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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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Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

Gum posted:

So the Tories lost the least while losing more than Labour? The fact that you ran and hid after the election rather than claiming victory tells me you don't actually believe this bullshit

He didn't run and hide. He said the lad who beat Nick Clegg had Downs syndrome and got probated.

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ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

Я выдуман напрочь
Using your connections to get around inconvenient rules. Bloody bourgeois.

Neurolimal
Nov 3, 2012

Gum posted:

So the Tories lost the least while losing more than Labour? The fact that you ran and hid after the election rather than claiming victory tells me you don't actually believe this bullshit

In all fairness, this whole line of posts started with pissflaps being coy about group rallies. I dont think its that hard to discern he might not actually be all CORBYN LABOUR DISASTER STRONG AND STABLE

Maugrim
Feb 16, 2011

I eat your face

Gum posted:

So the Tories lost the least while losing more than Labour? The fact that you ran and hid after the election rather than claiming victory tells me you don't actually believe this bullshit

Oh come on it's obvious what he means. Stop being loving obtuse it's just going to lead to a ten page derail as you try to catch him out. Hands up who wants to read that? No? Welp

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
the only good festival was Fyre. And I venture to suggest that that was the actually the finest festival in the history of humanity because a bunch of rich bourgie fucks ended up crying about how it was literally (in the sense of not at all) like a war zone.

Neurolimal
Nov 3, 2012
Fyre owned because it forced all the rich people to bake on a lovely island by themselves and realize how insufferable they are to be around without the sea of poor helpers answering their beck and calls

It was surreal, it felt like the opening scene of a film mocking the whole Going Galt mentality. The moment the workers left the rich ate cheese sandwiches and moaned about reception on their phones until their parents rescued them.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I haven't heard of Fyre?

It sounds like a form of Big Brother I would watch.

Spangly A
May 14, 2009

God help you if ever you're caught on these shores

A man's ambition must indeed be small
To write his name upon a shithouse wall

OwlFancier posted:

I haven't heard of Fyre?

It sounds like a form of Big Brother I would watch.

someone made a festival exclusively for rich kids and took their money and they arrived to discover they'd been had. A large amount of angry rich children tweeted about being conned, and generally had a loving horrible time surrounded by other rich kids, drunk, on a beach island.

Party Boat
Nov 1, 2007

where did that other dog come from

who is he


I liked the Fish Quay Festival when I was little

DAD LOST MY IPOD
Feb 3, 2012

Fats Dominar is on the case


fyre was great because i was a couple hundred miles away enjoying Carnival while it happened and the juxtaposition was delightful

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Spangly A posted:

someone made a festival exclusively for rich kids and took their money and they arrived to discover they'd been had. A large amount of angry rich children tweeted about being conned, and generally had a loving horrible time surrounded by other rich kids, drunk, on a beach island.

Hahahaha that sounds loving great.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

OwlFancier posted:

I haven't heard of Fyre?

It sounds like a form of Big Brother I would watch.

HOW

It was the best, Ja Rule organised a festival for the rich on a Bahamian island and then everything went to poo poo, the workers left and the rich were abandoned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyre_Festival

CoolCab
Apr 17, 2005

glem
confession time

i think this election outcome is probably better then any in which labour do not have an outright majority. i think a "progressive coalition" would have been loving shambolic.

maybe labour and one junior party - virtually certainly the SNP - maybe. anything more would have been a disaster

Spangly A
May 14, 2009

God help you if ever you're caught on these shores

A man's ambition must indeed be small
To write his name upon a shithouse wall
Canterbury council was completely left-fielded last year with the arrival of thousands of people for the oyster festival, noted for its oysters and the odd nice stout. These thousands of people were really loving upset when there were no bands or bars open late or anything because it was an oyster festival. It was a surreal experience, walking around a town completely overrun with people who had no idea why they were there.

