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Well, I looked it up myself, and while Labour is ahead with both Indians and Pakistanis, its lead with the former is narrow and shrinking, while its lead with the latter is huge and growing. This article offers an explanation, even if it slightly overestimates the scale of the problem.
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This is probably just pure ignorance on my part but I don’t really know that there is a big lobby for Indian or Pakistani interests outside of official diplomatic ties, nothing on par with I/P anyway that I’m aware of. I’m sure there’s some post colonial reason for it. Can anyone direct me to some good material on Partition and the whole post colonial relationship between Britain and India & Pakistan? Yet again our school system just pretended nothing really happened so I don’t even know where to start with it.
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lots and lots of Europe-centered maps is my diagnosis, the distortion from projection makes greenland appear to be very very huge. Huge and big and important I sure hope nobody tries to show him something like this for perspective 
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Sanitary Naptime posted:This is probably just pure ignorance on my part but I don’t really know that there is a big lobby for Indian or Pakistani interests outside of official diplomatic ties, nothing on par with I/P anyway that I’m aware of. You could argue that the Pakistan lobby, in both senses, dates back to the All-India Muslim League and its London Chapter, and that predates partition by a way. There's been a strong 'not this poo poo again' Indian lobby in the UK dating from the East African expulsions, but that had a focus on ensuring that Kenyan and Ugandan Indians were not stateless and helping British Indian communities, rather than helping the interests of the state of India. e: ^^ Yeah, I also hope Trump doesn't notice Australia.
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Aug 21, 2019 10:17
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kingturnip posted:Just rename it "gently caress Off Donald Trump" This reminds me that there is currently a petition in new york to rename a portion of... I think 5th avenue? To Barack Obama Avenue. The specific region? The section of the street where Trump Tower is located. It's extremely liberal but I would love to see his meltdown if it succeeded.
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Tesseraction posted:This reminds me that there is currently a petition in new york to rename a portion of... I think 5th avenue? To Barack Obama Avenue. The specific region? The section of the street where Trump Tower is located. We got him! Gotta disagree that's some weak SNL resistance poo poo Sanitary Naptime posted:Trump going full flat earth would be amazing I'm genuinely surprised he hasn't already
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Like when Iran renamed the street that the British Embassy was on from Winston Churchill Street to Bobby Sands Street. I bet Trump is similarly petty enough to change the postal address to a side street in response.
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Guavanaut posted:Like when Iran renamed the street that the British Embassy was on from Winston Churchill Street to Bobby Sands Street. Lmao is this a thing that actually happened?
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Tesseraction posted:This reminds me that there is currently a petition in new york to rename a portion of... I think 5th avenue? To Barack Obama Avenue. The specific region? The section of the street where Trump Tower is located. it's not as good as in the 80s when Glasgow changed the street of the South African consulate to Nelson Mandela Place but it's still mildly amusing so i'll allow it e: i see petty street renaming is a long tradition
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Sanitary Naptime posted:Lmao is this a thing that actually happened? 
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It's even better: The brits took such a hump they closed the entrance on Bobby Sands st. and opened a new one round the corner so they wouldn't get mail addressed to them there. This article is fuckin' wild: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/9bzpya/bobby-sands-burgers-tehran-545  I could totally hack a pastie supper with walnuts and mushrooms.
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Qwertycoatl posted:From ages ago, but what's wrong with American sausages? I know what's wrong with their bacon but I'd never heard anything about sausages before. They're not 'wrong' per se they're just not like ours. You either get bratwurst which has worryingly high concentrations of actual meat, or you get 'sweet italian' which is flavoured with fennel. They taste fine but if you're craving a nice Lincolnshire it's just not the same.
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Sanitary Naptime posted:Trump going full flat earth would be amazing I read somewhere that maps were the only things his administration could show him that didn't bore him to death. Maps and maps something something Europe? Best bring him a flashy Europe map.  Here you see sir, this- "What's that one, the big thing right there?" (gently caress gently caress gently caress) that's Greenland sir. Now if you look- "It's huge! There, right between us and Russia. Who owns it?" etc Tijuana Bibliophile fucked around with this message at 10:39 on Aug 21, 2019 |
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jabby posted:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1163961884225277954 https://i.imgur.com/fqiDXf3.mp4
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OwlFancier posted:I'm not sure I recognize anyone in that photo except jez. Probably because they're mostly families from Derry submitting a petition about the Bloody Sunday massacre, That's John Hume in the middle there, winner of the Noble Peace prize. Tony Benn at the back with Corbyn obviously.
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StarkingBarfish posted:It's even better: The brits took such a hump they closed the entrance on Bobby Sands st. and opened a new one round the corner so they wouldn't get mail addressed to them there. No chicken no party
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ummmm https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1164108955339120641
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Total Meatlove posted:No chicken no party It's because their chicken boxes don't say 'no stabbies' on the inside.
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Do it Boris. Do it you loving coward.
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mediadave posted:ummmm I was expecting a Big Boris Bounce, especially with the Tories eating the Brexit Party vote over 'we're serious-ies now' politics, but wow. The 6% drop for Labour is the Lab-Leave vote going over? Maybe?
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Junior G-man posted:I was expecting a Big Boris Bounce, especially with the Tories eating the Brexit Party vote over 'we're serious-ies now' politics, but wow. The bounce is presumably because it’s changes from May, which was still pretty fresh after May hosed it all up for the March exit.
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Hahahaha cmon Boris do what May did gently caress yeah.
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He’s successfully cannibalised the BXP and UKIP vote by lurching right, gambling that ‘sensible’ Tories will be self serving bastards rather than doing anything useful in their lives. And that the Lib Dem’s are loving idiots
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Total Meatlove posted:He’s successfully cannibalised the BXP and UKIP vote by lurching right, gambling that ‘sensible’ Tories will be self serving bastards rather than doing anything useful in their lives. And that the Lib Dem’s are loving idiots That's not really a gamble, more a truth universally acknowledged.
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At this point I'd be willing to swallow my bile and tell a pollster I was planning to vote Tory just to increase chances of a GE
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Are we being overconfident? That said, I've never heard of that pollster, are they worth taking remotely seriously
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You guys worry more about polls than the yanks do. Considering how twisted your media is I can't understand how you put any stock in anything that gets put out.
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The only polls that matter are exit polls. Apart from ones showing CHUK on 0% 
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Rarity posted:Apart from ones showing CHUK on 0% A mighty 1% showing yet again. It really will never, ever stop being funny
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This is fine https://twitter.com/NoraMulready/status/1163576123562876930?s=20
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dick braine and dirk fuckner https://twitter.com/nkulw/status/1163895889318096903
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Barry Foster posted:Are we being overconfident? Apparently they are legit, but they used some methodology tweaks, thread here from a YouGov guy explaining it: https://twitter.com/anthonyjwells/status/1164107051297050624 Honestly I've got some sympathy for pollsters on this kind of thing, to an extent there's feedback between poll results and popularity, there's a difference between what people say and what they actually think or do, and then like Survation in 2017 even when they're right they end up getting it wrong.
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I think the big issue out of that is not if you can fire them, but can you legally even employ them at that stage.
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lemonadesweetheart posted:You guys worry more about polls than the yanks do. Considering how twisted your media is I can't understand how you put any stock in anything that gets put out. Yeah, I know. It's difficult though, they're designed to shoot straight into the primitive parts of my brain and make it go 'oh no, big number bigger than smaller number!' Also, though, the media being twisted also directly influences actual vote shares as well as bullshit polls, so
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Jose posted:dick braine and dirk fuckner
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ACAB https://twitter.com/NadineElEnany/status/1163790696219889668?s=20
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