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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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Pissflaps
Oct 20, 2002

by VideoGames
This could be a problem.

https://twitter.com/Birdyword/status/872561253155299329

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Praseodymi
Aug 26, 2010


It's not 2015.

Plasmafountain
Jun 17, 2008

Arkane posted:

My dream is a larger majority for May, though

:frogout:

EDIT: UNless youre voting May as an accelerationist

Another Person
Oct 21, 2010

Praseodymi posted:

It's not 2015.

it is a precendent so the worry is validated, you may not like pissflaps but he said 'could' not 'is definitely'

SteelMentor
Oct 15, 2012

TOXIC

Gyro Zeppeli posted:

Nah, Tories aren't Khorne. Tories are Tzeentch. You know you're going to get hosed by them at some nebulous point in the future, and it's going to hurt the entire time you're dying.

Tories are stagnation, decay, stasis. They're the creeping dread that brings about the long, agonising death. They're Nurgle through and through.

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel

Regarde Aduck posted:

I so hope May fucks Scotland up so hard. You can sleep in the bed you've made.

Scotland didn't vote for the Brexit.

Skinty McEdger
Mar 9, 2008

I have NEVER received the respect I deserve as the leader and founder of The Masterflock, the internet's largest and oldest Christopher Masterpiece fan group in all of history, and I DEMAND that changes. From now on, you will respect Skinty McEdger!

thehappyprince posted:

probably a fair bit. it was the 4th most watched video on the bbc site the day after.

still gobsmacked they can get away with keeping it up

Complaints to the BBC trust take forever to be processed and always end up having an effect well after the impact of the original piece has already been felt, the BBC has no need to actually make a retraction upon their networks. Complaints to the BBC themselves never get anywhere as the companies response is always to be defensive of its own content so is completely pointless.

thehappyprince
Apr 4, 2006

Alastair Cock

Praseodymi posted:

It's not 2015.

you don't get it. if they didn't turn out for soft racism carved in a stone they won't for a debt free education

JOHNSON COCKSLAP
Apr 2, 2017

by Lowtax
at least the olds will die in record numbers.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

sure hope no-one throws me off a bridge

SteelMentor posted:

Tories are stagnation, decay, stasis. They're the creeping dread that brings about the long, agonising death. They're Nurgle through and through.

And to connect all four: Tories are Slaanesh because Tories gently caress kids and animals.

Fans
Jun 27, 2013

A reptile dysfunction
I'm drinking myself into a stupor tomorrow whatever happens, the only difference is how much I'll be smiling.

I'm gonna hope a bit just for a lark, you never know, maybe this is another of these votes where everyone is convinced they know what'll happen and are wrong. We can dreaaaaam.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Zero Gravitas posted:

:frogout:

EDIT: UNless youre voting May as an accelerationist

Isn't Arkane an American conservative or libertarian?

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

Good ideas generator

Also worth noting:
https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/872559728756502528

Tigey
Apr 6, 2015

JOHNSON COCKSLAP posted:

at least the olds will die in record numbers.

Hoping for a bitterly cold winter this year

SteelMentor
Oct 15, 2012

TOXIC

JOHNSON COCKSLAP posted:

at least the everyone will die in record numbers.

ftfy

Gyro Zeppeli posted:

And to connect all four: Tories are Slaanesh because Tories gently caress kids and animals.

C'mon, Slaanesh has as sense of aesthetics and inclusivity. loving a Pig's head ain't exactly artistic.

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

Я выдуман напрочь

Zero Gravitas posted:

:frogout:

EDIT: UNless youre voting May as an accelerationist

No, Arkane is a piece of poo poo.

Pissflaps
Oct 20, 2002

by VideoGames

Short version: you should have read the small print on our horseshit model.

JOHNSON COCKSLAP
Apr 2, 2017

by Lowtax

I'll get to cheer a majority of those deaths at least

Zephro
Nov 23, 2000

I suppose I could part with one and still be feared...

CottonWolf posted:

Okay thread, hot takes:

Storms/heavy rain tomorrow. Who benefits?
Nurgle

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel
Don't lose hope guys, Corbyn could pull this off. Look at 2016 anything can happen.

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear
Goons: early reminder that #ukgoons on synirc (link in OP) is the place to be tomorrow night!!! :coffeepal: :beerpal: :buddy: :shittydog:

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

Я выдуман напрочь

hakimashou posted:

Don't lose hope guys, Corbyn could pull this off. Look at 2016 anything can happen.

Genuinely believed this was a flaps post.

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

Good ideas generator

Pissflaps posted:

Short version: you should have read the small print on our horseshit model.

They've been pushing the model the whole way through, to suddenly switching to reporting raw vote share from polls means they're frit. They don't trust their own modelling results. (Or they've just not finished running it yet.)

