UKMT General Elextravaganza 2017: Lord Buckethead would have won

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What is the best flav... you all know what this question is: This poll is closed.
Labour	907	49.92%
Theresa May Team (Conservative)	48	2.64%
Liberal Democrats	31	1.71%
UKIP	13	0.72%
Plaid Cymru	25	1.38%
Green	22	1.21%
Scottish Socialist Party	12	0.66%
Scottish Conservative Party	1	0.06%
Scottish National Party	59	3.25%
Some Kind of Irish Unionist	4	0.22%
Alliance / Irish Nonsectarian	3	0.17%
Some Kind of Irish Nationalist	36	1.98%
Misc. Far Left Trots	35	1.93%
Misc. Far Right Fash	8	0.44%
Monster Raving Loony	49	2.70%
Space Navies Party	39	2.15%
Independent / Single Issue	2	0.11%
Can't Vote	188	10.35%
Won't Vote	8	0.44%
Spoiled Ballot	15	0.83%
Pissflaps	312	17.17%
Total:	1817 votes

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Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Serene Dragon posted:

I am holding onto this because hope is too heart-breaking and brexit and the last GE and Trump nearly broke me.

Same. Pray to Satan for the best, expect the worst.

# ¿ Jun 1, 2017 00:22

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# ¿ May 1, 2024 10:20

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

icantfindaname posted:

so corbyns going to win and turn britain into a 1970s communist hellscape with portraits of tony benn hanging everywhere and the IRA as a secret paramilitary police?

Inshallah

# ¿ Jun 1, 2017 13:04

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

forkboy84 posted:

https://twitter.com/JmeBBK/status/870267107921076224

Top stuff.

This is loving great

# ¿ Jun 1, 2017 14:43

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

All this is going to make Friday 9th so much more painful

# ¿ Jun 2, 2017 12:18

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:

Phil Collins is a fine muscian

Your posting continues to disappoint

# ¿ Jun 2, 2017 13:55

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Jippa posted:

What do you think the average day is like for a chuckle brother?

If it's anything like their TV show....

then loving hilarious

# ¿ Jun 2, 2017 14:20

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Lol implying that Corbyn represents any sort of extreme or revolutionary leftism as opposed to fairly milquetoast democratic socialism

# ¿ Jun 3, 2017 20:49

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

TheRat posted:

https://twitter.com/Jack_Blanchard_/status/871430458130792449

Faster, Corby Cat, Kill, Kill!

# ¿ Jun 4, 2017 19:32

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Tesseraction posted:

I think for my own sake I'm going to get shitfaced early, see the exit poll and then go to sleep.

My friends are hosting an election night party, but I don't think I can face it. Instead I'll do my usual routine - wake up, roll over despondently to see how badly things have been hosed up overnight, and then use all that lovely rage and despair to lift heavy things.

2015 got me a new bench PR, so I've high hopes for 2017

# ¿ Jun 5, 2017 11:56

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Mugsbaloney posted:

I was planning something similar but yesterday I tried preacher curls for the first time in a while, and was inadvertently hyperextending. I woke up with such severe tendonitis that my arms are locked in a 45 degree Barbie posture. In the absence of lifting, as an outlet I am exploring the world of Dutch nutter breathing exercises instead. The stress is real!

a 45 degree Barbie posture is just about perfect for squats, my dude

EDIT - re: 2015, I was in the same boat as Ober. Not at all enthused by Ed or the manifesto, but willing to vote Labour to keep the Tories out. I also didn't expect Labour to win, as I recall, but was surprised, horrified and enraged by the drubbing they wound up taking

# ¿ Jun 5, 2017 12:49

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

spectralent posted:

No, I think failing to deliver a crushing victory would be enough given how awful her campaign's been so far. This was meant to be a formality, and they've come out severely bloodied. Unless it turns out the entire time everything was wrong and they were really ahead and had nothing to worry about they'll be out for blood.

Yeah, anything less than a landslide and her head will roll. Even though they're still going to win, she's embarrassed the party and thrown away what should have been an easy victory.

