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that was meant for irish politics thread but i'll leave it here because northern ireland is - for the time being - still in the UK as well as being a strange EU outpost
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May 7, 2022 15:13
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TulliusCicero posted:As someone from the US: An important note if you're unfamiliar and just looking at the English numbers and seeing 2213 labour councillors vs 1041 Conservative councillors, local elections in England work a bit like the Senate elections where only a portion of councillors are up for election in any given year. Some councils do their entire council every 4 years (but different years for different councils), while others have elections three years out of every 4 to re-elect a third of councillors--I think some also do half the council every 2 years. This particular election the seats up for re-election were much more prevalently Labour-held, so even though they finished a thousand seats ahead they only actually gained 51. The Liberals did really well, but Local government is something of their specialty, and shouldn't necessarily be seen as something which will translate to seats at the national level. Lots of voters will happily vote for their Liberal councillor one year and vote Tory in the national election the year after. I think a drop of 341 in England on the Tory side is probably a bit larger than most on their side were hoping for, but losing those seats to Lib Dems is way, waaaay less concerning for them than if they'd lost all those seats to Labour. The other parts of the UK are all special cases, the closest thing to an upset might be the Tories losing second place to Labour in Scotland, but again on a national level won't make much of a difference since most of those seats would be going to the SNP at Westminster anyway.
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May 7, 2022 15:15
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thanks to big buris's bonkers brexit bargaining
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May 7, 2022 15:18
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wuwwuruhgh i only hud some bhawdji's ufficuh i dudn't huv a main cowrse wurwuhg
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May 7, 2022 15:49
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crispix posted:Alliance's success is going to boil the DUP's piss so much Pissslave42068xxxgokuweedxxx
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May 7, 2022 15:52
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TulliusCicero posted:As someone from the US: It's mostly expected but the size of the defeat is probably a wee bit bigger than anticipated. The thing with the the Tories is they are very divisive. There's a lot of people who probably would be Tory voters in a normal country but because they are old they remember Thatcher vividly & what her government did to their local communities & that bitterness dies hard for some. And Boris is more divisive on top of that: some Tories hate him, and as many people are charmed by his mysterious appeal (no, really, I don't get it) he's still incredibly off-putting to others as basically being full of poo poo & utterly insincere. Combine all that with the fact that the Tories have been in office for 12 years & there's a general fatigue, plus the rising cost of living & Boris's penchant for thinking the rules applied to everyone but him, his government giving out PPE contracts to companies who'd never made a facemask before in their lives but happened to be Tory donors was pretty enraging. Honestly, if there was a competent opposition they'd have done much more.
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May 7, 2022 15:58
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https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1522875701053042689?s=19 Don't think you were supposed to say that bit mate
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May 7, 2022 16:54
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Gonzo McFee posted:Don't think you were supposed to say that bit mate Needs to be said more. I bet you most of the UK that isn't NI thinks they had fair elections all the last 100 years.
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May 7, 2022 16:58
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They always said "A protestant parliament for a protestant people!".... yeah, about that.  What a time to be alive.
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May 7, 2022 17:15
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Lungboy posted:My grandad was an Irish Presbyterian Royal Marine, plus an alcoholic and an abuser, so I'm pretty loving glad I never got to meet him. The first thing he ever said to my mum when he met her was "you're not a loving Catholic are you?". Lovely person. Weird thing to say to a baby yeah.
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May 7, 2022 17:43
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I'm totally out of the loop on this, are there any good primers on what's going on in Tower Hamlets council? Some sort of single issue populist/anti-labour party. Twitter just spits out a lot of bickering and racism (heh ironic). https://twitter.com/LeftieStats/status/1522989233606119424
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May 7, 2022 18:35
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keep punching joe posted:I'm totally out of the loop on this, are there any good primers on what's going on in Tower Hamlets council? Some sort of single issue populist/anti-labour party. Twitter just spits out a lot of bickering and racism (heh ironic). It's a bit simpler than that. Tower Hamlets has a large Bangladeshi community and Lutfur Rahman is Bangladeshi. He's also been banned from holding public office in the past because in his previous time as Mayor, The police have an officer stand outside every polling station now, in response to the historical stuff. Rahman was previously a Labour mayor; John Biggs (who a few people have told me is a bit of a oval office) spent quite a lot of time wanting to be the Labour mayoral candidate but was overlooked in favour of Rahman. He put a lot of effort into trying to get Rahman investigated and once Rahman was banned from politics, Biggs got the Labour candidacy and became Mayor. kingturnip fucked around with this message at 18:52 on May 7, 2022 |
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May 7, 2022 18:46
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May 7, 2022 19:18
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so I hear the impromptu work based curry before they went back to work was a scheduled meal at the end of the day and the heil are waving the receipts around and some libs are getting right tuned up about it all chances of the keer is gone celebratory curry increasing by the moment, forecast delicious
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May 7, 2022 19:19
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DesperateDan posted:so I hear the impromptu work based curry before they went back to work was a scheduled meal at the end of the day and the heil are waving the receipts around and some libs are getting right tuned up about it all https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1522977416037208064?s=20&t=Nt527nquoXzU7VIyRdk91w
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May 7, 2022 19:24
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Aipsh posted:
A slow burn, but a deep one. 
