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What is the best flav... you all know what this question is:
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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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dex_sda
Oct 11, 2012


NotJustANumber99 posted:

His name is Nick.

it's pronounced hay-sous

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biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



jabby posted:

Jesus Clegg. "Most politicians are not amoral beings".

"But don't worry, we'll get there"

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

https://twitter.com/WillBlackWriter/status/870054627886157824

jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer

Sapozhnik posted:

If I'm going to dare to hope then the British do have a soft spot for plucky underdogs who surge back at the 11th hour against incredible odds. At least when it comes to sport they do. So maybe that will give Labour the push they need over the finish line. And I mean May's campaign has really been making an incredible pig's ear of things, which just depresses me because she's still the most likely to win.

Still, Labour winning with a razor thin majority would be an utterly poo poo place to be for the country. Yes we're likely to see a lot more sense in the Brexit negotiations on account of Brexit's unique power to burn the with something vaguely approaching the same intensity as it will burn the working man, but the government's working majority is going to be held to ransom on matters of domestic policy by red tory cunts every step of the way, which is going to absolutely shatter all the youthful energy behind the movement that we're currently building up. We'd end up with a British Obama administration.
If Labour gets a razor thin majority I think there will be a honeymoon period where some good legislation is passed because the party's been out of government for nearly a decade, after that, who knows. I don't think it's very likely even though it would be nice.

mehall
Aug 27, 2010


There was also no Tory candidate at the Hustings I went to, but I wasn't surprised a Tory didn't want to appear in front of politically motivated people in Govan.


Both Matt Kerr and Chris Stephens were excellent speakers, have excellent views, and I will be glad to have either as my representative in a weeks time.

jabby
Oct 27, 2010

Akala on This Week totally walking all over Ed Balls and Michael Gove.

BobbyThompson
Mar 23, 2001

Pissflaps posted:

Honest answer:

Corbyn has far exceeded my expectations of how he would perform in an election, and has run easily the better campaign. He's a much improved politician compared to, say, six months ago. While I have big misgivings over his defence and foreign policy positions, I see enough good in his domestic policies that I want to see him as Prime Minister.

Having said that, I think we're currently in a very febrile stage of the election. All these cheering crowds we see on twitter videos and rallies and surges in the polls. It's going to mean nothing on the calm of the election day itself. There's not a doubt in my mind that the Tories will be returned with an extremely comfortable majority.

And this is a Tory leadership that has shown itself to be utterly incapable of running an election campaign. It's getting laughed at during debates, mocked on social media, the press has turned on it. It's utterly beatable. Labour should win this election. But it won't - and that's because the guy at the top carries too much baggage. He isn't a prime minister and all the people you don't see tweeting and cheering and laughing simply won't vote for him.


A while back I called him the Boaty McBoatface of politics and I think that holds true now more than ever. Right now it's very exciting and anything seems possible, but we're going to wake up on Friday 9th with a big Blue hangover.

Stay hydrated.




edit: i didnt actually answer the question. If Corbyn fails to deliver a Labour government he should resign.

I'm stealing this prose and telling the wife i wrote it.

I'm a bit of a simpleton generally and think Amanda Holden is the epitome of fashion.

JOHNSON COCKSLAP
Apr 2, 2017

by Lowtax

oh look at this child.

I'm going to vote tory now.

TACD
Oct 27, 2000

Josef bugman posted:

Oh and I prefer the folkier stuff from Norway

Moddi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX5FpPP4TSA
Norwegian electronica my dude :cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHiqPG0526U

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


jabby posted:

Akala on This Week totally walking all over Ed Balls and Michael Gove.

Unironically Akala for PM.

Angepain
Jul 13, 2012

what keeps happening to my clothes

I disagree with that addition in the square brackets, I think she knows fine what she means, and I agree with her. Theresa May should absolutely be biscuits.

