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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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Bacon Terrorist
May 7, 2010

to ride eternal, shiny and chrome

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2022
It's a forlorn hope but the last two poll indications before major votes (EU Referendum and US Election) were completely wrong so you never know :unsmith:

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Sapozhnik
Jan 2, 2005

Nap Ghost

goddamnedtwisto posted:

I wonder how much influence that evil little "shoot to kill" lie will have had since Saturday? I've had people who are otherwise fairly well-informed gravely intoning how Corbyn wouldn't have let the old bill shoot those guys at Borough Market, and I'm certain it will have flipped more than a few of them.

probably going to be the bacon sandwich of this election cycle. loving poo poo

gg isis, terrorism wins again

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."

If you don't want to be 'Enemy of Business' what even are you doing here?

ShaneMacGowansTeeth
May 22, 2007



I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

Bacon Terrorist posted:

It's a forlorn hope but the last two poll indications before major votes (EU Referendum and US Election) were completely wrong so you never know :unsmith:

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


Fans posted:

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

Make this happen somebody who knows what they're doing

Fans
Jun 27, 2013

A reptile dysfunction
Megatron's a Tory though, you can't trust him.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


Saw the Standard's coverage this evening about how "business says Corbyn = bad", and my immediate reaction was "no poo poo". I guess they bank on people thinking that "bad for business" is the same thing as "bad for you".

Angepain
Jul 13, 2012

what keeps happening to my clothes
"IRC is really old fashioned," said the goon, posting on vBulletin in tyool 2017

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

Я выдуман напрочь
Xenforo 2.0 any minute now

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

forkboy84 posted:

Is there a good Android IRC app?
HoloIRC is good.

Fans posted:

Be a big fight over "Marxist Extremist"

I'll take "Ruinous Spending" though, I like the cut of its jib.
I'm Puppet of Unions. Or Union of Puppets.

ShaneMacGowansTeeth
May 22, 2007



I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

Fans posted:

Megatron's a Tory though, you can't trust him.

no, you cannot



Or maybe you can? After all, you are being deceived

Acaila
Jan 2, 2011



We had a #ukgoons discord for one of the elections last year. I don't even know how to link to it though.

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

Discord loving blows

jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer
If we lose I think the blame needs to be in part over not being much much tougher on David Davis and comparing him to Big Keir.

The Tory narrative about JC versus Tess on Brexit should have been skewered by pointing out Davis is supposed to be doing most of the legwork and he has done gently caress All so far. No answers on EHIC, non-answers on migration, no costing for No Deal.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
IRC survived Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown, and PigClegg. I hope it survives May.

big scary monsters
Sep 2, 2011

-~Skullwave~-
Lots of effort has gone into building many 'better' versions of IRC and IRC will outlive them all. And also us all.

Zephro
Nov 23, 2000

I suppose I could part with one and still be feared...
Britain's patron God is Tzeentch. God of change for its own sake, of laughable ideas of "progress" in the face of an uncaring universe. The deity of false knowledge, of honeyed falsehoods, of national credit cards and shoot-to-kill policies. The God of hope, the cruelest lie of all.

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel
Is IRC still actually popular in britain?

Angepain
Jul 13, 2012

what keeps happening to my clothes

hakimashou posted:

Is IRC still actually popular in britain?

god no

Clipperton
Dec 20, 2011
Grimey Drawer

Guavanaut posted:

I'm Puppet of Unions. Or Union of Puppets.

Master of Puppets of Unions

kustomkarkommando
Oct 22, 2012

hakimashou posted:

Is IRC still actually popular in britain?

yes every child uses it

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
Most of the people I talk to on IRC are from the US, Germany, or Scandinavia.

Another Person
Oct 21, 2010

Thanks Ants posted:

Make this happen somebody who knows what they're doing

i know what im doing with setting up a server and managing it but i really don't want to be in charge of the ukmt discord

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.

Regarde Aduck posted:

I wish people would stop doing this. It's legitimately soul crushing to those of us trapped here.

It'll take 2 years to sort a visa out and my wife will probably say no anyway but I can dream of Justine Trudeau lying back as rose petalspoutine and Hella Canadian dollars rain upon his naked body.

kustomkarkommando
Oct 22, 2012

Well technically HRMIRC after the Queen was given complete control of the internet in 1998

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel
There's a CSPAM discord a bunch of goons use to talk about politics they'd probably make you a UK channel or something.

https://discord.gg/a4Jj7fR

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

big scary monsters posted:

Lots of effort has gone into building many 'better' versions of IRC and IRC will outlive them all. And also us all.
May's security advice team is probably going off of this, if so it's hosed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2rGTXHvPCQ

spectralent
Oct 1, 2014

Me and the boys poppin' down to the shops

Bacon Terrorist posted:

It's a forlorn hope but the last two poll indications before major votes (EU Referendum and US Election) were completely wrong so you never know :unsmith:

2015 too.

