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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% |
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ronya posted:wonder why Labour dropped opposition to the vote They actually think rejection of Miliband was a rejection of left wing politics and are going full speed into "lets just copy the tories" territory. They have learned nothing. They don't even know why they lost. Apparently none of them read any papers and haven't yet detected how loving unified and effective the right wing hatchet job was.
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May 25, 2015 08:53
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Related to that story, from the BBC version of it, is this little gem:quote:But Conservative backbencher John Redwood told the Today programme it would be "wrong to hijack" the referendum to extend the vote to groups not previously included in the franchise. Oh, I dunno John, maybe try and talk to them and tell them why it's important and the like and loving engage with them? Christ.
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May 25, 2015 08:54
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16 and 17 year olds aren't interested in stuff, therefore we can't let them vote on it because... they'd definitely turn up and vote the "wrong way" en masse? Just to show how little they care?
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May 25, 2015 08:59
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sebzilla posted:16 and 17 year olds aren't interested in stuff, therefore we can't let them vote on it because... they'd definitely turn up and vote the "wrong way" en masse? Just to show how little they care? gently caress you, dad! I'm voting for our country to remain part of an economic and political union and reap the benefits rather than pander to the lowest common denominator of irrational xenophobia, and I don't care if you ground me! a pipe smoking dog posted:HMS For Too Long We Have Been a Passively Tolerant Society Needs More Gravitas.
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May 25, 2015 09:21
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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LemonDrizzle posted:http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cf4c87a8-022f-11e5-92ce-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3b4i4zDfG They seem really keen on leaving the EU
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May 25, 2015 09:25
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YES no more dumb island dwellers making GBS threads up Brussels ~~~
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May 25, 2015 09:27
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Seriously, my EU national wife is going to be pissed. Oh well, time to leave the UK! 
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May 25, 2015 09:38
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Pesmerga posted:Seriously, my EU national wife is going to be pissed. Oh well, time to leave the UK! Just wait another couple of years, you'll get a free train ticket.
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May 25, 2015 09:49
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Pesmerga posted:Seriously, my EU national wife is going to be pissed. Oh well, time to leave the UK! still seems the vote's being put off till 2017. maybe enough time for her to get a british citizenship in addition to whichever. if she's really pissed off enough to spend that much on fees.
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May 25, 2015 10:00
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Cerv posted:still seems the vote's being put off till 2017. maybe enough time for her to get a british citizenship in addition to whichever. It's more the fact that living and working here, paying taxes into the system and getting involved in the local community, she resents the fact that she's unable to vote in general elections (I'm with her on that, I really think that these days, voting on the basis of residence makes more sense than nationality). The fact that as important a decision as whether the country where she lives, resides and works stays in the EU or not is one that is being foreclosed to her is not making her happy. Putting it mildly.
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May 25, 2015 10:08
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Additional restrictions on voting in the referendum: 16-17 year olds won't be allowed to vote, but UK
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May 25, 2015 10:16
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Pesmerga posted:It's more the fact that living and working here, paying taxes into the system and getting involved in the local community, she resents the fact that she's unable to vote in general elections (I'm with her on that, I really think that these days, voting on the basis of residence makes more sense than nationality). The fact that as important a decision as whether the country where she lives, resides and works stays in the EU or not is one that is being foreclosed to her is not making her happy. Putting it mildly. I can see why EU citizens aren't getting to vote in the referendum. It stops economic migrants coming over now and setting up shop to make sure they can continue to do so. This probably isn't going to happen, but removing the possibility kicks a leg out from under UKIP when we vote to stay in.
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May 25, 2015 10:19
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I agree with 16 and 17 year olds not being allowed to vote because teenagers are loving idiots.
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May 25, 2015 10:22
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Ludicro posted:I agree with 16 and 17 year olds not being allowed to vote because teenagers are loving idiots. This can be applied to all age groups.
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May 25, 2015 10:30
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The age-idiocy relationship may or may not be U shaped.
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May 25, 2015 10:42
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PiCroft posted:I was going to suggest names from Ian Banks' novels for the carriers to try and sound intellectual but it would be a lie. My vote is for the HMS Killdeath McNukington. edit: beaten like an Idiran Zephro fucked around with this message at 10:59 on May 25, 2015 |
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May 25, 2015 10:49
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Cerv posted:still seems the vote's being put off till 2017. maybe enough time for her to get a british citizenship in addition to whichever. I'm in a similar boat. My parents moved here 10 years ago and lol I gotta apply for citizenship just to cover my rear end. Thing is, I've been travelling to the U.S. so often after graduating from uni that I probably will have broken the 5 year minimum stay requirement. I also drop £20k in corporate tax every year but I'm still a dirty eurocommie  Edit: commonwealth voting is dumb dumb dumb and should go away forever. It's the last shambling remnant of the empire that shouldn't even be a thing in TYOOL 2015 awesome-express fucked around with this message at 11:08 on May 25, 2015 |
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May 25, 2015 10:59
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Jedit posted:Just wait another couple of years, you'll get a free train ticket. 