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


crispix posted:

Goons: early reminder that #ukgoons on synirc (link in OP) is the place to be tomorrow night!!! :coffeepal: :beerpal: :buddy: :shittydog:

Is there a good Android IRC app?

mehall
Aug 27, 2010


Getting off direct election chat for a moment, can I start a conversation about tax reform ideas?
This will never happen unless Corbyn himself stood and won in 326 seats across the UK, so it's hypothetical at best, but here we go:

What if the tax bandings, and personal allowance, were based on the average income?

E.g. Personal Allowance was 1/2 of the average
Basic Rate is anything between 1/2 the average and 3x Average
Higher rate is anything between 3x and 8x average
Additional Rate is anything earned beyond 8x

Then add one further banding for the super wealthy, over 15x average or something.

Obviously the numbers would need firmed up, and the specific amounts that equalled could maybe be set following a general election, so it's somewhat stable for a few years, but then there would be some incentive for the wealthy to raise the average income to lower their own tax burden.

Obviously, corporations would min-max the numbers on this, and work out a sweet spot where their board get the best wage for the best salary cost across the company etc etc, but that can't end up in a worse place than we are right now, can it? (NB. Assuming we keep a minimum wage.)

Fans
Jun 27, 2013

A reptile dysfunction
One day we'll get the goons on Discord and IRC can die a long overdue death, just like a Tory voter

Zephro
Nov 23, 2000

I suppose I could part with one and still be feared...

Gyro Zeppeli posted:

Nah, Tories aren't Khorne. Tories are Tzeentch. You know you're going to get hosed by them at some nebulous point in the future, and it's going to hurt the entire time you're dying.
Britain's patron God is Nurgle. The God of stiff upper lips, of entropy, of rust and falling apart, of bovine stoicism and fatalism in the face of slow, pustulant decay

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

Я выдуман напрочь

Zephro posted:

Britain's patron God is Nurgle. The God of stiff upper lips, of entropy, of rust and falling apart, of bovine stoicism and fatalism in the face of slow, pustulant decay

Nurgle loves his creations though.

Irony Be My Shield
Jul 29, 2012

That's their raw data, but don't they them adjust it down to 50% in their final result?

Another Person
Oct 21, 2010

Fans posted:

One day we'll get the goons on Discord and IRC can die a long overdue death, just like a Tory voter

for real someone just do this irc is loving trash garbage

just dont use forums verification because thats loving sad

namesake
Jun 19, 2006

"When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

Fans posted:

One day we'll get the goons on Discord and IRC can die a long overdue death, just like a Tory voter

British people stubbornly continuing to use an awkward and disappointing system despite better systems being tried and tested?

I don't believe it.

big scary monsters
Sep 2, 2011

-~Skullwave~-

Zero Gravitas posted:

PS I'm totally on the accelerationist train since I'm loving off to Norway in august so good luck folks

Hey good choice I've been here a month now and it loving owns. Went skiing after work yesterday and the sun shines 24/7.

The beer is £8 or more a 430ml 'pint' though. And when I was here in winter I didn't see the sun for three months.

Angepain
Jul 13, 2012

what keeps happening to my clothes
why is politics. why do we even politics. why would anyone.

politics: no. never politics.

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Irony Be My Shield posted:

That's their raw data, but don't they them adjust it down to 50% in their final result?

Yes they still weight it according to what they judge as the likely turnout.

Zephro
Nov 23, 2000

I suppose I could part with one and still be feared...

OfficialGBSCaliph posted:

Nurgle loves his creations though.
Britain's patron God is Slaanesh. God of unbridled excess, of rampant consumerism, of sensation and of the self above all. The God of Friday-night binge drinking in a hopeless provincial market town, of aspirational capitalism, and of loving a dead pig

big scary monsters
Sep 2, 2011

-~Skullwave~-
Related to above does anyone know where I can stream the BBC coverage tomorrow from abroad?

pitch a fitness
Mar 19, 2010


Massive Tax Hikes
Nuclear Surrender
Destroyer of Jobs

Some solid usernames there

Raeg
Jul 7, 2008

The top 1% of ducks have control of 99.9% of the bread.

Angepain posted:

why is politics. why do we even politics. why would anyone.

politics: no. never politics.

Politics: not even once.

Fans
Jun 27, 2013

A reptile dysfunction

pitch a fitness posted:

Massive Tax Hikes
Nuclear Surrender
Destroyer of Jobs

Some solid usernames there

Be a big fight over "Marxist Extremist"

I'll take "Ruinous Spending" though, I like the cut of its jib.

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Dr Snofeld
Apr 30, 2009

ShredsYouSay posted:

gently caress sake does no-one understand how MAD works?

It's like they never experienced the compelling Cold War documentary Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.

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