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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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R. Mute
Jul 27, 2011

How is this even legal? Britain's media regulations are straight up pathetic

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biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



Gorn Myson posted:

Just voted Labour in Beaconsfield, which is basically a wasted vote because the Tories are holding that seat even if Dominic Grieve shoved leaflets through everyones doors asking us to legalise paedophilia but specifically for Muslims.

I'm very jealous of my cousin though. Lives in Hayes. Gets to vote for John motherfucking McDonnell.

Oh drat I work near Beaconsfield (Wooburn Green) and its Tory as all hell here.

Will be voting Jam Stalin later in the slightly less torified Hemel Hempstead.

Raeg
Jul 7, 2008

The top 1% of ducks have control of 99.9% of the bread.
I was going to vote Tory but after hearing what THAT WOMAN did to the poor wheat field, it's disgusting is what it is.

vodkat
Jun 30, 2012



cannot legally be sold as vodka

Baron Corbyn posted:

wait, why is the self-reported likelihood to turn out worse than the 2015 turn out model?

Seemed odd to me too, it is an Ashcroft poll released on election day so I would take it with a big pinch of salt too :pray:

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

Я выдуман напрочь
I'm all in. No brakes on the hope train, which is nationalised!

mfcrocker
Jan 31, 2004



Hot Rope Guy

Ocrassus posted:

...Because they are aware of campaigning activity, particularly from significant members of different parties, in their constituencies? And they are an active part of organising the voting process?

Which civil service department? Because the Electoral Commission isn't civil service and would be the body that actually knows about that.

Angepain
Jul 13, 2012

what keeps happening to my clothes

Halisnacks posted:

Is a different location really a difference in kind?

at least if your husband can't actually see your vote you have the option of lying to him

yes that's right dear, of course I voted for them dear, yes it's very bad they lost by a single vote wasn't it dear, yes indeed, now let's have lunch

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Marxist-Jezzinist posted:

I'm all in. No brakes on the hope train, which is nationalised!

Excellent username/av.

Fumble
Sep 4, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 25 days!
I've cast my fart into the South Norfolk wind.

NikkolasKing
Apr 3, 2010




So I'm American and the talk of "the olds will gently caress us all" has been kinda confusing to me, but the more I learn and see about UK politics and media, the more I see British senior citizens are pawns of a truly evil elite that is manipulating them via the medium they would be most comfortable with.

It's really disgusting.

hookerbot 5000
Dec 21, 2009

Halisnacks posted:

My boss is an intelligent woman who happens to have zero interest in politics. She is open about the fact that she votes based on who her husband recommends. Though I did relish the moment she said "He keeps making me vote for this Goldsmith guy who doesn't seem to win."

(I tried to convince her to go Lib Dem but I think her husband has more clout than me, her underling.)

My husband is like that too. He never bothered voting until we got together and now he always asks me who he should vote for before he goes. It's a bit weird and I used to tell him to make his own mind up but then he'd just say party names while staring intently at me so just telling him who I voted for is quicker.

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!

Marxist-Jezzinist posted:

I'm all in. No brakes on the hope train, which is nationalised!

You weren't kidding about some rebranding. Love it.

haakman
May 5, 2011

Fumble posted:

I've cast my fart into the South Norfolk wind.

Same but North Norwich :(

a neurotic ai
Mar 22, 2012

mfcrocker posted:

Which civil service department? Because the Electoral Commission isn't civil service and would be the body that actually knows about that.

I've misapprehended precisely what 'civil service' is and used the wrong word. One of them is currently managing a polling station, the other is a bureaucrat at a council.

e: Define civil service for me because I thought it was someone who worked for the government but wasn't elected.

edit 2 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Service_(United_Kingdom)

Fair dos

a neurotic ai fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Jun 8, 2017

Zalakwe
Jun 4, 2007
Likes Cake, Hates Hamsters



hookerbot 5000 posted:

My husband is like that too. He never bothered voting until we got together and now he always asks me who he should vote for before he goes. It's a bit weird and I used to tell him to make his own mind up but then he'd just say party names while staring intently at me so just telling him who I voted for is quicker.

