The Brexit morons are going to rapidly become impatient with May who isn't going to play Russian Roulette with Boris Johnson and a semi-automatic pistol, if they get too rambunctious she will call an election on a "fuck brexit" platform. The Labour constituency that doesn't freebase used kitty litter will vote for May if she will decisively kill the Brexit issue.

Heh...

So she can smash Labour on a pro-leaving the EU platform and then shit on everyone who got her where she is with a landslide majority. Theresa May or may not decide to screw the anti EU fanatics then. Personally I suspect that we'll only pull back once it becomes blatantly obvious that it's causing serious economic damage.

Your play on words made me giggle.

Labour is going to tear itself to pieces, any effort to smash Labour is wasted as the Conservative Party already has a majority in Parliament.

May has to look over her shoulder for the strident Brexiteers. If Brexit doesn't mean Brexit or not fast enough for their liking she is going to have to deal with them.

You can bet your life Corbyn's Labour will get a better share of the vote than Milliband's.

The Green Party supporters and misc. socialist and communist riffraff that Corbyn has brought into the fold comes at the expense of the mainstream.

The neoliberal Blair riffraff that Corbyn has deposed obviously lost the mainstream.

The next Labour Prime Minister doesn't have pubic hair yet.

Labour may split, that's moderately probable. Owen Smith and followers may join/merge with Libdems, who have similar Brexit outlooks. If they don't join/merge with Libdems they'll be competing for the same political space.

May holding a snap election, extremely unlikely.

whenever that is. May will try to hold an election whenever it feels like she will most benefit from an election. But she needs a 2/3 vote in Parliament to call early elections so it will require support from the opposition parties, including Labour.

In any event, Corbyn's hardliners would probably welcome an election so they can "primary" the sane Labour MPs.

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There is no reason to think that will happen.

I am note sure how MPs get "primaried" but I don't see Corbyn doing that. I think that he just wants to take his shot at winning the GE.

The nomination process isn't all that different, the voting is though and Corbyn's merry band of idiots seem to have the numbers on their side.

The Corbyn haters on this site are completely divorced from reality - not unlike the Blairites who attempted this party coup.

Labour has improved on its share of the vote in every election under Corbyn. That's reality.

If an election were held today Labour would be all but wiped out.

The UK will be able to achiever there what Sanders was trying to achieve here! Same dynamics, the establishment tried so hard to derail Corbyn, but he won anyway. If Labour runs on that platform in the next elections they'll definitely trash the Tories! Way to go!!

If Labour has to face a anti-Brexit Conservative leader in the next election, the Labour Party will be fortunate to win fifty seats with Corbyn's nonsense.

Great satirical news site...

Back to the results... Corbin's victory this year is greater than his victory in 2015 - pretty remarkable when you consider all the Labor MPs efforts to skew the election in their direction. So it seems to me the Labor MPs who tried so hard to remove Corbin may need to think about who modern labor voters are. Apparently they aren't "Tory Lite" enthusiasts.

Corbyn has his section of fanatical support (who have joined Labour en masse after his election, which is why he won this time) but beyond that he really is not popular with normal folk.

What's worse is that the major issue is not his left wingery but his proven incompetence!

If by "moderates" you mean the typical Tory-lite politicians that routinely compromise progressive agendas here in the US, then GOOD RIDDANCE! Hopefully they can do in the UK what we cannot in the US.

Go and take a look at the UK polls. Corbyn is heading for a landslide loss. He has his creepy cultist following but isn't taken seriously outside the "Momentum" bubble. Largely because his supporters are mainly people like yourself far more interested in finding heretics than winning converts or getting the basics right.

I used to be an "ideological purity" sort myself. Until I realised that ideological purity doesn't pay the rent or feed a family.

Would favor things such as renationalizing the rail system and many similar "socialist" measures. Corbyn is exactly about recouping some of the wealth that the elites have sucked out of struggling UK citizens. Winds have been changing, buddy.

As somebody who's been a London rail commuter, I honestly don't think railway renationisation is going to win the votes of railway commuters. Beyond that, most of Corbyn's bright ideas are generally regarded as a bit of a joke outside of the "Momentum" bubble.

I disagree. I don't know a single politician whose ideas are not considered jokes by their opponents.

....are hardly the most socialist in the world to put it mildly. Let's just say that railway renationalisation is either a low priority for rail users or considered the beginning of a slippery slope to bad things by many of the same commuters that this would be meant to help.

We'll see soon enough where the country goes.

Labour can finally move ahead. The backstabbing Blairites can move back to the Cons where they belong.

Please! Every election since Corbyn became leader has seen a rise in the Labour share of the vote.

Ha!