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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% |
| 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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CoolCab posted:Well in this case his pitch is somewhere between "people made up their minds late, foiling pollsters who can't afford every second before the election" and "the youth vote drastically outperformed most people's wildest expectations". Both pretty reasonable, and again, a lot of the election results this year were within the margin or error.
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oh yeah what an rear end in a top hat such a shame he replaced the dude who enabled the mass starvation of poor people 11 years ago he was in a band who had gross lyrics hang on a minute is this going to segue into you pointing out 'black people music' has misogynist undertones as you continue the LibDem's accelerating slide into reactionary views on blacks and gays?
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Jun 10, 2017 02:55
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Brian's back https://twitter.com/BrianElects/status/873299064489750528
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Jun 10, 2017 03:03
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Not sure if the thread alread shared this, but it's pretty funny: http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-book-of-jeremy-corbyn
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Jun 10, 2017 03:13
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCpM2oY54o There must be some loyalist music that doesn't sound like weird karaoke...right?
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Miftan posted:Mods when are we all getting Corbyn gang tags? Also red and black flags for the UKMT anarchist division. Tyvm Can't have gang tags without a gang tag. Considering the flailing hategoblin is the reason my wife can never move back home, stranding us in the US, I figured I'd do my part: 
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Pinterest Mom posted:Well, this was a provincial election in Canada, but probably less of a self-own than Alberta 2015. I remember coming home on the night of the election (I currently live in Toronto but my family is from Alberta). My dad was outsude and asked me if I'd seen the results. I knew Notley had run a good campaign but hey, it's Alberta. If you're not Blue or a foaming racist you're not getting elected. So I resignedly said no, expecting a minority Conservative or Wild Rose government and having to be ashamed of my home province for years. Instead the NDP walked away with a massive majority. It's basically the way I keep myself from going insane. If the NDP can dominate an Alberta election anything is possible.
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Jun 10, 2017 03:44
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Holy poo poo Lord Buckethead might be the greatest thing to ever have happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrpJ4N0ffgk
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Jun 10, 2017 03:45
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I get the feeling that Ian Hislop was not too thrilled by the result
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TheRat posted:Holy poo poo Lord Buckethead might be the greatest thing to ever have happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrpJ4N0ffgk How is Lord Buckethead not an MP? That was glorious.
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Gum posted:I get the feeling that Ian Hislop was not too thrilled by the result He's a libdem I think
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TheRat posted:He's a libdem I think I increasingly get the feeling he's come to despise everyone in politics of any stripe.
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Jun 10, 2017 03:51
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I can't do it, but I would suggest the title of the jam man can with a nice rippling union flag. Jut my tuppenence worth.
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axeil posted:How is Lord Buckethead not an MP? That was glorious.
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axeil posted:How is Lord Buckethead not an MP? That was glorious. What exactly is the deal with Lord Buckethead? Like I get he's a "joke" candidate but I get the sense there's more to it than a silly costume. *edit stupid phone.
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Fat Lowtax posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCpM2oY54o If there is I haven't heard it. They focus more on their marching band music really.
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Jun 10, 2017 03:56
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Fat Lowtax posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCpM2oY54o Maybe the secret to Irish Republicanism enduring is that it has a lot of great music. There's a ton on YT I've found and liked most of it. TheRat posted:Holy poo poo Lord Buckethead might be the greatest thing to ever have happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrpJ4N0ffgk I just keep finding more and more reason to be jealous of UK politics.
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Jun 10, 2017 03:57
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Buckethead's suggestion that NHS services should be free, but that they shame you with how much it costs if you did have to pay for it, seems particularly apt for the UK.
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Jun 10, 2017 03:58
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TheRat posted:Lord Ashcroft's survey of the vote: that's a huge age effect. seems much bigger than the 2015 age swing Tories are holding c2s as pre-election polling suggested, but regardless, amongst all of social grades, Labour+LD > Con
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Jun 10, 2017 04:31
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You know I used to laugh at the idea of unskewing polls, but then it turns out every single UK polling company (except Survation) skews their polls.
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Jun 10, 2017 04:40
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Unskewing polls was the practice of simply subtracting points from someones polls because you were convinced they were biased because they showed your side losing. Having an incorrect model is not skewing. If polling companies dont at least try to model likely voters, the poll is pretty much useless.
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Jun 10, 2017 04:56
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You could say Yougov skewed their polls on election eve by suddenly adding in Don't Knows and guessing how they'll vote, which turned their mostly correct good poll into a mostly wrong bad poll.
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Jun 10, 2017 04:59
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:Buckethead's suggestion that NHS services should be free, but that they shame you with how much it costs if you did have to pay for it, seems particularly apt for the UK. Oddly I believe that was once a tory suggestion, the idea of it teaching you to value the NHS is nice but in practice it would likely deter people from using the service.
