UK General Discussion: 2019. Blackadder goes Brexit.

[CumbrianLefty]

Is Bercow's successor getting elected today?

Reports say it'll happen on Monday - there have been suggestions that if the outcome of the general election isn't decisive, the last thing you'd want is to have to worry about electing a Speaker as well.

Yes, that seems to be the case. Not convinced personally.

[CumbrianLefty]

I wonder when Change UK will disband? It was doomed to fail in the first place.

Well, Soubry, Gapes and Leslie are all standing again under the "party", so right after the election? Even with the Lib Dems standing aside for Soubry in Broxtowe I can't see how on earth any of the three would maintain their seats.

It will be interesting (well, a bit) to see if they field anybody else.

[CumbrianLefty]

Window-posters and lawn-signs are nothing like as common as they were even twenty years ago, let alone before. This, of course, is a reflection of the loosening of partisan ties. Still, if you know what to look out for they can still be a useful gauge.

Also growing fears of vandalism, at least in some places.

[CumbrianLefty]

I'm unashamedly biased here and don't care who knows it, but her "following" genuinely appears highly concentrated in the media and its hanger-on zoomers.

[CumbrianLefty]

There is a thread in the elections section for that

But in actual fact, the overall Tory lead appears to be falling modestly.