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| Labour |
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907 | 49.92% |
| Theresa May Team (Conservative) |
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48 | 2.64% |
| Liberal Democrats |
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31 | 1.71% |
| UKIP |
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13 | 0.72% |
| Plaid Cymru |
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25 | 1.38% |
| Green |
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22 | 1.21% |
| Scottish Socialist Party |
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12 | 0.66% |
| Scottish Conservative Party |
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1 | 0.06% |
| Scottish National Party |
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59 | 3.25% |
| Some Kind of Irish Unionist |
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4 | 0.22% |
| Alliance / Irish Nonsectarian |
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3 | 0.17% |
| Some Kind of Irish Nationalist |
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36 | 1.98% |
| Misc. Far Left Trots |
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35 | 1.93% |
| Misc. Far Right Fash |
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8 | 0.44% |
| Monster Raving Loony |
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49 | 2.70% |
| Space Navies Party |
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39 | 2.15% |
| Independent / Single Issue |
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2 | 0.11% |
| Can't Vote |
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188 | 10.35% |
| Won't Vote |
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8 | 0.44% |
| Spoiled Ballot |
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15 | 0.83% |
| Pissflaps |
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312 | 17.17% |
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I dunno, Boris has probably been saving those pig loving pictures for just such an occasion.
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Sturgeon warming up this tactic from 2015 to help the Tories https://twitter.com/JamieRoss7/status/870552710466199552
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Jun 2, 2017 09:16
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Pissflaps posted:Sturgeon warming up this tactic from 2015 to help the Tories gently caress the SNP, accelerationist little shits that they are
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Jun 2, 2017 09:19
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Baron Corbyn posted:gently caress the SNP, accelerationist little shits that they are The SNP loving loathe the tories, are you surprised that they'd take any opportunity they could to utterly gently caress them?
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Jun 2, 2017 09:21
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tithin posted:The SNP loving loathe the tories, are you surprised that they'd take any opportunity they could to utterly gently caress them? Problem is this will give the tories a bat to beat labor with, just like they did last time
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Jun 2, 2017 09:23
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tithin posted:The SNP loving loathe the tories, are you surprised that they'd take any opportunity they could to utterly gently caress them? That's the tack to take, though, not "We'll help Jeremy Corbyn".
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Jun 2, 2017 09:24
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tithin posted:The SNP loving loathe the tories, are you surprised that they'd take any opportunity they could to utterly gently caress them? You're not thinking politically enough, friend.
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Jun 2, 2017 09:24
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tithin posted:The SNP loving loathe the tories, are you surprised that they'd take any opportunity they could to utterly gently caress them? You've got this wrong. The SNP want to help the Tories in England. The SNP want a Tory government. Both parties conspired (not directly, but through common purpose) in 2015 to portray an election result that could be a weak labour government propped up/having its 'feet held to the fire' by the SNP. This fed the respective narrative of both parties. They're doing it again now. I expect a remix of the 'Milliband in pocket' poster any day.
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I've been donating little bits of money to the Labour campaign whenever they send out their begging letters. Their most recent drive is to raise another half a million by polling day.quote:I spoke with Jeremy this morning and he couldn't wait to tell me: we made history yesterday. In a way only our movement could. This being the bosom of sweltering Labour party adoration that it is I'm sure most if not all of you have contributed something to their campaign already, but if not, why not throw Big Jez a fiver, and make America great again.
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Ah but since this is 9 dimensional chess they're only pretending to help the tories now by appearing to gently caress Labour when they know that if they win a majority it will be the Tories that get blamed for Brexit.
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Jun 2, 2017 09:26
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Guavanaut posted:The military dictatorship thing does have some appeal, in that last time around it led shortly after to a bourgeois revolution and the penning of an actual written bill of rights. I can think of a number of issues with Skinner leading a pro-remain military dictatorship
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Jun 2, 2017 09:28
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I didn't say pro-remain.
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Subsequently followed by an SIS dictatorship using plans drawn up in the seventies.
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Gort posted:That's the tack to take, though, not "We'll help Jeremy Corbyn". Bzzzt wrong! Think it through. A statement like "We'll make Corbyn Prime Minister" works for the SNP on every level. The SNP's greatest fear has got to be wavering voters going back to Labour. A statement like this gives those voters permission to vote SNP, even if they really like Labour. It sets the SNP up as kingmakers in Westminster in the event of a good Labour result in England. This is just good PR in Scotland, regardless of the actual political wrangling that takes place. They know that on balance a statement like this probably hurts Labour in rUK more than it helps, but if Labour subsequently lose the SNP can blame the tory hellfucking on English Labour and English voters not being progressive enough, and they still have the Tory bogeyman in power for all usual purposes. If Labour win? See point 2. It's spiteful and selfish of the SNP, but logically I think it's a flawless stance to be crowing about how they're going to be crowning Corbyn's Grime Ministership.
