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Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Meanwhile, a summary of why the Conservatives failed to win a majority and why the £ and stock market did not plummet after the results:
(The Sunday Times via, paywall, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/b...exit-lcwm7mjng)[COLOR="Silver"]

Just his opinion.

Other opinions are available.

Everything changed when the manifestos came out. The Tories totally shot themselves in the foot with the social care policy, school dinners etc etc.

They should have focused on Brexit and issued a "steady as she goes" manifesto.

Nothing in any manifesto from any party is deliverable if Brexit goes tits up.

They also mis-calculated that the good will being shown to May for her Brexit handling to date, would transpose onto other policies. Nope.

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Originally Posted by richard1960

This result means that May probably has not got a mandate for a hard Brexit IE us leaving the single market and customs union so it remains to be seen what happens when negotiations start.

Why after all this time do people not realise there is no such thing as a hard Brexit/soft Brexit.

There is only Brexit or not Brexit, and that has already been decided.

If you want to stay in the single market then you are not leaving the EU, you will still be bound by the EU rules, regs, freedoms and ECJ.