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| Labour |
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907 | 49.92% |
| Theresa May Team (Conservative) |
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48 | 2.64% |
| Liberal Democrats |
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31 | 1.71% |
| UKIP |
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13 | 0.72% |
| Plaid Cymru |
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25 | 1.38% |
| Green |
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22 | 1.21% |
| Scottish Socialist Party |
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12 | 0.66% |
| Scottish Conservative Party |
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1 | 0.06% |
| Scottish National Party |
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59 | 3.25% |
| Some Kind of Irish Unionist |
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4 | 0.22% |
| Alliance / Irish Nonsectarian |
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3 | 0.17% |
| Some Kind of Irish Nationalist |
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36 | 1.98% |
| Misc. Far Left Trots |
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35 | 1.93% |
| Misc. Far Right Fash |
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8 | 0.44% |
| Monster Raving Loony |
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49 | 2.70% |
| Space Navies Party |
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39 | 2.15% |
| Independent / Single Issue |
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2 | 0.11% |
| Can't Vote |
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188 | 10.35% |
| Won't Vote |
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8 | 0.44% |
| Spoiled Ballot |
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15 | 0.83% |
| Pissflaps |
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312 | 17.17% |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Reminder: I suggest everyone itt vote for the 'buy feedmegin a new car' option someone in the last thread chose 
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TheRat posted:http://www.dagbladet.no/ - One of the largest papers in Norway. You may not understand what it says but I'm sure you can catch the main message Something about passport chaos? ;p (I do speak a teeny tiny bit of norsk having lived there for a little bit; pro tip though, news website headlines change over time 
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Jun 1, 2017 10:17
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Macarius Wrench posted:Someone who wants to physically mutilate themselves to reconfigure their physical body sounds like they have a mental health problem. At least that's how I personally see it. Its an extreme version of someone getting a nosejob and I'm against that so... One of the things I really like about this thread is we tell shitheads like you to gently caress off. So, gently caress off, TIA.
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Jun 1, 2017 13:42
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OwlFancier posted:I dunno, I worry that letting europeans be politically active is how you get europol. All of us in this thread (except the random yanks and what not) are politically active Europeans 
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Jun 1, 2017 15:24
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staberind posted:Jam Uncle will be forever the Jam Uncle of my heart, Grime Minister Is, on the other hand, ACE. You can get rekd on non spirits from the age of 5 over here, if I recall, as long as its under parental supervision. Edit: yeah, https://www.gov.uk/alcohol-young-people-law So, no getting your toddler shitfaced, sorry. feedmegin fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Jun 1, 2017 |
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Jun 1, 2017 19:46
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OwlFancier posted:Hahahahaha. I mean, we did actually try this for a bit in the 17th century. Didn't take.
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Jun 1, 2017 22:32
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Unkempt posted:What's the black blob in, um, Reading or something? I would just like to say you are v bad at knowing where Reading is. (I saw black and wondered if we were getting our first anarchist MP :P)
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Jun 2, 2017 12:09
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I just made jam, in solidarity with Our Jezz. It's strawberry and raspberry with a dash of knockoff Grand Marnier. It is v red. 
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Jun 2, 2017 20:38
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Cerv posted:I've a bottle of champagne in the fridge ready for Friday breakfast time. just in case. My procedure for anything like this is to have two bottles - some nice champers or similar if it goes well, and some cheap rotgut whisky for if it doesn't. Insurance!
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Jun 5, 2017 14:44
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big scary monsters posted:I've been in a hut in the mountains the last few days happily away from the internet and news. I see this thread has had a million posts since then, did I miss anything much? Lots of Nazis invading from GBS, mostly.
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Jun 5, 2017 16:23
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Oh dear me posted:But people thinking of tactically voting LibDem because they previously won or came second in their constituency should remember that their support has massively collapsed since 2010. They're not likely to win anywhere they don't have current MPs, unless there's an informal local arrangement with other parties to help them - so you might as well vote Labour. Getting into second place in former LibDem territory will at least help Labour in elections to come. I would hope these tactical vote calculators are based on 2015, not 2010, though.
