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| Labour |
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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% |
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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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Hey guys, sorry I am a stupid American trying to understand everything that is happening so could someone please correct me where I am wrong? - Cameron calls for brexit, it fucks up, Cameron resigns and Theresa May replaces him? - Teresa May smelling blood in the water and also wanting a mandate (basically a reason to say the country supports her since she was never elected), calls for a snap election. - Despite early predictions her party did well but not well enough? Or did her party do poo poo? This is the part I can't quite figure out. Regardless its clear it didn't do as clear as she expected/claimed. Does this mean her mandate dies? Does she resign? Are you guys still continuing with brexit? Sorry for this, I am finding a hard time finding something to sum up what is happening as opposed to what is happening right now.
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OwlFancier posted:I mean, I dunno if you're strictly required to be an MP to hold a cabinet position but, uh, that might be a bit difficult. that's Lady Rudd to you
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Jun 9, 2017 17:33
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big scary monsters posted:It probably should be called Team UK tbh. GB doesn't just exclude Norn Iron but also athletes from the other islands. It would mean funding them though.
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Fans posted:You put it on toast and call it Jelly Jam is made with mashed fruit and jelly is made with congealed fruit juice 
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Drone_Fragger posted:The daily mail, of course, is going to somehow equate talking to the IRA as being a bigger sin than actually giving the keys to number ten to the UDA. "You see, there's BAD terrorists, and there's GOOD terrorists. It really depends on your views!" - Daily Mail mental gymnastics
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Just wanna show you guys something https://twitter.com/_geringonca/status/873215708154519555 This graph is voting intentions by the Portuguese people. It starts right after the elections, when the Socialist Party made a parliamentary coalition (not government coalition) with the Left Bloc and the Communists and successfully established a minority government with a majority on some important points. The "Geringonça" line is voting intentions on the left leaning parties. The "Direita" line is voting intentions in the right leaning parties. It works  AND Economically we've been doing much, much, much better.
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Knifegrab posted:Hey guys, sorry I am a stupid American trying to understand everything that is happening so could someone please correct me where I am wrong? Imagine the House was the only chamber that mattered in the US and could call elections. The Republicans have a small majority and think calling an election will increase it. Instead they lose the majority despite doing better than the Democrats and they can now only get a tiny Majority by relying on some mad fucker Tea Partiers who ran as independents. So not great for them even if technically still a win as trying to get anything through will now be a massive pain in the rear end and require total unity including said mad fucker tea partiers.
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Knifegrab posted:Hey guys, sorry I am a stupid American trying to understand everything that is happening so could someone please correct me where I am wrong? May called an election when the polls showed Corbyn was deeply unpopular and an election would result in a massive tory majority, in six weeks she managed to poo poo the bed enough that she lost her majority and Labour gained seats, she is now negotiating with a tiny party of insane Christians cultists to try and form a government, said crazy cult party stands a chance of being literally, actually murdered in the street if Brexit goes ahead because doing so stands a major chance of reigniting the northern irish conflict. It's loving hilarious. ronya posted:that's Lady Rudd to you Hahaha I was thinking "immediately peer all the dead cabinet MPs" but I thought it might be too silly of a proposition.
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Posh oval office Meltdown Continues: https://twitter.com/Tim_R_Dawson/status/873211787587592194 https://twitter.com/Tim_R_Dawson/status/873216793623625729
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Knifegrab posted:- Despite early predictions her party did well but not well enough? Or did her party do poo poo? This is the part I can't quite figure out. Regardless its clear it didn't do as clear as she expected/claimed. Does this mean her mandate dies? Does she resign? Are you guys still continuing with brexit? Based on almost all pre-election expectations they did poorly, although still just well enough to scrape a majority when acting in coalition with DUP. It damages her mandate and the opposition parties will be making this point while May appears to be trying to act like it is business as usual.
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Jun 9, 2017 17:36
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DesperateDan posted:
Shame that diagram is inaccurate. There are other islands forming part of Scotland & England that are not Britain.
