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Not in the country right now, so my mum will be banging in my proxy vote for Labour today when she votes for them too at the polling station. Could be a marginal seat, it's gone Tory the last two or three times but I remember it being Labour when I was younger. Good luck to all my friends and comrades today. Let's win this thing
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I've never been so happy to join the back of a long queue. Especially since I missed the pre-work rush.
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I've just woke up so I haven't gone voted yet but ughhh my stomach is churning and I'm gonna have to dose myself up all day today just so K can stop being so anxious and stress crying. Today is so important and I honestly don't know what I'm going to do if the Tories win.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Blyth is great, watch his YouTube's too. For further reading I suggest David Graebers "Debt:the First 5000 Years" and if you can wait a few months Stephanie Kelton has an MMT book coming out - she's one of Bernie's financial czars and very good at explaining this poo poo accessibly Good luck everybody.
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I started a PhD in September, and I was terrified that, from what I heard academics tend to veer a bit centrist. I found out recently that not only is my supervisor a labour voter, but he drunkenly said at the Christmas do that the Tories are "utter wankers and if you vote for them you're a twat". Plus all my coworkers are huge labour supporters. Feels good 
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Failed Imagineer posted:For further reading I suggest David Graebers "Debt:the First 5000 Years" and if you can wait a few months Stephanie Kelton has an MMT book coming out - she's one of Bernie's financial czars and very good at explaining this poo poo accessibly Graeber's Debt is a really good and insightful book. It's not even written from a socialist perspective even though the author is a socialist, it's just that if you actually take your time to pick through the anthropology and history of money and debt, you arrive at socialism unless you're a sociopath.
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My workplace is a polling station today, and we've separately got people coming to have a mince pie and sing some carols this afternoon. It's very tempting to try to get them to sing O Tannenbaum...
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jaete posted:PRI-ME MI-NIS-TER COR-BYN That scans perfectly, bud. Crack on!   
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Sulphagnist posted:Graeber's Debt is a really good and insightful book. It's not even written from a socialist perspective even though the author is a socialist, it's just that if you actually take your time to pick through the anthropology and history of money and debt, you arrive at socialism unless you're a sociopath. Absolutely. Best book I read this year, no contest.
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Ikwaylx posted:I started a PhD in September, and I was terrified that, from what I heard academics tend to veer a bit centrist. I found out recently that not only is my supervisor a labour voter, but he drunkenly said at the Christmas do that the Tories are "utter wankers and if you vote for them you're a twat". Plus all my coworkers are huge labour supporters. Academia is definitely a bit melty for my tastes. The is a significant number of otherwise very intelligent people I know who have been crowing about the LDs or Hard Decisions they had to make in 2010/2010/2017...gently caress. There are occasionally pockets of real red.
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Dec 12, 2019 10:06
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Thank you to everyone here for everything you've done over the last six weeks. And indeed the next 11 hours. Good luck all of us.
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Can't wait for Labour to get 300+ seats and see all the hand wringing in the press about how nobody saw it coming
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i changed my mind and am now voting in the evening and following the news obsessively. still voting corbyn. god save us all but i still think we're getting bojo lol
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 MUM UPDATE quote:I've done it, voted Labour never voted for them before in my life, but this is purely a protest vote. I'll take it.
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Dec 12, 2019 10:08
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Mandatory matricide narrowly averted
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:
Now get your dad on side.
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Always mainly lurk here due to my lack of political knowledge and it's definitely eye opening how narrow minded I was before it and I thank you goons for helping me with that. Voted but in a huge blue zone (Rugby and Bulkington), let's hope we can pull off a miracle. Mum Update: Deeply conservative Mum hasn't voted because of the weather and how "Boris is going to win anyway", let's hope another 7000 do that too? 
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stev posted:Now get your dad on side. I'm not a magician
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Vlex posted:Academia is definitely a bit melty for my tastes. The is a significant number of otherwise very intelligent people I know who have been crowing about the LDs or Hard Decisions they had to make in 2010/2010/2017...gently caress. Maybe it's just the field of microbiology and biochemistry but a lot of researchers in my field constantly retweet labour campaign material. On the other hand I know people from when I was in Manchester who are computer scientists and ~radical centrists~ so I guess it just depends like that.
