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escapegoat posted:Literally me except I was slightly too young to vote in 2005. My vote has never won either nationally or even in the constituency itself, and both referendums went the opposite way. I won't stop voting but it really just feels like a ritual slap in the face at this point. 2010, 2015, EU Referendum, 2017, 2019
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Szmitten posted:I'm sorta surprised by the Glastonbury news because despite living nearby and its cancellation last year, case numbers had improved considerably and you had lots of outdoor events and mass marches by that time that I thought a limited festival would totally have been possible. I feel like outright cancellation is a pretty bold commitment considering they're still pretending fan-attended Wrestlemania and the Olympics are happening. I guess it's too big a risk for them to get into the admin and logistics of setting everything up, especially as I reckon there's *at best* a 50/50 chance of even social-distanced public events being allowed by summer.
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Szmitten posted:I feel like outright cancellation is a pretty bold commitment considering they're still pretending fan-attended Wrestlemania is happening I thought infants could still mix freely
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I guess it's too big a risk for them to get into the admin and logistics of setting everything up, especially as I reckon there's *at best* a 50/50 chance of even social-distanced public events being allowed by summer. The 2021 eastercon (annual British science fiction convention) at Birmingham Metropole is still showing as going ahead. Last year's was cancelled at very short notice as they had to wait for the government to close bars etc in order for their event insurance to kick in. I'm surprised that they're still pretending this year's will go ahead.
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sebzilla posted:2010, 2015, EU Referendum, 2017, 2019 I assumed it meant the 5 general elections a 33yo might have voted in as there have been more referendums than Brexit like the AV referendum. Also non nationally there was Indyref. Guess how those went compared to the wishes of this age group. escapegoat fucked around with this message at 18:18 on Jan 21, 2021 |
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Jan 21, 2021 18:15
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Does anyone have that one shitpost with "I've read the Magnum Carte D'Or"?
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escapegoat posted:I assumed it meant the 5 general elections a 33yo might have voted in as there have been more referendums than Brexit like the AV referendum. Also non nationally there was Indyref. Guess how those went compared to the wishes of this age group. Though if you do the same analysis with Scotland-wide votes I'd imagine SNP support would be fairly high among that group over that time. I don't have the numbers to hand, mind.
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sebzilla posted:2010, 2015, EU Referendum, 2017, 2019 The person who compiled the statistics forgot 2005, deliberately or otherwise. If you're 33 now you were probably born in 1987, so better than a third of them were able to vote in that GE. On the other hand, they also forgot the AV referendum, so if you were born in 1988 - which might be where they get their age limit from, lazy subtraction - then you've potentially voted in six nationwide polls and lost them all.
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josh04 posted:Does anyone have that one shitpost with "I've read the Magnum Carte D'Or"? E: app hosed up the link. Search Guavanaut's posts about halfway through the December thread
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crispix posted:I hope old Joe puts up a bust of Martin McGuinness in his ovular office, there - Michael Gove
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Maugrim posted:E: app hosed up the link. Search Guavanaut's posts about halfway through the December thread Got it, cheers.
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I hope Joe Biden commissions a mural of Bobby Sands for the Oval Office wall.
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This made me realise the closest I’ve come to ‘winning’ a general election was when I voted Lib Dem in 20
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sebzilla posted:2010, 2015, EU Referendum, 2017, 2019 I think I did... '05 and '08 as well. 05: Lib Dem, loss locally and nationally 08: Lib Dem, win over tory locally, loss nationally 10: Lib Dem... well, history will judge me 12: AV ref, loss 15: Labour, loss nationally, win locally Eu ref: loss 17: Labour, loss nationally, win locally 19, labour, loss nationally, win locally I was a dumb, dumb student. But to be fair, there realy WASN'T much to choose between Blair and Clegg. Between Milliband and Clegg a little more, but I was very poorly informed then.
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Between Milliband and Clegg would be 2015, 2010 was between Brown and Clegg immediately after Brown's cabinet had just made complete clowns of themselves.
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Guavanaut posted:Between Milliband and Clegg would be 2015, 2010 was between Brown and Clegg immediately after Brown's cabinet had just made complete clowns of themselves. Which one was Cleggmania? That was '15? Maybe I didn't do '05 then, thoguh I was just old enough.
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2010 was Cleggmania ("I agree with Nick")
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Voted Lib Dem in '10 but in fairness I lived in a Tory/Lib Dem marginal so thought I had won. Yeah... edit: oh yeah it was '10 time has no meaning any more EvilHawk fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Jan 21, 2021 |
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Cleggmania was 2010. Milifandom was 2015. Jesus anyone but Blair was 2005.