ShaneMacGowansTeeth
May 22, 2007



I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

Todd Terje is the loving man

thehappyprince
Apr 4, 2006

Alastair Cock

they should teach akala's fire in the booths in schools imo, especially part 3

Tigey
Apr 6, 2015

Getting bombarded with huge numbers of Tory political ads on Youtube: almost getting no other type of ads

Most of which look really terrible and low effort, with a bland uninspiring speech from May to bland uninspiring music

Angepain
Jul 13, 2012

what keeps happening to my clothes

Tigey posted:

Getting bombarded with huge numbers of Tory political ads on Youtube: almost getting no other type of ads

Most of which look really terrible and low effort, with a bland uninspiring speech from May to bland uninspiring music

I've just started getting ones for the Scottish Liberal Democrats.

what kind of monster do you think I am, Google

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Tigey posted:

Getting bombarded with huge numbers of Tory political ads on Youtube: almost getting no other type of ads

Most of which look really terrible and low effort, with a bland uninspiring speech from May to bland uninspiring music

Got a long way to go to beat: https://twitter.com/tristandross/status/870234555697029120

TomViolence
Feb 19, 2013

PLEASE ASK ABOUT MY 80,000 WORD WALLACE AND GROMIT SLASH FICTION. PLEASE.

Tigey posted:

Getting bombarded with huge numbers of Tory political ads on Youtube: almost getting no other type of ads

Most of which look really terrible and low effort, with a bland uninspiring speech from May to bland uninspiring music

Had a stab at improving one of them.

https://twitter.com/tvlistening/status/869281109984645121

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
North-East Somerset hustings have wrapped up - in a typical case of contrarianism, Rees-Mogg showed up for this one after avoiding all the others, though judging by the Twitter response, he may have wished he hadn't.

Did some leafleting, and interestingly, it looks like there's an informal deal between Labour and the Lib Dems - the Dems campaign for Bath, Labour goes for North-East Somerset, and they each stay the hell out of each other's way. Wera Hobhouse is the Bath Dem MP candidate, which is probably a reflection of their priorities - I met her in 2015, when she was going for North-East Somerset, and she was impressively competent.

TACD
Oct 27, 2000

ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:

Todd Terje is the loving man
This entire set is pretty :krad:, you can jump to any moment and it's straight awesome.

Lindstrřm is cool too :)

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

Post your address, we'll send namtab round. You can seduce each other

Let's me clear here, this is one way seduction. I am immune to pissflaps hypothetical charms, but he is not immune to mine.

Angepain
Jul 13, 2012

what keeps happening to my clothes

is she trying to play the circle game on us

thehappyprince
Apr 4, 2006

Alastair Cock

i got a lib dem youtube ad when i was about to watch a conspiracy video about an ancient tank being found on the moon. don't know if it was me that was targeted or people who might think there's chemicals turning the frogs gay.

ShaneMacGowansTeeth
May 22, 2007



I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

TACD posted:

This entire set is pretty :krad:, you can jump to any moment and it's straight awesome.


ok that's freaky because that's exactly what I'm listening to right now and have been for the past half hour

darkwasthenight
Jan 7, 2011

GENE TRAITOR

Tigey posted:

Getting bombarded with huge numbers of Tory political ads on Youtube: almost getting no other type of ads

Most of which look really terrible and low effort, with a bland uninspiring speech from May to bland uninspiring music

They're pushing targeted advertising hard in marginal targets apparently. My friend down south has been getting repeated attack ads, directed against JC rather than being pro-Tory.

I know the Beeb are trying to cover use of targeted advertising but are struggling because they can't see it unless it's reported, and I'm a bit worried considering how effective it's been claimed to be for the Brexit/Trump campaigns.

MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

A bracing glass of carrot juice!

Gonzo McFee posted:

That's who she is!? The woman who took a picture of that house covered in England flags and the Sun acted as if it was an endorsement of ISIS?

I loving love her.

She takes pictures of absolutely everywhere she goes, it was a total stitch up that the Labour higher ups went along with

forkboy84 posted:

He posted in the train thread quite recently. Well, within this year.

