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907 | 49.92% |
| Theresa May Team (Conservative) |
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48 | 2.64% |
| Liberal Democrats |
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31 | 1.71% |
| UKIP |
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13 | 0.72% |
| Plaid Cymru |
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25 | 1.38% |
| Green |
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22 | 1.21% |
| Scottish Socialist Party |
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12 | 0.66% |
| Scottish Conservative Party |
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1 | 0.06% |
| Scottish National Party |
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59 | 3.25% |
| Some Kind of Irish Unionist |
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4 | 0.22% |
| Alliance / Irish Nonsectarian |
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3 | 0.17% |
| Some Kind of Irish Nationalist |
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36 | 1.98% |
| Misc. Far Left Trots |
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35 | 1.93% |
| Misc. Far Right Fash |
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8 | 0.44% |
| Monster Raving Loony |
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49 | 2.70% |
| Space Navies Party |
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39 | 2.15% |
| Independent / Single Issue |
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2 | 0.11% |
| Can't Vote |
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188 | 10.35% |
| Won't Vote |
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8 | 0.44% |
| Spoiled Ballot |
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15 | 0.83% |
| Pissflaps |
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312 | 17.17% |
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communism bitch posted:Round here all the 18 year olds were shepherded into an abandoned barn with "POLLING STATION" scrawled on the side in paint, and then a cabal of satan-worshipping octogenarians locked the doors and lit it on fire. They count as Tory votes  e: 
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forkboy84 posted:I had a nap. It lasted for only an hour which was disappointed. So now I might go out & buy an emergency 2nd bottle of booze just in case it gets grim. Plus some snacks. I need some popcorn in case it goes well. Lol if you don't have multiple bottles of emergency booze on hand at all times
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Jun 8, 2017 20:34
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Twitter is chock full of stories of young people who think they registered to vote but don't have a polling card and aren't on the list at the polling station.
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Jun 8, 2017 20:35
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Baron Corbyn posted:The lady where I voted said「這對於傑里米科爾賓不好」. The one at mine told me, and I quote, "アニメは現実で、私たちの新しい王はジャムで作られています。"
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Jun 8, 2017 20:35
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Pissflaps posted:Twitter is chock full of stories of young people who think they registered to vote but don't have a polling card and aren't on the list at the polling station. And who are now being told to go back to polling stations and vote: https://twitter.com/boulezian/status/872843775114084353
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Jun 8, 2017 20:37
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Pissflaps posted:Twitter is chock full of stories of young people who think they registered to vote but don't have a polling card and aren't on the list at the polling station. My polling card never turned up. I think it's a thing that's happening.
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Jun 8, 2017 20:37
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Pissflaps posted:Twitter is chock full of stories of young people who think they registered to vote but don't have a polling card and aren't on the list at the polling station. as a dumb foreigner, what exactly do you have to do to vote in the UK? i just turned 18 and went to the voting booth, so this is slightly confusing to me.
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keep punching joe posted:Tomorrow's going to be poo poo, so lets see what we could have won. Thank you for posting this. I'm going to watch it on repeat. The best thing this thread has ever given me.
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Jun 8, 2017 20:37
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the man who gave me my ballot had a ID badge that said pissflaps and then shat themselves in front of everyone.
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Jun 8, 2017 20:38
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feedmegin posted:Lol if you don't have multiple bottles of emergency booze on hand at all times The problem is that as soon as I buy an emergency bottle I end up drinking it before I buy another, rendering it impossible to build up a stockpile.
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botany posted:as a dumb foreigner, what exactly do you have to do to vote in the UK? i just turned 18 and went to the voting booth, so this is slightly confusing to me. Register to vote, then turn up at the right polling station on the day. You don't have to take your polling card with you, or any ID.
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Jun 8, 2017 20:39
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botany posted:as a dumb foreigner, what exactly do you have to do to vote in the UK? i just turned 18 and went to the voting booth, so this is slightly confusing to me. You register to vote which means telling them who you are and where you live then before an election you get a card showing where you vote then on the day you turn up tell them who you are then do your vote
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botany posted:as a dumb foreigner, what exactly do you have to do to vote in the UK? i just turned 18 and went to the voting booth, so this is slightly confusing to me. You have to fill in a form either online or by post, giving your name and address. Takes about 5 minutes usually.
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botany posted:as a dumb foreigner, what exactly do you have to do to vote in the UK? i just turned 18 and went to the voting booth, so this is slightly confusing to me. Less than a month before hand you register online. Then on the day you turn up, give your address to the person there, then your name, and assuming it's on the list you get to vote. If it's not, then I assume you can't vote but that's never happened to me so I dunno.
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Why wouldn't you just be automatically registered by virtue of being a citizen of the UK and thus eligible to vote? You have a census, so in theory your government should have that information anyway, no?
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forkboy84 posted:Here's something absurd from The Sun What my fine friend here is referencing is the daily mail's MASTERPIECE of apocalyptic corbyn fanfiction. "‘Give him enough rope and he will hang himself,’ a Blairite had said when Corbyn was elected Labour leader. That was true enough. The only problem was that he had hung the country too." gripping yet chilling.
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botany posted:Why wouldn't you just be automatically registered by virtue of being a citizen of the UK and thus eligible to vote? You have a census, so in theory your government should have that information anyway, no? Friend, never ask about voting in the US works
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Jun 8, 2017 20:42
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botany posted:Why wouldn't you just be automatically registered by virtue of being a citizen of the UK and thus eligible to vote? You have a census, so in theory your government should have that information anyway, no? Isn't the US starting to get worse laws about how you can and cannot vote? Like where you literally have to pay for an ID to be entitled to vote or something.
