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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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OrthoTrot
Dec 10, 2006
Its either Trotsky or its Notsky

Xaerael posted:

There is a HELL of a lot of local rumour that Lib Dems were his second choice when he pursued politics as a career, and he was always a "Yellow Tory".

He was part of the Lib Dem "Orange book" crowd who wanted to move the party away from being a loose collection of social democrats to being a centrist pro-business party. I don't know if he would have personally been in favour of tuition fees but he probably needed only a nudge. And on everything else he was always closer to the Tories.

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Robot Mil
Apr 13, 2011

I'm quite loving John McDonnell right now.

When will we start getting info about voting broken down by age etc?

logger
Jun 28, 2008

...and in what manner the Ancyent Marinere came back to his own Country.
Soiled Meat

communism bitch posted:

Lib Dem might juuuuust be stupid enough to try but i doubt it and since i've slept i cant recall if they even have the seats to do it.

According to google they have 12 seats confirmed, so they have 2 more seats than the DUP.

bessantj
Jul 27, 2004



He's not wrong though. Far too many voted tory and not enough voted Labour. They got it wrong.

croc suit
Nov 13, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

kanonvandekempen posted:

This very forum thread has had that attitude for the last 5 years

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
How could they even concievably think of forming a minority government at this point given that the tories+DUP have the numbers they need and labour will have to sign on the LibDems,The SNP, and every independent to do so, it doesnt make sense.

Xaerael
Aug 25, 2010

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

logger posted:

US goon here so forgive my ignorance, but if May not keeping her promise about resigning if she loses the majority makes the DUP not back her are there any other parties that would even think of aligning with the Tories or was the DUP the only one with enough seats to get her coalition over 326?

Unlikely. And the DUP is going to want a deal that the Tories just don't really want to do (softest brexit possible). They're in a lose/lose, and it's loving wonderful because it might actually make people realise what a bunch of self serving shitheads the Tories are.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

logger posted:

According to google they have 12 seats confirmed, so they have 2 more seats than the DUP.

Then they could but they'd have to be loving suicidal because their whole manifesto was no-brexit

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)
When the electorate vote for the insanity and spite of Tory government, then they are wrong. When they don't, they are not.

There's nothing hypocritical about that.

JFairfax
Oct 23, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

Al-Saqr posted:

How could they even concievably think of forming a minority government at this point given that the tories+DUP have the numbers they need and labour will have to sign on the LibDems,The SNP, and every independent to do so, it doesnt make sense.

the DUP support isn't a guaranteed

WeAreTheRomans
Feb 23, 2010

by R. Guyovich

Robot Mil posted:

I'm quite loving John McDonnell right now.

When will we start getting info about voting broken down by age etc?

https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/873084300832292864
https://twitter.com/benatipsosmori/status/873081766407421952

e: also, best pic of the election?

Teddybear
May 16, 2009

Look! A teddybear doll!
It's soooo cute!


kanonvandekempen posted:

This very forum thread has had that attitude for the last 5 years

Yeah, but this forum isn't standing for election and asking for the electorate's vote.

Miftan
Mar 31, 2012

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

Al-Saqr posted:

How could they even concievably think of forming a minority government at this point given that the tories+DUP have the numbers they need and labour will have to sign on the LibDems,The SNP, and every independent to do so, it doesnt make sense.

McDonnell said they want to run it based on their manifesto and asking people to vote for the popular policies like tuition fees, etc.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe

Al-Saqr posted:

How could they even concievably think of forming a minority government at this point given that the tories+DUP have the numbers they need and labour will have to sign on the LibDems,The SNP, and every independent to do so, it doesnt make sense.

It's political posturing.

HJB
Feb 16, 2011

:swoon: I can't get enough of are Dan :swoon:
Morning all. That'll do, won't it?

Robot Mil
Apr 13, 2011

Al-Saqr posted:

How could they even concievably think of forming a minority government at this point given that the tories+DUP have the numbers they need and labour will have to sign on the LibDems,The SNP, and every independent to do so, it doesnt make sense.

Yeah it's not going to happen, but I think they are trying to put themselves forward as wanting to govern and taking the positives from the results rather than throwing their hands up and conceding defeat.

logger
Jun 28, 2008

...and in what manner the Ancyent Marinere came back to his own Country.
Soiled Meat
I know it's a low bar, but at least your country is smarter than the US then.

kanonvandekempen
Mar 14, 2009

gently caress off you racist piece of poo poo

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."

