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What is the best flav... you all know what this question is:
This poll is closed.
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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OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

MrL_JaKiri posted:

Wait ignore that. I misread the BBC thing. It's still up there - the most Labour votes ever is something like 13.5m, currently on 12.8.

Ehhhh, number of votes is going to go up with population, vote share is the better metric.

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qhat
Jul 6, 2015


I can't wait to see the tories getting eviscerated in their own right wing media for attempting to water down brexit thanks to DUP demands

NewMars
Mar 10, 2013

Strom Cuzewon posted:

Is there not a chance that the blairites try and shaft him again?

They tried that several times over the last couple years and when election time came around just decided to sit it all out. Now apparently most of them are coming out of the woodwork to kiss the ring?

MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

A bracing glass of carrot juice!

I posted this on FB this morning and a guy I know who went to Eton liked it so it takes all sorts

(He went to Eton because his dad worked for the UN and they paid for schooling, so his dad went "Well he's going to to the most expensive one then!")

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Strom Cuzewon posted:

Is there not a chance that the blairites try and shaft him again?

There's always that chance, but they'd have to be idiotic beyond sapient comprehension considering how he's revitalised the party.

Codex Occultus
Apr 12, 2009

A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting.
https://twitter.com/JasonArnopp/status/873042888166223872

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe

RaySmuckles posted:

so what are the chances that jezza and co can repeat this level of success in a subsequent election?

does this legitimize him and the party platform, or was this a circumstantial victory based on the uncertainty of the direction of the nation?

what do you all think will happen to labour in the next election? will the youth come out again? will the dispirited come out of the woodwork having seen the huge strides labour made? will people see this as a loss since they most likely won't get to form a government?

High, yes to the first and a comfortable Labour victory.

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I just want to say to my friends in the UK - you have inspired those of us BernieBruhs across the pond that there is hope in politics. You go on and put Corbyn in Number 10 by whatever means necessary, and we'll get a real leftist in the White House come 2020.

There is hope in the world again, and we have many victories ahead of us. I have the will to fight that I had once lost. All of us will live to tell our grandchildren when we saved democracy from its darkest hours. All seriousness aside, I think it's firmly cemeted this point that our Absolute Boy is...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJc9Fko0mf4

DRAGONBORN

Gen. Ripper
Jan 12, 2013


Memories...



Murderion
Oct 4, 2009

2019. New York is in ruins. The global economy is spiralling. Cyborgs rule over poisoned wastes.

The only time that's left is
FUN TIME

Lightning Lord posted:

And economically?

Oh, economically they're pro EU/soft brexit, because the NI economy is hosed without being able to trade with their closest neighbour.

It's an even worse deal than a hypothetical Con/UKIP coalition for the Tories, because they lose both the hard brexit their right wing wants and the social liberal cred that keeps anyone under 40 voting for them. The DUP are basically the opposite kind of conservatives to what the Tories wish they were.

Xaerael
Aug 25, 2010

Marching Powder is objectively the worst poster known. He also needs to learn how a keyboard works.

Tory shitlers on the beeb desperately performing the most spectacular mental gymnastics about whether they won or not.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe

Grouchio posted:

Biggest Labour presence since Attlee?

Since Blair in 2001, I think.

ShaneMacGowansTeeth
May 22, 2007



I think this is it... I think this is how it ends
ANSWER THE loving QUESTION REDWOOD!

RaySmuckles
Oct 14, 2009


:vapes:
Grimey Drawer

Cerebral Bore posted:

High, yes to the first and a comfortable Labour victory.

well then, that's great!

Snipee
Mar 27, 2010

OwlFancier posted:

The DUP are the socially conservative, unionist party in NI, which means they want NI to stay NI, and not, uh, unify with ROI. Irish politics is weird in that nationalists want unification and unionists are separatists, though i suppose it goes the other way from a UK point of view.

Nobody in NI wants to lose the current open borders arrangement with the ROI, which is part of why the peace agreement works and people aren't murdering and bombing each other over there so much any more. If Brexit goes ahead the ROI is in the EU, which means it will have to close borders with NI, which is in the UK. This would be very very bad for the DUP if they had a hand in it, and bad for all of us because it would seriously gently caress up the peace agreement.

