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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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baka kaba posted:Gotta say, while this deal is bad and all, I'm not feeling this whole "why are we giving Northern Ireland money for investment and to properly fund the NHS, we could give everyone several Freddos instead" us-vs-them vibe that's doing the rounds I don't have an issue with them getting money they clearly need, I have an issue with one half of the political spectrum of NI deciding what bits get the funding, in order to prop up a government that caused the need for additional funding in the first case. e; 650 AD - St. Martin's Church is built in Canterbury
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https://twitter.com/Springsteenjosh/status/879625637698338817 Snooker Star Brainwashed By Reds
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Jun 27, 2017 10:03
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It's pretty amazing how many people in UK and also the rich parts of Europe underestimate how abundant mosquitoes are literally everywhere else in the world. Here in Canada you can't go anywhere fun without these fuckers up in your face.
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Jun 27, 2017 10:03
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big scary monsters posted:Also would anyone care to defend midges? The only point I can see in their favour is that they act as a pretty effective tourist deterrent, leaving the nice parts of Scotland free for the hardier locals in the summer. On first glance I read that as midgets.
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Jun 27, 2017 10:05
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Midges and mozzies hate me, all my friends get shredded by them but they leave me mostly untouched. It must be my poisonous celtic blood.
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Jun 27, 2017 10:07
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qhat posted:Unfortunately a side effect of eradicating malaria is it leaves space for more humans to successfully multiply, which is almost certainly a bad unintended outcome Or by doing the same as with mosquitoes and sterilizing a certain percentage of the males before releasing them into the wild, which could be achieved by not charging younger childless men £600 for a vasectomy.
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Jun 27, 2017 10:07
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Social wasps: Which are what most people think of when they think wasp (the big angry yellow ones that make massive paper hives) are the lovely, gun wielding pigs of the insect world, and are very efficient carnivores. Theyre like wolves but able to fly, and wed notice their absence first by their absence, then immediately by the tsunami of small insects that would crash into our windshields. Asocial/solitary wasps tho are super cool. Especially the hunting types that singlehandedly kill fuckin tarantulas, even more especially the ones whose larvae fatally parasitize common crop pests. Theyre also the more prolific pollinators, being more oppurtunistic as to where their food comes from, the fig pollination wasp is a solitary wasp. Rigged Death Trap fucked around with this message at 10:11 on Jun 27, 2017 |
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Jun 27, 2017 10:08
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Mosquitos survive even in my frozen hellhole of a hometown, Yellowknife, bastards. We've evaded a lot of other insect and disease infestations though. Climate change is gonna gently caress it all up.
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Jun 27, 2017 10:09
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baka kaba posted:Here you can all read a nice story about wasps "I want to ride your UV lamp pussy til the wasps pop and melt from my rear end in a top hat" Well that escalated quickly
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qhat posted:Midges and mozzies hate me, all my friends get shredded by them but they leave me mostly untouched. It must be my poisonous celtic blood. In thailand the mosquitos all go for the falangs and leave the locals alone.
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qhat posted:It's pretty amazing how many people in UK and also the rich parts of Europe underestimate how abundant mosquitoes are literally everywhere else in the world. Here in Canada you can't go anywhere fun without these fuckers up in your face. idk there's shitloads of the little bastard's in the woods round me atm also I have p much only heard people complaining about the lack of similar funding for Scotland Wales and the North of England, not yet heard anyone explicitly complain about giving cash to the Orangemen
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Jun 27, 2017 10:10
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mehall posted:I don't have an issue with them getting money they clearly need, I have an issue with one half of the political spectrum of NI deciding what bits get the funding, in order to prop up a government that caused the need for additional funding in the first case. With the exception of the commitment to replace EU funding to the York street interchange the rest of the money will be allocated by the executive in theory - which is being heavily spun here as a carrot to get the executive back up and running so SF can have a say in its allocation (and the York Street funding has been argued to free up money currently allocated to it for other infrastructure spending elsewhere) There's very little in the agreement which says "bungs to unionists" specifically - bar the 2% defence spending commitment (which plenty in Labour backed) and the vagueish language on the military covenant and legacy issues (which where arguable always areas of agreement between the Tories and the DUP before any deal was inked) Its not like May has announced a billion for orange halls
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Playstation 4 posted:Mosquitos survive even in my frozen hellhole of a hometown, Yellowknife, bastards. We've evaded a lot of other insect and disease infestations though. Climate change is gonna gently caress it all up. those arctic cunts are no joke either 
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Jun 27, 2017 10:12
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kustomkarkommando posted:With the exception of the commitment to replace EU funding to the York street interchange the rest of the money will be allocated by the executive in theory - which is being heavily spun here as a carrot to get the executive back up and running so SF can have a say in its allocation (and the York Street funding has been argued to free up money currently allocated to it for other infrastructure spending elsewhere) Fair enough, didn't realise it was pledged as broad as that, though we'll see if the DUP are willing to compromise with Sinn Fein, as wasn't a basic demand that Foster has nothing to do with the Exec until such time as she's been cleared of wrongdoing for the cash for ash thing? Also: https://twitter.com/ErikLoomis/status/879291131854454784
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big scary monsters posted:Also would anyone care to defend midges? The only point I can see in their favour is that they act as a pretty effective tourist deterrent, leaving the nice parts of Scotland free for the hardier locals in the summer. Birds eat them.
