General Election announced - June 8th

[PurpleGorilla]

Heard a rumour it might be the Queen...

[VectraMan]

Maybe she's been inspired by events in Turkey and is going to hold a referendum on giving herself more power without all that tedious mucking about with Parliament and democracy.

Or probably more likely, skip the referendum part.

[scooterscot]

I'm going to guess it's resignation.

Think so. She hates being PM.

[scooterscot]

Would TM be announcing that she's sending a couple of Destroyers and perhaps a Typhoon Squadron out to the Far East?

NK missiles are 45 minutes away from Westminster.

[PhiltheGreek]

Heard a rumour it might be the Queen...

She's just having a lie in. Nothing to see here.

[VectraMan]

Could be Indyref 2...

Or Brexit 2...

[Mordac]

NK missiles are 45 minutes away from Westminster.

If only they could launch them, eh?

[jamesbrown]

King Charles?

Nah, announcements like that don't come from Downing Street, AFAIK.

I tend to think she could be resigning on health grounds. An early election is easily engineered (e.g. by repealing the FTPA), but she's been adamant about not doing this, and she generally sticks to what she says, like it or not.

[scooterscot]

Okay lets do this. She resigns. Boris becomes PM.

ARGH

[DaveB]

Okay lets do this. She resigns. Boris becomes PM.

ARGH