I remember he was going to move to Glasgow for work. Assume he got very busy in that new job.

Yeah, he works for Scotrail now and has a more active social life in Glasgow than he did down south.

Loving Africa Chaps posted:

It is absolutely a contributing factor, next time you have a skinful have a pint of water before you go to bed. It makes a massive difference*

I swear by a bit of lucozade sport or similar, or fruit juice

TomViolence
Feb 19, 2013

PLEASE ASK ABOUT MY 80,000 WORD WALLACE AND GROMIT SLASH FICTION. PLEASE.

Angepain posted:

is she trying to play the circle game on us

I seriously doubt Theresa in her current state can deliver a dead arm without somehow coming off worse.

MrL_JaKiri posted:

I swear by a bit of lucozade sport or similar, or fruit juice

Irn bru's pretty great for the night before and the morning after imo. Has to be ice cold, though.

TACD
Oct 27, 2000

ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:

ok that's freaky because that's exactly what I'm listening to right now and have been for the past half hour
:hfive:

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
The Mail is dunking on May for not speaking out enough on behalf of the environment.

Goddamn.

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

drat I thought the mail loved supporting nazis like Trump

Angepain
Jul 13, 2012

what keeps happening to my clothes

Wait, the Mail actually accept that climate change is a thing? Or are they just mad that america will get all the economic advantages of being able to pollute everywhere it's hard to tell if these people actually believe things

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xPw8E1M6Ac

This my jam

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:

drat I thought the mail loved supporting nazis like Trump

It's even weirder for their headlines to acknowledge that climate change exists

TomViolence
Feb 19, 2013

PLEASE ASK ABOUT MY 80,000 WORD WALLACE AND GROMIT SLASH FICTION. PLEASE.

The Mail wants a green and pleasant land populated with white heterosexuals, they probably have some weird anti-modernist green right stance on environmental issues when it comes right down to it.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

TomViolence posted:

The Mail wants a green and pleasant land populated with white heterosexuals, they probably have some weird anti-modernist green right stance on environmental issues when it comes right down to it.

I grew up reading the mail, they really don't.

Angepain
Jul 13, 2012

what keeps happening to my clothes
Pretty much exactly a week now until we will probably have a good idea of precisely how hosed we actually are. I don't know how many more polls I can handle.

big scary monsters
Sep 2, 2011

-~Skullwave~-

Was that :byewhore: audio cut at the end intentional?

TomViolence
Feb 19, 2013

PLEASE ASK ABOUT MY 80,000 WORD WALLACE AND GROMIT SLASH FICTION. PLEASE.

big scary monsters posted:

Was that :byewhore: audio cut at the end intentional?

Nope, never noticed that until now but what good luck

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
The closing paragraphs of that LRB article I linked earlier are getting funnier by the day:

quote:

At the same time, her domestic advantages remain formidable. She has qualities that will make her very hard to dislodge as prime minister. One is that, as Liam Fox puts it, ‘she knows and likes the Conservative Party.’ Cameron didn’t, however hard he tried to conceal it. What’s more, May gives a strong impression of liking her wider electorate, or at least having no desire to judge them by any standards other than their own. It is often said of democratic politics that the question voters ask of any leader is: ‘Do I like this person?’ But it seems more likely that the question at the back of their minds is: ‘Would this person like me?’ Cameron did OK on that score – better than Ed Miliband – because many voters suspected he would at least be polite and try to conceal any awkwardness he felt. But May is a natural. Weirdly, she has this in common with Trump, with whom she perhaps shares more than meets the eye. Trump too, for all his manifold unpleasantness, does a good job of seeming to be non-judgmental when it comes to his voting public. He is unspeakable to his fellow politicians, to the press, to his employees, to immigrants and to the women who are unfortunate enough to appear to him worth coveting. But to anyone who doesn’t fall into those categories, he might seem like a good person to hang out with. Hillary never managed to pass that test. Nor does Corbyn. Prince sees the contrast between the characters of the new leaders of Britain and the United States as ‘almost comical’. But she wrote that before they met. They seemed to get along fine. And now that May has invited Trump over, heaven help anyone who tries to get her to break her promise.

