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Is it just me, or is desperately trying to make the entire election a proxy referendum on Brexit looking like a really loving bad play in the face of a jaded populace and a Labour party energetically offering an actual plan for the future? Kitten tax: https://twitter.com/evilbart24/status/1163607849655832577?s=19 Doctor_Fruitbat fucked around with this message at 12:06 on Oct 31, 2019 |
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Well I'm in a super safe labour seat A little googling showed that my mp (meg hillier) has thrown their hat in the ring for speaker of the house too
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Oct 31, 2019 12:02
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Lightning Knight posted:Equivocating individual actions of people who are not wealthy to the systemic actions of nation-states ruled by the rich and powerful is very dumb imo. We should be giving money for malarials, not fighting the Tories. Oh wait, I do both.
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Oct 31, 2019 12:02
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Is it just me, or is desperately trying to make the entire election a proxy referendum on Brexit looking like a really loving bad play in the face of a jaded populace and a Labour party energetically offering an actual plan for the future? Fingers crossed.
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Oct 31, 2019 12:03
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UKIP under Farage tried to target labour leave seats several times in the past and always failed. It's not welcome news but it's not a death-knell. Historically UKIP was always most successful in Conservative-held seats; in isolation their best strategy would be to target outspoken Tory Remainers in Tory safe seats which swing leave, of which there are many.
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Oct 31, 2019 12:04
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Have the Tories actually released any policies yet? Last night my partner asked me what labour has planned and I told her in broad terms, then when she asked about the tories i had to go 'uuhhhh.... tough on crime and do a Brexit?'
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Oct 31, 2019 12:06
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Is it just me, or is desperately trying to make the entire election a proxy referendum on Brexit looking like a really loving bad play in the face of a jaded populace and a Labour party energetically offering an actual plan for the future? Honestly I'm amazed that even with nearly 10 years of being in government that voter attrition hasn't ground them down as much as they have already.
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Oct 31, 2019 12:06
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Continuity RCP posted:Now is definitely the time to make a stand, Nigel. Stay strong and don't give in Nigel will stand a bunch of candidates I suspect - he wants nothing more than a seat at the table and this gets him one.
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Oct 31, 2019 12:07
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this owns https://twitter.com/MW_Unrest/status/1189540502414209025?s=20
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Oct 31, 2019 12:07
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Goodness, it seems like the Brexit lunatics think the Tories are traitors to Brexit or something.Jose posted:i see the brexit party chief whip was reading my post about not standing candidates against the tories backfiring The public likes collusion between supposedly separate political parties, right?
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Oct 31, 2019 12:08
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Again, the Conservative manifesto will be drawn up by a fracking lobbyist, so that should be fun.
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Oct 31, 2019 12:08
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Is it just me, or is desperately trying to make the entire election a proxy referendum on Brexit looking like a really loving bad play in the face of a jaded populace and a Labour party energetically offering an actual plan for the future? Boris isn't taking this angle. Oh no, he's doing much worse. If you listen to his speeches in the house, firstly I'm sorry and secondly he's whipping out "free market capitalism" and "wealth creation" as slogans. Boris' trade deals with the US have already delivered to him the American conservative spin machine, and he's firing all five litres and all eight cylinders, baby. The Tory party just got an LS swap.
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Oct 31, 2019 12:09
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el dingo posted:Have the Tories actually released any policies yet? Last night my partner asked me what labour has planned and I told her in broad terms, then when she asked about the tories i had to go 'uuhhhh.... tough on crime and do a Brexit?' They are going to hire 20,000 new police officers, which is 1,000 less than the reduction in police officers since the ConDem coalition came to power in 2010. Other than that, their manifesto isn't done yet but for an idea of what'll be in it look at the Queens Speech from earlier in the month. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 12:12 on Oct 31, 2019 |
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Oct 31, 2019 12:09
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Well this has been a long time coming. Some posters will know I worked for the Lib Dems (or their representatives mainly, but who's splitting hairs) for years back in the day, up until shortly after they joined the coalition. Since then the party and Labour have both changed beyond all recognition to the point I would be holding my nose to vote tactically in a Lib Dem/Tory marginal. Thankfully I don't live in one. Anyway I want to call on the thread to be firm but kind to Lib Dem supporters - many of them are good but misguided people shaped by their privilege. Ask questions rather than making accusations and more and more of them will end up like me.  P.S. With thanks to JB, couldn't be bothered hosting my own image. P.S.S. I will never, ever vote for Ian Murray. Zalakwe fucked around with this message at 12:22 on Oct 31, 2019 |
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Oct 31, 2019 12:10
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Azza Bamboo posted:Boris isn't taking this angle. Oh no, he's doing much worse. If you listen to his speeches in the house, firstly I'm sorry and secondly he's whipping out "free market capitalism" and "wealth creation" as slogans. Boris' trade deals with the US have already delivered to him the American conservative spin machine, and he's firing all five litres and all eight cylinders, baby. The Tory party just got an LS swap. That's fine, a capitalism versus anti-capitalism election is extremely loving good as well.
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Oct 31, 2019 12:11
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forkboy84 posted:They are going to hire 20,000 new police officers, which is 1,000 less than the reduction in police officers since the ConDem coalition came to power in 2010. Not forgetting that, thanks to the effects of all their other cuts, being a cop is such a loving nightmare that they lose more than half of their recruits either in training or during the first year on the job. So it will actually be around 9000 new officers.