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Ikwaylx posted:I started a PhD in September, and I was terrified that, from what I heard academics tend to veer a bit centrist. I found out recently that not only is my supervisor a labour voter, but he drunkenly said at the Christmas do that the Tories are "utter wankers and if you vote for them you're a twat". Plus all my coworkers are huge labour supporters. your supervisor is not wrong OP
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Dec 12, 2019 10:11
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Pretty much everyone here at work (Games industry in Sheffield) skews heavily leftwards. We also got free time to go vote at any point today. Just tell your line manager you're not in the office in-case there's a fire. I live on the other side of town from work so I'll be anxiously reading the thread while pretending to work and will end up voting in my suit this evening on the way to the company Christmas party. Oh man, free bar and an entire company of 400+ Labour supporters. This is going to be an evening to remember.
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Dec 12, 2019 10:12
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My local Labour campaign office warned me to leave when The Darkness comes on the playlist as they know I'm playing Whamaggedon and 'Last Christmas' is on after them. :3
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The Cause of Labour is the Hope of the World - Jóhann Jóhannsson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_Rfkhg7s_M Lets do it.
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I’m going to be an hour late for work because I voted this morning and also couldn’t get out of bed for 6am, thanks democracy. Fingers crossed, comrades! 
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Failed Imagineer posted:Blyth is great, watch his YouTube's too. For further reading I suggest David Graebers "Debt:the First 5000 Years" and if you can wait a few months Stephanie Kelton has an MMT book coming out - she's one of Bernie's financial czars and very good at explaining this poo poo accessibly Can you remind us of this when the book comes out? I've read articles she's written and a book sounds fantastic.
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Ikwaylx posted:I started a PhD in September, and I was terrified that, from what I heard academics tend to veer a bit centrist. I found out recently that not only is my supervisor a labour voter, but he drunkenly said at the Christmas do that the Tories are "utter wankers and if you vote for them you're a twat". Plus all my coworkers are huge labour supporters. Even centrists aren’t centrist these days, because the Overton window had drifted so far to the right. Academics are often professionally sceptical that if we just ~~believe hard enough~~ we can 100% build the world’s first stable, prosperous socialist economy without levelling everyone down to parity with Dongguan factory workers, but things have got so bad with food banks and homeless people dying in the streets and blatant callousness and Brexit crap and indifference to climate change and cruelty in government that the old centre left has collectively shrugged and gone “oh well let’s give hard socialism a try, can’t be worse than what we have now (plus we really hate Tories).”
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Dec 12, 2019 10:18
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That loving lib dem melt I fell out with back in the summer updated his FB telling people to vote labour to stop the tories. I'm counting that one as a win. Also our HR person is away today so I volunteered to pick up calling people on the sick list. Two have already voted and the other four have been thouroughly reminded.
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I always forget how good the news is during purdah https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1204989091655409665
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Tarnop posted:Can you remind us of this when the book comes out? I've read articles she's written and a book sounds fantastic. I'll try, but I might not have any grey matter left after the next 24h
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Dec 12, 2019 10:20
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Good luck from yet another lurker. Open the jam gates and flood Europe with hope!
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Today's the day goons. Gonna get dressed for war and drop my cross in a box.
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Could we get a reminder to go vote today in the thread title? On the off chance it might remind some lurker. Alas I can't think of anything sufficiently witty.
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Couple of dirty tricks about : Penis Penispenis has instructed solicitors to send letters to Labour agents on behalf of the Campaign for Ballot Integrity, alleging that they’ve benefited from undeclared financial assistance. And these went up on traffic lights all over Northampton this morning. They have an imprint on them for the Campaign Against Corbynism: 
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Dec 12, 2019 10:23
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Did a democracy right in the ballot box. If my polling station is anything to go by the youth turnout is going to be loving real.
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Good luck and get voting from Switzerland. There's a world to win, and a UK victory can show so many other people and parties around the world that better things (and jam socialism) are possible. God speed 
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Chalk up two more votes for jam tomorrow in the very marginal Vale of Glamorgan. With luck the rapist enabling arsewipe with his tongue up Boris arse that is Alun Cairns will be out of a job for Christmas.
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Beefeater1980 posted:So my postal voting constituency ended up being Poplar & Limehouse, where Apsara Begum is standing. She’s got my vote and if you’re there she should have yours too. It’s a very safe seat (67.3% / 39k people last time) but hopefully we can do better still this year.  Sup Poplar and Limehouse buddy. Me and Abby have done our bit
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Did a socialism. Not many people, mostly olds, but this is a Tory safe seat and this was right around the school run.
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