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How are you going to vote on May 7th?
This poll is closed.
Conservative 72 6.22%
Labour 410 35.41%
Liberal Democrat 46 3.97%
UKIP 69 5.96%
Green 199 17.18%
SNP 121 10.45%
DUP 0 0%
Sinn Fein 35 3.02%
Plaid Cymru 20 1.73%
Respect 3 0.26%
Monster Raving Loony 56 4.84%
BNP 23 1.99%
Some flavour of socialist party 37 3.20%
Some flavour of communist party 27 2.33%
Independent 3 0.26%
Other 37 3.20%
Total: 1158 votes
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Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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Coohoolin posted:

Well mostly I was interested in how uniform Scottish SA votes would be for the SNP and how much would go to the Lib Dems or Labour.

Here's a depressing map, countries with the item most searched for in terms of cost, i.e. "how much does X cost".



Switzerland: Rolexes

Britain: Life :smithicide: :britain:

I couldn't have come up with a more :finland: stereotype answer.

Or, well, really, it should be litre.

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Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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Phoon posted:

No its the tiny lamborghini and ferraris scattered about "food" and "a loaf of bread"

I suppose that's actually a good thing.

Better than not having to ask.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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At least the Standing Stone of the Code of Milibandurabi will be dramatic to tear down when Full Communism kicks in.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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Acaila posted:

I've been visiting my mum in the Highlands this weekend and our idea of quality family time is reading election leaflets together. Which is how I came across Ronnie the Crofter, the man who can make Britain great again:





What a cool guy. I wish him and his redistribution of land plan well. :unsmith:

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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Trickjaw posted:

Be nice if they saved the naming of little Beyonce for Thursday to keep all the blue hairs busy waving tiny union flags outside Buck Hise instead of going to polling stations and voting Tory

And if they do name the baby Diana, the Express readers will be too busy crying over her memory to vote too.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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SNAKES N CAKES posted:

Only a single 66% vote or two 50%+ votes (two No Confidence votes 14 days apart) in parliament can dissolve parliament now.

So essentially, a 50% vote can dissolve it, thanks to the power of the inevitable three-line whip.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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The Supreme Court posted:

Given what happened with the AV vote and that Clegg has already set his stall out to visibly lead a pro-EU campaign, I'd be bloody wary.

The beauty is though, Tories have to be SEEN to support leaving the EU without actually doing so because they'd stand to lose a lot of money. So it wouldn't be a total smear campaign like the AV vote.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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big scary monsters posted:

I know that you're not doing it but people voting SNP in Scotland are certainly not to blame if the Tories get back in, it's an absurd argument. It's all the people who are voting loving Tory.

Yup. Don't blame the people not voting Tory for the Tories getting power. Blame the people who did.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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Regarde Aduck posted:

Labour. Hence the quotes :ohdear:

There are no quotes big enough.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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Extreme0 posted:

I'm going to ask a few questions and I want you to answer it honestly.

If Labour & SNP have to go into a coliation even if they explicitly said they weren't to stop the tories from getting in, would you accept it?

Would you feel angry that Labour may let the tories in because they couldn't agree with the SNP or other parties?

What is your best prefered outcome in this election and what do you think is the most likely to happen.

And will you be watching Weekly Wipe tommorow?

Yes.

Yes.

Full Communism Now, but I'll settle with SNP/Lab coalition.

Probably.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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THATCHER BRAINWASH posted:

At this point, I'm just thinking gently caress it, funniest government possible. Like if it's not going to be a left wing government, then gently caress it: Eric Pickles as PM with a big sandwich as deputy PM.

Or hell, just make Farage PM.

This election has broken my spirit.

"Number 10 is sorry to announce the deputy PM has been eaten. He has been replaced with an equally large sandwich, which Prime Minister Pickles has promised not to e-Number 10 is sorry to announce the deputy PM has been eaten..."




gently caress this election. No good can come of it, and the poors will remain hosed forever and a day.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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OwlFancier posted:

The deputy PM is illegitimate, it isn't an MP.

The deputy PM is legitimate, it's even more white bread than a Tory government.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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Doccykins posted:

Conservatives + Lib Dems won't get enough seats for a majority even with DUP help, Cameron is forced to resign after failure of the Queen's Speech, the country will go back to the polls and Boris will become Prime Minister by the end of the year hail satan

scotland dig a big ditch along the border and get everyone to jump at the same time so we snap off like a kit kat

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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OwlFancier posted:

Eating a hotdog with a fork is stupidly prim but my main concern is the fact that he appears to be trying to deepthroat the fork at the same time.

Who shoves the food that far down their gob with the fork?

Overcompensating to hide his dislocatable jaw and forked tongue.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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Going to kill two birds with one stone, since there's a Greggs next door to my polling station.

Voting SNP anyway.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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THATCHER BRAINWASH posted:

HEY GUYS PEOPLE ARE DEAD BECAUSE OF THIS GOVERNMENT BUT BLEEP BLOOP DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT BE HAPPY.

don't you know there are OTHER people dying

so it's fine

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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gently caress me rigid, 34% swing in my constituency.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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freebooter posted:

Sorry but you can't really blame the young for being apathetic when FPTP and the House of Lords mean 90% of voters are effectively disenfranchised.

And it's only going to get worse from here.

For example, pretty much every young voter in Scotland is going to see how, even though we're essentially a single-party nation now, it's all for nought.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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Hahaha get hosed Nige.

I hope he's hounded into keeping his promise of standing down.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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thespaceinvader posted:

Or maybe Strine, I can do Strine.

Leaving for Abbott's Australia due to Tories in power seems quite a lot like going from the frying pan to the fire.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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Dennis Skinner Wielding a Length of Lead Pipe for lab leader.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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serious gaylord posted:

A poll conducted 3 days ago had the result exactly the same.

