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LemonDrizzle posted:The German newspaper FAZ has an account of the midweek dinner meeting between May/Davis and Juncker, which is really not complimentary at all of the PM; the Economist's Berlin bureau chief did a translation of the highlights on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JeremyCliffe/status/858810953353367552 This government is basically the diplomatic equivalent of drunkenly shouting at a Polish builder "two World Wars and one World Cup, doo dah, doo dah". 
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Looke posted:reminder that leave.eu also posted about executing people, before swifty deleting it They like the idea of executing black people but think that war criminals are hard done by by political correctness.
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The girl Danczuk was sexting was interviewing for a job in his constituency office, IIRC.
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As far as I know, the out trans candidates running this time are Helen Belcher (Lib Dem, Chippenham), Aimee Challenor (Green, Coventry South), Sophie Cook (Labour, West Worthing), and Zoe O'Connell (Lib Dem, Maldon). Of those, only Helen has a reasonable chance of winning; Chippenham was a Lib Dem seat during the coalition.
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jabby posted:Reasonable might be overstating it, the Tories won with a majority of over ten thousand thanks to the Lib Dems loving themselves and their voters over. Zac Goldsmith had a majority of 23,000. I think the Tories are odds-on to hold onto Chippenham, but it could happen; nearly all of their council seats in Wiltshire are in Chippenham constituency.
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It's gonna cost them 300 grand. For 10,000 officers. Over 4 years. Effective minimum wage: one farthing per hour.
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https://twitter.com/theipaper/status/857994119389622279 Bristol, well known Northern city.
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Remember that London cabbies protested against TfL not applying their English language policy in a racist way.
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https://twitter.com/mapduliand/status/858990538837684225 Something something gravy train.
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I didn't know that Andy Burnham had changed his name.
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Looks like Jeremy Corbyn isn't the only MP to be getting paid by Press TV! 
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OwlFancier posted:Voted for the Tees Valley mayor, Lab 1st Lib 2nd, I actually didn't know it was a multiple choice so I was expecting to only vote Lab but given the other options wer Con/UKIP I figured it's better a lovely lib get it than them if Labour can't. This sort of guesswork in who's going to make the top two makes SV the worst system. OwlFancier posted:To... Where? Hell. TinTower fucked around with this message at 18:35 on May 4, 2017 |
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OwlFancier posted:There's quite a few bridges, some of them very fancy like Newport bridge which has a massive pulley system on it to lift the middle up. You're not far south enough to qualify for central government funding for a tram line. (Incidentally, I'm surprised that the Tories were able to find someone who could do a worst job as Transport Secretary than Alistair Darling)
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ukle posted:Had only Labour (great guy), Conservative (brown noser with property companies) and Green to choose from for the CC elections. Also heard the same from 2 other people in different area i.e. no LD but a green candidate. Have the Lib Dem's just given up on County Councils that they stand no chance in now? Its odd given the Greens are trying yet the LD's just not bothering. Depending on the area, some Lib Dems have stood down for the Greens for the County Councils as a thank you for Richmond.
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According to everyone's favourite psephologist John Curtice, UKIP are down about by about 15%. They've also lost every single seat they were defending. Every. Single. One. This may mean that they'll be lucky to hit 8% of the vote on a map that went 22% UKIP in 2013.
