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Hey, if any of you are in the festive movie mood, give Klaus on Netflix a try. I really enjoyed it.
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The last part of Frankie Boyle's pre-election write-up was pretty uplifting, somehow: quote:You won’t be surprised to learn that I won’t be voting Tory on Thursday, for much the same reasons that I won’t be spending the day kicking children and pensioners into traffic. It’s depressing to think how many polling stations are in schools, and how many people will vote Conservative after walking past a motivational rainbow. As we saw in Stanley Johnson’s Pinocchio gaffe, there is a problem with our elites programming their traumatised children with the idea that they are born to rule. It becomes almost impossible, as a class, to hide your contempt. It’s difficult to keep lying convincingly about things you’ve convinced yourself your audience are too stupid to notice.
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Good post this. Come what may, this election is not the end of the world, who knows, a hard Brexit may well lead to the land of milk and honey the Tories are promising. It's not bloody likely though. Vote Labour.
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Maybe if the Tories win they'll finely be a referendum on a United Ireland
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I'll be playing Minecraft and following the election purely via this thread. If the exit poll looks bad I'll just go to bed
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I'll be watching the BBC to see the creeping dread cross their bastard faces in real time.
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ThomasPaine posted:hello thread my partner has just moved to bristol for work, so I'm taking the train out from london to go have a day dicking around the city tomorrow. Neither of us know the place at all, so Bristol goons please tell us cool (and ideally not expensive) things to do and places to eat/drink! Clifton Suspension Bridge has some really cool views and it's not far from Leigh Woods if you wanna go walk around nature. We've currently got the Christmas markets going on in Broadmead if you're into that kind of thing and St. Nick's Markets has a whole load of cool nifty little shops that are worth having a gander in. The Hatchet is a great shout for drinks, I'd also recommend the Old Duke and the Bell. As for food I just went to Flour and Ash yesterday and had the most banging pizza I've had in ages.
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This country is infuriating. I'm comfortably middle class now but I know that without the NHS some bad luck could destroy my life, but I guess about 40% of people are happy to throw that away because they hate the Belgians.
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Zak- hope all goes well, my son was hospitalised twice with bronchiolitis in his first year and I remember how hellish it was to go through I dunno how I plan to deal with the election stuff as I went into '17 thinking things were probably doomed and may was going to squeak through but then the exit polls happened and there was much mirth This time round it feels more serious and stressful but I know I want to be up and around to watch the squirrel killa and chuckacuktig lose their seats, and as ever I will be glad of the ukmt filter and what I'm sure will be some memorable times however it goes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anZXuqZMSaw I have been taking some much needed downtime and spent it partially by feeding birds and filming it (relaxing, recommended), but I have finally been in proper contact with my clp and health willing I'm going to put in a day or two of office work for them next week
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I'm getting together with a bunch of mates and we're going to go find somewhere in town that sells booze that's showing it. Any goons planning on going to the Bristol Transformed event they've planned?
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Dec 8, 2019 09:16
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Rarity posted:I'm getting together with a bunch of mates and we're going to go find somewhere in town that sells booze that's showing it. Any goons planning on going to the Bristol Transformed event they've planned? I'll be on GOTV until after the exit poll but potentially afterwards.
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I'll be playing D&D I think. God I'm really getting quite anxious about this election. The implications both personally and for the wider country are pretty scary 
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"It's not true that we're going to sell the NHS. We're going to give it away."
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thespaceinvader posted:I'll be playing D&D I think. I'm impressed that you've not been anxious from the second it was called tbh.
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Rarity posted:Clifton Suspension Bridge has some really cool views and it's not far from Leigh Woods if you wanna go walk around nature. We've currently got the Christmas markets going on in Broadmead if you're into that kind of thing and St. Nick's Markets has a whole load of cool nifty little shops that are worth having a gander in. The Hatchet is a great shout for drinks, I'd also recommend the Old Duke and the Bell. As for food I just went to Flour and Ash yesterday and had the most banging pizza I've had in ages. Thanks! Trip is going well already as I accidently clicked single rather than return at Paddington and the gwr machines so I'm paying double hoo loving ray
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Taear posted:I'm impressed that you've not been anxious from the second it was called tbh. I'm impressed that you do not understand good old fashioned british understatement and self deprecation.
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Dec 8, 2019 10:13
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Well according to the Marr show the tories have already won and the Labour Party are a party of the rich
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I'm in a bottomless pit of laughter from how quickly and absolutely Jo has managed to totally collapse all of her support this election. If anything else, it'll be a source of joy for years to come.
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You know, if the BBC are going to wheel out a Mail columnist to set the news agenda on their flagship Sunday politics programme, the last one before a general election, it might be worth mentioning they're married to a Tory cabinet member...