# ¿ Jun 5, 2017 13:47

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Halisnacks posted:

How would this untenable position be acted on though? I will give the Tories that they seem committed to power above all (see: the swift falling behind May with minimal bickering in the last Tory leadership election). How could they pretend to be the "strong and stable" party with their 3rd leader in less than two years?

By brazening it out and relying on the right wing press to cover their arses, just like forever?

# ¿ Jun 5, 2017 14:00

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

God, I just want this all to be over already so I can get back to good old fashioned standard despondency.

ThomasPaine posted:

I think the interesting thing about the modern Tory party is that it's really not all that similar to the old school tough Tory party that Churchill etc symbolise. There's a New Conservatives as much as there was a New Labour, and it's way more about aggressive privatisation and shrinking the state than it is about securing a strong nation-state. Modern Tories keep up the rhetoric of the older incarnation (May in particular does this, which might well be why she was seen as a decent replacement for Cameron) and in some small respects (e.g. authoritarian powers given to the police and security services) they keep up an element of the tradition but in actual policy it's neoliberalism all the way.

What really makes me feel genuinely sad is the knowledge that a lot of the elderly are voting for a party that doesn't exist anymore - they want the stability and firmness that goes with the old school conservatism they remember from the postwar period (and an element of xenophobia undoubtedly plays a part - but likely genuine xenophobia, fear based on ignorance than any real malice). Tory rhetoric leads them to believe that it's what the party still represents, but it hasn't done so since probably the 70s. As a result all these old folks vote directly against their own and everyone else's interests - see the inevitable queues of pensioners expressing horror at the dismantling of the NHS while completely failing to put two and two together. There is of course still a wing of the Tory party that would return things to how they were, but they are as marginal as Labour socialists were under Blair.

I suppose the one positive to take from this is that I do genuinely believe that a large segment of the elderly's support for the Tories comes from this false consciousness, or rather this failure to recognise the ideological developments within the party. So as the group who have direct memory of the old Tories begin to die off, I'd wager we'll see a gradual decline in support amongst the olds. Certainly I can't imagine support for the Tories being hugely significant amongst those born post-Thatcher, or at least I imagine the balance between Labour and Conservative being more evenly matched and this continuing as these people age.

This is a really good post, my dude. Can I share it around a bit outside UKMT? I think a lot of people might find it an interesting take.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2017 07:27

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Jose posted:

BBC are taking the piss a bit

https://twitter.com/HichamYezza/status/871695976578371586

What the gently caress

# ¿ Jun 6, 2017 09:54

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

ThomasPaine posted:

Course dude

Cheers man.

Also, this last page. We're hosed, aren't we

# ¿ Jun 6, 2017 10:38

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

ThomasPaine posted:

I am fluctuating between hope and despair in a way that cannot be doing my insides any good

E: I'm still consoling myself by remembering how badly everyone got it wrong on trump and actually this election is mirroring that one in some pretty important respects.

The gods of fickle fortune only work on the side of evil, I'm afraid

# ¿ Jun 6, 2017 10:51

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Made a complaint to the BBC for all the good it'll do. That poo poo's barely worthy of the tabloids, let alone the supposedly unbiased state broadcaster. gently caress 'em.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2017 11:23

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

The DPRK posted:

Do we have a place for facebookfriends.txt? Got some loving horrendous passages to add including this gem:

Unironically - sever.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2017 16:18

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Zephro posted:

Morning mates. It's the eve of an election victory for the Theresa May party!

I woke up with a lump of ice in my belly, and I feel sick.

God, I hate elections.

# ¿ Jun 7, 2017 07:15

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Entropy238 posted:

I believe that Jeremy Corbyn will be the UK's next prime minister.

I (genunely) believe that the Tory landslide is going to happen, and I feel sick.

EDIT - ^^^^ yup.

# ¿ Jun 7, 2017 08:30

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

JOHNSON COCKSLAP posted:

(3)Labour minority government gives the lib dems their referendum on the final EU negotiation in order to form a government. The public then votes no deal.

