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mfcrocker
Jan 31, 2004



Hot Rope Guy
General China is moving out already

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mfcrocker
Jan 31, 2004



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Hi LemonDrizzle we are specifically talking about Scottish Labour here who have a solid record of being lovely as hell.

But hey feel free to continue talking bollocks if you like

mfcrocker
Jan 31, 2004



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Fluo posted:

Scottish Labour wasn't said though. :allears: Labour Party was said.

How do you not read that as specifying Scottish Labour? It even says Scottish right there :psyduck:

E: Sweet edit to not look like a daftie

mfcrocker
Jan 31, 2004



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Fluo posted:

"Scottish Tories do exist though they're called the Labour party" was said, not "Scottish tories do exist though they're called the Scottish Labour Party". Hey man you're the one who was splitting hairs.

Given that we are looking for Scottish tories it's a bit daft to assume we're talking about English Labour but hey, takes all sorts I guess.

mfcrocker
Jan 31, 2004



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Loonytoad Quack posted:

You guys are all having a laugh surely? Try living in bloody Gloucestershire and see how you get on with internet. I get 3Mbps on a good day, and that's with some serious tweaking at the router level to push the SNR down as low as it will possibly go. For this amazing 3Mbps down / 672Kbps up connection I pay the bargain price of... £31.49/month! I do get a 50GB allowance though, which luckily at 3Mbps is plenty because everything takes so bloody long to download you tend not to bother, so it's not all terrible.

It'd be nice if BT got off their arses and actually rolled out the super-fast broadband we've subsidised to the tune of millions. But no, having won every single tender countrywide, they are now rolling it out at the slowest rate humanly possible.

I'm not bitter about these things though, don't worry, so by all means keep moaning about how awful your £20 fibre connections are, you loving bastards.

This sucks, but it also sucks to be in a fibre-enabled area (central loving Bristol!) and not be able to get it :gonk:

mfcrocker
Jan 31, 2004



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I know it's too late now but please don't vote for No2EU. They're a socialist coalition but plan to promote socialist politics by abstaining from every vote should they get an MEP.

Chalk me up as another grudging vote for the Greens. No local elections for us as we've moved to the London "all at once" system.

mfcrocker
Jan 31, 2004



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Trickjaw posted:

So do we think we are now in a four party system?

European and Local elections yes, General elections no - it's too gerrymandered to have UKIP make dents

mfcrocker
Jan 31, 2004



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Spangly A posted:

I agree with this. UKIP have shown that whenever anyone but Farage is given airtime, they utterly choke. The worry isn't them pulling away tories, it's them pulling Labour seats with their faux-leftist anti-immigration spiel. While they've taken some Labour seats, Labour made bigger gains, so the long line of clusterfucks they've been part of is showing its effect.

Farage is absolutely the only thing going for the party. Anyone except hardline racists wouldn't give time of day to anyone else in their ranks, so giving them any responsibility and airtime will just serve to push away the voters they want to get from Labour/Libdem before the GE.

So it's massive Tory/Libdem losses, Labour hoovering some extra seats, and UKIP given a year to riddle their feet with bullets. I'm still confident of a Labour majority in the GE, now just got to figure out a way for Greens to become relevant.

Basically everyone should be hoping that they get no MPs and that Farage follows through with his promise to resign.

Also the Greens will be relevant if they stop being so firmly anti-science. Between this thread and my own friends there's clearly a huge chunk of support they could grab if only they weren't so woo.

mfcrocker
Jan 31, 2004



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Spangly A posted:

They're democratic and they've got entrenched hippy support. They need to gut the animal testing ban stance at least, because even if they do manage to get a groundswell going that will be stopped dead by the papers when they realise it means we basically turn off medical science.

I know how the Greens work, it's just someone needs to speak at conference and go "yeah, we could actually do some huge loving good if we give up on these policies. Think about it mates"

mfcrocker
Jan 31, 2004



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SybilVimes posted:

*sigh*, I suppose at least UKIP came 3rd in a town that's noted for being a racist shithole, but 51 votes? come on people

Absolutely no-one outside this thread knows who TUSC are.

mfcrocker
Jan 31, 2004



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A Sloth posted:

there was a large police presence for the '30 strong' crowd because they where very near kicking off.

Yeah going to need you to show your working on this one

Here's a hint: the police often overreact, especially when it involves minorities and/or politicians

mfcrocker
Jan 31, 2004



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baka kaba posted:

Pickled onion are shite

What's it like to be first against the wall?

mfcrocker
Jan 31, 2004



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EvilHawk posted:

Greens got over 200,000 in the South East :unsmith:

That was a drop of 1%...

mfcrocker
Jan 31, 2004



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JFairfax posted:

The house market in bristol is a bit loving nuts at the moment though.

What's happening? There was a surge in cost in 2011 when I was looking to get the gently caress out of Warmley but I ended up just moving in with my partner. Not had to look for rents since.

mfcrocker
Jan 31, 2004



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Barry Foster posted:

This is true. However, I think I've managed to score a room in a place in Montpelier for not insane prices, so that's cool.

Also, moving to Bristol in September. Hell yes.

Montpelier is awesome, full of annoying knit your own yoghurt types but also got loads of good pubs

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mfcrocker
Jan 31, 2004



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JFairfax posted:

The rental market is reasonably stable but to buy is tricky, my business partner sold his million pound home in eight days.

Friends of mine were finding that houses in the 160 - 200k bracket were routinely going for 10 - 15k over the asking price this year.

Bristol is for sure the best place to live in the country if you like city life.

If you are in Montpellier you are near some of the best pubs and clubs in town.

I think we got colossally lucky - we got our 2 bed city centre flat for £160k and it had been stuck on the market for a couple of years. Needed a bit done to it but not much beyond decorating.

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