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Jun 2, 2017 09:43
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Oberleutnant posted:You're not thinking politically enough, friend. I'm not a resident anymore and I get my source of british politics from this friend, do fill me in 
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Jun 2, 2017 09:43
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See above for my expert political analysis. Give me a job at the Guardian imo
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Jun 2, 2017 09:50
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UK now the worst-performing advanced economy in the world after post-Brexit vote slumpquote:The UK is now the worst-performing advanced economy in the world, with growth slumping to just 0.2 per cent in the first three months of the year. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...g-a7766286.html
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Jun 2, 2017 09:55
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This will work a bit but the Tories are in a loving state it'll be hard to make any coalition look worse than a party which is failing to make public appearances and whose leader is actually in hiding a week before the election. The press will try of course. Edit: It'll probably come too late to help but monthly NHS data is released this Thursday as well so around lunchtime you might start hearing more reports about missed targets.
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namesake posted:This will work a bit but the Tories are in a loving state it'll be hard to make any coalition look worse than a party which is failing to make public appearances and whose leader is actually in hiding a week before the election. Might be too late to make a difference at that point, but maybe some kind soul will leak it early 
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Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:UK now the worst-performing advanced economy in the world after post-Brexit vote slump So strong. Much stable.
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Oberleutnant posted:See above for my expert political analysis. Give me a job at the Guardian imo Thanks!
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Jun 2, 2017 09:59
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Oberleutnant posted:Bzzzt wrong! I guess the problem is Sturgeon didn't say that and explicitly ruled out a formal coalition in the article, all she said was she'd work on an issue by issue basis with 'progressive parties' (i.e. Labour) to support a progressive agenda. Buzzfeed just put a sensationalist and imo outright untrue spin on the interview and Pissflaps ate it up because he's an idiot.
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Jun 2, 2017 10:00
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namesake posted:This will work a bit but the Tories are in a loving state it'll be hard to make any coalition look worse than a party which is failing to make public appearances and whose leader is actually in hiding a week before the election. The Tories have already been pushing "Coalition of Chaos" from the moment the election started. Sturgeon putting it back in the papers for them isn't great, but I don't think it'll impact too badly this time, momentum is against the Tories. It's going to take a bigger move than an already existing talking point, to get them more than stabilised.
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Jun 2, 2017 10:00
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multijoe posted:I guess the problem is Sturgeon didn't say that and explicitly ruled out a formal coalition in the article, all she said was she'd work on an issue by issue basis with 'progressive parties' (i.e. Labour) to support a progressive agenda. Buzzfeed just put a sensationalist and imo outright untrue spin on the interview and Pissflaps ate it up because he's an idiot. The spin Buzzfeed put on it is correct one and entirely intended by the SNP.
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Jun 2, 2017 10:04
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Oberleutnant posted:See above for my expert political analysis. Give me a job at the Guardian imo Sorry, you didn't praise Yvette Cooper enough.
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mehall posted:The Tories have already been pushing "Coalition of Chaos" from the moment the election started.
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‘Kill them, kill them, kill them’: the volunteer army plotting to wipe out Britain’s grey squirrels posted:She set up strategically placed feeders so that she could pull up quietly in her car, wind down her window and shoot the greys with an air rifle. Her husband got a gun and joined in. The first time I spoke to Bailey by telephone, I asked her how many squirrels she and Phil had eliminated since they began. She paused. I could hear the clicking of a mouse through a spreadsheet. “Four hundred and sixty nine,” she replied. 
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Jun 2, 2017 10:15
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Flatscan posted:Sorry, you didn't praise Yvette Cooper enough. When push comes to shove it's all about Liz Kendall for me.
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Jun 2, 2017 10:16
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peanut- posted:The spin Buzzfeed put on it is correct one and entirely intended by the SNP. The title of the article if 'Nicola Sturgeon Says The SNP Would Help Jeremy Corbyn Become Prime Minister' but in the article itself she rules out the only course of action that could allow him to do if he otherwise couldn't (form a parliamentary majority through a formal coalition). Regardless of whatever you think she may be inferring or the chances of a Labour/SNP coalition if the need and opportunity presented itself, it's still really scummy to outright misquote her imply she'd take a course of action she actually ruled out in that interview.
