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What is the best flav... you all know what this question is:
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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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Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Please Satan give us the Labour majority.

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Apr 5, 2009

TACD posted:

So "I'm very clear" is the new "strong and stable"? I think the only reason Cameron appeared to be such an effective Conservative leader is that his "long term economic plan" Markov chain seed was four words while the rest of them can only manage three.

The old, if anything. Tony Blair and Hogfucker both said "Let me be clear" so many times during their tenures I have a knee-jerk response to assume that whatever comes next is trite or bollocks. Usually both.

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Apr 5, 2009

https://twitter.com/GailMcAnena/status/869854643370811392

:laugh:

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Apr 5, 2009

Gidiot is just doing what all tories do in the end. Backstabbing and revenge. She hosed him over and now he's more than happy to see her lose to Jam Stalin if only laugh in her face about it.

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Apr 5, 2009

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?

he's going to turn us into modern norway

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Apr 5, 2009

England gets bokmal, Scotland gets nynorsk

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Apr 5, 2009

Macarius Wrench posted:

Lot of people itt need to get their hole, or their dick or some bizarre halfway point between the 2.

Mate you might want to set off now so you don't miss the train you should go jump in front of.

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Apr 5, 2009

MrL_JaKiri posted:

A method of suicide which isn't traumatising for train drivers is better imo

I offer to drive the train.

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Apr 5, 2009

Prince John posted:

So, I've just stumbled across this article about micro-political ads on social media and the impact they can have with relatively small sums of money.

I've been donating direct to the Labour party, but wouldn't be above spending some money on this. Could anyone recommend a relatively slick and simple website containing 'why you shouldn't vote Tory ' that it would be useful to direct people to if they click? I don't really have the time to do something myself and I'm guessing there'll be some out there. Top response to a google is amusingly a Telegraph article about why I should vote Tory, then there's a Mirror list of nasty policies, then just a bunch of forums posts, so nothing that looks particularly professional.

Just have it link to any interview with May lmao

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Apr 5, 2009


Try drinking some bleach I hear that'll sort out some of your problems.

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Apr 5, 2009

here's corb's doing his talk on Brexit https://youtu.be/oAUAVP9-GYw

he's ripping into may for not protecting EU nationals in the UK from the outside

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Apr 5, 2009

https://twitter.com/KateEMcCann/status/870288976632041472

looks like 1.5 million people

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Apr 5, 2009

Mr. Nemo posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2017/jun/01/general-election-2017-may-absence-leaders-debate-brexit-politics-live

"They are not their to represent their parties; they are their as “expert political analysts”."

I'd never caught a Guardian typo in the wild. Pretty big one as well.

My favourite was when they called Douglas Carswell UKIP's sole MEP.

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Apr 5, 2009

vodkat posted:

Funny how the UK isn't important enough for the ruskies to hack our emails.

I like to imagine they did but it was all harmless poo poo about jam and allotments so they tore their hair out in frustration

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Apr 5, 2009

goddamnedtwisto posted:

I'm a little surprised he didn't go for it last year, but that might have been a very wise move - it was always going to be a poisoned chalice, and keeping his head down (his natural response to everything, the weaselly little wanker) might well have been the best move.

I like to imagine he went to register his application but got stuck hiding behind a tree until the deadline passed.

Yvonmukluk posted:

Well, I got this in the post.



2 The Butts

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Apr 5, 2009

jabby posted:

Jesus Farron is not doing well here. He seems to just be waiting for Neil to start talking so he can speak over him with another inane comment.

It was literally incredible and after Neil said "we don't have time for your closing argument because you kept talking over me trying to give you it so that's all we have time for" my TV suddenly lost signal

so it literally look like they cut him to black. I nearly pissed myself lollin

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Apr 5, 2009

Jose posted:

he's being interviewed? the guardian don't even have a live text lol

Neil was loving brutal and Farron was pathetic. The #LibDemFightback was hilariously Hindenberg.

Neil's last question was literally just "why has your campaign gone so badly?" but Farron kept talking over him so he kept asking the question while Farron tried to be louder and then Neil just goes "you're trying to be a populist but you're not actually popular, that's why your campaign is doing so badly"

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Apr 5, 2009

The whole thing is up and I think it's comedy gold the whole way. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08rz1ln/the-andrew-neil-interviews-election-2017-tim-farron

at 27:00 Neil says "if you're not going into coalition then what's the point of your manifesto? This whole interview has been a waste of time"

at 27:56 is the "why has your campaign gone so badly" bit

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Apr 5, 2009

Oberleutnant posted:

Weren't the filth spying on some of the Green Party politicians as recently as a couple of years ago?

Yes they were under investigation as domestic terrorists.

