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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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deletebeepbeepbeep
Nov 12, 2008

Didn't she visit part of London today and get heckled. That's probably why.

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TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

deletebeepbeepbeep posted:

Didn't she visit part of London today and get heckled. That's probably why.

Apparently she visited a butchers at 5am and got yelled at :v:

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

Prepare for death

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/872497562946818049

Firos
Apr 30, 2007

Staying abreast of the latest developments in jam communism



I just got a pb on my bench press thinking about punching May and Farage so at least this GE hadn't all gone to waste :toot:

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

Im preparing my butt as we speak

CoolCab
Apr 17, 2005

glem
I want to say: despite my pessimistic attitude, the Corbyn campaign has really been phenomenal. Just the consistency of tone is...unprecedented, outrageous, nonsensical - there were three terrorist attacks during the campaign, and Jeremy loving Corbyn's approval rating went up. That's loving batshit.

May's been scoring own goals like a colorblind Pele but-man. He's going to lose, but good lord did he put up a fight.

dispatch_async
Nov 28, 2014

Imagine having the time to have played through 20 generations of one family in The Sims 2. Imagine making the original two members of that family Neil Buchanan and Cat Deeley. Imagine complaining to Maxis there was no technological progression. You've successfully imagined my life
Labour suffer election blow after prominent candidate Naz Shah is taped calling regional party 'corrupt'

quote:

Labour's final day of campaigning has suffered a blow after a prominent prospective MP was taped saying her regional party is “corrupt”.

Naz Shah, fighting to retain her seat in tomorrow's election, made the claim in 2015 in a recorded telephone call now passed to The Independent.

But during the conversation, Shah also appears to push another party member into creating letters that would discredit a selection process she had just lost.

In the call she can be heard saying she needs five letters, suggesting what they should say and who they might come from.

oh ffs.

ronya
Nov 8, 2010

I'm the normal one.

You hate ridden fucks will regret your words when you eventually grow up.

Peace.

CoolCab posted:

I want to say: despite my pessimistic attitude, the Corbyn campaign has really been phenomenal. Just the consistency of tone is...unprecedented, outrageous, nonsensical - there were three terrorist attacks during the campaign, and Jeremy loving Corbyn's approval rating went up. That's loving batshit.

May's been scoring own goals like a colorblind Pele but-man. He's going to lose, but good lord did he put up a fight.

as a test of diametrically opposed campaigning strategies, it's a pretty good one

JOHNSON COCKSLAP
Apr 2, 2017

by Lowtax
while i expect the tories to be celebration a majority of about 14-88, I have an adoration and respect for jeremy corny unprecedented in politics in my lifetime.

Tigey
Apr 6, 2015

dispatch_async posted:

Labour suffer election blow after prominent candidate Naz Shah is taped calling regional party 'corrupt'

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Labour's final day of campaigning has suffered a blow after a prominent prospective MP was taped saying her regional party is “corrupt”.

Naz Shah, fighting to retain her seat in tomorrow's election, made the claim in 2015 in a recorded telephone call now passed to The Independent.

But during the conversation, Shah also appears to push another party member into creating letters that would discredit a selection process she had just lost.

In the call she can be heard saying she needs five letters, suggesting what they should say and who they might come from.
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I detect the hand of Mr Crosby

Sapozhnik
Jan 2, 2005

Nap Ghost
I've been reading a bunch of discussion about the election and there's a general air in the Labour camp of "well, whatever happens on Thursday, it's been a great campaign and we all got far further than we thought we would. We did our best, even in the face of overwhelming odds :unsmith:"

It's a happy little mental image of people holding hands and hoping for the best in the face of an advancing column of beet faced thumb people.

ronya
Nov 8, 2010

I'm the normal one.

You hate ridden fucks will regret your words when you eventually grow up.

Peace.

relax, worst that happens is that Respect takes it

e: whilst literally running on this



it's not like Bradford West is competitive for the Tories

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/Messina2012/sta...3D78%23lastpost

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

Lord Sugar is really going for full oval office mode:

https://twitter.com/Lord_Sugar/status/872500835615469569

LemonDrizzle
Mar 28, 2012

neoliberal shithead

Tigey posted:

I detect the hand of Mr Crosby
Possible, but unlikely - it's far more likely to be related to the incredibly toxic local politics of that constituency (which feature, among other things, honour killings and murder suspects on the lam).

Loving Africa Chaps
Dec 3, 2007


We had not left it yet, but when I would wake in the night, I would lie, listening, homesick for it already.