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Oct 31, 2019 12:13
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Corbyn speaking now
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Oct 31, 2019 12:14
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a pipe smoking dog posted:This new Whose Side Are You On? Slogan rules because it means I can be humming this while out leafleting This one is good too! https://youtu.be/oKHf1YVATfk
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Oct 31, 2019 12:15
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Rustybear posted:If they self-identify as being ethnically Sikh, what's the issue? I've done some reading on this, and it seems that defining Sikhism as an ethnicity is a big nationalist thing. Here's a quote from a Sikh protesting against it that makes sense: quote:"Sikhism is a religion and not an ethnicity. We have Sikhs from all over the world these days. There are Sikhs of all ethnicities including Asian, Oriental, White, Middle Eastern, Black and Mixed. Surely everybody with an ounce of sense will agree that Sikh is not a separate ethnic origin. So lets not be zealots. I find some of the comments here disheartening. Those talking about betrayal and disgust need to think deep and hard about whether they themselves really are Sikhs or in name only."
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Oct 31, 2019 12:16
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#brexitriots and #BritainHasExploded both trending on Twitter. https://twitter.com/markdavyd/status/1189843711997423616 https://twitter.com/Hutch_and_Sons/status/1189836053651345408
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Oct 31, 2019 12:16
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quote:More than 300,000 people have applied to register to vote in 48 hours, according to government figures. Nice
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Oct 31, 2019 12:16
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Maphis posted:Showed this table to a LibDem cheerleader this morning and it turns out they've since updated their recommendations. Did the same collation and compare and got this breakdown (sorry for the utterly hideous Excel snip): "open in playground" -> click the play button, wait a few seconds
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Oct 31, 2019 12:16
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Yay!
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mediadave posted:Corbyn speaking now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdzwKboCJBI
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Oct 31, 2019 12:18
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CyberPingu posted:Nice I've been seeing this a lot, but I don't think it's indicitive of much since I would have thought young people move around more, meaning when the time comes for an election, it's more likely for younger people to have to register or re-register. All the olds own their own homes so have most likely been registered for ages.
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Oct 31, 2019 12:20
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I only got to catch 30 seconds of this because I’m at work but Christ I would trade Bernie for Corbyn in a heartbeat. 
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Oct 31, 2019 12:20
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Lightning Knight posted:I only got to catch 30 seconds of this because I’m at work but Christ I would trade Bernie for Corbyn in a heartbeat. Let's put them both in office 
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Oct 31, 2019 12:21
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Maphis posted:Showed this table to a LibDem cheerleader this morning and it turns out they've since updated their recommendations. Did the same collation and compare and got this breakdown (sorry for the utterly hideous Excel snip): I've still got a snapshot of the data from yesterday when I was playing around with this - they've shifted 142 seats from "Pledge" to Labour since then, and, wonderfully, these two from Libdem to Labour:   Not sure what cataclysmic event happened in the last 24 hours to make it clear that these probably weren't turning yellow...
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Oct 31, 2019 12:22
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My emoji claim to fame is this bad first draft of : clegg : And Clegg's little shrunken head which I think was used by whoever did the final thing: 
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Oct 31, 2019 12:22
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Necrothatcher posted:I've done some reading on this, and it seems that defining Sikhism as an ethnicity is a big nationalist thing. Here's a quote from a Sikh protesting against it that makes sense: Same as not all people who consider themselves ethnically Jewish are Zionists, sometimes it's out of worry that the Nazis are unlikely to take "I'm non observant and I only visit my nan for Passover" as an answer. Ethnicity, like sexuality, is often formed out of solidarity from opposition. e: ^^^ 
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Oct 31, 2019 12:23
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I enjoy Corbyn repeatedly making the point that Boris hasn't died in a ditch and thus cannot be trusted
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Oct 31, 2019 12:24
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Braggart posted:Goodness, it seems like the Brexit lunatics think the Tories are traitors to Brexit or something. Electoral pacts are not that unusual really. One of the longest ones is the Labour - Co-op alliance which is getting on for a century now.
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Oct 31, 2019 12:27
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Vlex posted:I don't know where to post this but just wanted to say that I've been offered a lectureship (i.e. a semblance of permanence in the rocky, lovely world of academia) doing what I love and I'm totally stunned. Lectureships have always been something that happen to other people.
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Oct 31, 2019 12:27
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Got drawn into a WhatsApp slapfight about how poo poo Lib Dems are, then I remembered I'm arguing with people in Leeds Central so just posted the 2017 result and exited in peace
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Oct 31, 2019 12:28
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Aramoro posted:Electoral pacts are not that unusual really. One of the longest ones is the Labour - Co-op alliance which is getting on for a century now.
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Oct 31, 2019 12:29
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Always weird to see Cefte popping out from the shadows.
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Oct 31, 2019 12:30
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God what a disgusting tie, who does he think he is? Braying guffaw
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Oct 31, 2019 12:31
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big boss corbyn whips
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Oct 31, 2019 12:33
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The Boy campaigns like a champ.
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Listening to Corbyn speech. Going to write down specific pledges here as I catch them. Living wage at full rate from the age of 16. Scrapping Tuition Fees. Giving people the "final say" [on brexit] in 6 months. Scrap Universal Credit. Some catchy slogans go here. Labour will end Tory Austerity. Our NHS is not for sale. "Economic Vandalism" to describe the deliberate neglect of communities. "They'll fight harder and dirtier than before." "Message of Hope."
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