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Jun 2, 2017 10:18
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Guavanaut posted:I didn't say pro-remain.
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Jun 2, 2017 10:22
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multijoe posted:The title of the article if 'Nicola Sturgeon Says The SNP Would Help Jeremy Corbyn Become Prime Minister' but in the article itself she rules out the only course of action that could allow him to do if he otherwise couldn't (form a parliamentary majority through a formal coalition). Regardless of whatever you think she may be inferring or the chances of a Labour/SNP coalition if the need and opportunity presented itself, it's still really scummy to outright misquote her imply she'd take a course of action she actually ruled out in that interview. Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday, Sturgeon said she'd expect "all sorts of talks" between her and Corbyn in the event of a hung parliament and predicted Scotland would end up being be "pivotal" in the outcome of the election. "I've said very clearly, I said this many times during the 2015 election, that if there was to be a hung parliament – if the parliamentary arithmetic allowed it – then I would want the SNP to be part of a progressive alternative to a Conservative government," said the first minister. If that's not saying "we will decide the outcome for the country in case of no overall control in England", I don't know what is, whether she has a very loving ~nuanced~ opinion about coalitions or not.
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Jun 2, 2017 10:23
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tithin posted:The SNP loving loathe the tories, are you surprised that they'd take any opportunity they could to utterly gently caress them? it's already been explained but they're utterly loving Labour (and subsequently everyone else), not the Tories by saying stuff like this. They want another Tory government because that's one of the conditions to make independence likelier. multijoe posted:Regardless of whatever you think she may be inferring or the chances of a Labour/SNP coalition Sturgeon as the speaker would be implying meaning, a listener infers meaning from what the speaker is saying.
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Jun 2, 2017 10:23
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Cerv posted:Lord_Adonis brought up the military coup in the first place and it was explicitly pro-Remain. sorry i didn't realise your version was supposed to be even loopier. So, uh, have you never heard of 'jokes' before?
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Jun 2, 2017 10:26
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Oberleutnant posted:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/02/kill-them-the-volunteer-army-plotting-to-wipe-out-britains-grey-squirrels  quote:For the last eight years, Prince Charles, as patron of the Red Squirrel Survival Trust, has promoted campaigns to exterminate the greys. Cerv posted:Lord_Adonis brought up the military coup in the first place and it was explicitly pro-Remain. sorry i didn't realise your version was supposed to be even loopier. It's about as likely as a pro-remain coup in the first place.
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Oberleutnant posted:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/02/kill-them-the-volunteer-army-plotting-to-wipe-out-britains-grey-squirrels One thing that really bugs me is humanity's fetishisation of animals that are really crap at living in the world we've made, and our all-out hatred of the ones that are really good at it. People hate raccoons, rats and grey squirrels, but they idolise pandas and red squirrels. I get wanting to preserve biodiversity, but going on bloody massacres against the animals that are actually able to make it on their own is insane.
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Jun 2, 2017 10:27
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multijoe posted:The title of the article if 'Nicola Sturgeon Says The SNP Would Help Jeremy Corbyn Become Prime Minister' but in the article itself she rules out the only course of action that could allow him to do if he otherwise couldn't (form a parliamentary majority through a formal coalition). Regardless of whatever you think she may be inferring or the chances of a Labour/SNP coalition if the need and opportunity presented itself, it's still really scummy to outright misquote her imply she'd take a course of action she actually ruled out in that interview. that's not true. the SNP can vote for a minority Corbyn government's Queen's speech, budget, etc without entering a formal coalition. Sturgeon has experience of this sort of confidence and supply arrangement from the first SNP minority government in Holyrood.
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Gort posted:One thing that really bugs me is humanity's fetishisation of animals that are really crap at living in the world we've made, and our all-out hatred of the ones that are really good at it. People hate raccoons, rats and grey squirrels, but they idolise pandas and red squirrels.
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jBrereton posted:From the article: If only she's elaborated on what that could be ... the very next line in the article posted:"Not in a coalition, I don't envisage any formal coalitions, but on an issue-by-issue basis to put forward progressive policies and see a progressive agenda. We see some of the parties in this election, not least Labour, putting forward policies that the SNP has already implemented in Scotland." Cerv posted:that's not true. the SNP can vote for a minority Corbyn government's Queen's speech, budget, etc without entering a formal coalition. Fair point though, I stand corrected
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https://twitter.com/rosschawkins/status/870572201304633345 South thanet MP charged
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