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Jun 9, 2017 17:36
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Postorder Trollet89 posted:https://twitter.com/brexit_sham/status/873162092358111232 lol yup, fellow Americans should remember that although they aren't officially descended, the DUP are in many ways the successors of the UDP, the Ulster Democratic Party, and the DUP are the largest Unionist party in Northern Ireland. As such, they command the loyalty of all the Unionist terrorist groups and a decent number of the DUP are former terrorists, just like Sinn Fein is made up of former Irish Republican Army dudes. so that'd be May literally sympathizing and working with terrorists, for those keeping score at home.
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Jun 9, 2017 17:36
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Knifegrab posted:Hey guys, sorry I am a stupid American trying to understand everything that is happening so could someone please correct me where I am wrong? Pretty much got it right. The Tories went from a slim majority to one in which they need to make a deal with a second party to form government. After everyone predicted that Corbyn and the Labour party would be crushed. She's said she won't resign, though that might be untenable and she'll get knifed. Brexit continues. e:fb
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Xaerael posted:"You see, there's BAD terrorists, and there's GOOD terrorists. It really depends on your views!" - Daily Mail mental gymnastics I mean, this is actually true. The loyalists are bad terrorists though.
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Jun 9, 2017 17:37
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Knifegrab posted:Hey guys, sorry I am a stupid American trying to understand everything that is happening so could someone please correct me where I am wrong? All correct, but basically the tories got monstered compared to what everybody expected and predicted. She was supposed to come out of this GE with a comfortably increased majority of the seats in parliament and bury Labour forever. Instead she lost so many seats that she needs to rely on a mad little rump party of fundie protestants to prop her government up, all her MPs hate her and they're going to actually and literally eat her. The tory government survives for now, but they've all got the knives out for May because she hosed them through her own hubris and stupidity.
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Jun 9, 2017 17:37
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Fans posted:Imagine the House was the only chamber that mattered in the US and could call elections. The Republicans have a small majority and think calling an election will increase it. Instead they lose the majority despite doing better than the Democrats and they can now only get a Majority by relying on some mad fucker Tea Partiers who ran as independents. How many seats did they lose?
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Jun 9, 2017 17:37
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A lot of journo's who were quietly sniggering about the Standard hiring Osborne as editor are now convinced that it was an inspired decision. The standard is going to be the paper to keep an eye on for the next few weeks.
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Jun 9, 2017 17:37
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Knifegrab posted:Hey guys, sorry I am a stupid American trying to understand everything that is happening so could someone please correct me where I am wrong? Essentially this. Theresa may tried to turn it into a popularity contest and tried to make it her (personal) popularity against Jeremy corbyns personal unpopularity. As such she ran an incredibly bad campaign with some incredibly bad policies, refused to do interviews (because she can't answer questions she's not given in advance and is also a coward) and then in addition turned out to be a plastic faced robot who can't deal with talking to people she doesn't know and in addition to this, runs through fields of wheat and fucks up things for the farmers.
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TheRat posted:Posh oval office Meltdown Continues: These guys need some vaseline for their severely chapped asses.
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Can't believe this guy is now literally the president
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Is it me or does Jeremy Corbyn look a bit like Albert Steptoe?
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Jun 9, 2017 17:39
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lol I'd forgotten about this gem, I love twitter for recalling poo poo like this https://twitter.com/kevr1990/status/873193738155241472
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Jun 9, 2017 17:39
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Laradus posted:I'm tired after watching most of it all night, but very happy. thanks man I'm shattered and my legs are numb, I was literally out until like 9:58 trying to shove someone in a car to get a last minute vote. Turns out we're clear by like 10,000 though so lol
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Jun 9, 2017 17:40
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Cerv posted:Shame that diagram is inaccurate. There are other islands forming part of Scotland & England that are not Britain. how dare you forget Anglesey it looks like a head
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Jun 9, 2017 17:40
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Shibawanko posted:Can't believe this guy is now literally the president Isn't that an Iron Maiden album cover?
