Today’s Guest Poster is the magnificent Puffy The Magic Dragon, who – as always – has come up with a topic guaranteed to put fire in the belly (and even out of the mouth). Thank you so much, Puffy.
Also, I apologise for my lack of activity for the past few weeks. I am sure you all understand.
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Hats off to Mr Steve Georganas MP, Federal Member for Hindmarsh, House of Reps. ALP.
Steve Geoganas, a thoroughly good bloke, recently attached a questionaire to his newsletter, for people in his electorate, asking about issues and concerns they may have.
As well as keeping in touch with his electorate and proactively seeking their input, his survey finished with an interesting question that I have not seen before in such an exercise.
‘What would you do if you were Prime Minister for one day.’
What an intriguing thought. What would I do?
I would:
- Close Manus Island and Nauru camps and order repatriation to Australia of the people interned there.
- Establish royal commissions into the banks, and another into our involvement into the Iraq WMD war. And Children Overboard, and the rest of that can of maggots. Chuck one in for political donations too, while we are at it.
- Stop the Adani coalmine.
Because I will get to work early on my day, it will only be morning tea-time.
- I will have plenty of time to fix the NBN fiasco, and then after lunch with Indigenous people’s representatives to nut out a plan to really address inequities, roll my sleeves up for a late nighter.
There is so much more.
- Also, I would implement the ALP Animal Welfare plan, and designate theft of pets as an act of national harm, punishable by ten years of cleaning up doggy doo doo.
What would you do?
THE PUB 
BBC updated forecast CON 322 LAB 261
CON gain Ochil and south Perthshire from SNP
LAB gain Midlothian from SNP
DUP gain South Antrim from UUP
CON hold Worcestershire mid
CON hold Montgomeryshire
LAB hold Bridgend
LAB hold Doncaster central
CON hold aldershot
CON hold Christchurch
LAB hold Chorley
SNP hold Aberdeen North
LAB hold Liverpool Wavertree
CON hold Cambridgeshire South
LAB hold Cynon Valley
SNP hold Ayrshire N and Arran
CON hold Southend west
CON gain Southport from LIB Dem
LAB hold Rochdale
LAB hold Ynys Môn
LAB hold Sheffield Heely
LAB hold Durham North
LAB Hold Neath
LAB hold Wolverhampton SW
LAB hold Bristol South
CON hold Blackpool North
CON hold Aberconwy
LAB hold Bury South
LAB hold Barnsley Central
LAB hold Swansea West
LAB hold Cardiff Central
LAB hold Hull East
Sinn Fein gain Foyle from SDLP
LAB hold Westminster North
CON hold Bedfordshire SW
CON hold Bromsgrove
LAB hold Sheffield SE
CON hold Monmouth
LAB hold Nottingham South
CON Hold Brecon and Radnorshire
CON hold Eastleigh
LAB hold Coventry South
DUP hold East Antrim
Lab hold Liverpool West Darby
CON gain renfrewshire east from SNP
LAB hold Aberavon
CON hold harwich and essex north
con hold tunbridge wells
lab hold walthamstow
LAB hold Bolton NE
Lib Dem gain East Dunbartonshire from SNP
LAB hold Ealing North
LAB hold Alyn and Deeside
LAB hold Bristol East
LAB hold coventry NE
LAB hold bishop auckland
CON hold Surrey Heath
CON hold Worcestershire West
LAB gain High Peak from CON
LAB hold Eltham
LAB hold Mitcham and Morden
CON hold Solihull
CON hold Stevenage
Labour not winning many seats from the Tories.
