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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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The DPRK posted:To those of you in support of Corbyn this election, how do you remember feeling this far out from the 2015 election? I really didn't give a gently caress, especially after the Ed stone and the "controls on immigration" bullshit.
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Pistol_Pete posted:And they told us Corbyn would never use nukes
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Jun 5, 2017 12:50
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Looking at the guardian website is depressing, not because they are obviously 100% behind their boy Corbs but, because this is what they should have been doing from the moment the election was announced. Wankers.
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Jun 5, 2017 12:52
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When I went to vote in 2015 I looked at my vote card and briefly considered spoiling or otherwise but decided that being a marginal it was important to vote Labour to stop the Tories. It was still half-hearted though and it was more I wanted "not the Tories" to win than actually supporting Ed. Although if 2017 Ed was the leader I'd be more for it.
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Jun 5, 2017 12:54
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Jose posted:remember when russell brand endorsed him after voter registration ended  "Day after registration ends "I spoke to Ed and you should vote Labour"
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Jun 5, 2017 12:54
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spectralent posted:It refers to a policy in northern ireland where you'd shoot suspected terrorists outright on the probability they'd be a threat soon. This is an idea I didn't realize existed outside of bad American action-movies, jesus christ. 
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Jun 5, 2017 12:54
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The DPRK posted:To those of you in support of Corbyn this election, how do you remember feeling this far out from the 2015 election? kustomkarkommando posted:I met a traveller from an antique land
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Jun 5, 2017 12:55
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learnincurve posted:Looking at the guardian website is depressing, not because they are obviously 100% behind their boy Corbs but, because this is what they should have been doing from the moment the election was announced. Wankers. check out their facebook page
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Jun 5, 2017 12:56
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Jun 5, 2017 12:57
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learnincurve posted:Looking at the guardian website is depressing, not because they are obviously 100% behind their boy Corbs but, because this is what they should have been doing from the moment the election was announced. Wankers. Does it make much of a difference? The graun readership is pretty solidly pro-Corbyn anyway.
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Jun 5, 2017 12:58
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Noxville posted:https://twitter.com/polcommentuk/status/871687761023074304 Or making the point that she has actually resigned as PM. Yes she's sill in post but only because she's serving a notice period until the new PM is appointed.
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Jun 5, 2017 12:58
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Richard Murphy rescinds and apologises for his un-endorsement of Corbyn last year https://twitter.com/RichardJMurphy/status/871626512411262976
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Jun 5, 2017 12:59
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i support shoot to kill but only for 'small business owners'
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Jun 5, 2017 13:01
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oxford_town posted:Does it make much of a difference? The graun readership is pretty solidly pro-Corbyn anyway. aaaaaaaaahahahahahhahahahahahhahhahahhabh You sweet summer child
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Jun 5, 2017 13:01
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Lovechop posted:i support shoot to kill but only for 'small business owners' shoot to kill and the death penalty should both be opt-in
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Jun 5, 2017 13:04
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oxford_town posted:Does it make much of a difference? The graun readership is pretty solidly pro-Corbyn anyway. Yes it makes a huge difference. The front page of newspapers is the best advertising there is for a political party. You walk past a newspaper stand and you will see the Tory press have had big bold eye catching writing on the front page praising May and the Tory party right from day 1. The supposed Labour press have had gently caress all supporting Corbyn or Labour on their front pages until now, and it's all because the petty blairite wankers couldn't face seeing a left winger in charge.
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Jun 5, 2017 13:06
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The DPRK posted:To those of you in support of Corbyn this election, how do you remember feeling this far out from the 2015 election?
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Jun 5, 2017 13:07
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Oberleutnant posted:I remember that for me it was more about wanting to keep the Tories out, than having any really positive feelings for Labour. Ditto. Certainly wasn't going to vote UKIP or Tory, and the Libdems managed to implode and poo poo themselves. So it was a choice between Tory "cut everything now", or Labour's "cut everything, but slower" - at least, that's how it felt at the time. It's nice now to actually be able to get behind a manifestio I support, rather than feeling "gently caress me, really? Well, it's better than the Tories, I guess."