My highly scientific polls of polls had labour at 4.91% behind but i'm afraid this latest poll puts them 5.73 back

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Here's a terribly stupid article from The New York Times where Chapo Trap House favourite Ross Douthat bemoans that Corbyn isn't treated with the same concern as Marine Le Pen.

Turkina_Prime
Oct 26, 2013

I am so glad I live in Canada now because lmao gently caress the UK if the Tories win again.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

i'm starting to think liberals might not be very bright

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe

Jose posted:

i'm starting to think liberals might not be very bright

The liberal may talk very loudly about rightwing austerity hellfucking being bad but will always prefer it to the actual left getting into power. So this is actually very unsurprising.

TomViolence
Feb 19, 2013

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


Ross "Don't loving" Douthat was pretty pro Le Pen, if I recall. Though he may have written his "just asking questions guys" piece about Le Pen around the same time Melenchon was making his late surge.

peanut-
Feb 17, 2004
Fun Shoe
The detailed analysis on that ICM poll sounds poo poo :(

quote:

The detail of the Guardian/ICM poll confirms Corbyn’s popularity amongst younger voters with a lead of 66-23 amongst 18-24 year olds and 47-33 amongst 25-33 year old but declared intended turnout of both these groups at 64% and 70% are 10 points below other age groups.

Perhaps more importantly the Conservative seem to have won the battle of the working class with even larger 23-point lead for May amongst the key skilled working class C2 voters often found in many marginal swing seats across the Midlands. Labour, however, seemed to have halted the Tory advance amongst unskilled DE voters where they have regained a modest two point 38-36 lead.

More disappointing for Labour is that the Tories enjoy a slim one point lead in the marginal seats it is defending by 45% to 44% ...

Rob Ford and Will Jennings of the Polling Observatory say the upturn in Labour support during the campaign has been on a similar scale to the Lib Dem “Cleggmania” surge in 2010. Clegg’s rise in popularity was concentrated in just six days after his appearance in the televised leaders’ debate and had largely dissipated by the time people got to the polling station. In contrast Labour rise this time has been steady over a six week period, although there are concerns it has just largely piled up votes seats the party already holds.

But under the bonnet the nature of the “Corbyn surge” has been clearly defined in the series of ICM and other polls. The only groups amongst whom Labour has built strong leads are younger voters aged 18 -35, students and black and other minority ethnic voters.

All these are groups in society who have repeatedly proven to have lower turnout rates than all other types of voters. In 2015 only 43% of 18-24s voted and 53% of 25 -34s, compared with 77% of 55-64 and 78% of over 65s.

It is possible that more younger people will vote on Thursday - 300,000 more are said to have registered since the snap election was called. But they are still unlikely to reach the turnout levels of the rest of the electorate.

The key to Conservative support and the size of its majority lies in its successful targeted campaign to win support of working class voters. From early in the campaign May had established a Tory lead amongst skilled working class voters - the C2s in the jargon - not seen since the 1980s. They even established a lead for part of the campaign amongst unskilled - social class DE - voters although Labour appeared to be closing the gap in the last week of the campaign.

Amongst more affluent voters and amongst the over 65s the unwavering scale of the Conservative lead has more than matched Corbyn’s popularity amongst the young. Except these groups have consistently provided the highest turnout levels at all recent elections.

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/872503470401650696

Clipperton
Dec 20, 2011
Grimey Drawer

TomViolence posted:

Ross "Don't loving" Douthat was pretty pro Le Pen, if I recall.

https://twitter.com/douthatnyt/status/859868749070991360?lang=en

:pervert:

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

peanut- posted:

The detailed analysis on that ICM poll sounds poo poo :(

why doesn't it talk about brexit turn out?

ronya
Nov 8, 2010

I'm the normal one.

You hate ridden fucks will regret your words when you eventually grow up.

Peace.

peanut- posted:

The detailed analysis on that ICM poll sounds poo poo :(

c2 is where Labour wishes its rising stars came from; for a long time (i.e. 1950s) its party structure has been drawn from bc1 and nowadays a lot of a

kingturnip
Apr 18, 2008
It's interesting to see that Gideon's gone full-fash with the Standard today, up to and including the letters page.
loving hell.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

ronya posted:

c2 is where Labour wishes its rising stars came from; for a long time (i.e. 1950s) its party structure has been drawn from bc1 and nowadays a lot of a

interesting. wonder why :thunk:

botany
Apr 27, 2013

by Lowtax
I just saw that real wages have dropped by 10.4% in the UK from 2007 to 2015. How much has that been a campaigning issue?

ronya
Nov 8, 2010

I'm the normal one.