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I think this is a great glimpse of Tory mentality. While NHS rules prevent profiteering entering ots books, the managers and ministers themselves often take gifts in return for their service. The US healthcare service is fantastic at this, having long done it in the form of flying decision makers out to luxury resorts, giving them a presentation in the form of a huge buffet, entertainment etc and promising them a ton of consultancy work afterwards. So this is Mancock trying to buy himself a consultancy when this is all over, and sod the consequences in terms of privacy issues.
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Dec 8, 2019 10:40
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CoolCab posted:this is already an observed effect even without compulsory voting, whoever happens to be listed on the ballot first consistently gets a small but measurable boost. it's why we randomize order iirc Hmm. I reckon leftist candidates should be automatically put at the top of the ballot to help make up for the systemic biases against them. Do you think we would have any luck making this argument?  Or maybe we would just see a resurgence of Strasserism to claim that top spot   
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CoolCab posted:this is already an observed effect even without compulsory voting, whoever happens to be listed on the ballot first consistently gets a small but measurable boost. it's why we randomize order iirc Aren't ballots in the UK arranged alphabetically of surname?
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Jel Shaker posted:Well according to the Marr show the tories have already won and the Labour Party are a party of the rich My housemate is watching it, he loves all of that garbage. It's absolutely infuriating.
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Zalakwe posted:I'm anxious because my wee one is in hospital. I've been there, my son had a fever at a week old, which then lead to 7 months of pure hell. Don't forget to take care of yourself - feel free to PM me if you want to rant or anything, and to everyone else - next time you are in McD's, put some change in the charity boxes there. Ronald McDonald House is a genuinely awesome charity that helps so many families of sick children it's unreal. gently caress the tories, now and always.
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Shogi posted:I feel your pain. All of my bags were in those kooky interlocking courts and gardens arrayed around central fields with cuts and snickels shooting around in a kind of suburban mandala. A lot of the designs round there are quite pleasant, but I now feel horribly sorry for the posties. The first bag I would have been sunk without a bunch of kids on bikes who kept popping up to point me towards the right number. They'd clocked me haplessly wandering around trying to work out why I'd suddenly gone from 72 Snaketwist Gardens to 3 Theseus Court and showed a bit of socialist compassion in action. I thought I had a decent sense of direction! Um, hello. I'm trying to deliver election letters but I can't figure out how the house numbers work here. Could you maybe help me out?Which party are you with? Um, Labour.Oh, sure! You want that direction. The numbers go 11-14, 23-39 (no 31), 5-8, 31, 9-10, 1-4. You'll get the hang of it!  What ho, chaps! Could you do one a solid as well? I am with the Conservative and Unionist party.Right, yeah. The place you want is off the end of that pier. Jolly good! Chocks away!
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Not sure who Marr is interviewing (I can only hear the TV), but he literally just asked "why are so many awful people flocking to Labour" in relation to antisemitism.
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chestnut santabag posted:Aren't ballots in the UK arranged alphabetically of surname? Yes, they are. And with that in mind it's interesting to note that Thatcher and Wilson are the only Prime Ministers in the last 150 years whose surname comes from the second half of the alphabet.
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Good video doing the rounds on reddit: https://twitter.com/PeoplesMomentum/status/1203319846345281541?s=19
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Not sure who Marr is interviewing (I can only hear the TV), but he literally just asked "why are so many awful people flocking to Labour" in relation to antisemitism. God I hate them so much. Canvassing in plymouth yesterday with forums users fuf and 1965917. First round wasn't great but second was pretty heartening. That said, the second round was in the student-y area, so it was kind of cheating
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Get out and do door knocking on election night if you can, every time I’ve done it there’s always someone at ten to ten who says OH gently caress I FORGOT and sprints to the polling station. You’ll do some good and then be surrounded by other comrades when the exit poll drops.
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On election night I'll be getting a curry and lots of beers, regardless of the exit poll result I will slog through til about 1 or so. I reckon either way it goes I'll be a bit emotional - it's a strange way to end the decade really, I was unemployed for a while, I've moved house every year since 2008, I've watched as places were hosed by austerity and have worked a bunch of jobs with different communities and seen the impact what Tories have done. I'm optimistic. The polls are always wrong, old media caters to older people and more importantly - all things come to an end. People are ready for change, they want it, can almost taste it. So many people out canvassing, registering to vote, talking to those close to them. The media will always stick to the status quo and suppose the most obvious chain of events, but it is the death throes of a dying medium - it is in those final moments they will act like a caricature of themselves in a desperate attempt to appear as if they can do anything to stop it. This is the last week of the Tories being in power.
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On Marr they were also quite dismissive of labour now being a “party of the young” not the “working class”, yet somehow the statistics guy they had on neglected to mention that the inflection point between lab/con was 45 years old, those with families and working poor?
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Barry Foster posted:God I hate them so much. According to my housemate this constitutes journalism and 'playing devil's advocate'. I'm glad he's moving out, he's broadly inoffensive but watches nothing but tedious political shite and complains about how pub quiz questions are terrible whenever he doesn't know the answer.
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