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I'm really excited for this election for a whole bunch of reasons, but frankly I have no idea what is going to happen and would not be surprised at either Corbyn being PM or the Tories having a majority of 100 At least we can have a good crack at booting out Anna Soubry in my constituency.
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# ? May 2, 2017 17:48 |
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# ? May 17, 2024 05:05 |
I'm interest and active in the election, but I still think the Tories will win. Mind you, another majority of 10 and a majority of 100 are very different things, and thats why it still matters even though Labour aren't going to win.
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# ? May 2, 2017 17:59 |
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Theresa May failing to look like a human being and managing to be repetitive in a three minute video: https://twitter.com/theresa_may/status/859452229350195201
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# ? May 2, 2017 18:05 |
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nothing to seehere posted:I'm interest and active in the election, but I still think the Tories will win. Mind you, another majority of 10 and a majority of 100 are very different things, and thats why it still matters even though Labour aren't going to win. I paid the price of a nandos to support the jam man
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# ? May 2, 2017 18:07 |
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jabby posted:Theresa May failing to look like a human being and managing to be repetitive in a three minute video: She has to be taking the piss out of the general public at this point
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# ? May 2, 2017 18:09 |
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Theresa May in the dingy room of patriotism. It's like a goon basement except with union flags instead of anime body pillows. We hope instead, rather than as well...
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# ? May 2, 2017 18:09 |
That's a Jim Hacker level performance.
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# ? May 2, 2017 18:11 |
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She comes across as way out of her depth On the other hand, the 'Strong and Stable Leadership' narrative will probably stick, regardless of the mockery of it
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# ? May 2, 2017 18:12 |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39784170 posted:Brexit: Theresa May says she'll be 'bloody difficult' to Juncker Bloody difficult to watch or hear speak as well. I really hope this EU dinner thing keeps going or gets bigger with another disaster meeting, just keep chipping away at the soundbites. Eventually it's got to drive any pro-EU Tory to either election apathy or outright madness.
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# ? May 2, 2017 18:12 |
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namesake posted:I really hope this EU dinner thing keeps going or gets bigger with another disaster meeting, just keep chipping away at the soundbites. Eventually it's got to drive any pro-EU Tory to either election apathy or outright madness. "We're all mad here" The general public is grossly misinformed. The media focuses on silly soundbites and not on the really important stuff. Pochoclo fucked around with this message at 18:18 on May 2, 2017 |
# ? May 2, 2017 18:15 |
It's pretty cool that in their attempts to pass off the reports about the dinner with Juncker as just Brussels gossip they've managed to confirm pretty much all of the details of it, from the expectation to get citizens status done by June through to the whole "lets make Brexit a success" line.
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# ? May 2, 2017 18:15 |
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namesake posted:Bloody difficult to watch or hear speak as well. Oh, good, the EU is going to burn all our trade deals to the ground. For a second, I was almost worried about not starving to death in a decaying shell of a country. Nice to see the Prime Minister meeting my concerns so ably.
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# ? May 2, 2017 18:17 |
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I normally don't read the Evening Standard, but it is funny today to see gideon using his new toy to have a dig at may. I think all of the first 6 or 7 pages include at least one article ridiculing May for incompetence.
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# ? May 2, 2017 18:18 |
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I say strong you say stable STRONG
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# ? May 2, 2017 18:24 |
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Cerv posted:with an attitude like that, he hopefully won't get through to the end of the trial without a contempt of court charge. Not to defend him as a person, but he's actually correct not to stand because he wasn't called by name. His name is Mr Rhodri Phillips. His style is Lord St Davids. If he was addressed as either of those he should stand. But there was no "Mr St Davids" in the room.
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# ? May 2, 2017 18:27 |
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Looke posted:
I knew I'd seen that somewhere... He also had a penchant for ridiculing himself on camera (bit of an unfair comparison though - this man made generations of children laugh and was extremely chill, imagine Fred Rogers but doing comedy acts for kids) Pochoclo fucked around with this message at 18:44 on May 2, 2017 |
# ? May 2, 2017 18:34 |
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Jedit posted:Not to defend him as a person, but he's actually correct not to stand because he wasn't called by name. His name is Mr Rhodri Phillips. His style is Lord St Davids. If he was addressed as either of those he should stand. But there was no "Mr St Davids" in the room. Oh I do hope he tries to pull some kind of sovcit/freeman on the land type defence.
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# ? May 2, 2017 18:38 |
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Yeah okay but what is his LEGAL NAME?
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# ? May 2, 2017 18:48 |
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It's illegal to use a LEGAL NAME.
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# ? May 2, 2017 18:51 |
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Just watching Theresa May giving a speech. My goodness, she's an AWFUL public speaker. She looks nervous as hell.
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# ? May 2, 2017 18:53 |
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TACD posted:It's pretty clear that a good proportion of the people responding to these are reflexively hitting whatever button corresponds to THERESA MAY=GOOD and JEREMY CORBYN=BAD. Good polling is really difficult and the responses to these are not an accurate measure of what the question is asking. Jeremy Corbyn's dad killed my kitten.