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Jun 10, 2017 05:07
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The new methodology that most of the pollsters used was horseshit. Who turns out is often a crucial, election-defining factor, and just assuming it will be the same as last time is basically the same thing as assuming that the result will be the same as last time.
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Jun 10, 2017 05:08
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Irony Be My Shield posted:The new methodology that most of the pollsters used was horseshit. Who turns out is often a crucial, election-defining factor, and just assuming it will be the same as last time is basically the same thing as assuming that the result will be the same as last time. They asked young people how likely they were to vote, and then when ~80% said they were certain or very likely, assumed they were just lying and wouldn't actually bother, because how it was before is how it will always be.
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Julio Cruz posted:They asked young people how likely they were to vote, and then when ~80% said they were certain or very likely, assumed they were just lying and wouldn't actually bother, because how it was before is how it will always be. e: their herding on their final poll was loving awful though, especially considering they made the exact same mistake of assuming a bunch of people would vote the same way they did in the last election which the Tories won. Irony Be My Shield fucked around with this message at 05:24 on Jun 10, 2017 |
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Jun 10, 2017 05:17
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I would not like to be whoever made the decision to add in DKs in Yougovs in the final poll.
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Jun 10, 2017 05:21
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Some things I'd like to retrospectively lol at: - mocking Corbyn for picking a communist campaign manager - talking up May's "consistent messaging" - doommongering about Theresa May campaigning in a bunch of safe Labour seats she didn't win - that GBS poster who came in to land some sick owns and was quickly forced to argue that, for the first time ever, the exit poll was significantly wrong
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Jun 10, 2017 05:30
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Irony Be My Shield posted:Some things I'd like to retrospectively lol at: Hey now May very consistently messaged that she was a complete idiot. You can't argue with her consistency.
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Irony Be My Shield posted:- that GBS poster who came in to land some sick owns and was quickly forced to argue that, for the first time ever, the exit poll was significantly wrong I remember that! Or maybe I'm just thinking of the bbc election coverage
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Renaissance Spam posted:What exactly is the deal with Lord Buckethead? Like I get he's a "joke" candidate but I get the sense there's more to it than a silly costume. When darkness falls upon the land and an unpopular Tory Prime Minister is standing, Lord Buckethead is summoned to stand against them in their constituency representing his party the Gremloids. He ran against Thatcher (on a platform of demolishing Birmingham so he could build a spaceport), he ran against Major, and now he's run against May. Basically the UK has a long and storied tradition of joke candidates whose purpose is in part to kind of poke fun at the absurdity of politics. From the Monster Raving Loony party to the Al-Zebabist Nation of Ooog they take part in all of the hustings and other events, somewhat ruining every serious photo politicians want to take and undermining the whole serious reverence of politics. The establishment hates them in general and they've done all sorts of things to try and stop them over the years, from increasing the fee that candidates need to pay to stand to in a few cases having the police have a quiet word with them. It's never dissuaded them. It's pretty much the most British humour thing I can think of.
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Humiliation for loser Clegg
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Skinty McEdger posted:When darkness falls upon the land and an unpopular Tory Prime Minister is standing, Lord Buckethead is summoned to stand against them in their constituency representing his party the Gremloids. He ran against Thatcher (on a platform of demolishing Birmingham so he could build a spaceport), he ran against Major, and now he's run against May. Also, of course, Brits aren't a big fan of anyone taking themselves too seriously, so the whole country absolutely loves these guys for it too.
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Skinty McEdger posted:When darkness falls upon the land and an unpopular Tory Prime Minister is standing, Lord Buckethead is summoned to stand against them in their constituency representing his party the Gremloids. He ran against Thatcher (on a platform of demolishing Birmingham so he could build a spaceport), he ran against Major, and now he's run against May. That is the most amazing thing I have ever heard of. I need to see Canada get something similar.
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Renaissance Spam posted:That is the most amazing thing I have ever heard of. I need to see Canada get something similar. Well we did have this last election https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG6fhub9HDQ
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Jun 10, 2017 06:28
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Joke Candidates exist in most Liberal Democracies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d_FvgQ1csE
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Digiwizzard posted:Joke Candidates exist in most Liberal Democracies. Vermin Supreme is wonderful.
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Hislop tells a great story about Buckethead when he ran against I think Major. When they were doing the line up for the vote announcement one of the officials came up to him and told him that by law he had to remove his helmet, at which point he replies "I can't. It's my head." The official had absolutely no answer to this and so as the camera's pan across the stage to show Major holding his seat there is Buckethead looming in the background.
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