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Jun 8, 2017 20:42
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botany posted:Why wouldn't you just be automatically registered by virtue of being a citizen of the UK and thus eligible to vote? You have a census, so in theory your government should have that information anyway, no? Yes. But the younger you are the less likey you are to have gone through the registration process and since the goal is to have as few under--40s vote as possible they have no incentive to change the dumb system.
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Jun 8, 2017 20:43
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Rygar201 posted:Friend, never ask about voting in the US works I know about the US system and I know why it is as lovely as it is, but I don't really know as much about the UK. So I'm asking here I guess.
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Jun 8, 2017 20:44
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botany posted:Why wouldn't you just be automatically registered by virtue of being a citizen of the UK and thus eligible to vote? You have a census, so in theory your government should have that information anyway, no? The Tories switched us from household registration to individual registration. It's antidemocratic bollocks but not as bad as the US. Quotey posted:What my fine friend here is referencing is the daily mail's MASTERPIECE of apocalyptic corbyn fanfiction. I asked for this a while back, thanks. The Guardian one was funnier though. He becomes a milquetoast centrist liberal and fires McDonnell to make Chuka Umuna chancellor and Dan Jarvis is in his cabinet and everyone calls him Major Dan and loves him.
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Jun 8, 2017 20:44
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botany posted:Why wouldn't you just be automatically registered by virtue of being a citizen of the UK and thus eligible to vote? You have a census, so in theory your government should have that information anyway, no? Some parties have a vested interest in making it as difficult and obnoxious as they plausibly can for people to take part in the democratic process.
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Jun 8, 2017 20:45
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The Conservatives changed the system this year to make it so that more people would have to register and didn't even put out a token reminder to register on their Facebook page. That the system disenfranchises young people is very much a feature.
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Jun 8, 2017 20:45
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I just ranted about how evil may is and explained what swing seats are to the youth who delivers my pizza after he told me "it won't make a difference". He's not going to vote but he is now going to "keep an eye out on the result" Get this, he was under the impression because he "read it somewhere" that Corbyn was bad because he wanted to abolish tuition fees and it wouldn't be fair on all the people paying back student loans. 
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Baron Corbyn posted:The Tories switched us from household registration to individual registration. It's antidemocratic bollocks but not as bad as the US. Ah I see. When did that happen? What were the reasons they gave?
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Joda posted:Isn't the US starting to get worse laws about how you can and cannot vote? Like where you literally have to pay for an ID to be entitled to vote or something. Most people in the US have a drivers licence. You can get a state ID card if you don't drive which you will probably want because it's common to card anyone who looks under 55 for booze. Both work as id. Requiring id to vote is still cynical voter suppression pushed by Republicans.
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Jun 8, 2017 20:46
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botany posted:Ah I see. When did that happen? What were the reasons they gave? last year and voter fraud.
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Jun 8, 2017 20:47
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I do want my student loans forgiven but no-ones offering that
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JOHNSON COCKSLAP posted:I do want my student loans forgiven but no-ones offering that Labour have said they would try
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Jun 8, 2017 20:48
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Something I've wondered about the fees pledge - it costs a lot of money on paper, but isn't the 'money' the government currently gets out of it toxic debt that won't be paid back in decades if at all?
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Jun 8, 2017 20:49
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Baron Corbyn posted:last year and voter fraud. jesus how did i miss that last year, thanks. also i hesitate to even ask, but: was there any voter fraud in appreciable numbers? i know the answer to that question, right?
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Jun 8, 2017 20:49
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Raeg posted:The lady at my polling station said turnout was down by 1000% and she didn't even know what a young person was. Sorry, I would like to correct my earlier false statement, it was 10000% and the woman was actually a jar of jam
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Jun 8, 2017 20:50
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TheRat posted:Labour have said they would try I voted for them without that but good to know.
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Jun 8, 2017 20:51
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botany posted:jesus how did i miss that last year, thanks. also i hesitate to even ask, but: was there any voter fraud in appreciable numbers? i know the answer to that question, right? The only recent story that springs to mind was in Tower Hamlets but iirc it was based more on informal, non-technical fraud achieved through getting people to vote in certain ways through peer pressure.
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Jun 8, 2017 20:51
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TheRat posted:Labour have said they would try Labour introduced them, so if anyone is going to get rid of them, they are the party to do it. "The Labour government under Tony Blair passed the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 which introduced tuition fees of £1,000 to start in the 1998/9 academic year"
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Jun 8, 2017 20:51
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Irony Be My Shield posted:Something I've wondered about the fees pledge - it costs a lot of money on paper, but isn't the 'money' the government currently gets out of it toxic debt that won't be paid back in decades if at all? Yes the changes were nonsense designed to load huge amounts of debt onto a person and increase marketisation of higher education (because the universities have to compete to get that money!) rather than doing anything to improve education, increase funding or save money.
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Jun 8, 2017 20:53
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Pissflaps posted:Twitter is chock full of stories of young people who think they registered to vote but don't have a polling card and aren't on the list at the polling station. Well that is horribly depressing but unsurprising.
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Jun 8, 2017 20:53
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Pissflaps posted:Twitter is chock full of stories of young people who think they registered to vote but don't have a polling card and aren't on the list at the polling station. There has been a cockup in Newcastle under lyme with at least one polling station not having the correct list of voters. Odds are it will force the vote there to be null and voided, I think the same happened in 2015 as well somewhere.
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Uh it was labour that pushed for individual registration in 2009
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