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How are you going to vote on May 7th? This poll is closed. |
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| Conservative |
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72 | 6.22% |
| Labour |
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410 | 35.41% |
| Liberal Democrat |
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46 | 3.97% |
| UKIP |
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69 | 5.96% |
| Green |
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199 | 17.18% |
| SNP |
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121 | 10.45% |
| DUP |
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0 | 0% |
| Sinn Fein |
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35 | 3.02% |
| Plaid Cymru |
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20 | 1.73% |
| Respect |
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3 | 0.26% |
| Monster Raving Loony |
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56 | 4.84% |
| BNP |
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23 | 1.99% |
| Some flavour of socialist party |
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37 | 3.20% |
| Some flavour of communist party |
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27 | 2.33% |
| Independent |
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3 | 0.26% |
| Other |
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37 | 3.20% |
| Total: | 1158 votes | ||
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lmaoboy1998 posted:All the Swiss people on SA have a pathological need to pretend they're not from Switzerland The shy Swiss effect.
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May 10, 2015 20:29
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self hating swiss
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May 10, 2015 20:41
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It's their gnome heritage that makes them want a low profile.
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May 10, 2015 20:43
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CoolCab posted:because if you had the equivalent of a pack a day cannabis habit cancer is the least of your worries No, it's pretty high up there.
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May 10, 2015 20:43
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I'm shy about my voting intentions. It's not just Tories.
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May 10, 2015 20:44
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Larry_Mullet posted:No, it's pretty high up there. Though arguably your ability to worry about it would be somewhat hampered.
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May 10, 2015 20:45
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please dont let the "oliwan is swiss" meme spread to d&d. its not a very good meme.
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May 10, 2015 20:45
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I don't really know where to post this but it's so bad I wanted to share- I'm having a fb argument with someone who insists that misandry is real and institutional and etc. When asked for some evidence of systemic instances of man-hatred and violence, he offered this: http://worldsweburntogether.tumblr.com/post/23307271154/12-pieces-of-hard-proof-systemic-misandry-exists I'd quote the best ones but I don't even know where to start.
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May 10, 2015 20:46
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oliwan posted:its not a very good meme. Whose fault is that, I wonder?
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May 10, 2015 20:47
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Coohoolin posted:I don't really know where to post this but it's so bad I wanted to share- I'm having a fb argument with someone who insists that misandry is real and institutional and etc. When asked for some evidence of systemic instances of man-hatred and violence, he offered this: I've never had an argument on Facebook.
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May 10, 2015 20:47
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Coohoolin posted:I don't really know where to post this but it's so bad I wanted to share- I'm having a fb argument
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May 10, 2015 20:53
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I'm angry at the results but as an englishman watching from scotland I also understand them. There just isn't a legitimate alternative to the tories in England. Don't get me wrong the current tory establishment is probably the most incompetent between Gove, Lansley, Osborne and IDS (or basically just any cabinet minister) but Labour didn't look reliable and positioned themselves as a moderate flavour of tory which is what the tories were already positioning themselves as. If the choice at the ballot was between the current government (which gets a passive bonus to legitimacy checks) and Ed Miliband saying he could do the same job the same but nicer, its clear which appears the safer choice. Still it annoys me to see the same arguments between people on Facebook and some here when they try and attack tory policies by talking about lefty things when the angle of attack should have always been the collosal failure of the Cameron administration to accomplish any of their goals or be remotely economically competent.
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May 10, 2015 20:53
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Coohoolin posted:I don't really know where to post this but it's so bad I wanted to share- I'm having a fb argument with someone who insists that misandry is real and institutional and etc. When asked for some evidence of systemic instances of man-hatred and violence, he offered this: Wow, that's nearly as bad as this political party: https://j4mb.wordpress.com Incidentally, I'm pretty certain I'm on a watch list now for googling "men and boys party".
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May 10, 2015 20:54
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But fastest growing economy in Europe*!!!!! *because we poo poo the bed in the first half of the government and thus have room to catch up
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May 10, 2015 20:55
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Didn't really post about it at the time but what a loving election to watch though, horrible, inevitable result but really entertaining stuff and you've gotta appreciate that. A smaller party with grass roots support taking the entirety of Scotland from an entrenched establishment. I got to see Jim Murphy get obliterated by some random young lady and try to stay calm. Vince Cable looking like he'd just come back from the Somme. Danny Alexander getting his stupid baby face pushed in. David Cameron's opponents all lining up and commiting seppuku, basically every single TV personality not from the tories going down in one night. Ed "loving" Balls! His face! Yes! With Ed Balls and Miliband gone Labour can start the long process of failing to reform itself away from Brownism which it should have started in 2010. (It'll now take another five years before they fail at Blairism too and the healing can begin, barring any major fuckups by Cameron) The only thing that ruins it is that somehow IDS and Gove still have their jobs.
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May 10, 2015 21:01
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Coohoolin posted:I don't really know where to post this but it's so bad I wanted to share- I'm having a fb argument with someone who insists that misandry is real and institutional and etc. When asked for some evidence of systemic instances of man-hatred and violence, he offered this: I am convinced by this evidence and have decided to become a misandrist. The person you are arguing with is right.
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May 10, 2015 21:01
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nopantsjack posted:Didn't really post about it at the time but what a loving election to watch though, horrible, inevitable result but really entertaining stuff and you've gotta appreciate that. the lives of millions of people will be ruined or close to ruin. haha yeah super entertaining for sure!