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon

CoolCab posted:

confession time

i think this election outcome is probably better then any in which labour do not have an outright majority. i think a "progressive coalition" would have been loving shambolic.

maybe labour and one junior party - virtually certainly the SNP - maybe. anything more would have been a disaster

:same:

Pissflaps
Oct 20, 2002

by VideoGames

Gum posted:

So the Tories lost the least while losing more than Labour? The fact that you ran and hid after the election rather than claiming victory tells me you don't actually believe this bullshit

I haven't hid anywhere I've been posting in this thread most days since the election.

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

Я выдуман напрочь
Fyre was good because the rich kids were all going feral and trying to eat each other within walking distance of a literal holiday resort.

Extreme0
Feb 28, 2013

I dance to the sweet tune of your failure so I'm never gonna stop fucking with you.

Continue to get confused and frustrated with me as I dance to your anger.

As I expect nothing more from ya you stupid runt!


Marxist-Jezzinist posted:

Fyre was good because the rich kids were all going feral and trying to eat each other within walking distance of a literal holiday resort.

Battle Royale but Rich people instead of regular japanese school kids?

poo poo yea.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

Extreme0 posted:

Battle Royale but Rich people instead of regular japanese school kids?

poo poo yea.

Battle Royale, except instead of a totalitarian state trying to kill off the most dangerous of it's society it's a bunch of rich kids getting conned killing each other rather than walking five miles to the nearest BnB.

baka kaba
Jul 19, 2003

PLEASE ASK ME, THE SELF-PROFESSED NO #1 PAUL CATTERMOLE FAN IN THE SOMETHING AWFUL S-CLUB 7 MEGATHREAD, TO NAME A SINGLE SONG BY HIS EXCELLENT NU-METAL SIDE PROJECT, SKUA, AND IF I CAN'T PLEASE TELL ME TO
EAT SHIT

Gonzo McFee posted:

Battle Royale, except instead of a totalitarian state trying to kill off the most dangerous of it's society it's a bunch of rich kids getting conned killing each other rather than walking five miles to the nearest BnB.

They didn't have any money because they'd all been encouraged to put credit on special wristbands

Gum
Mar 9, 2008

oho, a rapist
time to try this puppy out

Pissflaps posted:

I haven't hid anywhere I've been posting in this thread most days since the election.

You went from being possibly the most active poster in the thread to making the occasional one off comment. For someone who was clearly gearing up for a major "I told you so" you've been awfully quiet

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

baka kaba posted:

They didn't have any money because they'd all been encouraged to put credit on special wristbands

beautiful.

Gum
Mar 9, 2008

oho, a rapist
time to try this puppy out

Maugrim posted:

Oh come on it's obvious what he means. Stop being loving obtuse it's just going to lead to a ten page derail as you try to catch him out. Hands up who wants to read that? No? Welp

Of course i know what he's doing. He's acting like this is a presidential rather than a parliamentary system since that makes the result look worse for Labour and better for the Tories

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe

baka kaba posted:

They didn't have any money because they'd all been encouraged to put credit on special wristbands

You know, this whole expropriate the capitalist class thingy suddenly seems a lot easier to implement if this is what we'll be up against in 20-30 years.

Nuclearmonkee
Jun 10, 2009


Cerebral Bore posted:

You know, this whole expropriate the capitalist class thingy suddenly seems a lot easier to implement if this is what we'll be up against in 20-30 years.

Their proxies own all the guns and the people who wield them.

CoolCab
Apr 17, 2005

glem

Gum posted:

You went from being possibly the most active poster in the thread to making the occasional one off comment. For someone who was clearly gearing up for a major "I told you so" you've been awfully quiet

man he's been posting every day since the election, i'm pretty sure literally.

he stopped disagreeing with everyone- loving, take the win. i refuse to try and repissflapize pissflaps.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe

Nuclearmonkee posted:

Their proxies own all the guns and the people who wield them.