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Then yeah, right the first time. My loving lord it's been a long decade and a half. 10 might actually have been the Lib Dem win locally, now I think about it. That was by either two or three figures of votes. I was so pleased to have unseated the tory, but apparently he was an OK local MP and a mostly ignored backbencher and the lib dem was poo poo, but it was my parents' constituency in Hampshire, so i don't care.
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I still remember where I was when Cleggmania ran wild on me
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Guavanaut posted:Cleggmania was 2010. Milifandom was 2015. Jesus anyone but Blair was 2005. This post made me look up Michael Howard's wiki to see what he's been up to and this is his official portrait  looks like he discovered day drinking imo
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Contrapoints once had a video called "what is gender" which she has now made private. Does anyone know of another video like it? I was going to share it with friend but haven't got a clue where to find a video like it
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notaspy posted:Contrapoints once had a video called "what is gender" which she has now made private. IIRC this one is a pretty good primer on 'what the gently caress, gender' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N35D1jko6wA from a relatively little known enby youtuber. Philosophytube also has a couple of good ones, particularly 'transphobia in the UK' iirc.
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This is fun. 2001: Labour. Won locally and nationally. This was before Labour got all crazy authoritarian under the War on Terror. 2005: SNP. Lost locally and obviously nationally. I don't really remember much here but Labour by now was pretty terrible and I wanted out. 2010: LibDem. Lost locally but kind of won nationally? Not what I wanted, but eh. Cleggmania had a lot of people fooled. 2012: AV ref, loss. He needs a baby not an alternative voting system! 2014: Independence ref, loss. Better Together indeed. 2015: SNP. Won locally and I'll say won nationally as in just in Scotland. 2016: EU ref, loss. Sorry did I say Better Together earlier? Lol. 2017: SNP. Lost locally and obviously nationally. Corbyn hadn't been in long enough to get me excited with memories of the Edstone still fresh in mind and Labour have no chance in my constituency. 2019: Labour. Lost locally and nationally. I knew Labour didn't have a chance but I thought I'd at least move the needle. It did not move.
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crispix posted:looks like he discovered day drinking imo thespaceinvader posted:'transphobia in the UK'
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crispix posted:This post made me look up Michael Howard's wiki to see what he's been up to and this is his official portrait 2005 Labour GE campaign anti-semitic posters scandal: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/feb/11/advertising.politics quote:
For the first time since I became old enough to vote in 1978, I did not vote Labour in the 2005 election. I even wrote to my fantastic MP at the time, Neil Gerrard (left and of the Michael Foot persuasion - donkey jackets et al) and explained that I could not because Blair would take a win as an endorsement. (2005 was the first election after the Iraq War). I can't remember which way I voted in the end, but definitely NOT tory. Labour still won Walthamstow but with a somewhat reduced majority IIRC. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Jan 21, 2021 |
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Meanwhile in other news: Apparently not only has Biden chucked out the bust of Churchill, he's installed one of Mexican American farm labor leader Cesar Chavez. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/21/us/cesar-chavez-bust-oval-office-trnd/index.html Farage is frothing apparently.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Meanwhile in other news: Biden... good?!
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:2005 Labour GE campaign anti-semitic posters scandal: Yeah the picture of him with the watch actually struck me even at the time as barely concealed anti-semitism, same with Ed and the flap about the bacon sandwich. There's no way campbell didn't know exactly what he was loving doing. It made the clutching at straws to try to smear Corbyn as an anti-semite all the more loving tiresome
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I just noticed he has the same glasses as me :/ Maybe I should get a big pair of NHS specs like he used to wear Rose West loving destroyed that look for everyone 
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EvilHawk posted:Voted Lib Dem in '10 but in fairness I lived in a Tory/Lib Dem marginal so thought I had won. Klopp Out
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Terrible news...
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Even more terrible https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1352275612942168064?s=20
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ok i have the food post to end all food posts because of what i just saw in a twitch chat 
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Buttered Weetabix is how I always had them as a child. I always considered them thick crumbly crackers. Never understood why you'd have them with milk, thats what Shredded Wheats are designed for. Never was fancy enough to put marmite on though.
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Mr Phillby posted:Buttered Weetabix is how I always had them as a child. I always considered them thick crumbly crackers. I knew this thread was a cesspit of Marxist depravity but I had no idea it would sink to these depths.
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thespaceinvader posted:I think I did... '05 and '08 as well. My voting constituencies have always been safe Tory seats. 2005 Lib Dem 2010 Lib Dem 2015 Labour 2016 Remain 2019 I messed up my proxy vote so didn't vote (but would have voted Labour)
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