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Lord of the Llamas posted:Very little mention of the Lib Dem Fightback in this post. Curtice has the Lib Dems up 4% compared to 2013. What's happening is that the UKIP-Tory swing is dwarfing all others. jabby posted:It's ironic that both UKIP and the Lib Dems have spent so much energy rubbishing Labour and proclaiming themselves 'the new opposition' when it's looking increasingly likely that Labour is going to be the only party bar the Tories that gets over 10% of the vote. a) Your maths is a little wonky. b) Lib Dems got 13% in 2013. Most likely result is somewhere about CON 35 LAB 27 LD 17 UKIP 7
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jabby posted:I'm talking about the general election, where I believe most recent polls have the Lib Dems and UKIP on 10% or less. I'd like Labour to attack the government instead of the Lib Dems too.  e: these local elections are weird; the Tories are making net gains but are losing council leaders. TinTower fucked around with this message at 02:32 on May 5, 2017 |
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Labour wasted at least one PPB going into the European elections in 2014 attacking the Lib Dems instead of the Tories or UKIP. And then they threw hundreds of thousands of pounds into unseating Lib Dem MPs in the South West. Which went very well. e: oh, I also forgot Labour lost their Shadow Chancellor because they pulled their campaigners out of a marginal to unseat Clegg, who was in a seat that Labour had finished third in every single election since 1983. TinTower fucked around with this message at 02:43 on May 5, 2017 |
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I'm pretty sure Farron ruled out any coalition on the front page of the Observer a couple weeks back.
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THEY WON ONE. https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/860465132333412354
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https://twitter.com/itnsourcenews/status/860446858883321856 50 is about 100? Abbott must be an engineer.
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In Greater Manchester, UKIP's candidate, the ultra-Orthodox rabbi Shneur Odze, got absolutely spanked. Finished below the English Democrats.
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(the joke was that he likes bdsm, but he still won't shake a woman's hand)
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It should be pointed out that at least two, and possibly four, metro mayoralties went to the Tories almost certainly because the Supplementary Vote is a steaming pile of poo poo. Most notably, Green voters having to guess between Labour and Lib Dem in both West of England and Cambs+P'boro exhausted their preferences early and let the Tories just over the line. Which is the exact thing you don't want in a preferential system.
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Namtab posted:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4482020/Germany-search-army-barracks-Nazi-memorabilia.html For the avoidance of doubt, neither the Daily Mail nor the Prime Minister support ethnic cleansing.
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To the joy of everyone except Sam Kriss, Marine Le Pen has lost.
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Gonzo McFee posted:Sam Kriss didn't support Le Pen, unlike a Lib Dem who would probably go into coalition with her. Sam "better an honest thousand fascists than Macron" Kriss, aye?
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Gonzo McFee posted:He clarified that statement in the following tweets. He literally typed the phrase "a thousand honest fascists". That he could do that says a lot about him.
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Guavanaut posted:Looks like Macron won though, and the centrist didn't even get a look in. I'm rather surprised Jean-Luc "refugees are stealing the bread from French workers" Melenchon didn't get into the red quadrant, tbh.
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Jean-Luc Melenchon posted:Je crois que l'Europe qui a été construite, c'est une Europe de la violence sociale, comme nous le voyons dans chaque pays chaque fois qu'arrive un travailleur détaché, qui vole son pain aux travailleurs qui se trouvent sur place, une Europe de la violence politique, comme nous l'avons vu appliquer à Chypre et à la Grèce, et une Europe de la violence guerrière, comme celle que vous êtes en train de préparer face à la Russie. Melenchon is rather infamous for anti-immigrant rhetoric that you'd expect more from the Tories than Labour. Codex Occultus posted:Might have something to do with Political compass being ridiculous nonsense no one should ever take seriously. Well, there's that.
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jabby posted:Macron didn't win because everyone in France loves him. In the first round he got 24% in a tight four way race. He won the second round by such a big margin because there are still enough people terrified of Le Pen to vote for him even if they don't really like his policies. In a different system he might still be President but he would have 'trounced' the far right by less than 3% of the vote. Le Pen wouldn't have got into the final round under AV (either Fillon or Melenchon would've got over the line from Hamon transfers), and no sane multi-party democracy is going to suggest electing a president under FPTP.
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Cerv posted:Also rabidly anti-EU in a not particularly veiled anti-German sectarian way. His opposition to GMO was basically "we know to fear German chemists". I mean, Bayer did produce Zyklon B for the gas chambers, but that's almost certainly too much nuance for what is basically a  .
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Three long-standing Labour activists have been expelled from the party for supporting the NHA candidate against Jeremy Hunt.
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