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Labour | 907 | 49.92% | |
Theresa May Team (Conservative) | 48 | 2.64% | |
Liberal Democrats | 31 | 1.71% | |
UKIP | 13 | 0.72% | |
Plaid Cymru | 25 | 1.38% | |
Green | 22 | 1.21% | |
Scottish Socialist Party | 12 | 0.66% | |
Scottish Conservative Party | 1 | 0.06% | |
Scottish National Party | 59 | 3.25% | |
Some Kind of Irish Unionist | 4 | 0.22% | |
Alliance / Irish Nonsectarian | 3 | 0.17% | |
Some Kind of Irish Nationalist | 36 | 1.98% | |
Misc. Far Left Trots | 35 | 1.93% | |
Misc. Far Right Fash | 8 | 0.44% | |
Monster Raving Loony | 49 | 2.70% | |
Space Navies Party | 39 | 2.15% | |
Independent / Single Issue | 2 | 0.11% | |
Can't Vote | 188 | 10.35% | |
Won't Vote | 8 | 0.44% | |
Spoiled Ballot | 15 | 0.83% | |
Pissflaps | 312 | 17.17% | |
Total: | 1817 votes |
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Local government elections were held across Great Britain, with Conservatives making significant gains of 500 seats and seizing control of 11 councils. UKIP lost all 145 seats they were defending. Labour lost 300+ seats and Liberal Democrats lost 41. Labour is beaten into third place by the Conservatives in Scotland, although the SNP is the largest party by a wide margin. The Conservatives won four out of six city mayoral races, including Tees Valley, where the Conservative candidate promised public ownership of the local airport, and the West Midlands. The comma there is important. Theresa May, holding together a hair thin majority in Parliament, called a snap general election about a month beforehand. It went through easily under the terms of the FTPA, with multipartisan support. It was expected to be a All this sets the stage for: Who Is Running? The Labour Party Once a sensible centre-left party, has now allegedly become a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist party on account of having a moderate democratic-socialist leader and a chancellor who read some economists. Wants to save the NHS, setup an NES for Their home secretary did want a billion extra police at a sixpence a month rather than ensuring that existing ones don't have to use foodbanks and scrapping ineffective laws, but now they're more about making prison a last resort. Allegedly will take us back to the 70s and bring back disco. Can you resist the seductive power of Jeremy Corbyn? Manifesto The Co-operative Party Centre-left political party supporting co-operative values. All Co-operative Party MPs are Labour Party MPs, but not all Labour Party MPs are Co-operative Party MPs, although they did nearly split after Brexit. Gordon Brown and Ed "Ed Balls" Balls were notable members. His wife Yvette Cooper is not, due to her insistence on the electric chair for people who steal Truly Irresistible sausages. Manifesto The Theresa May Team (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) Wants a red white and blue Brexit, with less reds and more whites. Prefers no deal to a bad deal on Brexit, even though no deal is the worst deal. Pledges to reduce net migration to the tens of thousands by deporting benefits claimants to the colonies. Current manifesto is the words 'Strong and Stable' repeated over and over and something about feeding people with dementia into a shredder. Wants a free vote on loving about on horseback bothering livestock. Will replace the internet with dead foxes and Saudi arms receipts. Manifesto Liberal Democrats Prefers a soft Brexit with a second referendum, bans on the chemicals that turn frogs gay, and probably a second coalition with the Tories or whoever will have them. Actual good policies include cannabis legalization and a support for encryption. Manifesto Green Party Environmentalist anti-Brexit party. Will scrap the new nuclear plants and replace them with energy from healing crystals. Manifesto United Kingdom Independence Party Led by a walking Twitter egg turned angry testicle. Vote has collapsed since Brexit. Currently proposing a 'one in one out' immigration system and bans on vitamin D destroying burqas. Expect burbling about 'religiously motivated rape'. Will hopefully propose some amusing last minute lolbertarian policies on top of the usual shite. Manifesto Scots Naitional Pairtie Actually, they're civic nationalists. Angling for a second IndyRef after the Brexit deal. Pro-EU. Manifesto Scots Socialist Pairtie Still more electable than Scottish Labour. Manifesto Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party Strongly Unionist. Tory. A lot