I think this is nice. He trusts you. It's not the same thing as forcing him.

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





3 SNP votes in Edinburgh West. Won't make a difference since it's going Lib Dem, but at least I voted.

e: if Corbyn loses today, then British democracy is dead.

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

Я выдуман напрочь

NikkolasKing posted:

So I'm American and the talk of "the olds will gently caress us all" has been kinda confusing to me, but the more I learn and see about UK politics and media, the more I see British senior citizens are pawns of a truly evil elite that is manipulating them via the medium they would be most comfortable with.

It's really disgusting.

There's the bitter satisfaction of knowing their enjoyment of the Tory Reich will be cut short by the first frosts of winter.

tithin
Nov 14, 2003


[Grandmaster Tactician]




This is loving foul

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

My other half is kind of checked out of politics coming from a very tory dad.

I think she's make a good commie if I could get her to sit down and read a little bit about it, I hate lecturing her on it though, feel like a oval office. She'd probably vote labour if she could get registered.

Adam Vegas
Apr 14, 2013



Voted Labour in Thanet South. Might actually win this time, given that the Tory MP is currently under investigation for electoral fraud...

What's amazed me most about UKMT today is finding out there are other goons from Thanet.

mfcrocker
Jan 31, 2004



Hot Rope Guy

Ocrassus posted:

I've misapprehended precisely what 'civil service' is and used the wrong word. One of them is currently managing a polling station, the other is a bureaucrat at a council.

e: Define civil service for me because I thought it was someone who worked for the government but wasn't elected.

edit 2 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Service_(United_Kingdom)

Fair dos

This makes sense! Polling station workers are also council employees.

Angepain
Jul 13, 2012

what keeps happening to my clothes

Serene Dragon posted:

Two more votes for SNP in Dumfriesshire.

Venomous posted:

3 SNP votes in Edinburgh West.

shhh you're not supposed to tell people about this, didn't you get the memo at last week's natcabal meeting

Chamook
Nov 17, 2006

wheeeeeeeeeeeeee
I moved to Denmark years ago, and this is the first election where I bothered to register, just so I can vote for jam socialism man. My mum is quite looking forward to being my proxy and confusing the people at the polling station.

Roark
Dec 1, 2009

A moderate man - a violently moderate man.
Long time thread lurker who voted Lib Dem by post ballot weeks ago (I live abroad). Please forgive me.

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer
If you SNP dumb shits must contribute to the chances of May winning at least get it right this time. Don't gently caress it up again and end up with even more Tories. I don't think you'll get a third chance.

Roark posted:

Long time thread lurker who voted Lib Dem by post ballot weeks ago (I live abroad). Please forgive me.

*shrugs frenchly*

Ape Fist
Feb 23, 2007

Nowadays, you can do anything that you want; anal, oral, fisting, but you need to be wearing gloves, condoms, protection.
Well gents I was just reading the Telegraph and they're reporting that the Tories have won by over 100 seats and that Maggie Thatcher is back from the dead and the Poors are currently being loaded onto busses directly from the estates and shipped to the work houses/protein rendering plants. You might as well just stay home, Communists! Wot wot!

GEORGE W BUSHI
Jul 1, 2012

Skinty McEdger posted:

You weren't kidding about some rebranding. Love it.

who was Marxist-Jezzinist before?

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006


Uh, doesn't all indications so far suggest that the 2017 curve should be to the left of 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!

Adam Vegas posted:

Voted Labour in Thanet South. Might actually win this time, given that the Tory MP is currently under investigation for electoral fraud...

What's amazed me most about UKMT today is finding out there are other goons from Thanet.

Thanet South has the best named candidate I've seen (Faith Miracle Fisher) representing an absolutely terrible party (Christian Peoples Alliance)

For those not in the know the CPA's election materials include a lovely quote on them "Jesus Christ died for your sins, What has Mohammed done for you."