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May 25, 2015 11:04
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blowfish posted:The age-idiocy relationship may or may not be U shaped. The bottom of the U is always whatever age you are right now.
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May 25, 2015 11:07
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good idea, we should have stopped flithy
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May 25, 2015 11:09
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LemonDrizzle posted:http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cf4c87a8-022f-11e5-92ce-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3b4i4zDfG Low-hanging fruit, I know... 
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May 25, 2015 11:20
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Posted from Manhattan, NY.
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May 25, 2015 11:29
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hospital is being investigated after a hacksaw was allegedly used to amputate a leg A surgeon is being investigated after allegedly using an old hacksaw to amputate a patient's leg. An elderly patient was admitted to Ayr Hospital in Scotland for a routine operation, but a metal plate was unexpectedly found in his leg. In an astonishing turn of events, a staff member was sent to a local B&Q store to find equipment to conduct the operation. But as the operation was being carried out after 9pm, the store was closed. Instead, a hacksaw from old stock stored in a hospital cupboard is thought to have been used. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/11627214/Patients-leg-allegedly-amputated-with-hacksaw.html
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May 25, 2015 11:32
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It sounds like they did the best they could in a highly unusual situation - they couldn't close up the leg again and wait until morning after it had already been partway cut off before hitting the plate. It goes on to say that the investigation isn't concerned with the tool used to complete the operation but rather why information about the plate wasn't passed on to the surgical team before the operation - it comes across as a bureaucratic fault rather than a medical one, although I have a medic friend who'd still be a bit wary about using a tool like that even after it had been disinfected.
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May 25, 2015 11:47
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Yeah I think its fantastic, I mean after you cut half way through someone's leg you really need to finish the job. Needs must and all that. Surprised the tone in that particular paper didn't seem to revel in the fact that it harked back to the surgeons who worked on Britain's great battlefields!
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May 25, 2015 11:56
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To be honest, that news story just made even more eager for the second season of The Knick.
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May 25, 2015 11:57
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All the tools used in bone surgery look like they could be found in B&Q.
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May 25, 2015 12:02
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Petition for  to be renamed :louisemensch: ?
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May 25, 2015 12:27
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Silly phone double post
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May 25, 2015 12:31
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Zero Gravitas posted:Petition for Maybe  would be more appropriate in the circumstances.You know, like "Letting migrants vote is a kick in the ballots for Britain".
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May 25, 2015 12:31
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I'm growing increasingly despondent trying to find a decent place to rent in Edinburgh. There seems to be gently caress all that's available at a good price (up to £600 but ideally more toward the £550 bracket). Any help from Scot-goons would be appreciated. Looking through citylets is making me depressed. I could absolutely kill the squatter in our current flat share that has managed to cause this situation.
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May 25, 2015 13:05
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WMain00 posted:I'm growing increasingly despondent trying to find a decent place to rent in Edinburgh. There seems to be gently caress all that's available at a good price (up to £600 but ideally more toward the £550 bracket). Welcome to Edinburgh. A friend of mine recently got told to vacate on the minimum legally permitted notice. She's on benefits, in a wheelchair and has a dog, so you can imagine how much fun that was.
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May 25, 2015 13:08
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Jedit posted:Welcome to Edinburgh. A friend of mine recently got told to vacate on the minimum legally permitted notice. She's on benefits, in a wheelchair and has a dog, so you can imagine how much fun that was. Ahh my sympathies  Places in Edinburgh are shite - it either ranges from hellhole to literal-box-room. I've found all of one place that could be described as reasonable.
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May 25, 2015 13:12
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My Edinburger friends would sympathise, they have nothing but scorn for the majority of Edinburgh's landlords.+
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May 25, 2015 13:17
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The difference between what you get here and what's available over at Glasgow is pretty stark. Pity it wouldn't be affordable for me to commute in >_<
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May 25, 2015 13:20
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WMain00 posted:I'm growing increasingly despondent trying to find a decent place to rent in Edinburgh. There seems to be gently caress all that's available at a good price (up to £600 but ideally more toward the £550 bracket).
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LemonDrizzle posted:http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cf4c87a8-022f-11e5-92ce-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3b4i4zDfG Apparently allowing EU citizens the vote would be an “unacceptable dilution of the voice of the British people.” Interesting to imagine the response if the SNP had used similar rhetoric during the Scottish referendum.
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May 25, 2015 13:28
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LemonDrizzle posted:Maybe I'm missing something from my southern fastness, but why are you searching on an obscure site like citylets rather than rightmove, which seems to have loads more listings? They list the same information really - I believe citylets is quicker to update in relation to things in Scotland, but honestly I'm trying every website. Just arranged a viewing for a place in Linlithgow.
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May 25, 2015 13:29
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WMain00 posted:They list the same information really - I believe citylets is quicker to update in relation to things in Scotland, but honestly I'm trying every website. You could also try Polmont, a little further up the train line. Failing that, Falkirk/Bathgate?
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Alertrelic posted:Apparently allowing EU citizens the vote would be an “unacceptable dilution of the voice of the British people.” Even Scottish "racism"* has the audacity to be different! *as levied against us by the UK press.
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