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Jun 5, 2017 18:14
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Regarde Aduck posted:I don't lack the funds. I just can't speak a foreign language which would make getting a basic job hard and my degree isn't stem so I doubt I could get anything career based either. I would just be moving to a place where I don't know anyone and adding a language barrier. Ireland exists. It's also possible to get by in English in many smaller European countries. That was certainly my experience in Norway. (I found the job first) I agree it depends what jobs you have skills for though.
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Jun 5, 2017 19:49
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ChainsawCharlie posted:Otherwise find a country with a big expat community and try to find a job in retail in those enclaves. Of course those communities are currently kinda under a question mark come Brexit...
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Jun 5, 2017 20:00
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Oberleutnant posted:Become an historian instead. They're the ones who get to do all the fun stuff. No jobs. Die alone. Check out the relevant SAL threads.
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Jun 5, 2017 20:25
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Gonzo McFee posted:They really are. I loving wish we'd had Corbynite Pravda the last two years.
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Jun 5, 2017 21:29
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Tesseraction posted:Walk around local student accommodation hotspots with a snare drum round your neck and get those mounging scrunts out of their hangover coma. Isnt it summer break? Please don't wake up my PhD student wife, she can't vote anyway.
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Jun 5, 2017 23:40
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OwlFancier posted:Hey I don't get it either but a lot of tories seemed to be erotically fond of the old bag. I mean, probably not any more. What with the rotting and all. Most of them, anyway.
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Jun 6, 2017 10:11
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kustomkarkommando posted:Its 26 marginal labour held seats UKIP are staying clear of You mean 'not standing so they don't lose their deposits because they're poor now without Arron Banks as sugardaddy' tbh
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Jun 6, 2017 10:57
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Junior G-man posted:No, those companies are involved in agri-chemistry and seed production. They're feed-in companies to the farming industry and they are indeed huge. They are, however, not "agri-corporates" that own/rent land and produce food. It's an enormous difference. I suspect post-Brexit we're going to do some kind of food deal with the US, to be honest. GM everything, and probably lower standards on animal welfare, hormones etc. It might actually result in cheaper food, especially meat, for consumers though. The EU has historically been big on agricultural protectionism (hi, France!); dropping that might conceivable actually be a good thing, monetarily at least, for people in this country who aren't farmers.
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Jun 6, 2017 11:35
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Halisnacks posted:Who's going to replace Tim Farron and Paul Nuttall? I don't think UKIP are going to lose any seats in this election, to be honest.
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Jun 6, 2017 13:45
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Junior G-man posted:Yeah, but something like 70% of UK ag trade goes to the EU; you can't simply replace your crops to with GM alternatives and ship it to the US, which has a huge internal market all of its own, and the shipping and transport would make UK GM too expensive to compete. I meant a deal where the US sells food to us, and we allow imports of GM foods etc; not so much the other way around. I quite agree our own farmers are hosed by this.
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Jun 6, 2017 13:52
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Cefte posted:He was in a strong position immediately after the referendum, and blew it between Friday and Monday by not putting in the legwork with the '22 and his potential Parliamentary power base. Instead he stayed home and celebrated, and the field opened. Then Gove put the knife in him the morning of the day he was going to formally announce, but it was already too late. He always had an air of being unserious, but loving about for those three days confirmed it. I thought he stayed home and shat himself because he wasn't expecting us to actually Leave; he was gearing up for a run in a few years against or after Cameron.
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Jun 6, 2017 15:01
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I think I'm going to make a jam this weekend based on whichever party does best in the election. So - Labour - strawberry, obvs Tories - blueberry Lib Dems - lemon curd I guess? SNP - well, this one's obvious Thank gently caress UKIP are cratering because I don't even know what you'd use to make purple jam. Grapes I guess. Grapes of wrath.
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Jun 6, 2017 17:44
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Guavanaut posted:Thistles and whisky? Marmalade with a dash of Laphroaig might be interesting actually.
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Jun 6, 2017 17:48
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Miftan posted:the left historically doesn't do very well with Jewish people I mean, not always true A whole bunch of the OG Bolshevists (and other Russian left parties) were Jewish.