Bacon Terrorist
May 7, 2010

to ride eternal, shiny and chrome

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2022
Finished work early in Manchester to go and vote Labour in my constituency of Barrow and Furness before going back to accompany my first time voter fiancée to vote in her constituency in Penwortham (her request, and I told her to vote for whoever she feels is right).

Lord of the Llamas
Jul 9, 2002

EULER'VE TO SEE IT VENN SOMEONE CALLS IT THE WRONG THING AND PROVOKES MY WRATH

TheRat posted:

Uh, doesn't all indications so far suggest that the 2017 curve should be to the left of brexit?

The Ashcroft stuff is weird.

SteelMentor
Oct 15, 2012

TOXIC

Roark posted:

Long time thread lurker who voted Lib Dem by post ballot weeks ago (I live abroad). Please forgive me.

Why.

Serious question, I'm curious as to why you voted Lib Dem in the first place.




loving pathetic. The fear is palatable through the sneerng, condecending tone. Long shot, but surely there's somewhere to report this kinda fuckery.

Tigey
Apr 6, 2015

NikkolasKing posted:

So I'm American and the talk of "the olds will gently caress us all" has been kinda confusing to me, but the more I learn and see about UK politics and media, the more I see British senior citizens are pawns of a truly evil elite that is manipulating them via the medium they would be most comfortable with.

It's really disgusting.

Yeah, jokes about killing all the olds aside, I personally don't place the bulk of the blame on older Brits for holding the regressive views that many of them tend to do.

There is literally a massive industry focused exclusively on targetting those people and bombarding them 24/7 with propaganda that utterly flatters them (HARD WORKING FAMILIES LIKE YOU THAT GRAFTED ALL YOUR LIFE AND EARNED YOUR PENSION, NEVER CLAIMED BENEFITS LIKE THOSE SKIVERS, etc), discourages critical thinking, and demonises literally everyone that is an 'other' - be it immigrants, foreigners, muslims, the EU, the left, young people, poor people, those on benefits, etc.

Without access to other information/perspectives, those narratives must be incredibly seductive and hard to jettison. Yes, that young person who is telling you its in your interests to vote Labour might make some nice sounding arguments, but they don't know what its like in the REAL WORLD! The REAL REASON the NHS is buckling is not Tory cuts, but because of too many immigrants straining it! It says so in literally all the papers, and here is an anecdotal example about a muslim family on benefits with 20 kids to back it up.

Don't get me wrong. Its WRONG that they hold these views at all - but with a billion-dollar industry bombarding them with propaganda non-stop, I understand why many of them do. Without challenging the power of the Mail, the Sun, the Express, etc, its going to be a near impossible battle to reach them.

Miftan
Mar 31, 2012

Terry knows what he can do with his bloody chocolate orange...

Chinese Gordon posted:

+1 for Jam Socialism in Hampstead and Kilburn. It's a (very) marginal seat. Fingers crossed!

Hello fellow Ham & Kill Goon, thanks for voting for Labour!

BillBear
Mar 13, 2013

Ask me about running my country straight into the ground every time I play EU4 multiplayer.
Isn't that young people piece satire? Old tory shits are unlikely to give their kids drugs.

Tigey
Apr 6, 2015

mfcrocker posted:

This makes sense! Polling station workers are also council employees.

This tends to be the case - my family worked in the local council for many years and have run polling stations during each election. The staff is almost exclusively local government workers

Its a nice little side-earner for council workers who tend to be underpaid and massively stressed, especially with the post-2010 cuts to local government.

Angepain
Jul 13, 2012

what keeps happening to my clothes

Miftan posted:

Ham & Kill

new Tory slogan?

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

BillBear posted:

Isn't that young people piece satire? Old tory shits are unlikely to give their kids drugs.
i can 'jokingly' suggest you give me a million dollars, but i'd still really enjoy that million dollars and would prefer if you gave it to me

WeAreTheRomans
Feb 23, 2010

by R. Guyovich

Angepain posted:

new Tory slogan?

Ham, gently caress or Kill? the dilemma that faces David Cameron everytime he sees a pig

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staberind
Feb 20, 2008

but i dont wanna be a spaceship
Fun Shoe
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