Stop, stop this please. I can't bear thinking about the Good Timeline. This isn't it

# ¿ Jun 7, 2017 16:01

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

I'm going to get profoundly stoned tonight, I'm going to get profoundly stoned tomorrow night (I genuinely can't stand staying up for the exit polls), and I'm going to get profoundly drunk every night after that. gently caress everythin, amen

# ¿ Jun 7, 2017 20:05

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Pissflaps posted:

Imagine the excitement just 24 hours from now as we await that exit poll.

I've been refining my own model based on the latest available data and i've derived my final forecast: 45% Tories, 33% Labour. 80 seat majority.

Excitement?

# ¿ Jun 7, 2017 21:24

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Vote! Vote for your lives! Vote to the last (wo)man!

Good luck today, goons. Look after yourselves.

# ¿ Jun 8, 2017 07:22

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

OwlFancier posted:

Honestly if Labour's got no chance in your seat vote lib dem if it keeps the tories out.

Shite as it is it's better than the tories winning.

Yeah just gotta think of it as a vote against the tories rather than a vote directly for JC. Really sucks though.

# ¿ Jun 8, 2017 08:04

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Oberleutnant posted:

I'm gonna do a nice big nervous poo poo as soon as i get into work.

On the desk of your aristocratic boss?

# ¿ Jun 8, 2017 08:18

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlEuT2LYPho

# ¿ Jun 8, 2017 08:36

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

LemonDrizzle posted:

AFAIK the exit poll cannot be published until after the polls close at 22:00.

The guy who originally asked is on EST, so five hours behind us

# ¿ Jun 8, 2017 08:42

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Plus one relatively pointless vote for jam in Bristol West. Death is certain

# ¿ Jun 8, 2017 12:19

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

I did put a couple copies of the mirror on top of the sun stack in the Co op this morning #revolurtion

# ¿ Jun 8, 2017 12:39

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Tesseraction posted:

Alternatively cover them with Daily Mirrors.

e: haha my man!

You can all thank me for the resultant Labour landslide later

# ¿ Jun 8, 2017 12:41

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

BobbyThompson posted:

The odds have crawled back from yesterday's shitfest, back to Mon/Tues level.

https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/british-politics/next-uk-general-election/most-seats

Not calling you out specifically, but do we have any reason to pay attention to how bookies' odds move? Surely they don't tell us much (or anything)

# ¿ Jun 8, 2017 15:26

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

OwlFancier posted:

TBH not being able to be friends with tories is a mark of good character.

This is unironically true.

# ¿ Jun 8, 2017 17:37

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

There is something deeply, primordially broken with the British brain

# ¿ Jun 8, 2017 17:46

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

namesake posted:

Less than 4 hours until the polls close and the meltdowns begin.

Are you ready?

I intend on being in a marijuana coma by ten o'clock, safely tucked up and unconscious.

# ¿ Jun 8, 2017 18:21

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

communism bitch posted:

If you want a positive thought: my completely subjective opinion is that most young people working adults are voting after work or uni because gently caress getting up even earlier than usual to vote beforehand. The majority of people to vote so far are probably terminally bored olds with no other committments during the day.

# ¿ Jun 8, 2017 18:25

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Pesmerga posted:

I wish I smoked weed. I'm just going to sit in front of the TV, weeping silently.

Get on it, brother. I didn't until a few years ago, and between it drastically cutting down on my drinking and being a surefire cure for my rampant insomnia, it's been a revelation.

# ¿ Jun 8, 2017 18:36

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:

Probably old news but...

https://twitter.com/rosskempsell/status/872860811865313281

Noice

# ¿ Jun 8, 2017 18:41

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Fans posted:

So what do I change this thread title to in a few hours? Just a long unbroken Fuuuuuuck ?

UK Celebrates Great British Pastime of loving the Young

# ¿ Jun 8, 2017 19:31

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# ¿ May 1, 2024 10:20

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Kurtofan posted:

I have hope.

# ¿ Jun 8, 2017 19:35

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