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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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sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth
It's amazing how much further left I started leaning once I realised I would soon be out of work.

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sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth
Isn't Hastings rich and posh?

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth
I've only ever been to the Hastings area to see a girl that lived in a converted gatehouse for some country manor so my impression of it is as a hotbed for people who are really rich but never spend any money.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth

Prince John posted:

'Tolerant left' has always struck me as a bit of a misnomer. A belief in social justice creates no obligations to tolerate social injustice.

Authoritarian Left

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth

Darth Walrus posted:

You're asking people to calm down after comparing several posters in this thread to animals. Can you explain to the class why this is neither a reasonable nor sensible request?

You're a walrus mate why are you offended???

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth

Tesseraction posted:

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

Sure to swing those EU nationals votes towards Labour.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth

Tesseraction posted:

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

Which is minimal and won't result in negative hydration from tea and coffee.

Crucial error here from Corbyn.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth
You can't go out and insult tea-drinkers and expect to win an election in this country.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth

If he backtrack's any quicker he's going to go through that table.

Tea drinkers won't be convinced.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth

Ewan posted:

I know this is a bit late - but I think it's pretty standard for police, soldiers etc to have it drilled in to them: you never ever ever fire your weapon unless you are shooting someone to kill them. There are no such things as "warning shots" or shooting someone to incapacitate but not kill them. Shooting people in the legs etc to incapacitate has too many risks of missing etc (and has huge death risk anyway as easy to hit an artery).

No, real life works just like movies. Police should have shot the knives out of their hands imo.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth

Baron Corbyn posted:

what regional polling are they looking at to get Tory gains in Wales?

They're driving around past all the farms plastered in conservatives signs (and the one with its ukip flags waving).

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth
He's got to do something to entertain himself. Hasn't needed to do any campaigning.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth
Based on advice itt I'm going to vote Tory even though the candidate looks like a knob.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth
Getting rid of Abbot is a vote-winner.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth

josh04 posted:

I think if they're saying it's illness that'd be an outrageous story to make up, so it's probably that. Just saying that it being a 'vote winner' shouldn't be a good enough reason on its own to start throwing your black female MPs under a bus.

I don't care about pronouns or skin colour, Abbot was awful.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth

josh04 posted:

What makes you think that?

She couldn't do maths on tv.

Carol Vorderman for PM.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth

Jose posted:

the guardian live blog i've got it on in the background while at work

https://twitter.com/HackneyAbbott/s...s-politics-live

She says she's looking forward to being back by mid-July after doctors told her the illness could last 30 years.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth
Ban all nationalist parties.

Rule Britannia.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth

forkboy84 posted:

British nationalism is also bad. Only allow internationalist parties to stand.

If international parties pledge to work for the betterment of the British people as part of a united government they are welcome to knock on my door and make their case (in English, please).

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth

The DPRK posted:

Can anyone explain to me at what stage we're failing to apprehend terror suspects?

It's now known that authorities were aware of the Manchester bomber and the leader of the London bombings, so why was nothing done? At what point did the policing process fail?

I don't buy the idea that we need more access to people's data and back doors to encryption because we already have plenty of good information and we're not acting on it.

You can't arrest/deport someone just because their mother-in-law says they're a bad egg and there's a photo of them holding a flag.

You need hard evidence/proof of wrongdoing/conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism etc.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth
Please don't hurt yourselves over the results of this election.

The NHS may not be there to help afterwards.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth

Dunno, Rubert, we should probably wait for the results before deciding.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth

Halisnacks posted:

Is there thread consensus on what would be the darker timeline?
(1) Tory landslide
(2) Labour victory, but forever associated with "Labour's Brexit", never to win again from 2022 onward

1 as half the thread will drink themselves to death before 2 can have serious consequences.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth
I will neither drink nor do drugs tomorrow as I have work on Friday & Sat.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth
Mum voted for the woodcutting Tory because the Plaid candidate looks like "a gay. He makes my skin crawl".

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth

My parents are just about to sell their business so they're natural Tories now, and I'm not going to do anything that might threaten my redundancy payment & inheritance.

The gay will win here regardless.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth
I haven't voted yet and it's horrible out so I might not bother.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth
Have spoken to Mum, she voted Tory because she really hates farmers and wants them to stop getting free money for owning land and doing sod all with it while our business has had to pay out the ear in rates on our property that actually contributes to society (jobs etc.).

Coincidentally all of her side of the family are farmers.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth

Pesky Splinter posted:

Everytime I see a picture of him, I just imagine he smells of musty tweed. And that sex with him must be simultaneously the most boring thing ever, and the most repulsive.

I've never imagined what sex with him would be like.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth

Pesky Splinter posted:

Ever hosed a grey, rotting, pumpkin full of porridge that reeks of musty piss tweed?

No, never.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth

kustomkarkommando posted:

Uh it was labour that pushed for individual registration in 2009

Never let facts get in the way of a good story

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth
Go to bed, thread.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth
I'm not melting down this morning.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth

Collateral posted:

I would love for a newso to ask a hard right English Tory how they feel to have been saved by a Scottish lesbian.

I've seen that porno.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth

forkboy84 posted:

I'm not reading through over 3700 posts but I see more English people voted for a socialist than Scottish people so...

The nationalists went right? Heavens!

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth
Full anti-austerity now

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Yeah, he concentrated purely on old fashioned core Labour values which it turns out are actually a pretty easy sell.

The other story that's really not being reported by anyone (although it will come up in future I'm sure) that is possibly even more relevant for the Blairites is just how quickly Labour managed to raise funds for this election. The old wisdom is that a snap election would benefit the Tories with their deep-pocketed corporate donors (especially as most of them had abandoned Labour under Corbyn) and yet they managed to get 3 million quid in individual donations over the election, on top of the fairly rude health their finances were in because of the new membership Corbyn bought into the party.

Mind you we can't overstate just how badly the Tories hosed their campaign. They won't do that again. They'll triangulate to a superficially centrist position (and if they end up nicking some of Labours manifesto like they did with energy price caps that would be loving huuuuuge) and I'm sure Chukka et. al. will use that as an excuse to slip in some immigration poo poo or something to the next manifesto.

Forcing the conservatives left by any amount is a good thing as we've still got 20 years of old people voting for them no matter what they say and do.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth
Reckless spending is great for a national economy.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth

Gyro Zeppeli posted:

If they can survive the crushing cognative dissonance of being a Young LGBT Tory, nothing will stop them.

You can be a rich rear end in a top hat and gay at the same time.

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sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth

WeAreTheRomans posted:

lol I'd forgotten about this gem, I love twitter for recalling poo poo like this

https://twitter.com/kevr1990/status/873193738155241472

would(n't complain)

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