more pro-European than the Theresa May Party, but will probably be railroaded into Brexit means Brexit. Thinks Corbyn mocks Oor Boys because he's friends with Irishmen. Manifesto Plaid Cymru Cenedlaetholwyr Cymreig. Chwith adain mewn ardaloedd dinesig, adain dde mewn ardaloedd gwledig. Dal yn well na'r Torοaid. Maniffesto Sinn Fιin Led by Sinn Fιin Dad (and Michelle O'Neill in the North). They're left wing and their MPs somehow manage to do more useful work than those of some English constituencies despite refusing to turn up. Supports Irish reunification and republicanism. Manifesto SDLP Sounds like a graphics standard for laptops, logo looks like a detergent company. Allied somewhat with The Labour Party, they're a social-democratic party that support reunification but not so much that they won't travel to London. Manifesto Democratic Unionist Party Right wing Protestant party. Anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-Pope. Position on aborting gay popes unknown. Believes in the prosperity gospel and horse solaria. Manifesto Ulster Unionist Party Diet unionists. Less of the insane religious angle, still economically right wing. Manifesto Alliance Party of Northern Ireland Liberal centrists. Nonsectarian. May be linked with the Liberal Democrats, if they feel like it. Manifesto Traditional Unionist Voice Jim Allister's voice. Nobody wants to hear it. Manifesto People Before Profit Alliance Anti-austerity party active across all Ireland. Socialist, Trotskyist and Eurosceptic. Manifesto So Who Do I Vote For? Vote For Policies 2017 Edition Last Time Around In Other News Manchester is hit by a bomb attack, killing 23 people. A UKIP ex-MEP calls for the death penalty for suicide bombers. Theresa May starts Operation Peterloo, allowing 5,000 soldiers to replace armed police in parts of the country. Buckingham Palace announces that the Duke of Edinburgh is to step down from carrying out royal engagements in the autumn. Boris Johnson is to take over duties of making racist remarks to foreigners. The NHS is suffers a major ransomware attack, demanding ransom money for the return of NHS functionality. Whereabouts of Jeremy 'Neo' Hunt unknown. Human rights and anti-torture campaigner Muhammad Rabbani is charged under the Terrorism Act for refusing to hand over passwords to his laptop containing torture victims' confidential details to Moors murderer Tony Blair says the left wing press are being unfair to Donald Trump. Unrelated, Ian Brady dies in hospital. Buy-to-let bigot Fergus Wilson updated his terms, now banning zero-hours workers, single parents, and domestic violence victims from renting his properties, in addition to low-paid workers, benefit claimants, and 'the coloureds'. Theresa May releases a terrifying vision for a Tory-regulated internet full of blocked content, forced Prevent ads, and a levy on internet companies "to pay for advertising schemes to tell people about the dangers of the internet." Groby Pool scores top dog for outdoor activities. Days until the general election: 7 Days until Super Hard Double Red White and Blue Brexit Means Brexit: UKMT Book Battlebus Liberalism, a Counter History Domenico Losurdo Libertarian Communism Isaac Puente Amestoy At The Cafι Malatesta The Method of Freedom Malatesta In Praise of Idleness Russell Political Ideals Russell Declaration Hardt and Negri God and the State Bakunin The Conquest of Bread Kropotkin Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism V I Lenin Anarchism and Other Essays Emma Goldman Social Reform or Revolution Rosa Luxemburg Violence Slavoj Zizek Jihad vs. McWorld - Benjamin Barber Ecology of Freedom Murray Bookchin Anarchism, Marxism and the Future of the Left Murray Bookchin Let's Read Das Kapital Karl Marx and Goons Election of the Member of Parliament for the UKMT constituency Independent Working Class Association 2015 General Election Thread UKMT May 2017 UKMT April 2017 UKMT March 2017 UKMT February 2017 UKMT January 2017 Scotland Against Crooked Lawyers Scotpol Thread Liverpool Protestant Party EDL/Fash Thread 4 Freedoms Party Europol Thread Young People's Party UK Paedogeddon/Press Corruption Thread Guildford Greenbelt Group Trainchat Thread Idle Toad Political Cartoons Thread Pirate Party UK #ukgoons on synIRC (thanks crispix). Natural Law Party quote:1. It's not a person's fault if they are poor; R. Guyovich posted:PISSFLAPS AND YOU Namtab posted:PISSFLAPS AND YAOI Update Holy poo poo. A whole lot of stuff has happened since the Election, but