Until they fire the military to fund their newest tax cut, of course.

Gum
Mar 9, 2008

oho, a rapist
time to try this puppy out

CoolCab posted:

man he's been posting every day since the election, i'm pretty sure literally.

he stopped disagreeing with everyone- loving, take the win. i refuse to try and repissflapize pissflaps.

He's still here. We didn't win, we just lost the least

Raeg
Jul 7, 2008

The top 1% of ducks have control of 99.9% of the bread.
Hot political take: I liked the new Crystal Maze

Nuclearmonkee
Jun 10, 2009


Cerebral Bore posted:

Until they fire the military to fund their newest tax cut, of course.

In the past they've always been smart enough to fund the police and military but maybe this latest crop really are stupid enough to not do that.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe

Nuclearmonkee posted:

In the past they've always been smart enough to fund the police and military but maybe this latest crop really are stupid enough to not do that.

They did fire those 20000 plod.

Captain Fargle
Feb 16, 2011

Raeg posted:

Hot political take: I liked the new Crystal Maze

I agree with the caveat that Louie Spence needs to gently caress off forever.

baka kaba
Jul 19, 2003

PLEASE ASK ME, THE SELF-PROFESSED NO #1 PAUL CATTERMOLE FAN IN THE SOMETHING AWFUL S-CLUB 7 MEGATHREAD, TO NAME A SINGLE SONG BY HIS EXCELLENT NU-METAL SIDE PROJECT, SKUA, AND IF I CAN'T PLEASE TELL ME TO
EAT SHIT

^^^ wait he's not hosting it is he? lol if so

Raeg posted:

Hot political take: I liked the new Crystal Maze

Did it have a dubstep theme tune

Kokoro Wish
Jul 23, 2007

Post? What post? Oh wow.
I had nothing to do with THAT.

Gum posted:

So the Tories lost the least while losing more than Labour? The fact that you ran and hid after the election rather than claiming victory tells me you don't actually believe this bullshit

Just ignore him.

Like his political leanings and his poo poo-posting gimmick, he's irrelevant now.

Have a sensible chuckle at the times he actually musters up the effort to be funny.

Borrovan
Aug 15, 2013

IT IS ME.
🧑‍💼
I AM THERESA MAY


Raeg posted:

Hot political take: I liked the new Crystal Maze
That choreographer was really annoying, I don't know how his wife looks him in the eye when he makes love to her

Gum
Mar 9, 2008

oho, a rapist
time to try this puppy out

baka kaba posted:

^^^ wait he's not hosting it is he? lol if so


Did it have a dubstep theme tune

I thought it was Ayoade

Blasmeister
Jan 15, 2012




2Time TRP Sack Race Champion

Captain Fargle posted:

I agree with the caveat that Louie Spence needs to gently caress off forever.

Him getting locked in and the team pretending that leaving him to rot was a tough decision was very good though

baka kaba
Jul 19, 2003

PLEASE ASK ME, THE SELF-PROFESSED NO #1 PAUL CATTERMOLE FAN IN THE SOMETHING AWFUL S-CLUB 7 MEGATHREAD, TO NAME A SINGLE SONG BY HIS EXCELLENT NU-METAL SIDE PROJECT, SKUA, AND IF I CAN'T PLEASE TELL ME TO
EAT SHIT

Gum posted:

I thought it was Ayoade

Oh that would be good

Nah I just remember the original being camp with mock seriousness and I imagined that being replaced with Louie Spence going "follow meeeee to the ADVENTURE ZONE" and dancing out the door

Maugrim
Feb 16, 2011

I eat your face

Gum posted:

Of course i know what he's doing. He's acting like this is a presidential rather than a parliamentary system since that makes the result look worse for Labour and better for the Tories

Yeah pretty much. Trying to make him admit that seems a pointless exercise, though.

