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feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

Umiapik posted:

The Tories need to do their sums: there's far more voting renters than there are voting landlords.

Landlords tend to be a) old (and hence they vote) - being a BTL landlord if you're rich enough has been far and away the best way to invest your retirement money the last few years given rock bottom interest rates; and b) Tory voters, whereas renters are more likely to be lefties.

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feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

Spangly A posted:

But that's a stupid argument since we're EU citizens and our options include France, Germany and Sweden to name a few.

For now. I wonder what our options would be if we withdrew. (And what would happen to all the British people already resident in the rest of Europe)

Edit: I worked for a software company in Norway for a year and a bit. Not speaking Norwegian was no problem - the company language was English and everyone there was really fluent (Granted, programmers worldwide tend to use English as an international language). The tricky bit was actually trying to learn Norwegian since the moment I opened my mouth and started uttering halting grammatical abominations, anyone I was speaking to would reply in perfect English :(

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Legally they're on incredibly shaky ground and so are you if you sign up for that.

A&A's main business is as a supplier of broadband to actual companies, so they may mean it for real rather than as a 'nudge-nudge-wink-wink here's how to avoid getting sued' kind of thing.

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

Extreme0 posted:

So we have about 25 to 26 people here voting for Greens (Scottish & UK including)

This thread is turning out a den for hippies to which I have just joined by voting Green.

I, too, voted Green.

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

Pork Pie Hat posted:

Some of you actually voted just last week for a party that has renationalising the railways in its manifesto; the Greens.

Caroline 'scab' Lucas even introduced a Private Members Bill calling for the same.

I imagine a lot of us voted Green because it was in their manifesto (among other reasons). It certainly wasn't because of a deep antipathy to nuclear power or animal testing in my case.

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