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Aphex- posted:Sid Meier's Liberal Democrats 6 There is something telling about putting your name in front of a party that has been around for centuries..... CAT TAX!  Have an angry ginger tom that went by the name Sophie, not through any personal choice, just a series of rather dubious student vets. Grey Hunter fucked around with this message at 12:53 on Nov 6, 2019 |
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Corbyn’s giving an absolutely belter of a performance today, I’m actually not feeling overwhelming despair for a change. 
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Nov 6, 2019 12:39
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Pesky Splinter posted:https://twitter.com/LibDemPress/status/1192003069380300804 I just noticed it says "Jo Swinson's Liberal Democracts" like she owns the party or something. She really is making everything about her. Even Jonhson is not doing that with the tories.
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Nov 6, 2019 12:40
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VideoGames posted:I just noticed it says "Jo Swinson's Liberal Democracts" like she owns the party or something. She really is making everything about her. Even Jonhson is not doing that with the tories. thats because they tried it last time 
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Nov 6, 2019 12:43
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Really feels like the slightest hint of a chance at power has sent Jo Swinson completely off the rails
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Nov 6, 2019 12:43
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Tiger Millionaire posted:Starting to feel somewhat optimistic about this GE! Labour have been smashing their optics and the tories have started by somehow putting 3 feet in their mouth. I feel like I'm supporting a non-league side in the FA cup and we managed to hold idk Chelsea 0-0 at home in the first leg (the last GE2017) and are now playing away and it's 1-1 at half time and every part of me is trying not to get too over-excited but I'm really starting to believe.
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Nov 6, 2019 12:44
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not sure if this is grauniad copyediting but i still like it
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Nov 6, 2019 12:45
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Lady Galaga posted:They look closer to Java Finches than Green/Goldfinch with their big ol' beaks. I have owned Green/Zebra/Gouldian/Society Finches before, they are the cutest birbs    
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Nov 6, 2019 12:47
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kecske posted:whoever posted it before was right, she really is the Verruca Salt of politicians 
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Nov 6, 2019 12:48
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Extremely weird they're making her the Face of the party, understandable about BoJo because he's been in public spotlight for years and years, and same with Corbz as he represents the ideological shift away from centrist Labour and has the voting record to prove it. But Jo?
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Nov 6, 2019 12:49
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Doccykins posted:not sure if this is grauniad copyediting but i still like it Hilary energy so strong she's going to be implicated in the "Suicide" of Prince Andrew.
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Nov 6, 2019 12:51
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I think the underlying problem is that the Tories and the Lib Dems don't have anything to match the Labour policies, so they're just getting incredibly dirty. The best thing is that even Piers on GMB was calling the tories out on how dirty they are today. It's nuts.
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A tab probably worth keeping open: Live election news: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-news-live-general-election-tory-labour-corbyn-kulak-a9186986.html quote:Boris Johnson news – live: Scandal-hit Tory election campaign in disarray as MP admits ‘people cocked up’ and Bercow taunts PM over Brexit
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Rustybear posted:I feel like I'm supporting a non-league side in the FA cup and we managed to hold idk Chelsea 0-0 at home in the first leg (the last GE2017) and are now playing away and it's 1-1 at half time and every part of me is trying not to get too over-excited but I'm really starting to believe. The FA cup doesn't have two-legged ties.
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Doccykins posted:not sure if this is grauniad copyediting but i still like it That's pretty much just the Democrats "when they go low, we go high", which in their case just means roll over and let the Republicans gently caress them
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Tiger Millionaire posted:Extremely weird they're making her the Face of the party, understandable about BoJo because he's been in public spotlight for years and years, and same with Corbz as he represents the ideological shift away from centrist Labour and has the voting record to prove it. When Chuka said their campaign should put a vain, Tory-loving narcissist as the centre-point he was really disappointed when they picked Jo. Debbie Does Dagon posted:That's pretty much just the Democrats "when they go low, we go high", which in their case just means roll over and let the Republicans gently caress them Except that "when they go lie we go high" is an explicit attack on the Conservatives for being liars, not just once or twice but habitually. It's nothing like the meek Democrat answer.