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Knifegrab posted:
She called the election with polls giving her a 20% lead, she's managed under 2.5%, which isn't enough to keep control without crawling to some very undesirable people Her party want her out, but can't get her out until they've managed to make sure they can keep control because otherwise the left get to form some kind of progressive government. She'll make it until the summer break and get knifed when the Tories have worked out who they want to replace her. Brexit will go ahead regardless, but she'll be forced into a much weaker position and have to pull back from the hard brexit she wanted a mandate to push
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communism bitch posted:All correct, but basically the tories got monstered compared to what everybody expected and predicted. She was supposed to come out of this GE with a comfortably increased majority of the seats in parliament and bury Labour forever. Instead she lost so many seats that she needs to rely on a mad little rump party of fundie protestants to prop her government up, all her MPs hate her and they're going to actually and literally eat her. The tory government survives for now, but they've all got the knives out for May because she hosed them through her own hubris and stupidity. I thought she said something along the lines of "if I lose seats I will resign". Shouldn't this be playing on every news channel on a loop until the wheat field running idiot steps down?
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Zalakwe posted:What is the quick rebuttal to the 'National spending is like a credit card' crap? You don't use a credit card to finance your business. Also countries are immortal and eternally reliable at repayments and as anyone who's actually required credit before knows almost every creditor is okay with an agreed replacement payment scheme if you have cashflow issues.
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Jun 9, 2017 17:42
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TheRat posted:Isn't that an Iron Maiden album cover? imo they should've made him "come out of the wall" like with a hole behind him and some bricks flying around
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TheRat posted:Isn't that an Iron Maiden album cover? A single, the trooper. 
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Knifegrab posted:How many seats did they lose? 12 possibly 13 as one left to go. They used to have a majority of 4
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Knifegrab posted:I thought she said something along the lines of "if I lose seats I will resign". Shouldn't this be playing on every news channel on a loop until the wheat field running idiot steps down? Only if the news channels wanted her to step down
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Knifegrab posted:Hey guys, sorry I am a stupid American trying to understand everything that is happening so could someone please correct me where I am wrong? The two first points are correct. At the time when the election was called, May and her team led by 20-25% in the opinion polls. Then, in an incredible moment of hubris, she decided that she didn't actually have to put in any effort campaigning and could just coast to victory on the strength of a single slogan. The problem with this was that certified unelectable joke person Jeremy Corbyn actually put in the effort and actually tried appealing to people with good and popular policies, and to the complete bafflement of the political class this worked and he closed that 20% gap to 2%. Now the Conservatives have lost their majority, so they're relegated to relying on the support of Northern Irish crazy people to stay in power. May is desperately trying to cling to power, but the rest of her party are sharpening the knives. Brexit is going ahead, but May's orginal plan for the negotiations is deader than dead and she's never getting the kind of deal that will both satisfy her base and the Northern Irish crazies she relies on for her majority. All in all May's hosed super hard.
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Cerv posted:Shame that diagram is inaccurate. There are other islands forming part of Scotland & England that are not Britain. Aye, if I was going to go on QI or a particularly pedantic pub quiz
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SpaceDrake posted:lol yup, fellow Americans should remember that although they aren't officially descended, the DUP are in many ways the successors of the UDP, the Ulster Democratic Party, and the DUP are the largest Unionist party in Northern Ireland. As such, they command the loyalty of all the Unionist terrorist groups and a decent number of the DUP are former terrorists, just like Sinn Fein is made up of former Irish Republican Army dudes. They're not terrorists if they're fighting for Great Britain. That's just called patriotism.
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Theresa May basically now has the worst job on the planet. And it's great.
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WeAreTheRomans posted:lol I'd forgotten about this gem, I love twitter for recalling poo poo like this would(n't complain)
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TheRat posted:Isn't that an Iron Maiden album cover? Single cover not album.. But yeah
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Knifegrab posted:I thought she said something along the lines of "if I lose seats I will resign". Shouldn't this be playing on every news channel on a loop until the wheat field running idiot steps down? Yeah..... that's not how the brit media works. Watch and see if any of them call her out on literally forming a government with actual terrorists (  they won't). She said that if she loses 6 seats the tories are hosed. She lost more like a dozen or something (I've lost count) but she hasn't really acknowledged the catastrophic outcome of the election at all in her public statements so far. She's basically going to pretend it never happened.
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