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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:so it really is like the US house what in all hell is this
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Jun 6, 2017 15:48
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Jose posted:another big problem labour has is that scotland has a massively disproportionate number of seats to votes and labour are now completely dead there. labour desperately need to bring in PR next time they're in power but no doubt they'll decide its a bad idea because they're in power again PR would throw a lifeline to the Lib Dems and therefore must be considered haraam despite it being good for Labour (or more appropriately, bad for the Tories and SNP) DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:so it really is like the US house Now talk about the Senate I'm so close
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Jun 6, 2017 15:48
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the Senate still managed to be way less stupid than whatever the house of lords is supposed to be so I'll give that a pass for now
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Jun 6, 2017 15:53
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ok I was unclear Rhode Island has like a million people and two congresspeople so the point is their district is literally half the size of Montana's, not that the entire state of RI has 526k people living in it
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Jun 6, 2017 15:56
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:or is there a baked in Tory advantage? Yes, vast swathes of the British public read the Daily Mail and believe every word of pro-Mummy/anti-Corbyn propaganda contained therein, and also think that Tory policies aimed at loving the poor somehow won't apply to them, because they're not 'those people'. Source: my mother, who raised her kids on single parent child benefits and now isn't working due to disability, but who believes that everyone else who does that is somehow scamming the system.
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Jun 6, 2017 15:56
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Nebraska however has two senators (population 600kish) California also has two senators (population 39.4 million)
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Fullhouse posted:the Senate still managed to be way less stupid than whatever the house of lords is supposed to be so I'll give that a pass for now there isd a lot wrong wtih the house of lords but they largely tell the government to gently caress off on the stupider stuff it tries to pass
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Jun 6, 2017 15:58
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:Nebraska however has two senators (population 600kish) the district of columbia (population 700k) has zero senators
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:Nebraska however has two senators (population 600kish) my dude where are you getting your numbers
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Jun 6, 2017 16:13
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Jose posted:there isd a lot wrong wtih the house of lords but they largely tell the government to gently caress off on the stupider stuff it tries to pass This is more a reflection on the government than the lords though
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Jun 6, 2017 16:16
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true. i think t he main thing for an upper house is that you can only serve a single term so there is no re-election to be taken into account when voting on things
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Jun 6, 2017 16:18
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Aliquid posted:my dude where are you getting your numbers gently caress meant Wyoming not Nebraska poo poo in my defense I have a lot of windows open to different state demographics right now for a project in working on which is incidentally also why I'm posting about this now
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Jun 6, 2017 16:37
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imagine still being governed by a literal nobility, titles and all
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Jun 6, 2017 17:06
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Fullhouse posted:imagine still being governed by a literal nobility, titles and all OTOH you will miss out on the great day of having them shot in a dingy basement when the revolution comes Although imagine the spectacle of a Ceausescu style televised public execution in the age of reality TV and twitter
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Jun 6, 2017 17:41
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Fullhouse posted:imagine still being governed by a literal nobility, titles and all don't forget the Church
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:https://twitter.com/estwebber/status/871813522128338954 Gary Younge posted:At a drinks party in central London, not long after Jeremy Corbyn had been elected leader of the Labour party first time round, a young journalist talked me through the facts as she saw them.
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Jun 6, 2017 18:00
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quote:Nor is it a neutral category. The people who “decide” whether someone is electable or not are not the electorate – that comes much later – but opinion-forming elites and those who fund and promote them. They apply themselves to the task with great prejudice and select both people and programmes in their own image and interests.
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Jun 6, 2017 18:02
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Jose posted:there isd a lot wrong wtih the house of lords but they largely tell the government to gently caress off on the stupider stuff it tries to pass legitimately the lords are doing a surprisingly good job of not being poo poo despite literally being inbred british nobility from the politoons
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Jun 6, 2017 18:08
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Bulgogi Hoagie posted:legitimately the lords are doing a surprisingly good job of not being poo poo despite literally being inbred british nobility from the politoons They're mostly not literal nobility any more, they're mostly party grandees, ex-MPs, donors and the like who get nominated by the parties. Andrew Lloyd Weber sits in the House of Lords (officially, I think the only time he actually showed up was to try and take away people's benefits when the Labour lords defeated one of Cameron's more heartless bills) also a bunch of bishops because lol
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Jun 6, 2017 19:20
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maybe it's because they're still where they were a decade or two ago while the commons tories have jumped off the deep end. remnants of staid patrician torydom rather than the death cult if corbyn somehow gets in we'll remember why they're poo poo right quick
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Jun 6, 2017 19:21
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https://twitter.com/johnprescott/status/871812482066780160
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Jun 6, 2017 19:22
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Baron Corbyn posted:
the church of england are largely really good though. they constantly call the government out for being insanely poo poo
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Jun 6, 2017 19:23
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obligatory. his personal polling shot up after this lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBqfuUiBpXs
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Jun 6, 2017 19:24
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*gestures to raise the effigy up* almost there, a little more to the left, Ollie.. Right then, m8 chuck it (d)over
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Jun 6, 2017 19:24
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Fake News
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Jun 6, 2017 19:25
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also this is an extremely high labour voting area. like its cool and good people want to see him but the election isn't decided here
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Jun 6, 2017 19:26
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Jose posted:the church of england are largely really good though. they constantly call the government out for being insanely poo poo
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Internet Webguy posted:https://twitter.com/itvnews/status/872017947585380352
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Jun 6, 2017 19:43
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Teresa May wins a general election by promising to destroy human rights. Our timeline, folks.
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Jun 6, 2017 19:44
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CottonWolf posted:Teresa May wins a general election by promising to destroy human rights. Our timeline, folks. take some satisfaction that a large number of her voters are going to die in miserable circumstances that they voted for
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Jun 6, 2017 19:46
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the scary british witch is going to take away my jam but if I vote for the jam guy he will also take my jam and loving socialist spread it allover HIS bread as well as MINE
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Jun 6, 2017 19:46
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Lastgirl posted:the scary british witch is going to take away my jam but if I vote for the jam guy he will also take my jam and loving socialist spread it allover HIS bread as well as MINE
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Jun 6, 2017 19:52
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Aliquid posted:my dude where are you getting your numbers its called the constitution of the united states of america! 
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Jun 6, 2017 19:54
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jBrereton posted:ah but he has a strategy to make more jam, so it's okay. Vote Jam Man. but why does everyone have to have jam, i want to be special with my own jam 
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Jun 6, 2017 19:56
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Lastgirl posted:*gestures to raise the effigy up* dont doin that with your hand over there mean somethin reeeal rudelike and not so peaceful?
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Lastgirl posted:but why does everyone have to have jam, i want to be special with my own jam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvJGQ_piwI0
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Jun 6, 2017 19:57
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Lastgirl posted:but why does everyone have to have jam, i want to be special with my own jam if you accept corbyn into your heart you can receive his jam
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Jun 6, 2017 19:59
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Lastgirl posted:but why does everyone have to have jam, i want to be special with my own jam - Slammin and Jammin with the cORBman (good) - Eating a big plate of Yes Ma'rmalade with Tess May (bad in the extreme)
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Jose posted:if you accept corbyn into your heart you can receive his jam 
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