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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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TFW you get to use Thatcher against the Tories https://twitter.com/tomrichell/status/873583055654576133
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https://twitter.com/SocialistVoice/status/873327207791415296 Basically, I've really enjoyed this election & am excited for another one.
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Jun 10, 2017 19:13
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Jun 10, 2017 19:14
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lol if all this screaming about the IRA is going to get British people to investigate the DUP and the UVF. My best friend's family was held hostage by Paras so they could stake out and rob a gas station across the road from their home. Police basically shrugged their shoulders by the time it was reported even though everyone had a good idea of who organised it.
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Jun 10, 2017 19:15
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Halisnacks posted:Is there anything specific to U.K. politics that makes minority government so undesirable? Canada had three minority governments in a row 2004-2011, and while they were probably more ineffectual than a majority would have been, legislation was still passed and the country didn't seem to be in crisis. I'd say the main problem is that the entire working group that can even possibly be hoped to support the conservative party's legislation still only has a wafer-thin majority. Conservatives+DUP+Lady Sylvia Hermon is only 329 MPs, and even with the most generous calculus the absolute minimum required for a majority is 320. So even on issues where they can persuade all friendly parties to back them they can only afford nine defections. Since they're trying to push major issues that are controversial within their own party, that's going to be very difficult to keep working.
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Jun 10, 2017 19:15
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lol https://twitter.com/evan7257/status...er%3D196%23pti8
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TinTower posted:The knife everyone is holding continues its twisting. For clarity this was to request that Scottish plans to introduce legislation to allows civil partnerships to be converted to marriage contain the same exemption that England and Wales currently has blocking civil partnerships issued in Northern Iteland from being in the scope of this law. This is fun cause its a chance to point out the various ways GB has let the DUP get away with a two speed system and facilitated their veto of same sex marriage here
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Jun 10, 2017 19:18
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please, proper antifas would use hammers and sickles or molotov cocktails/bricks.
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Jun 10, 2017 19:18
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How does he envision that would help even remotely against a knife.
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Jun 10, 2017 19:19
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Pre-election: well ni not having same sex marriage is very unfortunate but really its a matter for them and it would be good to do it if they wanted to but really its just a bad situation and we can't get involved too much Post-election: this is outrageous and can not be allowed to stand in a progressive country!
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Jun 10, 2017 19:19
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I mean, if you were that desperate to knife a oval office, surely you'd go for his leg or face in this case. Worth pointing out that no antifa are even at this march despite them all being terrified of the prospect of being bashed.
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Jun 10, 2017 19:20
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So they know they'll lose another election if it's called soon - instead, they'll cling on to this stillborn government, make a complete embarrassing mess of Brexit, and then...lose an election.  Good loving lord
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forkboy84 posted:I mean, if you were that desperate to knife a oval office, surely you'd go for his leg or face in this case. they're so scared/desperate to murder someone that they've got guns https://twitter.com/evan7257/status...D196%23lastpost
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Jun 10, 2017 19:22
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I am not saying that everything is a land of hopes and puppies at this point but there is something frankly amazing in how the tone of this thread has shifted in a mere three days. Of course things could still utterly go to poo poo but goddamm
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Jun 10, 2017 19:22
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I bet this is the kind of geezer who'll say hes totes not a fascist even though the flag on his arm is the loving Kriegesflagg coloured green with some totally-not-swastika logo replacement.
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Jun 10, 2017 19:23
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It's been brought to my attention that the Tories have 33 Catholic MP's. lol
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Mrs May, I think you hosed up: https://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/873598923113455617
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Not to sound to bitter there, I welcome the solidarity that's emerged against the regressive anti-lgbt policies here but after years of being involved in these issues the fact it took the DUPs shittiness possibly personally affecting those across the water for people to wake up to the issue leaves me miffed
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Jun 10, 2017 19:25
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learnincurve posted:Because he's winning a landslide for Labour with the momentum he currently has. it's a big pile of crap that will tear his youth vote apart, why would he want to make it his pile of crap and may and boris are perfect: it's going to be a big pile of crap regardless but they're so incompetent and unpopular that everyone is quite content to blame them for the crap
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kustomkarkommando posted:Not to sound to bitter there, I welcome the solidarity that's emerged against the regressive anti-lgbt policies here but after years of being involved in these issues the fact it took the DUPs shittiness possibly personally affecting those across the water for people to wake up to the issue leaves me miffed Out of sight, out of mind, innit? Most folk simply didn't realise how bad it was, those of us who did, what exactly could we do about it? I totally get why you'd feel bitter about it, it is a shite situation, but I'm not sure most people could have named the biggest parties in NI until about 3 months ago.
