting to sound awfully futuristic? How can we be talking about 2025 . That's like some sci-fi **** right there.