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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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forkboy84 posted:Have you tried living somewhere that has proper seasons? We used to have seasons, swinging from -30 to +30, but the weather the last years...
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Just watched the Panorama and I don't know whether I feel more sorrow or anger. The greedy fuckups that caused the situation is bad enough, but the fact not a single person in government at any level seems to be doing a single drat thing to support the survivors is mind-boggling. The only people on the ground are the coppers trying to stop the council getting crucified. Contrast with the ongoing effort by ordinary people and it's all the more striking, but there shouldn't be a loving need. Contrast also with the firefighters who responded that night, were aghast at the scope of the fire, baffled by its infeasibly rapid spread, and then broke their own safety rules to try and rescue more people despite the danger. Heroes everywhere and not a one of them has been getting the support they require from the council or Downing Street.
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Jun 20, 2017 05:18
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Announced transport stuff from the Queen's Speech actually seems fairly good. 1. More charging ports for electric cars 2. Invest in space programme, start launching satellites, maybe manned rockets (lol magic money tree) 3. Build next stage of HS2 from Midlands to the North West
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Jun 20, 2017 05:59
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its too hot i cant sleep
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Jun 20, 2017 06:04
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I was just in paris and there are loads of electric car charging things all of the place
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Jun 20, 2017 06:05
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Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:its too hot i cant sleep ur dead. welcome to hell
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Jun 20, 2017 06:05
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Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:its too hot i cant sleep I'm a Californian who lived in the UK for years and the lack of air conditioning was astounding.
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Jun 20, 2017 06:08
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I'm a Californian who lived in the UK for years and the lack of air conditioning was astounding. I'm actually only after a green card so I can live in a country with air conditioning in homes, don't tell USCIS
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Jun 20, 2017 06:09
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Aircon makes me sneeze
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Jun 20, 2017 06:10
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Mister Adequate posted:I'm actually only after a green card so I can live in a country with air conditioning in homes, don't tell USCIS If you explain that to the relevant immigration authorities they'll probably expedite your application.
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Jun 20, 2017 06:12
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Regarde Aduck posted:In the south by the coast. edit for content: this is also why Portsmouth is cheaper. The line from Brighton to Victoria takes an hour or so (assuming the trains are working, which recently they mostly haven't been). It's twice that to Portsmouth from Waterloo, partly because the line is poo poo, partly because it has more stops and partly because it's further. My nearest town is Guildford which is the furthest thing from hip and buzzing that it is possible to imagine 
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Jun 20, 2017 06:15
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I was always amazed that it took almost half as long to get from Portsmouth to Southampton by train as it did to get from Manchester to London. And in case you smartasses are wondering, the answer is archival research.
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Jun 20, 2017 06:23
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Baron Corbyn posted:Announced transport stuff from the Queen's Speech actually seems fairly good. I mean why does anyone really but still that's just bizarre and will never happen. Edit: oh I get it, it must be part of this general 1950s nostalgia trip we've all been having since Brexit
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Jun 20, 2017 06:25
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Zephro posted:Lol why on earth does Britain want/need a crewed space programme gently caress you I want The Quatermass Experiment IRL. I mean of all the things a government could waste money on manned space exploration is like the best possible outcome. Exploring space is Good.
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Jun 20, 2017 06:28
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:gently caress you I want The Quatermass Experiment IRL.
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Jun 20, 2017 06:33
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Finsbury Park suspect Darren Osborne's family 'in shock' For some reason there's no mention of the family of the guy he killed.
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Jun 20, 2017 06:37
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I'm going to start renting a flat in a couple of months, and I'm kinda rusty on the subject of my rights. I'll be heading down to the CAB today but I wanted to ask here as well if I could. I'm moving in 5 days before the end of July, about a month after the last tenant clears out, and the landlady initially said that was fine and would give her the opportunity to do some maintenance. In a later email she said I'll only be liable for bills from the date I move in, but she wants rent for the whole of July. I'll be paying August just a week later, and with the deposit as well I'll be out over £1200 pretty much all at once. (I know that's not much to some of you, but it's a lot to me) I haven't yet signed anything, and won't have done until a few days before I move in. What scope do I have for talking her down to accepting the equivalent of 1 week's rent for July? I assume that before I sign the answer is "none whatsoever" and after it would depend on the wording of the contract?
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Jun 20, 2017 06:44
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Zephro posted:Lol why on earth does Britain want/need a crewed space programme The cynical take is that the big takeaway the Tories have about their campaign and manifesto was that there was nothing aspirational in it, that it lacked a big idea to get people behind. A new space program ticks the boxes - it seems like a big idea that no one really expects to go anywhere, where there's no need to show tangible progress or benefits in the short term and that can be used as something to give the country an identity without actually needing to do anything beyond the abstract. Right wing governments love manned space programs, Trump for example has been pushing for NASA to do more going forward for example. They're bottled dreams that can make people look to the stars and not take notice of the conditions around them the now, to think of a tomorrow very different to that of today. Normally though peoples interest drops off as soon as it actually becomes a reality that doesn't live up to their imaginations.
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Jun 20, 2017 06:45
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On a lighter note https://twitter.com/petercrouch/status/876846713163718656
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Jun 20, 2017 06:47
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Baron Corbyn posted:Announced transport stuff from the Queen's Speech actually seems fairly good. 1. Surely that's for the electric car manafacturers to arrange. 2. That sounds expensive 3. gently caress off gently caress off and gently caress off again. Don't gently caress up the countryside for trains that will get you and a few of your friends from Sheffield to London half an hour quicker, when people on average wages can't afford the regular fares let alone whatever the extortionate fares on this thing will be. Sort the problems caused by the beeching report first you absolute cunts.