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Jun 10, 2017 19:28
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Miftan posted:please, proper antifas would use hammers and sickles or molotov cocktails/bricks. Actually usually we use a big fuckoff stick with a tiny little flag on it for plausible deniability
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MiddleOne posted:How does he envision that would help even remotely against a knife. They'll be too busy laughing to stab them
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Jun 10, 2017 19:30
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I'm absurdly ignorant about NI and I'm sure most of England is too.
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Jun 10, 2017 19:30
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Jun 10, 2017 19:32
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Steve2911 posted:I'm absurdly ignorant about NI and I'm sure most of England is too. It's going to be sobering to get all caught up at once then
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Jun 10, 2017 19:32
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CottonWolf posted:BBC are saying it's confidence and supply rather than full coalition. So just a minority government?
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Jun 10, 2017 19:33
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Steve2911 posted:I'm absurdly ignorant about NI and I'm sure most of England is too. Yeah. I know the basics but I'll be researching the gently caress out of it now.
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Jun 10, 2017 19:35
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Is there any information on how this is likely to change Labour membership? Think I saw someone on Twitter breathlessly claiming it's going to go up to 800,000 and that'd be great but seems like a really big number.
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Jun 10, 2017 19:36
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So how long until this shithouse coalition collapses and we have another election? My money's on November
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CottonWolf posted:BBC are saying it's confidence and supply rather than full coalition. This is bad for the United Kingdom.
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NRVNQSR posted:Conservatives+DUP+Lady Sylvia Hermon is only 329 MPs. If you think Sylvia Hermon is going to back the Tories, you don't know the first thing about Sylvia Hermon.
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Jun 10, 2017 19:38
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CottonWolf posted:BBC are saying it's confidence and supply rather than full coalition. What exactly is "Confidence and Supply"? It sounds like they're just trying to obfuscate the fact it's a coalition.
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Jun 10, 2017 19:40
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:So how long until this shithouse coalition collapses and we have another election? My money's on November October at most, I'm betting on some massive rebellion and/or scandal in the first two months then hilarity until Jam Grandad finally delivers the mercy kill.
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Marxist-Jezzinist posted:Is there any information on how this is likely to change Labour membership? Think I saw someone on Twitter breathlessly claiming it's going to go up to 800,000 and that'd be great but seems like a really big number. That sounds insane given that it went down to something like 450k as of 3 months ago but OTOH if anything's going to get people to sign up it's been this election.
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Renaissance Spam posted:What exactly is "Confidence and Supply"? It sounds like they're just trying to obfuscate the fact it's a coalition. Specifically it means they'll back the Tories on a No Confidence vote & a Budget vote & not anything else.
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CottonWolf posted:BBC are saying it's confidence and supply rather than full coalition. If Corbs can get a coalition >319 seats does that mean they're the largest party?
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Marxist-Jezzinist posted:Is there any information on how this is likely to change Labour membership? Think I saw someone on Twitter breathlessly claiming it's going to go up to 800,000 and that'd be great but seems like a really big number. https://twitter.com/DaveWardGS/status/873591705156669440 but I've no idea if Dave Ward has any actual inside info or not.
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Jun 10, 2017 19:42
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communism bitch posted:Actually usually we use a big fuckoff stick with a tiny little flag on it for plausible deniability Start running the black and pink if you have to start going up against norn iron assholes please
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kustomkarkommando posted:Not to sound to bitter there, I welcome the solidarity that's emerged against the regressive anti-lgbt policies here but after years of being involved in these issues the fact it took the DUPs shittiness possibly personally affecting those across the water for people to wake up to the issue leaves me miffed In the efforts of fairness, I think a lot of people on the left in the UK are really hesitant to look like they're telling NI what to do in any respect - moralizing and paternalism had been used to justify intervention for so long that a hands off approach seemed the safest course. Because people stopped talking about it it stopped being taught.
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Renaissance Spam posted:What exactly is "Confidence and Supply"? It sounds like they're just trying to obfuscate the fact it's a coalition. As I understand it, Confidence and Supply is basically where the DUP promises to help them get the Queens Speech through, but after that will be in the position of being able to dictate terms on anything else. A coalition means the two parties come to an arrangement beforehand where those concessions are given upfront, in exchange for the DUP promising to go along with the party line.
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