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Jun 5, 2017 13:07
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Cerv posted:Or making the point that she has actually resigned as PM. Yes she's sill in post but only because she's serving a notice period until the new PM is appointed. It'a a dumb twitter semantics thing, could also be a call to step down as party leader.
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Jun 5, 2017 13:08
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jBrereton posted:Like the hung parliament narrative was a lie and we would get a tory government, and I was right! The Ed Stone really did me in, it was like watching Thick of It in real life.
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Jun 5, 2017 13:09
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The DPRK posted:To those of you in support of Corbyn this election, how do you remember feeling this far out from the 2015 election? I don't remember exactly. I wanted the Tories to lose, I thought they probably had to because they just seemed unpopular. I took it for granted that even though his campaign was bad & the immigration cups were the exact opposite of what I wanted from Labour they'd at least pick up more MPs & close the gap to the Tories, even if they might not be the biggest party. I know I was more excited about the SNP wave at the time, by the idea of places across the central belt finally unseating lovely Labour MPs for life like Douglas Alexander, Jim Murphy, Tom Harris & Tom Clarke, as well as seeing the inevitable collapse of the Lib Dems. The polls one month out from 2015 had Labour a lot closer to the Tories, the lowest prediction had them getting 266 MPs even with the SNP being predicted to pick up 49 seats. But the Lib Dem was worse than the pollsters expected, which provided a brief (OK, a 2 year long & continuing) moment of schadenfreude but ultimately saw a lot of votes move to the Tories. Where as this time Labour were predicted a month out to do as bad as 150 MPs. Because Corbyn started from so far back in the polls, everyone knew that simply not losing any seats would be an overly optimistic target. But unlike in 2015, Miliband ran a bad campaign against a very smooth campaigner, Corbyn has run a competent campaign against an absolute disaster of a campaign, so there's momentum on his side. But even the most optimistic poll only has Labour winning 268 MPs. And yes, I'd regard picking up seats a small victory considering where Labour were at when the election started, it's certainly not anything to be carried away with. At this point the most hopeful scenario I can see coming true is the Conservatives as the biggest party but with 300 or so MPs, not enough to form a government. They stumble on for a few months before we end up with another election within the next months, with the Parliamentary Labour Party staying somewhat unified in public in the the mean time to transport Labour to a win & a majority. But then a month ago I thought Labour not losing any MPs was the most optimistic scenario, so maybe May's response to the London attacks, & her record as Home Secretary, is enough to prove me a pessimist.
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Jun 5, 2017 13:09
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learnincurve posted:Yes it makes a huge difference. The front page of newspapers is the best advertising there is for a political party. You walk past a newspaper stand and you will see the Tory press have had big bold eye catching writing on the front page praising May and the Tory party right from day 1. On this note the Tories have literally bought the front page of the Bath Chronicle, it's an advertisers wrap around but a conservative party ad. I feel that should be illegal frankly.
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https://twitter.com/rickygervais/status/871697195795443716 that's slough +1 Lab
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Raeg posted:The Ed Stone really did me in, it was like watching Thick of It in real life.
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Jun 5, 2017 13:14
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The DPRK posted:To those of you in support of Corbyn this election, how do you remember feeling this far out from the 2015 election? I'd seen the Ed stone and controls on immigration mug and thought we're hosed wasn't expecting the Lib Dems to collapse so hard though I was expecting another coalition
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Jun 5, 2017 13:14
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Derbyshire Times did that the week after the election was called and their twitter was choked with people telling them to gently caress off. They responded to An Angry Letter the next week with some bullshit about how they were politically neutral and then three pages later they had big pictures of May going round some Clay Cross factory pointing at stuff.