Being social conservatives and unionists they align with the tories in most things but it's going to be really difficult for them to work together when the tories want to basically gently caress them over with brexit.

As to why they won seats, NI's been having some lovely political trouble recently with its government going to poo poo and lots of arguments which is frankly complicated and I don't properly understand at all so one of the NI goons should answer that.

Oh and when I say socially conservative I mean, like, the nasty wing of the tories, real shitters.

This is a fabulous briefing, thanks!

razorscooter
Nov 5, 2008


https://twitter.com/parliawint/status/872987497671909376

Miftan
Mar 31, 2012

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

Xaerael posted:

Tory shitlers on the beeb desperately performing the most spectacular mental gymnastics about whether they won or not.

Love it.

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

coffeetable posted:

:siren: I was totally wrong about the electability of Jeremy Corbyn and you were all right :siren:

KISS THE FAWKIN RING BETCH

https://twitter.com/musab_ys/status/873005723432751104

Digiwizzard
Dec 23, 2003


Pork Pro

Strom Cuzewon posted:

Is there not a chance that the blairites try and shaft him again?

The Blairites alleigance doesen't really lie with Blair but with Power. Corbyn has proven that people don't give a poo poo about third way Centrism so it's pointless to fight for it.

squirrelzipper
Nov 2, 2011

Dr. Fishopolis posted:

Specifically, the prime minister who hosed up brexit by calling a special election they thought they'd win handily, after the last prime minister forced her into the position by by calling a referendum he thought he'd win handily.

Did I get this right?

It's astonishing really. What with the orange we don't name it's all taken on a bit of a surreal tone.

Jakabite
Jul 31, 2010
God yes

Avirosb
Nov 21, 2016

Everyone makes pisstakes

Who would've made the better Theresa May cosplayer?

Eric Idle in his prime or Graham Chapman in his prime?

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013


Tom Watson says Theresa May is a what?

I have to know!

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

I need videos of labour reactions to this stunning victory STAT.

Miftan
Mar 31, 2012

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

'We have the most votes so clearly the public wants May as PM and we won' -Tory shithead

Zephro
Nov 23, 2000

I suppose I could part with one and still be feared...
The Brexit clock is still ticking and we can't stop it without the unanimous agreement of the other 27

RaySmuckles
Oct 14, 2009


:vapes:
Grimey Drawer
any recommendations where i can watch cool stuff about this election presented by people who aren't total fuckheads?

Mr. Nemo
Feb 4, 2016

I wish I had a sister like my big strong Daddy :(
Has Trump tweeted to congratulate May on her "victory" or is he going to mock her for being sad and weak?

qhat
Jul 6, 2015


Theresa isn't going to resign

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

RaySmuckles posted:

any recommendations where i can watch cool stuff about this election presented by people who aren't total fuckheads?

Hbomberguy had a really good pre-election explainer about how Jeremy Corbyn is basically Ghandi, but good.

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
https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/873063822667390976

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Miftan posted:

'We have the most votes so clearly the public wants May as PM and we won' -Tory shithead

Hahahaha "hillary won the popular vote"

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

qhat posted:

Theresa isn't going to resign

Thatcher isn't going to resign

Digiwizzard
Dec 23, 2003


Pork Pro

RaySmuckles posted:

any recommendations where i can watch cool stuff about this election presented by people who aren't total fuckheads?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVbC0jASJYA

MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

A bracing glass of carrot juice!

OwlFancier posted:

Ehhhh, number of votes is going to go up with population, vote share is the better metric.

I know, :ssh:

Also the effect is cancelled out somewhat by lower turnout nowadays

Bardeh
Dec 2, 2004

Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/873064713176797184

Well this should be interesting...

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Good loving luck you righteous twit.

Bring on the Jezza.

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!



ahahaah i thought so, May is stubborn as gently caress and very insular. They're gonna have to tear it off her.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013


Holy poo poo.

She just got loving slaughtered and we know she can't do poo poo.

She's going to get loving hammered constantly by everyone until she quits or loses a GE.

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Dr Snofeld
Apr 30, 2009

Gen. Ripper posted:

Memories...





Dr Snofeld fucked around with this message at 07:39 on Jun 9, 2017

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