Of course, May has plenty of other qualities that distinguish her from Trump, and from the politician with whom she is most often compared, Thatcher. Anne Jenkin, who helped set up Women2Win with May, says of the two: ‘Thatcher was the outsider. She was a man’s woman, and that was the secret of her success. She liked men; she liked men more than she liked women. And I don’t think that’s the case with Theresa.’ Women2Win has turned out to be anything but a PR exercise. All the women in May’s current cabinet, barring the leader of the Lords, Baroness Evans, were helped to enter Parliament by May’s organisation. As well as being excellent advocacy, that is powerful patronage. May is also, as far as one can tell, strikingly uncorrupt. She emerged not just unscathed but enhanced from the expenses scandal, when it was revealed that she had claimed well under her allowance and was one of the most frugal members of the Commons. In the words of one of her colleagues, she was ‘an expenses saint’. Above all, she has staying power, which is a priceless asset in politics. Time can turn anything around if you’re still in a position to benefit. Has there ever been a joke that’s waited longer for its punchline than the one she delivered at last year’s party conference, a moment of perfectly judged political malice to set against the rabble-rousing that preceded it? After she had described Labour under Corbyn – ‘not just divided but divisive, determined to pursue vendettas and settle scores … fighting among themselves, abusing their own MPs’ – she told her audience: ‘You know what some people call them? The nasty party.’ Europe may yet destroy May as prime minister, as it destroyed her three Conservative predecessors. But in the meantime, it is the Labour Party that should be feeling haunted.

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/n...y-35778860.html

Theresa May defends Tory candidate who made 'shocking' comments about rape and homosexuality

quote:

Theresa May has defended a Conservative parliamentary candidate who made "shocking" comments about rape and homosexuality.

Peter Cuthbertson, the Tory candidate for Darlington, had said a woman's "promiscuity" was relevant in determining whether she had consented to sex in rape cases.

At a press conference, the Prime Minister said: "Peter has made clear that his views have changed."

The 33-year old public affairs consultant made the comments, and others, in a series of blogposts in the early 2000s.

In another blog post on the Conservative Commentary website Mr Cuthbertson praised a “courageous priest jailed in Sweden for preaching against homosexuality”.

He also accused “left-wing students, pensioners, nurses, doctors, teachers, local council workers" of seeming to "conduct never-ending campaigns to seize more money from other people".

The blog posts were written when he was a university student aged between 18 and 20.

In her answer to the question, Ms May did not condemn the prospective MP, and instead laid out her record on domestic violence: “You reference my own position on some of these things: I have been very clear as home secretary over six years and continuing as Prime Minister, a number of issues that i’ve been addressing particularly around domestic violence.

“We’re seeing more people willing to come forward an report allegations of rape and we’re seeing more prosecutions for rape. I think we have seen a step change in the way the criminal justice system deals with these cases but we need to keep looking at this.

“That’s why we’ve announced that we will bring in a single piece of domestic violence legislation with a clear definition of domestic violence - so that we eradicate this abuse in our country.

“It’s not just abuse of women, of course, because domestic violence can take place against men as well and we should never forget that.”

Labour's election coordinator Andrew Gwynne told the Guardian newspaper, which first reported the comments, that they were “absolutely shocking”.

Mr Cuthbertson had told the newspaper that he “definitely does not have all the same views as my adolescent self”.

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Pochoclo
Feb 4, 2008

No...
Clapping Larry

Angepain posted:

Wait, the Mail actually accept that climate change is a thing? Or are they just mad that america will get all the economic advantages of being able to pollute everywhere it's hard to tell if these people actually believe things

They believe in profit from ads. Their readers though... I mean, second top comment is "Global Warming is a SCAM" so you can't expect much from them

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