loquacius posted:

What happens if the Tories win, but Boris loses his seat? Are you allowed to be the PM if you're not an MP?

Zoran posted:

British-American Landing Lane and Strategic Air Command

neutral milf hotel posted:

never before noticed jacob's wide hips

Hillary 2020 posted:

Rees-Mogg shivs Boris in the back and takes over as leader of the Conservative party.

An insane mind posted:

I'd settle for Labour not losing too much in loving hellworld.

foobardog posted:

One of the biggest misapprehensions in politics right now is that elections are won by appealing to a vast middle. That may have been true once, but with the increasing polarization (at least in the US, I assume it's the same in the UK). The truth is much more that it's about getting your respective base out.

Your base are the people who actually follow all this bullshit like us, and yell at their friends who don't really care to vote. That's the real way to win elections.

Gravy Jones posted:

Heath posted:

What the gently caress is this. Why do they look like this.

hemale in pain posted:

i have a glimmer of hope that boris might of single handedly torpedoed the conservative party. I don't think any party in british politics has actually put forward a clown as prime minister. It was brave for the conservatives to do so but maybe britian just isn't ready for that yet.

lorn Wayne posted:

nope.

gonna sink that hope right there, ripping off a bandaid style.

Gravy Jones posted:

They're real and they dress like this... or at least one of them does. I think he's the oldest son, but he's wearing a suit or sportscoat in like every single photo, even when his siblings are in shorts and tshirts

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

mps can be voted out, but is there any recourse for our loving awful media?

DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:

if you read frances weetman's mentions there are a bunch of jewish libs bemoaning the dreadful antisemonster Corbyn, and it got me to thinking: obviously this started as a transparent attempt to smear a genuinely left alternative, but by now surely some of its proponents believe it. libs are a stupid and credulous lot. it actually makes me really sad, some hopelessly dunderheaded middle aged lib mom working herself up into a frenzy of fear at the idea of Corbyn Camps. i'm not excusing it, not by any means! but it kind of bums me out to think that a lot of people who really want the world to be a better place are actively campaigning against the man who could do that because they've bought into a stupid conspiracy theory.

Heath posted:

What the gently caress is this. Why do they look like this.

lorn Wayne posted:

did you even stop to consider the fishfaced twat, otherwise known as gove, who has already tried this

been awful quiet of late...

hemale in pain posted:

should i drink now or save it for tomorrow morning?

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

mps can be voted out, but is there any recourse for our loving awful media?

Jose posted:

Someone without a fiscal interest in the papers gets in and enacts Leveson 2

foobardog posted:

One of the biggest misapprehensions in politics right now is that elections are won by appealing to a vast middle. That may have been true once, but with the increasing polarization (at least in the US, I assume it's the same in the UK). The truth is much more that it's about getting your respective base out.

Your base are the people who actually follow all this bullshit like us, and yell at their friends who don't really care to vote. That's the real way to win elections.

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

if i (an american) want to watch live exit poll results, where might i go to find that online??

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

if i (an american) want to watch live exit poll results, where might i go to find that online??

Jose posted:

Labour getting in and enacting leveson 2

Addamere posted:

yall brexit yet

Addamere posted:

Al! posted:

what are the current paths to no deal brexit???

DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:

if you read frances weetman's mentions there are a bunch of jewish libs bemoaning the dreadful antisemonster Corbyn, and it got me to thinking: obviously this started as a transparent attempt to smear a genuinely left alternative, but by now surely some of its proponents believe it. libs are a stupid and credulous lot. it actually makes me really sad, some hopelessly dunderheaded middle aged lib mom working herself up into a frenzy of fear at the idea of Corbyn Camps. i'm not excusing it, not by any means! but it kind of bums me out to think that a lot of people who really want the world to be a better place are actively campaigning against the man who could do that because they've bought into a stupid conspiracy theory.

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

if i (an american) want to watch live exit poll results, where might i go to find that online??

twoday posted:

*unfolds enormous complicated brexit pathways chart*

the odds are, uh... brexit

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

if i (an american) want to watch live exit poll results, where might i go to find that online??

BMX Ninja posted:

I'd argue that the trend has been for parties to appeal to a tiny middle of semi-mythical swing voters. Both sides had a solid base they could rely on and it was all about swinging a small number of politically engaged people from one side to the other with bland focus group-tested policies. Centrist politics was boring and had no vision. It didn't attempt to engage with the biggest voting bloc - people who don't vote.

What's happening with the Proper Boy, and with Bernie, is that they have vision and a message that appeals to the young, the poor, the disenfranchised - the people who traditionally don't vote and who were regarded as irrelevant by centrist politics wonks.