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Jun 7, 2017 11:34
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Mighty Steed posted:Libdem are anti-Brexit vs Tory Hard Brexit "no deal is a good deal". Those two positions will be hard to reconcile. Last I saw, all their campaigning stuff actually said they're 'anti hard brexit'. Which is not quite the same thing.
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Jun 7, 2017 15:48
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Guavanaut posted:You can only take the oath or affirmation in English, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, or Cornish. Shameful there's no Scots oath imo. Cornish?! We let people take the oath in a dead language but not Irish Gaelic? Cripes. Why not let people take it in Anglo-Saxon.
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Jun 7, 2017 16:07
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Spuckuk posted:I'm going solely off aesthetics here tbh Soviet gear looks pretty boss imho.
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Jun 7, 2017 16:42
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botany posted:I just saw that real wages have dropped by 10.4% in the UK from 2007 to 2015. How much has that been a campaigning issue? Well, part of that has been public sector pay freezes for the last zillion years, and that has definitely come up a couple of times.
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Jun 7, 2017 18:31
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CottonWolf posted:Hopefully all the sensible people in LD/Tory marginals. This. Those of us in vaguely rural seats don't have much other choice.
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Jun 7, 2017 21:36
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pumpinglemma posted:To be fair, there are very few actual Tory/Lib marginals in the country. If you're just in a godforsaken Tory hellhole, then you should vote Labour to shore up their popular vote and give some ammunition for the inevitable leadership challenge from the centrists. Based on 2015 sure. We are hoping for 2010 (Oxford West and Abingdon represent)
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Jun 7, 2017 21:53
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Voted on my way to work at about 8.30am, v quiet, no hordes of olds voting for Full Nazism Now, no hordes of youngs voting for socialism either.
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Jun 8, 2017 09:05
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WeAreTheRomans posted:Guess I just fell into the trap of assuming UK is like Ireland. Where we just kind of half-heartedly wave the polling card at the old lady at the polling station. Id feel like a knob turning up with nothing though I turned up with nothing because my polling card never arrived and my passport is at my wife's place. It was fine, they let me vote, Full Communism Now, etc. Edit: if we went by this thread we would be setting up Workers' and Peasants' Soviets as we speak
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Jun 8, 2017 10:25
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qhat posted:And how do you propose most people do that? Even skilled workers can hardly get visas to america. Infact so many people are so pissed off with brexit because it means they have less opportunity to jump ship if they wanted to. I married a yank, that works quite well. That said lol at the idea of moving from here to Trumpland because of the theory that America is more leftwing than the country that invented the NHS.
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Jun 8, 2017 10:46
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nopantsjack posted:It's a shame we didn't set up before time a thread vote tracker where we check how many thread votes are useless safe seat votes. It's kind of hard to tell in some cases. Where I live came close to a Lib Dem win in 2010, was solidly Tory in 2015, for example. All depends on the ~Lib Dem fightback~ and/or people like me voting tactically.
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Jun 8, 2017 11:58
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SteelMentor posted:Why. I voted Lib Dem myself. You've heard of tactical voting yes?
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Jun 8, 2017 16:25
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jBrereton posted:Ah of course in 10 years there won't be old people again and people will forget the sheer vindictiveness of how this is going to play out on both sides. There will be a lot less boomers over time, which matters because there's a reason they're called that. As the Baby Boom generation dies off the population distribution skews younger, even if people like me or 10-years-older-than-me go as fash as the boomers did (and I don't think we will, to be honest, because the boomers were born with a loving welfare state silver spoon, voted to sell it off in the 80s to make themselves more money, and have a massive sense of entitlement now).
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Jun 8, 2017 16:28
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I wouldn't say age is the new predictor of likelihood of voting, young people have voted less than old people forever, including the Boomers when they were young and spending all their time smoking joints and marching for free love and socialism.
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Jun 8, 2017 16:51
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Camrath posted:Did my bit, and voted for labour in a General for the first time. Put together a little brain dump on Facebook musing about my politics and how they've changed, which I'm going to somewhat self-indulgently share here. Good for you. 
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Jun 8, 2017 18:15
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Another Person posted:what socialism in the uk and when Maybe he means the 1945 government that gave us the NHS and the modern welfare state.
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