Plaid hold Dwyfor Meirionydd
LAB gain Sheffield Hallam from Lib Dem (Nick Clegg’s seat)
CON hold Wokingham
Scotland might save the Tories
LAB gain Gower from CON
Lib Dem gain Twickenham from CON
LAB gain Stroud from CON
CON gain Walsall North from LAB
SNP hold Glasgow East
LAB gain Bristol NW from CON
CON Hold Somerton and frome
CON hold Wealden
LAB hold Nottingham North
CON hold Grantham and Stamford
LAB hold Hyndburn
LAB hold Worsley and Eccles South
CON hold Newbury
CON hold Romford
LAB hold Birmingham Northfield
CON hold Uxbridge and south Ruislip
DUP hold East Antrim
LAB hold Birmingham Yardley
CON hold New forest east
LAB gain Glasgow NE from SNP
CON hold Guildford
LAB gain Ipswich from CON
CON hold Watford
LAB hold Don Valley
CON hold Chingford and Woodford Green
LAB hold Coventry NE
LAB hold Doncaster North
LAB hold Luton North
CON hold Scarborough and Whitby
CON hold Colchester
LAB hold Bristol West
SNP hold Glasgow Central
LAB hold Islington South and Finsbury
CON hold Clwyd West
CON hold Epsom and Ewell
LAB hold Durham NW
CON hol Meriden
LAB hold Hull West
CON hold Kenilworth and Southam
LAB hold Birmingham Erdington
CON hold the Wrekin
CON hold Cleethorpes
LAB hold Salford and Eccles
LAB hold Nottingham East
Ah, it seems Mr. “Student Fees” Clegg has lost his seat. Good riddance I say.
Overall, I can’t see May surviving from this. Names circulating around who would be the next PM include David Davis.
Boris will be sharpening his knives.
CON hold Salisbury
CON hold Dorset West
CON hold Copeland
SNP hold Dunfermline and west fife
CON hold Norwich North
CON hold Ribble Valley
LAB hold Islington North
LAB hold Leicester South
LAB hold Liverpool Walton
SNP hold Lanark and Hamilton East
LAB hold Wythenshawe and Sale East
CON hold Chesham and Amersham
LAB hold Cambridge
LAB hold Swansea East
CON hold Bosworth
CON hold Wimbledon
CON hold Maldon
LAB hold Manchester Central
LAB gain East Lothian from SNP
LAB hold Gedling
CON hold the Cotswolds
CON hold Gosport
SNP hold Glasgow North
CON gain Ayr Carrick and Cumnock from SNP
LAB hold sheffield Central
CON gain Aberdeen South from SNP
LAB gain Cardiff North from CON
LAB hold Ealing Southall
CON hold Dorset South
CON gain Clacton from UKIP
LAB hold Birmingham Ladywood
CON hold Thurrock
SNP hold Inverness nairn badenoch and strathspey
I think Boris will have a shot at it, but, he’s lot a lot of popularity over the past year and probably won’t get very far. He’d go the way of Michael Gove.
CON hold Chippenham
CON hold Worcester
LAB hold Sedgefield
CON hold Gainsborough
Sinn Fein gain south down from SDLP
DUP hold Belfast North
CON hold Staffordshire Moorlands
SNP hold Airdrie and Shotts
LAB hold Norwich South
Lab hold Hackney South and Shoreditch
LIB DEM gain Bath from CON
LAB hold Leeds East
CON hold Norfolk NW
CON hold Isle of Wight
LAB gain Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath from SNP
Corbyn has called for May to resign.
LAB gain Peterborough fro CON
LAB gain Bedford from con
LAB hold Ellesmere port and neston
LAB hold Bolton SE
CON hold Chicester
LAB hold Hayes and Harlington
SNP hold Glasgow South
CON hold South Ribble
SNP hold Perth and North Perthshire
CON hold Gravesham
LAB hold Redcar
CON hold Lewes
LAB hold Greenwich and Woolwich
CON hold Dartford
DUP gain Belfast south from SDLP
LAB hold Leyton and Wanstead
CON hold Suffolk Coastal
SNP hold Edinburgh East
CON hold Telford
CON hold Stafford
CON hold Great Yarmouth
CON hold New Forest West
CON hold Hornchurch and Upminster
LAB hold Manchester Withington
CON hold Tonbridge and Malling
CON hold Maidenhead
SNP hold Glasgow NW
CON gain Middlesborough south and cleveland east from lab
Sinn Fein hold Mis ulster
Lab hold Lewisham East
CON hold Reigate
LAb hold Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymeny
CON hold Aldridge Brownhills
CON hold Sittingbourne and Sheppey
LAB hold Leicester WEst
mid ulster not mis ulster
Vince Cable appears to have won his seat back from the Tories.