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May 10, 2015 21:11
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Dan Jarvis has said he won't be running for the Labour leadership: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dan-jarvis-says-wont-run-5675484
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May 10, 2015 21:12
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here is an old video of michael gove falling over https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAqyf7a4xFM
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May 10, 2015 21:12
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Coohoolin posted:I don't really know where to post this but it's so bad I wanted to share- I'm having a fb argument with someone who insists that misandry is real and institutional and etc. When asked for some evidence of systemic instances of man-hatred and violence, he offered this: Men are more likely to be victims of violent crime than women, but it's not gangs of roving feminists that are committing them. The criminal justice system does seem to treat men (especially poor and non-white men) disproportionately badly, but that's not because it has been infected with Marxist feminist thinking, but because it is built on a bunch of old white men, and there have been famous legal arguments that rest on women lacking the agency to be criminals. I'd like to see more of a movement to address these things, but all existing 'men's movements' seem to be based on shitbags blaming feminists for everything. Some people say that feminism itself is the correct movement to address them, but feminism has lots of other priorities at the moment, which is fair play, and I don't see it as my place to demand that they start assigning greater priority to these issues. I'm not sure what the correct solutions are (e: other than full communism, of course), but MRAs, 'meninism', and shouting misandry aren't them. Pork Pie Hat posted:Incidentally, I'm pretty certain I'm on a watch list now for googling "men and boys party". Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 21:28 on May 10, 2015 |
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May 10, 2015 21:16
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Bozza posted:Lets move onto important matters: Glasgow Goon Meet - 6th June?
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May 10, 2015 21:19
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My mate interviewed Mike Buchanan from J4MB for his podcast, it's quite entertaining and a bit eye-opening: http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/2015/03/be-reasonable-episode-026-mike-buchanan/
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May 10, 2015 21:25
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I dunno why we're talking about the shy Tory effect like it's a bad thing, it sounds more like a credit to British society.
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May 10, 2015 21:31
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Is anyone having the same problem with bbc iPlayer I am? Was out earlier but wanted to watch Sunday Politics but its only the regional bits on there. As exciting as Derbyshire or Norfolk can be, I wanted to watch the main thing. Did something epic happen like old Brilliant Pad stabbing someone?
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May 10, 2015 21:32
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Peel posted:I dunno why we're talking about the shy Tory effect like it's a bad thing, it sounds more like a credit to British society.
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May 10, 2015 21:39
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dispatch_async posted:http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/10/garden-centre-owners-10-tax-for-tory-voters-sign-goes-viral quote:“I don’t really care about the repercussions. I don’t earn a fortune and this might be the death of my business but so be it. Sometimes you have to just stand up and say what you believe in.” 
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May 10, 2015 21:40
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Tories are shy because voting tory basically means gently caress you got mine and that is rude to say in public.
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May 10, 2015 21:40
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Not sure how much of this is  but it's an interesting read.https://medium.com/@NafeezAhmed/how-big-money-and-big-brother-won-the-british-elections-2e8da57faac4
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May 10, 2015 21:43
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Guavanaut posted:The whole thing seems to be some sort of elaborate category error which does mention some valid points but then goes in completely the wrong way. When your list of "12 pieces of hard proof that [something] exists" starts with "1. The thing exists, no evidence given" it's fairly obvious you're in for a rough ride.
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May 10, 2015 21:55
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See as much as I like the whole "haha, gently caress you for voting tory" thing, it doesn't exactly stop the persecution complex that the people who voted for them have.
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May 10, 2015 22:00
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Josef bugman posted:See as much as I like the whole "haha, gently caress you for voting tory" thing, it doesn't exactly stop the persecution complex that the people who voted for them have. Considering they just voted for a party that wants to in effect persecute the poor, gently caress 'em. It's not as if UKMT is meant to be a hub of reconciliation between right and left. It's a bunch of angry/disillusioned leftists being angry and disillusioned.
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May 10, 2015 22:00
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Oberleutnant posted:here is an old video of michael gove falling over I'll see your Gove falls over, and raise you that time Gove was in a film with Christopher Lee. http://youtu.be/_auQPmnh1q8
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May 10, 2015 22:02
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This thread isn't the Tory Boy Conversion Station.
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May 10, 2015 22:02
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forkboy84 posted:Considering they just voted for a party that wants to in effect persecute the poor, gently caress 'em. Its still a lot of people, some of whom may need convincing by not laughing at them. I have a friend who voted tory (yes I have 2) who said that she felt spoken down to by Labour over her disabled brother and that she didn't feel the same with David Cameron because he at least had suffered something alongside it. Personally I have tried to convince her otherwise of a great deal of stuff but pointing and loving laughing about it doesn't loving work. Not least because "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win" may be just as easily put in place in this instance.
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May 10, 2015 22:04
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Which one of you stupid fuckers is this?
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May 10, 2015 22:04
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On election day, one friend cried to me: “I can’t believe I’m a Tory – I hate myself.”
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May 10, 2015 22:12
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Kaislioc posted:On election day, one friend cried to me: “I can’t believe I’m a Tory – I hate myself.” Okay this 50 shades of grey thing has gone way too far now.
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May 10, 2015 22:16
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Guavanaut posted:Not sure how much of this is Labour lost because they have next to no credibility with the non-die hard Labour supporters. The centrist swing voters didn't choose the Conservatives because they liked them they chose the Conservatives because they were the best of a bad bunch. Unless the Labour party finds credibility from some where they will lose more elections.
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May 10, 2015 22:25
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Kaislioc posted:On election day, one friend cried to me: “I can’t believe I’m a Tory – I hate myself.” quote:The problem is that these ‘secret Tories’ are plagued by the deeply-rooted stereotype that all young people are leftie activists, and anyone who isn’t must be a 'posh racist who hates poor people'. Isn't right-wing progressivism commonly called "neoconservatism"?
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May 10, 2015 22:27
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Good news - IDS will remain at the DWP to complete the rollout of universal credit!
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May 10, 2015 22:28
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