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Jun 27, 2017 10:15
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mehall posted:Fair enough, didn't realise it was pledged as broad as that, though we'll see if the DUP are willing to compromise with Sinn Fein, as wasn't a basic demand that Foster has nothing to do with the Exec until such time as she's been cleared of wrongdoing for the cash for ash thing? SF have notably cooled on calling for Fosters head recently. Were at this now; https://mobile.twitter.com/BBCgmu/status/879599065587228672 Which is clearly a shift to wanting her to temporarily take a leave of absence a la Robinson rather than a "never arlene" position. Also worth pointing out that the extra £200mil for health is for "health service transformation" aka centralisation of services which is a big deal here - doesn't give us a stay from closing down hospitals necessarily
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Jun 27, 2017 10:18
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Skinty McEdger posted:Worth noting that the company that looks to be in the running to win the NHS bid, Staffline, also owns PeoplePlus which is the recently renamed Action For Employment (aka A4E).  Coming in to this a bit late, but the stuff about Emma Harrison is particularly bad in this Wiki.
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Jun 27, 2017 10:33
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Skinty McEdger posted:There was a fault in the onboard targeting system where for inexplicable reasons it would in flight reset to factory defaults. The default co-ordinates are in the US. Hi, I know this is dredging up old stuff from pages back but can I get a source for this? This is bewildering.
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Jun 27, 2017 10:34
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Jedit posted:Birds eat them. Can't they just cut out the middle man and peck me instead? I think I would prefer that.
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Jun 27, 2017 10:36
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ShadowSpectre posted:Hi, I know this is dredging up old stuff from pages back but can I get a source for this? This is bewildering. It doesn't mention the default co-ordinates but this is the original article https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/23/how-did-the-trident-test-fail-and-what-did-theresa-may-know The default coordinates are the most likely explanation why it would literally 180 in mid air.
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Jun 27, 2017 10:39
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Braggart posted:Can't they just cut out the middle man and peck me instead? I think I would prefer that. Not to kinkshame but we didn't need to know.
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Tesseraction posted:Not to kinkshame but we didn't need to know. I like woodpeckers 
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OwlFancier posted:You're suggesting two scenarios: one where someone launches nuclear weapons and kills a bunch of people, and there isn't a retaliatory strike, and another one where there is, and then you're suggesting the second scenario is better, because it will mean the initial strike "failed" somehow. It's a pretty common form of craziness, if so. Most people would, if they had to be murdered, feel some comfort in the knowledge that their murderer was going to end up in jail. Is one person dead plus one in jail worse than one dead alone? Is a hundred dead in a fire plus one rich person going to jail worse than a hundred dead and a rich person throwing a party? Retaliation, or tit-for-tat, is more or less mathematically proveable to be the least evil thing you can do, as one actor amongst many. Of course, this breaks down if, like in MAD, you fire off the full US and Russian arsenal and kill everyone. But one Trident loadout isn't going to end the world. At least, unless you slingshot it around Jupiter and use it as a trigger for a solar flare. I'm against doing that, but for crippling the military of any state that deliberately launches a first strike. Mainly to make it easier for the rest of the world to deal with them once we are dead. Maybe they will even hold a trial.