basically Corbyn the absolute lad massively outperformed expectations, May massively underperformed, and there's now a hung parliament. Labour gained Kensington and Chelsea. Largest shift since Attlee. Theresa May has announced she will attempt to form a government, many people are assuming this will come with DUP backing, which she didn't ask them about, and SF are saying this violates the Good Friday Agreement. Nick Clegg lost his seat, as did some cabinet MPs, and SNP heavyweights Alex Salmond and Angus Robertson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSS1FIkGOX8 The BBC made a video of May's last stand: https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/873293448954171395 And the renewed media focus on the DUP and Norn Iron has left many people asking: Mister Adequate posted:Alright lads and lasses, seeing as there's a lot of questions about Are Wee Country given the DUP issue, I'm going to put together a small effortpost that can hopefully clear some things up. Bear in mind that I've not actually lived in the province for some time now, and though it's an area of interest, it's not an area I could be called a specialist. You can probably assume that anyone correcting me is more accurate than I am. Also, full disclosure, family of mine was killed in the Shankill Road Bombing of 1993, and I in principle support unification, so various biases may show. Anyway, caveats out of the way, here goes: Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 01:01 on Jun 10, 2017 |
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Snap election primer in 87 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpSIzx0Ta0Y
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# ? Jun 1, 2017 00:03 |
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And as per usual, our thread motto and how we're all going to feel on the morning of June 9th
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quote:Sorry mate, I've had a glass of wine and I can't quite tell whats what. What do you mean by this? You are looking forward to your worst fears being confirmed or something? I just love election night telly.
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Pissflaps posted:I just love election night telly. I do hope you'll be providing us with live commentary. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ? Jun 1, 2017 00:07 |
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I'm going to kissflaps
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# ? Jun 1, 2017 00:08 |
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Thats a cracking OP. Its the pickled onion flavour Monster Munch of OPs.
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# ? Jun 1, 2017 00:08 |
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Next phase of campaigning:
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# ? Jun 1, 2017 00:09 |
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Not putting me in the poll is an outrage and I urge you to use whichever option is closest in alphabetical order to namtab to vote for me E: that would be "monster raving loony"
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# ? Jun 1, 2017 00:09 |
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Reminder:quote:So here we go - forget vote share, that's for internal wrangling afterwards and arguments about FPTP, the important thing is who ends up running the country and how much they're going to have to fight their own backbenchers afterwards. Please remember to quote one of my posts if you want to enter because I'm only skimming the thread at the moment, if you've entered and I've not replied to you let me know.
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# ? Jun 1, 2017 00:09 |
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I'm not from England, I don't know how things work over there, but why are Lib Dems in this election? Weren't they completely destroyed last time you guys decided to have an election? How are they still claiming to be a political party?
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# ? Jun 1, 2017 00:10 |
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Bangin' OP, very good photographs.
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Guy Goodbody posted:I'm not from England, I don't know how things work over there, but why are Lib Dems in this election? Weren't they completely destroyed last time you guys decided to have an election? How are they still claiming to be a political party?