Something rather significant has happened between then and now.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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Rakosi posted:

Is this gonna be like a World Cup TRP thread where all the plastics fade away when their side loses until the next one? Good.

I was meaning to ask you, now that you got what you want, is the prospect of me living on the streets as funny as it was to you last night?

Or all those people dying due to cuts that, according to you, just don't exist?

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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What I really want to know is would anything have changed if they had picked David over Ed.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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Rakosi posted:

Thats because i dont have to defend my vote to people who were showing the level of vitriol and hysteria that was being flung around the moment it look like Labour poo poo the bed, Lib Dems died and SNP caused it all.

I'd be angry too if the general public voted categorically against everything I thought were right. I mean, its not like anyone here warned of this, was it?

I'm sorry for being vitrolic. I should have calmly thanked you when you told me you don't care if I am forced from my home with your carefully thought out position of "I think the Tories are good for the country".

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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Rakosi posted:

I have sympathy for that, but if I could choose either risking putting myself out on the street or risking putting 2 strangers out on the street, my family and friends and partner would take a dim view of it if I sacrificed myself. Maybe it is lovely Human nature but its not as cartoonishly evil as some hysterical leftist caricatures here are painting it.

I guess England voted for the devil they know, and it is entirely Labour and SNP's fault.

So what's the exchange rate of poor people's lives ruined, versus yours?

How many people would you be OK with living on the street, compared to you doing the same?

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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V. Illych L. posted:

the tories have managed to escape the brand of the Nasty Party in large part because of this "oooh we have to respect people" twaddle

shame on the tories. make it unacceptable to be a tory and perhaps they'll be less actively horrendous, or at least gain less support for it

Yup. The whole attitude of "We have to give the same credence to both sides regardless of how ridiculous their ideas are" is why UKIP are such a thing too.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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Total Meatlove posted:

There's absolutely gently caress all chance we leave the EU.

There's absolutely gently caress all chance we'll have a Tory majority.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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Stick true to his name, throw Amos Moses into the swamp to attract alligators.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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Rumda posted:

gently caress Preston though.

In the British Soviet Union, Preston becomes the Kazakhstan, where we just strip mine it, then drop nukes on it.

And this is sentiment borne only from having to brave the 8th ring of hell known as Preston train station.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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Angepain posted:

I think you'll find that the mess we inherited where Labour spent all the money and there isn't any money left because the overspending and we need to tighten our belts and pay off our credit cards as we're all in this together and finish the job we started and when your stubby pencil is in the booth i'll be so pumped and bloody lively because we're getting the country back on track and making sure the wealth creators can boost the economy with their stubby pencils our brave soldiers fought and died for this country this union and with the mess we inherited and the hard working family we stop the reliance on benefits as a lifestyle and tough decisions and tough choices don't you dare I think it's right that tough choices the mess we inherited I think it's right that you pump my stubby pencil for the country is what I think is right when you're in the polling station pump it pump it up stubby pencil my stubby pencil pump me up hard working pump i'm lively i'm so bloody lively i'm lively i'm lively kill the disabled

I want a dramatic reading of this over What a Wonderful World.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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And on the giant rock these words appear:
'My name is Milibandias, PM of PMs: CONTROLS ON IMMIGRATION.
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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Rakosi posted:

It's nothing at all about being sympathetic, it's about strategising to appeal to left-leaning Tories. Sympathy is a luxury for the left at this point.

Sympathy is only for the left because a main tenant of the right's philosophy is impoverishing and killing the most vulnerable in society.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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Randler posted:

What's the factual basis for the "Tories gonna kill themselves some sick people" outrage?

Tories want to cut benefits of people who are incapable of work. With no money, people die.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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Pork Pie Hat posted:

Here you go Rakosi, you voted for a party that's responsible for this:


So gently caress you, you Tory voting oval office.

But it was for the best in the long term, economically.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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Rakosi posted:

I'm sure Cameron himself instructed this person to be very poo poo at their job.

The Tory government implemented the targets the DWP must follow to get an arbitrary number of people into work, forcing the DWP to lie and force people who are not fit to work to look for work, or face even more funding cuts.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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Rakosi posted:

I will :toxx: that my father will not be taken off benefits in this government, providing (detail censored) documents to prove it, if everyone in this thread that disagrees will :toxx: that he will.

I mean, he might be under HGV union insurance so that he could sit at home in comfort his whole life, but I dunno. I know guys who have been off work, fully paid, from the RAC for whiplash for some 10 years.

You're betting on your own father's possible destitution and death at the hands of a government you voted for out of spite.

You're a horrible human being.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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Pissflaps posted:

i think GBH might be the better show though it's years since I watched that tbh.

Dammit. Every time someone mentions it, I have to rewatch it. Robert Lindsay can make all the shite sitcoms he wants now, he's earned the right to slack after GBH.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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OwlFancier posted:

That's the funniest bit.

When Labour were winning elections, it still wasn't what I think most people in the thread were wanting.

While the thread has plenty of votes for Labour, there are very few people in it who actually support them.

We weren't hoping for a victory this election, we were hoping for a less painful defeat. Labour wouldn't have been good, but they might have been less bad.

There is no party in the UK that stands for what I want, or even anything close to it, and I think that's probably true of a lot of people here. There is no winning, only a slower loss.

Despair and laughter aren't mutually exclusive.

Put THAT on Miliband's obelisk.

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Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

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ronya posted:

if they scrap (or at least severely weaken) the green belt around London (and set fire to the Tory sympathies of the CPRE forever) they'd solve the housing crisis in a pen-stroke

they won't do it though. CPRE.

There is no force on earth more persistent, annoying and debilitating than a Tory-voting NIMBY.

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