Al-Saqr posted:

How could they even concievably think of forming a minority government at this point given that the tories+DUP have the numbers they need and labour will have to sign on the LibDems,The SNP, and every independent to do so, it doesnt make sense.

Because it most likely won't matter or turn out to be impossible to agree; either way they took every step they could towards power and next time if they just win more seats they're ready to govern.

It's for show basically.

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

JFairfax posted:

the DUP support isn't a guaranteed

Sure, but any Labour government will need the DUP to vote for a motion “That this House has confidence in Her Majesty’s Government.”. How does Corbyn get the DUP's support?

Ash Crimson
Apr 4, 2010
Man, there's still going to be a tory government, isn't there?

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.

JFairfax posted:

the DUP support isn't a guaranteed

but the DUP are a bunch of crazed fundamentalist shitheads they'd absolutely enter into a pact with May just to spite labour.

Fulchrum
Apr 16, 2013

by R. Guyovich

The gently caress is the context here?

croc suit
Nov 13, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

kanonvandekempen posted:

Kill yourself you racist piece of poo poo

you first

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


HJB posted:

Morning all. That'll do, won't it?

It indeed will :cheers:

Fulchrum
Apr 16, 2013

by R. Guyovich

logger posted:

I know it's a low bar, but at least your country is smarter than the US then.

THe list of countries not smarter than the US consists of just Syria and Nicaragua at this point.

WeAreTheRomans
Feb 23, 2010

by R. Guyovich

Fulchrum posted:

The gently caress is the context here?

PM Theresa May was defeated by Sinn Féin candidate Lord Buckethead. She has to resign now

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

Everybody hates you. Now im not saying you should kill yourself but you definitely need to stop posting itt and killing yourself would accomplish that.

Fulchrum
Apr 16, 2013

by R. Guyovich

WeAreTheRomans posted:

PM Theresa May was defeated by Sinn Fein candidate Lord Buckethead. She has to resign now

I thought it was a Black Knight joke, and wondering if the Tories could actually laugh at themselves like that.

croc suit
Nov 13, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
Communism is the refuge of angry, desperate losers just like islamism

logger
Jun 28, 2008

...and in what manner the Ancyent Marinere came back to his own Country.
Soiled Meat

Fulchrum posted:

THe list of countries not smarter than the US consists of just Syria and Nicaragua at this point.

I did say it was a low bar.

Seaside Loafer
Feb 7, 2012

Waiting for a train, I needed a shit. You won't bee-lieve what happened next

Ahahaha gently caress that oval office, you know that's made happier the main result!

ronya
Nov 8, 2010

I'm the normal one.

You hate ridden fucks will regret your words when you eventually grow up.

Peace.

Al-Saqr posted:

How could they even concievably think of forming a minority government at this point given that the tories+DUP have the numbers they need and labour will have to sign on the LibDems,The SNP, and every independent to do so, it doesnt make sense.

important to make the offer for morale + being able to take pot shots at LD and SNP for the next five years

also who knows what by-election stuff might come up, it's important to have some tentative points of agreement hammered out in advance

CptAwesome
Nov 2, 2005

croc suit posted:

Communism is the refuge of angry, desperate losers just like islamism

haha, classic post, really enjoying this post

dex_sda
Oct 11, 2012


croc suit posted:

Communism is the refuge of angry, desperate losers just like islamism

Nice meltdown

JFairfax
Oct 23, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
https://twitter.com/FraserNelson/st...D126%23lastpost

Miftan
Mar 31, 2012

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

croc suit posted:

Communism is the refuge of angry, desperate losers just like islamism

You're a racist and an idiot, gently caress off.

SteelMentor
Oct 15, 2012

TOXIC

croc suit posted:

Communism is the refuge of angry, desperate losers just like islamism

Somebody's mad UKIP got dunked on.

Kill yourself Nazi.

Weasling Weasel
Oct 20, 2010
One of the strengths of FPTP is the fact that is likely to lead to strong governements. So with coalitions in two of the last three elections, is it time to bin it off?

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croc suit
Nov 13, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
Maybe get your coward commie mod buddy to probate me again because i invaded your safe space you complete losers

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