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Jun 5, 2017 13:14
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I know everyone here is loving this, but it just looks a bit off this close to the election, and instead should be framing it as the power of the public to force her out of PM position on 8th of June through the ballot box.
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Jun 5, 2017 13:14
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Ewan posted:I know everyone here is loving this, but it just looks a bit off this close to the election, and instead should be framing it as the power of the public to force her out of PM position on 8th of June through the ballot box.
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Jun 5, 2017 13:16
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Lovechop posted:i support shoot to kill but only for 'small business owners' And landlords
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Ewan posted:I know everyone here is loving this, but it just looks a bit off this close to the election, and instead should be framing it as the power of the public to force her out of PM position on 8th of June through the ballot box. He did actually clarify in the clip that he meant that Thursday was the day to make her step down.
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Jun 5, 2017 13:19
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learnincurve posted:Yes it makes a huge difference. The front page of newspapers is the best advertising there is for a political party. You walk past a newspaper stand and you will see the Tory press have had big bold eye catching writing on the front page praising May and the Tory party right from day 1. The supposed Labour press have had gently caress all supporting Corbyn or Labour on their front pages until now, and it's all because the petty blairite wankers couldn't face seeing a left winger in charge. She's caught quite a bit of fire which is probably half the reason the gap closed, not that I think it was as big as it was initially made out.
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Jun 5, 2017 13:20
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Raeg posted:It'a a dumb twitter semantics thing, could also be a call to step down as party leader.
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Jun 5, 2017 13:20
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The DPRK posted:To those of you in support of Corbyn this election, how do you remember feeling this far out from the 2015 election? I'm ambivalent about Corbyn, I guess his persistent habit of prevarication (being unable to denounce the IRA without also denouncing loyalist groups, being unable to denounce antisemitism without also denouncing all other racism, etc) hits me the same way the immigration cup hit lots of you. Which I still think is stupid, Ed's immigration policy was more open than Corbyn's is now, but nevermind. I do take the point that Corbyn has enthused and inspired people in a way that most PLP candidates couldn't. We will see if it actually shakes out that way, of course. At this point in 2015 I was just grateful that Cameron's time was coming to an end, but my main worry was the SNP wave. From a couple of weeks before the 2014 indyref I thought yes was going to win and got very depressed and anxious. Yes lost, but then Scottish Labour dissolved and Cameron seemed to be deliberately obnoxious and antagonistic about it, and it seemed guaranteed that there was going to be another referendum very shortly and that yes would win. I thought a Labour government would put an end to that movement.
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Jun 5, 2017 13:25
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jBrereton posted:tbf that is more or less what he said after "do you think you should resign". Transcript I am recalling in my head was something like "yes I think she should, after presiding over these cuts, however the public are the ones with the most power to do that on the 8th." Tesseraction posted:He did actually clarify in the clip that he meant that Thursday was the day to make her step down. Here's the full clip https://twitter.com/Nico22a022/status/871691939925676032
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Jun 5, 2017 13:25
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Cerv posted:she will do if they don't get the most seats on Thursday night Who'd you have to replace her? Best odds you can get on Boris, the bookies favourite, is 6/1. Amber Rudd the 2nd favourite, then Philip Hammond. Not sure Rudd would stand much chance in the light of the past few days though.
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Jun 5, 2017 13:25
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I've a bottle of champagne in the fridge ready for Friday breakfast time. just in case.
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mediadave posted:(being unable to denounce the IRA without also denouncing loyalist groups, being unable to denounce antisemitism without also denouncing all other racism, etc)
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forkboy84 posted:Who'd you have to replace her? Best odds you can get on Boris, the bookies favourite, is 6/1. Amber Rudd the 2nd favourite, then Philip Hammond. Not sure Rudd would stand much chance in the light of the past few days though. Andrea Leadsom
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Oberleutnant posted:gently caress off Ask me if I disagree with the UVF
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