Personally I think rallies can be just as prone to scare people off as to attract them; Brits, especially older Brits, are instinctively suspicious of large enthusiastic mobs with charismatic leaders. Rallies are a net positive chiefly because they drum up enthusiasm in an already-engaged base, which directly leads to feet on the ground at CLP level making personal contact with individual voters. That's what wins seats.

Talking of which - my CLP sent a lot of volunteers over to neighbouring Bermondsey & Old Southwark to help swing it to Labour. Neil Coyle (of recent Mail on Sunday article notoriety) emailed our CLP members today to thank them for their help.

Neil Coyle posted:

Dear Maugrim,

With thanks from Bermondsey and Old Southwark – and apologies

I am writing to thank every member of Dulwich and West Norwood CLP who helped campaign to retain Bermondsey and Old Southwark for Labour during the general election.
I am hoping to extend an invite to all members soon to a proper ‘thank you' do to show my and the whole of Bermondsey and Old Southwark CLP's appreciation for all the help that we received. I am also planning to visit all CLPs who helped to say thank you in person.
Bermondsey and Old Southwark could not have been won back from the Lib Dems in 2015 after more than 30 years without a huge team effort from our whole party and movement. We overturned what was supposed to be the ‘safest' Lib Dem seat in the country with an 8,500 Lib Dem majority after the five years Simon Hughes spent propping up the Tories in the Coalition Government, voting for their policies on the Bedroom Tax, slashing council budgets, cutting police, underinvesting in housing, privatising Royal Mail and axing legal aid.
When this election was called, the Lib Dems were supposed to be ‘surging' and again we needed a huge team effort to fight off any chance of Hughes' return in Bermondsey and Old Southwark. I am very grateful for all the hours so many DAWN members spent with me on the doors, phones and at events as part of the campaign. If members haven't already seen my public message of thanks then please see it online at: http://www.boslabour.org.uk/thank_you

It was fantastic to have such solid support from our whole movement and especially to see so many new members getting involved. Jeremy Corbyn led a vibrant, bold campaign in stark contrast to May's measly offerings and vanishing act. It was also great to campaign with such a strong manifesto which, after seven years of Tory-led austerity, offered a real alternative on so many issues including education, housing and policing. After such a positive campaign, it was brilliant to see the majority in Bermondsey and Old Southwark rise substantially on 8th June as people voted for our positive alternative to Theresa May's further austerity and headlong rush for Brexit.
It was superb to see Labour do far better nationally than had been predicted after a far better campaign that most predicted. We gained 30 seats but sadly Theresa May remains Prime Minister, at least for now. We all fought hard for a Labour win and a Labour Government in the election. I know how desperately so many residents in Bermondsey and Old Southwark and across the country need a Labour government – not least from my surgeries and outreach sessions which are always full of people seeking help with housing, immigration and benefits issues.
When I wrote a short piece for the Mail on Sunday (MoS) last week I had those constituents and their desperation in mind. I was also mindful that the MoS is a pro-Remain paper with an estimated two million Labour-supporting readers. What I wrote was about May's punishment at the polls for only offering a Hard Brexit, called for more unity and attacked May's legacy and attempt to deliver more of the same when it comes to cuts. I was deeply disappointed to see how the MoS then chose to run what I wrote and I know that many members have been upset and angered by it after such united, hard won progress during the election and I apologise wholeheartedly.
I know that we are all united in our ambition for a Labour government. To get a Labour majority we need to win 64 more seats at the next General Election. All my efforts between now and the next election will be concentrated on working with you and all of my parliamentary colleagues to ensure we deliver that majority.

With my thanks again,

Neil


e: Having reread the comments he is directly quoted as saying in the Mail Online, I'm going to go with "got loving inundated with angry emails and has suddenly realised he will need these people onside to keep the seat he just won"

Maugrim fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Jun 23, 2017

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Julio Cruz
May 19, 2006
Ayoade is hosting, tonight was a "celebrity" special before the prole teams start next week (I think).

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