You hate ridden fucks will regret your words when you eventually grow up.

Peace.
since when is Ross Douthat a liberal

this is like that Losurdo book that wound up classifying Burke as a liberal

ThomasPaine
Feb 4, 2009

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
You know before it all kicks off tomorrow and we usher at least five years of actual cartoon villain leadership, I was just thinking how loving ridiculous it is that this is even a debate. How is Corbyn an underdog? He's a nice dude with policies most the population agree with. His tax plans are not obscene and are significantly lower than many other developed countries. May is a loving clown. Things have plainly gotten worse under the Tories. Nobody is happy except for a tiny minority at the very top. And here we are literally struggling to even hope that he might come within a shadow of winning. What is this country and why is it so poo poo. Most people are actually objectively not bad people when you meet them, even Tories. They're just misinformed or stupid. Why do the papers have so much power and nobody thinks it's an issue? I'm seriously just baffled about the state of politics in the UK.

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

botany posted:

I just saw that real wages have dropped by 10.4% in the UK from 2007 to 2015. How much has that been a campaigning issue?

Well, part of that has been public sector pay freezes for the last zillion years, and that has definitely come up a couple of times.

ronya
Nov 8, 2010

I'm the normal one.

You hate ridden fucks will regret your words when you eventually grow up.

Peace.

ThomasPaine posted:

You know before it all kicks off tomorrow and we usher at least five years of actual cartoon villain leadership, I was just thinking how loving ridiculous it is that this is even a debate. How is Corbyn an underdog? He's a nice dude with policies most the population agree with. His tax plans are not obscene and are significantly lower than many other developed countries. May is a loving clown. Things have plainly gotten worse under the Tories. Nobody is happy except for a tiny minority at the very top. And here we are literally struggling to even hope that he might come within a shadow of winning. What is this country and why is it so poo poo. Most people are actually objectively not bad people when you meet them, even Tories. They're just misinformed or stupid. Why do the papers have so much power and nobody thinks it's an issue? I'm seriously just baffled about the state of politics in the UK.

you should follow focus group reports some time

Halisnacks
Jul 18, 2009

peanut- posted:

The detailed analysis on that ICM poll sounds poo poo :(

While this has sufficiently dampened any false sense of hope I had, I refuse to consider whatever happened in Corbyn's campaign to something as superficial as Cleggmania.

ronya
Nov 8, 2010

I'm the normal one.

You hate ridden fucks will regret your words when you eventually grow up.

Peace.

Halisnacks posted:

While this has sufficiently dampened any false sense of hope I had, I refuse to consider whatever happened in Corbyn's campaign to something as superficial as Cleggmania.

same youth demo, albeit different magnitudes

youth are unreliable political activists. they can be so organised and passionate as to threaten the élysée in may, and then france still elects gaullists in june. is corbynmania bigger than may 1968? probably not. and given that, a balloon slowly deflating in a ballot box should surprise no-one any more

TomViolence
Feb 19, 2013

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

Labour have done astoundingly well considering the circumstances of this election and I hope that at least stops the PLP putting the left back in its box like they sorely want to once the dust has settled. A few months ago we thought the next election was still years away, if we look at the next one with the same cautious optimism we've approached this election, all the tories can win themselves tomorrow is a two year stay of execution.

ronya
Nov 8, 2010

I'm the normal one.

You hate ridden fucks will regret your words when you eventually grow up.

Peace.
if i were jon lansman i would be paying very close attention to succession planning

TACD
Oct 27, 2000

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

You know what's hosed? I can't read the number 88 without thinking about fascists.
This can be solved with a Back to the Future marathon :cool:

ultrabindu
Jan 28, 2009

TomViolence posted:

Labour have done astoundingly well considering the circumstances of this election and I hope that at least stops the PLP putting the left back in its box like they sorely want to once the dust has settled. A few months ago we thought the next election was still years away, if we look at the next one with the same cautious optimism we've approached this election, all the tories can win themselves tomorrow is a two year stay of execution.

Corbyn could win every seat in the country and that wouldn't stop the right of the PLP.

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Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



e; ^^^ "yes he won 650 seats and ireland voted to join the uk but has he recovered the thirteen colonies yet? yvette cooper for labour leader!"

Oberleutnant posted:

Im preparing my butt as we speak

joke's on you. tories aren't coming for our butts.

they're going straight up our cockholes.

Ms Adequate fucked around with this message at 18:52 on Jun 7, 2017

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