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Apr 5, 2009

spectralent posted:

He's wrong actually, all liquid except liquids that actively dehydrate you like alcohol and saltwater hydrate you.

I'm assuming he's referring to the diuretic effect.

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Apr 5, 2009

BBC QT on TV rite now!

Join us on IRC as always #ukgoons @ irc.syncirc.net

Crispix is too busy being hungover to advertise.

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Apr 5, 2009

TheRat posted:

hrmmmmmmm

yeah well I advertised closer to the time

okay fine I slandered him erroneously

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Apr 5, 2009

Lord_Adonis posted:

But were those military interventions into politics conceived of to protect Liberal Democracy from far-right sabotage, and implemented in a strictly time-limited context?

Ask el-Sisi.

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Apr 5, 2009

Lord_Adonis posted:

Upon reflection of my endorsement of a military intervention in UK politics, I must ask you all to disregard my comments regarding this issue, and to ask for forgiveness for my hysterical attitude. I was motivated by desperation and anger, of the sort that motivated me to verbally abuse one of my local UKIP councillors on the day after the referendum. It is borne of a stupid and crass mentality that I should labour to overcome. I will endeavour to find a better method of communicating my misgivings about Brexit, and desire to remain an EU citizen.

It's cool, my man. And as for the EU thing I believe Germany has discussed offering fast-track dual citizenship in the event of a hard brexit.

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Apr 5, 2009

Looke posted:

Is this Indian guy for real?

Oi he might not be Indian specifically. :|

He was racist as gently caress tho. Or failing at an ironic rant.

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Apr 5, 2009

Cerv posted:

Lord_Adonis brought up the military coup in the first place and it was explicitly pro-Remain. sorry i didn't realise your version was supposed to be even loopier.

So, uh, have you never heard of 'jokes' before?

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

in my last year at uni I used to walk along a road from my accommodation to the campus and it was between two sets of wooded area, leading to it basically being a trail of flat and/or bloody squirrel corpses from where other students had driven down the same road and taken one or several of the poor bastards out of their activities on earth

I'm still not sure why the bodies disappeared - road janitor? hungry cats?

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Apr 5, 2009

mfcrocker posted:

Tim Farron continuing to dodge saying that gay sex isn't a sin, as if the only time he did say that was a big loving lie to ease the pressure on him

My man did you see him poo poo himself on Andrew Neil last night? I was laffin my butt off the whole time.

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Apr 5, 2009

https://twitter.com/RealNatalieRowe/status/870234608008351744

:thunk:

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Apr 5, 2009

https://twitter.com/alistaircoleman/status/870584353566466048

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Apr 5, 2009

Said Blair in Snow

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Apr 5, 2009

jBrereton posted:

The papers are trying their best to have her back but what even is there to support lol

There was a great bit in Are Ken's Vice piece stating that analysis of the coverage has found that the papers are really trying their best by monstering Corbyn but because May keeps just loving up they have to just not talk about the Conservatives or speciously bring up old news to put them in a positive light.

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Apr 5, 2009

Cerv posted:

Plenty of career politicians in the shadow cabinet already
Corbyn, Abbot, McDonnell, Watson, Ashworth,

There's a difference between a person whose been in politics as a career and people who are in politics for a career. Your list conflates the two.

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Apr 5, 2009

VideoGames posted:

Holy moly! I typed in jeremy corbyn twitter into google because I wanted to see if some of these tweets were real (I am very uneducated about it) and the first result I clicked on without thinking was this:



The Tories also deliberately outbid advertising slots for youth engagement in democracy because they know youngs would vote Labour.

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Apr 5, 2009

Pissflaps posted:

The difference is which ones you like and which ones you don't.

Oh and you'd been doing so well this week. Never mind, eh?

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Apr 5, 2009

Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:

I just want to see the Tories lose to see Sargon of Akkad throw a tantrum on Twitter

Okay I admit it would be fantastic to see Carl of Sad at his meltdowniest.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

https://twitter.com/AshBeechey/status/870587548904681472

:thunk:

Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:

Ever since Trump got elected he's become an obnoxious prick

Uhhhhh no he's always been as such. The man is functionally illiterate.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Cerv posted:

what is the difference?

Compare and contrast the actions of, say, most of the PLP, even ones I'm not fond of, with that of Jamie Reed.

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Apr 5, 2009

Pissflaps posted:

Your example of a careerist politician is one who left politics after 12 years?

He was doing it as a career and dropped it mid-term for a better paying job. Truly a passion for improving peoples' lives.

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Apr 5, 2009

StoicFnord posted:

Can anyone tell Corbyn to pull a Thornberry and just wade onto the set while May bot is sitting there.

She would probably self-destruct in terror.

That would be pretty hilarious.

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