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May 7, 2022 19:26
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Lungboy posted:https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1522977416037208064?s=20&t=Nt527nquoXzU7VIyRdk91w forensic
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May 7, 2022 19:31
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The only issue with this is I thought someone said they returned to work after? When the schedule seems to suggest they actually went to their hotel? But other than that pretty much as before, an employer provided food for employees and told them about it before so they knew they were sorted. No issues. No party
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May 7, 2022 19:40
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The only issue with this is I thought someone said they returned to work after? When the schedule seems to suggest they actually went to their hotel? But other than that pretty much as before, an employer provided food for employees and told them about it before so they knew they were sorted. No issues. No party
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May 7, 2022 19:40
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This was amazing https://twitter.com/GNDRising/status/1522902822475509760
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May 7, 2022 19:40
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The only issue with this is I thought someone said they returned to work after? When the schedule seems to suggest they actually went to their hotel? But other than that pretty much as before, an employer provided food for employees and told them about it before so they knew they were sorted. No issues. No party
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May 7, 2022 19:41
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The only issue with this is I thought someone said they returned to work after? When the schedule seems to suggest they actually went to their hotel? But other than that pretty much as before, an employer provided food for employees and told them about it before so they knew they were sorted. No issues. No party
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May 7, 2022 19:45
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I feel like when you go to eat and drink with a bunch of other people after work that's a party.
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May 7, 2022 19:48
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Maugrim posted:The only issue with this is I thought someone said they returned to work after? When the schedule seems to suggest they actually went to their hotel? But other than that pretty much as before, an employer provided food for employees and told them about it before so they knew they were sorted. No issues. No party
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May 7, 2022 19:50
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OwlFancier posted:I feel like when you go to eat and drink with a bunch of other people after work that's a party. Quite an insight in to your life lol
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May 7, 2022 19:50
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Bobby Deluxe posted:The only issue with this is I thought someone said they returned to work after? When the schedule seems to suggest they actually went to their hotel? But other than that pretty much as before, an employer provided food for employees and told them about it before so they knew they were sorted. No issues. No party The only issue with this is I thought someone said they returned to work after? When the schedule seems to suggest they actually went to their hotel? But other than that pretty much as before, an employer provided food for employees and told them about it before so they knew they were sorted. No issues. No party
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May 7, 2022 19:58
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Jel Shaker posted:The only issue with this is I thought someone said they returned to work after? When the schedule seems to suggest they actually went to their hotel? But other than that pretty much as before, an employer provided food for employees and told them about it before so they knew they were sorted. No issues. No party The only issue with this is I thought someone said they returned to work after? When the schedule seems to suggest they actually went to their hotel? But other than that pretty much as before, an employer provided food for employees and told them about it before so they knew they were sorted. No issues. No party
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May 7, 2022 20:00
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I feel out of the loop here. Why are people repeating the same post? Have you been taking lessons from Tory cabinet members and their clone tweets?
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May 7, 2022 20:03
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I feel out of the loop here.
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May 7, 2022 20:05
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I feel out of the loop here. I am guessing it is a twitter bit yes.
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May 7, 2022 20:05
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I dunno I just found 99's triple post amusing so I ran with it Partygate as a topic is so very boring but I think that's exactly why it's so effective at convincing people that all sides are as bad as each other, nobody who isn't a politics nut is going to be paying attention the exact details and severity of the various transgressions.
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May 7, 2022 20:11
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Oh I can't see any of his posts lol.
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May 7, 2022 20:13
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Owlfancier is the only reason I post here. He's great. Just bloody love him. He never replies.
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May 7, 2022 20:15
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incredible that in the year 2022 people are still stanning for Keith e: oh, sorry, I meant The only issue with this is I thought someone said they returned to work after? When the schedule seems to suggest they actually went to their hotel? But other than that pretty much as before, an employer provided food for employees and told them about it before so they knew they were sorted. No issues. No party
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May 7, 2022 20:19
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best thing is I don't actually begrudge the circumstances at all, but after previous legal bullshit like getting someone six months for picking up a sixer of water from the street or nicking an ice cream he can reap what he sows, let alone all the other stuff his whut uggh eatin' antics have caused
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May 7, 2022 20:36
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so who should I vote for in the leadership election
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May 7, 2022 20:40
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DesperateDan posted:best thing is I don't actually begrudge the circumstances at all, but after previous legal bullshit like getting someone six months for picking up a sixer of water from the street or nicking an ice cream he can reap what he sows, let alone all the other stuff his whut uggh eatin' antics have caused Actually. I hadn't fully computed that until you said it so explicitly. But it would be lol as gently caress that RoboCop gets done on a technicality after years of shooting people's balls off because he had to.
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May 7, 2022 20:43
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Tesseraction posted:so who should I vote for in the leadership election The SCG doesn't have enough members to nominate someone by themselves any more so all the candidates are going to be poo poo.
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babs for britain or at least she's gonna fundraise a few tens of grand for it then quit immediately again
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