Prince John
Jun 20, 2006

Oh, poppycock! Female bandits?

Thought you folks might like this:

https://benjaminstudebaker.com/2017/06/06/britain-for-the-love-of-god-please-stop-theresa-may/

I found it to be a really useful critique, with pretty graphs, of the austerity response and why it's been damaging. Don't think I've ever seen it set out quite so concisely with everything 'in one place' and it's much more accessible than getting people to plough their way through The Austerity Delusion by Krugman which had 90-million pages.

Is anyone elses Facebook feed full of this shite?

quote:

Does continually raising tax really work???

A simple story ... It concerns 10 drinkers in a bar who decide to settle their £100 weekly beer bill roughly the same way we pay our taxes.

So, the first four men (the poorest) paid nothing; the fifth paid £1; the sixth £3; the seventh £7; the eighth £12; the ninth £18; and the 10th man, the richest, paid £59.

Then the barman decided to give them a £20 discount for being good customers. The group wanted to continue to pay the new £80 bill the same way as before. While the first four men still drank for free, the other six divided up the £20 windfall by following the progressive principle of the tax system. So the fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing, making a 100 per cent saving; the sixth man paid £2 instead of £3 (a 33 per cent saving); the seventh man paid £5 instead of £7 (a 28 per cent saving); the eighth £9 instead of £12 (a 25 per cent saving); and the ninth £14 instead of £18 (a 22 per cent saving). The 10th man paid £49 instead of £59 (a 16 per cent saving).

The men then began to compare their savings. “I only got £1 out of the £20,” declared the sixth man. He pointed to the 10th man, “but he got £10 – the wealthy get all the breaks!” “Wait a minute,” said the first four men, “we didn’t get anything at all. This new system exploits the poor.” So the other nine men surrounded the 10th and beat him up. The next week he didn’t show for drinks, so the nine sat down and had their beers without him. But when they came to pay, they discovered they didn’t have enough money between them to pay even half the bill.

A simple story but quite helpful

Angepain
Jul 13, 2012

what keeps happening to my clothes
one glorious day polls will be wrong in the bad direction

Acaila
Jan 2, 2011



This is I think the #ukgoons discord link we used before: https://discord.gg/dKPEJM

Also I managed to get an IRC client on my phone! Huzzah! (eventually)

Zephro
Nov 23, 2000

I suppose I could part with one and still be feared...
Britain's patron God is Khorne. The Lord of Carrion, God of slaughter, of death, of social Darwinism and the war of all against all. The God of Brimstone missiles and bombed weddings and Are Troops, right or wrong. Blood for the blood God!

Zephro
Nov 23, 2000

I suppose I could part with one and still be feared...
Vote Chaos Undivided 2017

xtothez
Jan 4, 2004


College Slice
So in terms of a consolation prize, how many of the Blairite faction PLP are in tough marginals and could be facing the dole this time tomorrow?

What are the odds that this election can help Jezza clean house to some degree?

Necrothatcher
Mar 26, 2005




Corbyn's speech in Islington tonight actually made me cry. Man I just don't know what it's like to have a politician up for Prime Minister unapologetically advocating for exactly the things I believe in and being proud and forthright about standing up for those in need. I was all sanguine about him maybe shrinking the Tory majority and losing but now I'm seriously down about how much this country is hosed by the grey and the hateful and the stupid.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

Prince John posted:

Is anyone elses Facebook feed full of this shite?
I think I need a drink to follow that mess.

Prince John
Jun 20, 2006

Oh, poppycock! Female bandits?

Guavanaut posted:

I think I need a drink to follow that mess.

I settled for doing an effortreply but perhaps you're right. I'll reach for the hard stuff!

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
Does continually raising tax really work???

A simple story ... Imagine four taxpayers on the edge of a cliff.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Obviously if you keep raising taxes you will eventually reach 110% tax which is where free money comes from.

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Borrovan
Aug 15, 2013

IT IS ME.
🧑‍💼
I AM THERESA MAY


Prince John posted:

I settled for doing an effortreply but perhaps you're right. I'll reach for the hard stuff!

No effortreply needed, it's a great example of tax cuts disproportionately favouring the wealthy and the necessity of cracking down on offshore tax avoidance schemes, whilst also demonstrating the folly of the "no pint is better than an expensive pint" argument as the rich man realises that drinking a can at home is comparatively poo poo. The unspoken answer to the opening question is "yes, absolutely!"

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