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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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JFairfax
Oct 23, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
theresa may "just assume it's flamable" lol

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communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
Fookin hell lad
he's properly sticking the boot in

JFairfax
Oct 23, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
he is going for it

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


lol
May: Our regulations are fine, but for some reason they aren't being applied. We need to find out why.
Jezza: You cut local authorities by 40% you loving moron.

Tory mutants: BREEEEEEEEEEH! SHAME!

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
imagine being so detached from reality that you boo a man who says "maybe we shouldnt have taken away the money in ways that led to people dying in govt property"

Junior G-man
Sep 15, 2004

Wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma


Going for the throat at the end it seems - public sector cuts, council cuts, fire fighters cuts, police cuts.

And the Tory side is going loving mental.

JFairfax
Oct 23, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
theresa may: cladding of tower blocks begun under the blair government

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
hahaha theresa may is trying to pin the blame on Blair. bring it. Bring everything you have.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

lol "THE LAST LABOUR GOVERNMENT!!"

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
"we've been in power for 8 years but this is labour's fault" lol

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


man I can't watch parliament, it makes me too drat angry. They should all be locked inside and burned. Sorry Jezza but I feel like he'd accept it as for the best.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

number one pta fan posted:

A few high-profile Hillsborough activists spoke very highly of Theresa May around the time of the Tory leadership contest.



I didn't know exactly what to do with or think about that information at the time and I'm even less sure now. Broken clocks are correct twice a day?

Theresa May is stubborn as gently caress. When she is asked to do something, she will do it, no matter how difficult, unpopular, and inadvisable it might be. Mostly, this results in bad things, both because 'not listening to anyone ever once I've set my mind on something' tends to backfire and because because she's a Tory, and the Tory ideology is kind of short on positives. Occasionally, it results in good things.

Junior G-man
Sep 15, 2004

Wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma


JFairfax posted:

theresa may: cladding of tower blocks begun under the blair government

It will forever and always be Labour's Fault.

spectralent
Oct 1, 2014

Me and the boys poppin' down to the shops

TomViolence posted:

BBC's already trying its best to pre-emptively frame it as :qq:that dastardly Corbyn playing politics, the monster.:qq:

lol what how

it's the house of loving commons debating a government motion how the gently caress can it not be political

kustomkarkommando posted:

Its a bit vague but broadly by convention it was seen that a successfully amendment should lead to a resignation, this is complicated cause traditionally the opposition would attempt to field a no confidence amendment and its successfully passage would have been a pre-FTPA no confidence motion necessitating a resignation, and the vast majority of successful amendments where of this character - however this kind of fell out of practice and now the opposition field amendments that are usually "this house regrets the speech makes no reference to policy x,y,z" (which is how all tabled amendments this year are constructed).

So if any of these amendments pass they aren't explicitly no confidence motions, even by pre-FTPA standards.

However the broad convention that a failure to win a division on an amendment would be a devastating blow to an incoming government that would compel a resignation was still relatively accepted that research briefings published by parliament up until May 2016 still maintained that a defeat on an amendment would compel a resignation.

In 2016 Cameron faced a back bench revolt over TTIP and the NHS and an amendment was tabled to insert language regretting no provisions had been made to protect the NHS. Cameron folded on the issue and avoided a division by accepting the amendment without a vote with no adverse consequences - if it had progressed to a vote it would have prompted questions about his personal tenability as prime minister but the fact a vote was dodged made it more of an embarrassment than an outright defeat.

Subsequently parliamentary briefings have been altered to say that a successful amendment does not necessitate a resignation but would amount a test of strength of the government - the opposition and even those within the Tories could argue that given Mays position losing such a test of strength should compel May to resign based on a loss of personal mandate (as she can resign whenever she wishes) but she wouldn't be compelled constitutionally by convention to do so

So basically because our entire government is based around people making it up as they go along this government can just plough on for five more years stoically claiming that JC is against the national interest therefore they just have to stay? loving hell.

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Spangly A posted:

imagine being so detached from reality that you boo a man who says "maybe we shouldnt have taken away the money in ways that led to people dying in govt property"

its just appalling political point scoring!

Flatscan
Mar 27, 2001

Outlaw Journalist

sebzilla posted:

Civ 4 is the best and the Rhyes And Fall mod (or the still improving Dawn of Civilization) are even better if you like historical goals and maps and stuff.

Civ 6 is pretty good, if you turn off most of the victory conditions.

spectralent
Oct 1, 2014

Me and the boys poppin' down to the shops

nopantsjack posted:

its just appalling political point scoring!

Think of this then remember that this works because a huge number of people are convinced that government decisions don't really change anything about the world.