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Guy Goodbody posted:I'm not from England, I don't know how things work over there, but why are Lib Dems in this election? Weren't they completely destroyed last time you guys decided to have an election? How are they still claiming to be a political party? By still having members and mps
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Guy Goodbody posted:I'm not from England, I don't know how things work over there, but why are Lib Dems in this election? Weren't they completely destroyed last time you guys decided to have an election? How are they still claiming to be a political party? That is not dead which can eternal lie about their policies, and with strange aeons even frogs may stop being gay because of chemicals.
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# ? Jun 1, 2017 00:11 |
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Please Satan give us the Labour majority.
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# ? Jun 1, 2017 00:12 |
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Lord of the Llamas posted:I do hope you'll be providing us with live commentary. I'll put you down as 'labour majority'. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ? Jun 1, 2017 00:12 |
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Namtab posted:Not putting me in the poll is an outrage and I urge you to use whichever option is closest in alphabetical order to namtab to vote for me Alternatively the mods should add a namtab option
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there are nonsectarian parties in Northern Ireland? I thought that was against the law or something
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:And as per usual, our thread motto and how we're all going to feel on the morning of June 9th
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Tesseraction posted:Please Satan give us the Labour majority.
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Angepain posted:there are nonsectarian parties in Northern Ireland? I thought that was against the law or something
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# ? Jun 1, 2017 00:14 |
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The poll in the OP with Labour as blue and Conservatives as red is triggering me. mods?
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Guy Goodbody posted:I'm not from England, I don't know how things work over there, but why are Lib Dems in this election? Weren't they completely destroyed last time you guys decided to have an election? How are they still claiming to be a political party? Well, uhh, look at the seat predictions in the post above yours. Serious answer: there's plenty of parties who do even worse, they are still one of the more significant national parties. Plus the thing about them having a long history.
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# ? Jun 1, 2017 00:14 |
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\o/ share your energy with Corbyn, only he can slay mayjin buu
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Guy Goodbody posted:I'm not from England, I don't know how things work over there, but why are Lib Dems in this election? Weren't they completely destroyed last time you guys decided to have an election? How are they still claiming to be a political party? the worst thing about americans using the terms "england" and "the uk" interchangeably is that you're never quite sure if they're being too specific for no good reason or if they actually just don't know what your country is called the lib dems have 1 mp in scotland and one in wales i'll have you know, so I'm assuming you live in the shetlands and are just very unobservant about politics
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Paperhouse posted:The poll in the OP with Labour as blue and Conservatives as red is triggering me. mods? ? It's Labour red and Con Blue for me.
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Angepain posted:there are nonsectarian parties in Northern Ireland? I thought that was against the law or something
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Pissflaps posted:I just love election night telly. Fair enough, it is exciting. This will surely be DImbleby's last. I wonder who will do future ones. edit>> although I haven't checked is Andrew Neil already taking over?
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# ? Jun 1, 2017 00:15 |
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I'm boycotting the thread poll until I am included
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# ? Jun 1, 2017 00:16 |
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The last election night I saw was Trump and that went from hopeful to apocalyptic within a few horus.
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# ? Jun 1, 2017 00:17 |
Guavanaut posted:You normally have to declare as republican or unionist but there is an 'other' option for parties like Alliance. I'm pretty sure it's one of Mao's types of liberalism.
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Reposting this since it was posted in what I assume was the middle of a debate: Even though I'm an American I took yer poll fer poo poo an giggles. http://imgur.com/a/Zer0v The poll sucked - that or the way the campaigns present themselves is very misleading. Even I who follows British politics quite closely, was unable to decipher quite a bit of the policy questions.
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Namtab posted:I'm boycotting the thread poll until I am included I'm delighted with my strong early showing. Well on course to being recognised as the official Opposition.
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That parliawint thing is really played out
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ISeeCuckedPeople posted:Reposting this since it was posted in what I assume was the middle of a debate: I mean, that you got lib dem might just mean you're not that well acquainted with UK politics.
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Ground floor, let's go Corbyn, it's Full Communism time.
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ISeeCuckedPeople posted:Reposting this since it was posted in what I assume was the middle of a debate: We're going to have to have words about your ideas re: health policy
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