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# ? May 2, 2017 19:00 |
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jabby posted:The latest ICM poll aptly demonstrates why subsample questions should be taken with several tonnes of salt. More people say the last two weeks have made them less likely to vote Labour than more likely. The opposite is true for voting Tory. However the Tories lost a point in voting intention and Labour gained. With the possible exception of headline voting intention it's all bullshit because people will choose the answer that reflects best on their chosen party. Which is perhaps why twice as many people gave the answer favouring the Tories than labour?
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# ? May 2, 2017 19:08 |
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Pissflaps posted:Which is perhaps why twice as many people gave the answer favouring the Tories than labour? Yes, that is literally my point.
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# ? May 2, 2017 19:17 |
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Oberleutnant posted:I normally don't read the Evening Standard, but it is funny today to see gideon using his new toy to have a dig at may. I think all of the first 6 or 7 pages include at least one article ridiculing May for incompetence. It only took like two hours for the second edition front page to go from "EU twists the knife" to "UK fights back!" though. May must have threatened to put limits on Visas to Colombia.
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# ? May 2, 2017 19:26 |
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Skinty McEdger posted:It's pretty cool that in their attempts to pass off the reports about the dinner with Juncker as just Brussels gossip they've managed to confirm pretty much all of the details of it, from the expectation to get citizens status done by June through to the whole "lets make Brexit a success" line. These stories are completely false, and also it shows how negotiations will be difficult despite how the difficult negotiations did not in fact happen due to being false. Strong and stable.
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# ? May 2, 2017 19:41 |
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I had a really weird dream last night that someone mocked up a spitting image style puppet of May and made a creepy video that was just a shrill falsetto screaming "STRONG AND STABLE!" as deep rumblings drew closer, distant sirens ramped up, and her head wobbled back and forth violently on a springy neck. Then everything exploded in nuclear fire and endless screaming. The video went viral on the last day before the election, Corbyn won by a landslide. Then at the steps of number 10 he turned into a robot and started firing death lasers out of his eyes because people voted him in over a loving internet meme. I think 2017 is really starting to get to me.
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# ? May 2, 2017 19:49 |
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jabby posted:Yes, that is literally my point. So saying twice as many people favour the Tories than labour isn't exactly much of a mitigation for this poll?
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# ? May 2, 2017 19:53 |
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https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/859479841116217344 Apparently the party of government has been renamed the Teresa May Strong and Stable party, and was campaigning in my neck of the woods this afternoon. Hmmmm.
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# ? May 2, 2017 19:55 |
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LemonDrizzle posted:https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/859479841116217344 Oh, I guess she did learn something on her trip to Scotland.
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# ? May 2, 2017 19:56 |
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LemonDrizzle posted:https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/859479841116217344 Looks like they're really trying to capitalise on Theresa May being literally the most popular politician in British history.
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# ? May 2, 2017 19:58 |
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Pissflaps posted:So saying twice as many people favour the Tories than labour isn't exactly much of a mitigation for this poll? That's because I'm not the strawman you invented of all Corbyn supporters.
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# ? May 2, 2017 20:02 |
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Verizian posted:I had a really weird dream last night that someone mocked up a spitting image style puppet of May and made a creepy video that was just a shrill falsetto screaming "STRONG AND STABLE!" as deep rumblings drew closer, distant sirens ramped up, and her head wobbled back and forth violently on a springy neck. Then everything exploded in nuclear fire and endless screaming. I don't think that was a dream, more of a burning bush moment.
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# ? May 2, 2017 20:16 |
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The stable door has bolted
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# ? May 2, 2017 20:18 |
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https://twitter.com/panoparker/status/859398550127616004
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# ? May 2, 2017 20:24 |
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Oberleutnant posted:Looks like they're really trying to capitalise on Theresa May being literally the most popular politician in British history. The press and the hardliners in her party will turn on her like rabid dogs as soon as the inevitable Brexit compromises begin. I still can't understand why she even wants the job of Prime Minister, unless she really is too dull to understand how it's going to turn out for her.
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# ? May 2, 2017 20:32 |
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I don't think May is particularly strong and I definitely don't think she is very stable.
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# ? May 2, 2017 20:36 |
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https://twitter.com/antony_calvert/status/853880478117617665
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# ? May 2, 2017 20:37 |
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Pistol_Pete posted:The press and the hardliners in her party will turn on her like rabid dogs as soon as the inevitable Brexit compromises begin. I still can't understand why she even wants the job of Prime Minister, unless she really is too dull to understand how it's going to turn out for her. May isn't big on compromise. I suspect that 'beloved leader of an empire of corpses and ash' is her more likely endgame, whether she reaslises it or not. The Tories are trying to turn us into a martyrdom culture, and are having an impressive amount of success.
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# ? May 2, 2017 20:37 |
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Man's got a point, you can't be working class if you... buy stuff... from... big corporations bad taste in coffee tho
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# ? May 2, 2017 20:39 |
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Horrible taste in coffee seems p class agnostic tbh.
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