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Fans posted:Any situation in which Russia goes insane and starts nuking people invalidates MAD because if they've gone crazy why would they even care about MAD? Seeing the trend of the world and history the US is more likely to go crazy than Russia when considering nuke. So MAD is really a matter of how much does Russia want to say "gently caress you" to the rest of us.
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Jun 27, 2017 10:56
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radmonger posted:It's a pretty common form of craziness, if so. The problem with what you're saying here is that the people who fire the first nuke will not be the ones getting punished by the retaliation. It would be innocent people who happen to live in their country. If you were murdered, would you feel comfort knowing that a random innocent would also be killed as a result? Is a hundred people dying in a fire a reason to start another fire in a random towerblock somewhere while a negligent rich person enjoys his party?
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Jun 27, 2017 11:02
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Jedit posted:Birds eat them. And what have the birds ever done for us? Flappy bastards, lording it over the common man with their power of independent flight. e: I guess they eat midges. Hmm, ok then.
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Jun 27, 2017 11:05
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Braggart posted:The problem with what you're saying here is that the people who fire the first nuke will not be the ones getting punished by the retaliation. It would be innocent people who happen to live in their country. If you were murdered, would you feel comfort knowing that a random innocent would also be killed as a result? Is a hundred people dying in a fire a reason to start another fire in a random towerblock somewhere while a negligent rich person enjoys his party? The point of a deterrent is to prevent anybody getting murdered by nukes in the first place.
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Jun 27, 2017 11:07
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Also the only reason I'd hope my murderer was put in jail would be to protect the rest of the community. No real interest in revenge. Unless they're a bourgie bastard who killed me through cost-cutting, then gently caress em, throw them to the dogs.
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Jun 27, 2017 11:07
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Can someone explain to me who the big hairy teacup in Rowson's cartoons is?
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Jun 27, 2017 11:08
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Entropy238 posted:Can someone explain to me who the big hairy teacup in Rowson's cartoons is? pronounce Fur Cup
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Jun 27, 2017 11:10
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Pissflaps posted:The point of a deterrent is to prevent anybody getting murdered by nukes in the first place. How would 60-100 less nukes be any less of a deterrent when the American nuclear arsenal would respond to any nuclear attack on Britain anyway? If anything it would make Britain less of a target, because it has no retaliatory capability.
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Jun 27, 2017 11:12
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I think reading the colour reprints of the 2000AD 'Apocalypse War' storyline as an impressionable 12-year-old probably prompted some nightmares; reading it again some of the bomb scenes in the early issues are still quite chilling. Well worth buying for your children!
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Jun 27, 2017 11:13
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if someone has nuked us its basically the end of the world so we should get in on the action
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Jun 27, 2017 11:14
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Marxist-Jezzinist posted:ACAB. Counterpoint:  My fat idiot catte is way too slow to catch anything, and will purr if you rub his belly.
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Jun 27, 2017 11:16
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Jose posted:if someone has nuked us its basically the end of the world so we should get in on the action " 'Bout that time, eh chaps?" "Righto."
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Jun 27, 2017 11:16
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HIGH COURT RULING: unlawful Tory benefit policy ’causes real damage and misery for no real purpose’quote:Today, the UK High Court came to the official conclusion that many came to some time ago. That the Conservatives are inflicting misery across some of the most vulnerable in Great Britain, and for no good reason at all. http://evolvepolitics.com/uk-high-court-ruling-tories-cause-misery-no-real-purpose/
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Jun 27, 2017 11:18
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Pissflaps posted:The point of a deterrent is to prevent anybody getting murdered by nukes in the first place. Yes, I understand the concept of MAD, but radmonger was talking about a retaliatory strike 'punishing' the people who strike first and his analogies rang false to me. And as others have pointed out we are under the vastly larger US nuclear umbrella so from that perspective Trident is redundant.
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Jun 27, 2017 11:23
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Nukes are actually very good and British nuclear policy should be immediate first strike
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Entropy238 posted:Can someone explain to me who the big hairy teacup in Rowson's cartoons is? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/29/martin-rowson-cartoons-coalition-vilest-government For all your minor character needs
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