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Jun 20, 2017 06:54
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NLJP posted:On a lighter note But Peter, what about your little brother? 
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Jun 20, 2017 06:59
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Zephro posted:Exploring space with robots is good, doing it with people sucks because you have to spend ££££ keeping the fleshy meatbags safe in an environment they really aren't designed for, and even if you manage that the public loses interest almost immediately (case in point: I bet hardly anyone can name the crew of Apollo 12 without googling, let alone the crew of, say, STS-62)
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Jun 20, 2017 07:02
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learnincurve posted:Sort the problems caused by the beeching report first you absolute cunts. What would doing this involve?
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Jun 20, 2017 07:03
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https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jun/20/buried-alive-the-old-men-stuck-in-britains-prisonsquote:Prisons are now the UK’s largest provider of residential care for frail, elderly men
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Jun 20, 2017 07:09
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Pissflaps posted:What would doing this involve? If nothing else, it'd probably involve drafting a bunch of preserved railways that use old trackbeds into providing full commercial services. Maybe the government could pay for the extension of some of them to their original terminus? Paul.Power fucked around with this message at 07:14 on Jun 20, 2017 |
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Jun 20, 2017 07:12
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Zephro posted:https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jun/20/buried-alive-the-old-men-stuck-in-britains-prisons california alone released about ten thousand elderly or disabled inmates a few years ago to try and combat rampant overcrowding it didn't work, but that's what happens when you're at over 200% capacity it is real bad over here in 'murica it was worse before the ACA b/c there were a lot of cases where inmates with chronic health problems would just reoffend b/c they couldn't possibly afford treatment outside, which we can look forward to starting up again once it gets gutted
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Jun 20, 2017 07:21
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What a world we live in, where an old poor person would have to go to jail to get some measure of care.
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Jun 20, 2017 07:34
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UberJew posted:it was worse before the ACA b/c there were a lot of cases where inmates with chronic health problems would just reoffend b/c they couldn't possibly afford treatment outside  hahaha death to capitalism and its minion Amerikkka!
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Jun 20, 2017 07:38
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If Beeching had never happened we'd probably have high speed rail all over the drat place by now. It's an embarrassment that we hardly have any - we invented the loving train! And I fail to see the controversy in our first proper high speed rail line connecting our biggest city to our second biggest city (and now extending to our third).
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Jun 20, 2017 07:39
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Itzena posted:We're going to end up with a deal that's basically "You effectively stay in Europe but you don't get any rebate, you don't get any opt-outs, and you don't get any representation. Now pay us" and I will laugh and laugh and laugh. This is exactly what I told my Brexit loving idiot friend would be the best case scenario, in contrast to the new land of free Well. It'd be utterly humiliating, but it'd be survivable. I'll take it.
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Jun 20, 2017 07:51
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1dNtRJ0PXk
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Jun 20, 2017 07:59
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http://news.sky.com/story/lord-heseltine-tory-voters-dying-off-at-a-rate-of-2-a-year-10920843quote:Former Conservative deputy prime minister Lord Heseltine has warned his party that its electoral base is dying off at a rate of 2% a year. 
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Jun 20, 2017 08:00
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learnincurve posted:3. gently caress off gently caress off and gently caress off again. Don't gently caress up the countryside for trains that will get you and a few of your friends from Sheffield to London half an hour quicker, when people on average wages can't afford the regular fares let alone whatever the extortionate fares on this thing will be. Sort the problems caused by the beeching report first you absolute cunts. HS2 is required to free up capacity on the WCML for exactly the sort of services you're asking for. Think before you parrot nonsensical NIMBY taking points.
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Jun 20, 2017 08:10
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It's well-known that building infrastructure is bad, you know 
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Jun 20, 2017 08:22
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Cerv posted:What problems do you mean? Like the miles of track being torn up? Cos building new track solves that. Oh now. You have literally no idea what beeching did to everywhere outside the Home Counties if you throw that argument back at me. What we need is all the little towns and villages connected to each other and to major cities, if not by train then the bus service must be improved to compensate. I would complain about Derbyshire being split into two and it taking 4 hours to travel 20 miles by train, but then I look at wales and think "poor bastards". Building new tracks between major cities does not solve that problem. It does however solve a major problem for people who have expense accounts. Now they can get to London from Birmingham 20 mins quicker and all of the plebs will be on the other slow train so they won't have to worry about encountering them. Huzzah, three cheers for the Tory party.
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Jun 20, 2017 08:27
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I think modernising and improving rail links between our major economic centres should be a greater priority than putting on trains between small rural towns.
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Jun 20, 2017 08:33
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learnincurve posted:I would complain about Derbyshire being split into two HS2 will take this to a literal extreme by smashing right through the middle of our local country park in order to build an entirely unnecessary spur line to link the track to the massively inappropriate station in the middle of Sheffield, rather than the much more appropriate, more modern station at Sheffield Meadowhall. This will save a 12-minute journey from one station to the other. Edit: apparently HS2 will have to slow down quite a lot in order to join the central Sheffield line, so it won't save any time at all. I'm reading that from a leaflet entitled "STOP HS2 NOW" so have some salt with it. Sanford fucked around with this message at 08:37 on Jun 20, 2017 |
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Jun 20, 2017 08:33
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Fans posted:http://news.sky.com/story/lord-heseltine-tory-voters-dying-off-at-a-rate-of-2-a-year-10920843
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Jun 20, 2017 08:35
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Zephro posted:I like this image, but what's the cartoon it's originally from? "Kelly", political cartoons from The Onion. Dunno what that specific one was from.
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Zephro posted:Lol why on earth does Britain want/need a crewed space programme Blue Streak 2: General Electric Boondoggle 
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