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VideoGames posted:I just noticed it says "Jo Swinson's Liberal Democracts" like she owns the party or something. She really is making everything about her. Even Jonhson is not doing that with the tories. Decades after she's gone it'll still be Jo Swinson's Liberal Democrats. She'll be the Tom Clancy of politics.
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Nov 6, 2019 12:54
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Said DUP MP isn't standing because an affair was publicised and he was forced to resign from the Orange Order - he's the MP for Upper Bann though (Banbridge and Craigavon) where the DUP have a ~15% majority so it's a safe seat for the party
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CGI Stardust posted:i've never kept birbs, but Zebra Finches look absolutely amazing - so much with so few colours! I have asked for an aviary for Xmas (or at least what I need to turn one end of the garage + large bit of garden into an aviary) and I am super excited about getting zebra finches, gouldian finches and java sparrows. Also I took a massive risk last night and asked a cab driver if he's registered to vote, and who he's voting for. It was a toss-up between Labour and "UKIP, mind you they're Brexit party now aren't they and I've had enough of that BOLLOCKS". I got him talking about his friend who's had to sleep on a sofabed in the living room for six years and it turns out we both know the same guy so hopefully that helped turn him round. Tbh I was just glad to find myself dropped off at home and not on the side of the road up on the moors somewhere.
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How is it the Lib Dems are incapable of picking good or even half decent leaders?
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Hey KFC we found an even bigger chicken than you!!! https://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1192037394008170496?s=19
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Demiurge4 posted:How is it the Lib Dems are incapable of picking good or even half decent leaders? They're picking from an extremely shallow pool of "talent"
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Tesseraction posted:Hey KFC we found an even bigger chicken than you!!! https://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1192037394008170496?s=19 They’d put Priti Patel in the Amber Rudd playing Theresa May seat? It’s like Boris Johnson is desperate to lose the next election.
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Doccykins posted:not sure if this is grauniad copyediting but i still like it this is code for legalising weed and I will not back down
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Tiger Millionaire posted:Extremely weird they're making her the Face of the party, understandable about BoJo because he's been in public spotlight for years and years, and same with Corbz as he represents the ideological shift away from centrist Labour and has the voting record to prove it. Its not about historical recognition, it's about pushing the angle the Lib Dems think they're strongest in. Johnson is a hard Brexit monster, Corbyn is a hard left Stalinist but here's sensible centrist Jo who can definitely be prime minister. Takes the focus away from policy and tries to appeal to Remain Tories who don't want the other two options.
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VideoGames posted:I just noticed it says "Jo Swinson's Liberal Democracts" like she owns the party or something. She really is making everything about her. Even Jonhson is not doing that with the tories. The Tories got burnt by that last time. Their aim seems to be focusing soley on Brexit. The Libdems, well, I mean, they're entirely reliant on the CANCEL BREXIT policy, and "Hey Swinson is a Lady person - that means she's progressive". They started to become unhinged when all the CUKTIG, Labour, and Tory rejects fled to them, artifically swelling their ranks - giving them the loving delusion that, "Hey, we're a bigger party and gained more seats...that means we''re more electorally viable again  ".Also the irony of trying to establish a cult of personality because they have no loving policies, when they accuse the left of forming a COP around Corbyn.
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VideoGames posted:I just noticed it says "Jo Swinson's Liberal Democracts" like she owns the party or something. She really is making everything about her. Even Jonhson is not doing that with the tories. She is the Jess Phillips of the lib dems
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https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1192044683742056449 Not even pretending any more.