Junior G-man
Sep 15, 2004

Wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma


SNP now going after the extra NI funding from the DUP deal, and Scots not getting any.

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


spectralent posted:

Think of this then remember that this works because a huge number of people are convinced that government decisions don't really change anything about the world.

eh this isn't going to last much longer after we leave the EU lol, that ones gonna be pretty clear.

JFairfax
Oct 23, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
theresa may saying "you're a nationalist not a unionist" this bodes well for the GFA

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


They really should stop the politicians just yelling like loving stupid public school boys.

I do work in getting people to work effectively together and this just makes my eyes swivel.

Christ our political class is so incompetent and amateur and has been for centuries. It makes me insane.

e: 2 minutes thats all I could do, loving hell its always so dire. Just a bunch of howling babboons trying to protect their investments.

Communist Thoughts fucked around with this message at 12:27 on Jun 28, 2017

Irony Be My Shield
Jul 29, 2012

Spangly A posted:

hahaha theresa may is trying to pin the blame on Blair. bring it. Bring everything you have.
Jeremy Corbyn, noted fan of Tony Blair who never disagreed with him on anything.

spectralent
Oct 1, 2014

Me and the boys poppin' down to the shops

nopantsjack posted:

eh this isn't going to last much longer after we leave the EU lol, that ones gonna be pretty clear.

a scary amount of people will pretend this was because of people punishing the UK for their meaningless decision rather than because it was a stupid decision

JFairfax
Oct 23, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

nopantsjack posted:

They really should stop the politicians just yelling like loving stupid public school boys.

i have bad news for you

Pissflaps
Oct 20, 2002

by VideoGames
Brilliant opening to the question about gambling there.

JFairfax
Oct 23, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
lol loving lovely gambling burn

jabby
Oct 27, 2010

Does that Tory MP not realise that asking May to remind the house who won the election makes you look weak as gently caress?

Winners don't typically need to keep reminding everyone they won.

Irony Be My Shield
Jul 29, 2012

JFairfax posted:

lol loving lovely gambling burn
What was it?

Julio Cruz
May 19, 2006
I really don't think May's repeated "it's not about funding but about powers" line is going to go down well at all.

Junior G-man
Sep 15, 2004

Wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma



Something about whether the prime minister agrees with the dangerous consequences of reckless gambling :)

JFairfax
Oct 23, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

unassuming lady from wales saying "given the prime minister has first hand experience with the dangers of reckless gambling..."

spectralent
Oct 1, 2014

Me and the boys poppin' down to the shops

Julio Cruz posted:

I really don't think May's repeated "it's not about funding but about powers" line is going to go down well at all.

Even loving morons know you can't do things with powers if you have no personnel to carry them out.

JFairfax
Oct 23, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
"does the prime minister agree that socialism is bad"

Spuckuk
Aug 11, 2009

Being a bastard works



Snp are going in hard in this, gwed

Junior G-man
Sep 15, 2004

Wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma


JFairfax posted:

"does the prime minister agree that socialism is bad"

Do they really think that this whole 'Corbyn = Venezuelan catastrophe' line is sticking? I've seen it everywhere and so far I don't know anybody who's impressed except for thumb people.

Junior G-man
Sep 15, 2004

Wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma


LOL, and it's the antisemitism question. Nice work there.

Julio Cruz
May 19, 2006

Junior G-man posted:

Do they really think that this whole 'Corbyn = Venezuelan catastrophe' line is sticking? I've seen it everywhere and so far I don't know anybody who's impressed except for thumb people.

No-one who's going to repeat that could pick Venezuela out on a map.

namesake
Jun 19, 2006

"When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

Julio Cruz posted:

No-one who's going to repeat that could pick Venezuela out on a map.

I've baffled people saying that by knowing the names of Maduro and Chavez.

suck my woke dick
Oct 10, 2012

:siren:I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!:siren:

Put this cum-loving slave on ignore immediately!

spectralent posted:

lol what how

it's the house of loving commons debating a government motion how the gently caress can it not be political

Because Grate Britane is already great, and the only role that politicians have is to slightly adjust things to reach the reasonable and stable end state we all agree on (naturally that end state is peak centrism). Actually proposing that we change things or, god forbid, setting out a new vision for things the country should strive to achieve, is dangerous and borders on sedition.

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DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Spangly A posted:

imagine being so detached from reality that you boo a man who says "maybe we shouldnt have taken away the money in ways that led to people dying in govt property"

They aren't detached from reality. They honestly believe poors should die while they sponge off taxpayer money I mean the peasants serfs who till the soil on their Lord's land don't matter at all.

Does that make them bad people? Wicked? Evil?

You know I think it might.

(obviously by sponge off taxpayer money I mean graft & corruption)

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