I have a lot of time for Cable. He seems like one of the more reasonable members of the Lib Dems.
LAB hold Bradford South
LAB hold Leeds West
LAB hold Tottenham
CON hold Derbyshire South
CON hold Selby and Ainsty
CON hold Wiltshire North
LAB gain Portsmouth South from CON
LAB gain Coatbridge and Chryston from SNP
LD hold Norfolk North
LAB hold Easington
Lib Dem gain Eastbourne from CON
They should have backed Bernie Sanders in the US. He might have won.
CON hold Cambridgeshire NW
LAB hold Birmingham Selly Oak
LAB gain Canterbury from CON (!!!!!!)
CON hold Gloucester
CON hold Esher and Walton
CON hold Portsmouth North
SNP hold Glasgow SW
CON hold Louth and Horncastle
CON hold Boston and Skegness
CON hold Hackney North
LAB hold Cardiff South and Penarth
CON hold Mole Valley
LIB DEM hold Westmoreland and Lonsdale
LAB hold East Ham
CON hold Woking
CON hold Bolton West
LAB hold Penistone and Stocksbridge
CON hold Bognor Regis
LAB hold Exeter
LAB hold Harrow West
LAB gain Warwick and Leamington from CON
LAB hold Manchester gorton
CON hold Sutton and Cheam
CON hold Romsey and Southampton N
CON Hold Hampshire East
CON hold Brentwood and Ongar
CON hold Lichfield
LAB hold Lewisham Deptford
CON hold Hitchin and Harpenden
LAB hold Walsall South
CON hold Hampshire NW
LAB hold Leeds Central
CON hold Orpington
LAB hold Lancashire West
DUP hold Upper Bann
LD hold Carshalton and Wallington
LD gain Kingston and Surbiton from CON
LD gain Caithness Sutherland and Easter Ross from SNP
LAB gain Derby North from CON
LAB hold Oldham east and saddleworth
CON hold Witney
LAB hold Barking
LAB hold Cardiff West
LAB hold Lewisham West and Penge
CON hold Bournemouth West
LAB hold Streatham
LAB hold Brentford and Isleworth
CON hold Devon North
LAB hold West Ham
CON hold Totnes
LAB hold Warrington North
LAB hold Leicester East
CON hold Wyre and Preston north
CON hold forest of dean
LAB hold Dagenham and Rainham
CON hold Windsor
LAB hold Birmingham Hodge Hill
LAB hold Hornsey and wood green
CON hold Morley and Outwood
CON hold Carmarthen west and Pembrokeshire south
CON hold Harborough
CON hold Reading West
A couple of leaders’ results in now.
Lib Dem leader Tim Farron barely holds on in his seat, scraping home with just under 700 votes in front of the Tories.
UKIP leader Paul Nuttall has been utterly humiliated, only winning 7.7% of the vote in his seat.
CON hold dorset north
SNP hold linlithgow and falkirk east
CON hold Bournemouth East
CON hold Harrow East
CON hold Derbyshire Dales
SNP hold Cumbernauld
CON hold Bexleyheath
SF hold West Tyrone
CON hold Ruislip and Northwood
LAB hold Birmingham Hall Green
LAB hold Hammersmith
10.84% swing to Labour so far . Very nice to see.
Well, calling an election worked a treat, didn’t it, Tessa?
CON hold Suffolk South
CON hold Somerset NE
CON hold Beverley and Holderness
CON hold Northamptonshire South
CON hold dudley south
BBC predicts tories will get 44% of the overall vote
LAB hold Chesterfield
CON hold Redditch
CON hold Hereford
CON hold Staffordshire South
CON hold Waveney
SF hold Newry and Armagh
Tessa and Truffles same story different hemispheres.