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RockyB posted:It came up the last time this thread has this "but posting here doesn't really help anything" derail, I want to say 6 months, a year ago? Back around 2008 some lad was employed by a finance company to 'monitor threats', which included this thread. So he read it and got :marxed: instead. Yeah, that was me. I worked in security for a very large bank and around the time various protests started kicking off I was used to ‘gather intelligence’ on the ground and online (so joining protests and reporting on their movements etc to prepare the security response). I was already a goon, but I mentioned LF and the activism in the uk thread at a meeting and was asked to keep an eye. So I did. And ended up swinging from a disgusting Tory voting libertarian to a full-blown socialist well to the left of Corbyn as a result. It’s one of the reasons I really didn’t post much for years, despite having been reading the UKMT and it’s LF predecessor for like a decade now. On the one hand I’m ashamed of why I first came here; on the other I feel that if someone as stubborn as me can be converted to the exact opposite end of the political compass by a bunch of goons then there’s hope for anyone. Oh, and I left that job in 2011 and sued the pants off then for the treatment I received and the conditions I was forced to work under, fyi. Edit: and to fully complete the change, fired off the volunteer form for momentum straight after typing this out. Ngl, I’m terrified (mental health stuff has kept me mostly housebound for the past few years), but perhaps this’ll be what I need as well as helping gently caress the tories in whatever way. Camrath fucked around with this message at 13:09 on Nov 6, 2019 |
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Debbie Does Dagon posted:I was still pissed off with Blair when I found this thread, and mostly just voted against the government or spoiled the ballot. They're all the same, right? Now, having lurked here for about a year, I'm a Labour member. So you guys are definitely making a difference  /similar.Thanks to this thread and LF and other things I've read and involved myself in I've definitely got a lot better ways of framing social ills. Blair was an authoritarian dick, Brown's home secretaries just banned poo poo to appease the tabloids, and Cameron and Clegg promised a bonfire of New Labour's bad ideas but instead just threw the poorest on it instead. Voted Ed in 2015 but it all felt very  I think either way I'd have been enthused by Corbyn, his opposition to Labour's anti-terrorism laws and ID cards and allowing ministers to intervene in inquests and mass retention of communications information are things I've always been on the side of, but I've been made aware of a lot of things like how public/private ownership works, economic policy, why austerity isn't just harmful but a lie, how to best express the issues behind wage labour and wealth inequality, actual hopeful paths forward rather than "well this is poo poo". and the best monster munch. Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/ashcowburn/status/1192041175395553280 VideoGames posted:I just noticed it says "Jo Swinson's Liberal Democracts" like she owns the party or something. She really is making everything about her. Even Jonhson is not doing that with the tories.  Debbie Does Dagon posted:That's pretty much just the Democrats "when they go low, we go high", which in their case just means roll over and let the Republicans gently caress them
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Pesky Splinter posted:Also the irony of trying to establish a cult of personality because they have no loving policies, when they accuse the left of forming a COP around Corbyn. Ordinarily I'd support labour, but there's something about Jo Swinson's strategy of "zero-policy, personality-led politics positioned against a supposed buffonish aberration of conservative values" that makes me say I'm With Her.
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1192044683742056449 flavible posted:*The prediction table is a projection by flavible based on these national percentages, do not conflate this with constituency polling
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RockyB posted:As several other people have said this thread has actually radicalised a lot of people. Me certainly, with actual leftish policies this is my second vote for Labour after having the "they're all the loving same" cynicism and voting for the funniest independent before then. There was also that one guy who was originally supposed to spy on this thread for capital and got radicalised, which is still hilarious. Nowadays, it's socialism or barbarism, it's an uphill battle but we can win! The Tories have been in power all of my adult life and frankly i'mma getting sick of being hosed over constantly by them.
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Its easy to forget just how poo poo the tories are at elections. good to see the 'are they trying to lose on purpose' conspiracy theory poping up again already.
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Cairns resigning as Welsh secretary, not sure if he's still standing as a candidate https://twitter.com/nickeardleybbc/status/1192050562243670016
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https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1192050288443764737 How many is this now?  Expecting an extended 5 hour podcast, because, holy hell what a smörgåsbord of delicious Tory fuckups to dine on. Pesky Splinter fucked around with this message at 13:16 on Nov 6, 2019 |
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1192044683742056449 Flavible is the site which said the Lib Dems are going to take Corbyns seat so they're just laughably wrong when it comes to anything.
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