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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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Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

PostNouveau posted:

As an American, I've been really confused that this hasn't happened already. All the UKIP ministers are gone, it's a loving terrible idea to begin with, the Conservatives will be negotiating with a shaky mandate. I'm sure most of the Tory MPs know it's ruinous for the UK anyway. Why is anyone going along with it?

Because it's the will of (roughly 25% of) the people!

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Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

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Thanks Ants posted:

They were never popular, they just got a disproportionate amount of coverage. The referendum was a reaction to a perception of how popular they might become.

They got 1/8th of the vote in the 2015 election which is pretty popular. If Cameron had never given us the Brexit referendum we'd likely be looking at some UKIP MPs in the next election.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

Baron Corbyn posted:

Still not convinced we aren't getting a Lib Den heel turn

BAH GAWD, CABLE IS SHAKING HANDS WITH SATAN HIMSELF! :bahgawd:

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

Apraxin posted:

This is probably the first of many (hundreds? gently caress, I hope not) accounts from people who lost family, and yeah, it's just ... really awful. I can genuinely see riots coming from this, once the shock turns to anger:
https://mobile.twitter.com/BBCBreak...london-40239008

Well gently caress, this completely broke me :smith:

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

XMNN posted:

the government just seems completely absent

We don't even have a government right now.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

:drat:

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

What an absolute cockwomble.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

Jakabite posted:

So May's apparently now going down to meet residents. I can only see this going horribly for her.

Oh look, another U-turn

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

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Sticking the boot proper in there, what a lad.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

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Malcolm XML posted:

Yeah I think he got his sea legs and is just killin it atm

The brazen challenge to May to spend more than just £5million is beautiful.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

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Dominic Raab wants an assistant but doesn't want to pay them

Another great example of Tory class inequality. Lovely.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

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What absolute cunts. Unlike this guy:

Reveilled posted:

I have to say, for all that we've been saying hope is not a lie any more, I don't think I truly believed it until I saw a sitting MP from the labour party tweet "burn neoliberalism" last night. I hope Clive Lewis succeeds Jeremy Corbyn as PM.

Clive Lewis was on the Last Leg last week, was given a bottle of wine and immediately started necking it. The man's got my vote.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

UrbicaMortis posted:

I can see that being OK if you can get a separate room. I had a friend who lived in a communal room of a youth hostel for over a year. He didn't mind it but I'd have lost my mind after a month.

Having spent 18 months living in hostel dorms it's an absolute loving nightmare. The combination of losing your privacy and the vast majority of your possessions is so dehumanising.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
Eddie Redmayne as BoJo

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

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Elliptical Dick posted:

Thanks. I can't believe they risked the lives of all those people in that tower for £5k what an absolute loving disgrace.

No don't you understand, it's "austerity"

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

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Is there anything stopping them giving Amber Rudd the leadership and then switching her to a super safe seat come the next election?

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

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It would be really loving nice if we could go a week without a national incident :(

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

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learnincurve posted:

It's not a terrorist attack. Terrorist attacks are done for political aims. This is a copy cat murder and a hate crime. Tory party and press have used the word terrorist because your casual idiot will read that line in the paper and on lists of terrorist attacks this year and assume he's Muslim

one lone hate filled person is not a terrorist unless they leave an actual manifesto behind, if you just get a rambling hate filled letter then they are just a murderer. Calling them terrorists can give a twisted justification to other murdercunts out there.

Terrorist attacks are intended to make a community scared and afraid. That was absolutely the motivation for this attack and it's absolutely right that it be labelled as such to challenge people's "terrorists = Muslim" stereotype.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

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The UK doesn't have an actual legal maximum temperature for working conditions. We have a minimum but no maximum and it's actually pretty hosed up. Good on Corbs for trying to address this.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

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Some twat's decided to attack the police in Paris

Can the world just stop now?

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

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baka kaba posted:

Also Theresa May managed to visit with the plebs at a mosque today and got heckled for it

"They want me to speak to victims then they don't want me to speak to victims, what am I meant to do here?"

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

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Jose posted:

1 egg 1 sausage wtf is this

2 sausage 1 bacon for the true breakfast of champions

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

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learnincurve posted:

Beans do not belong on a British fry up.

We finally found a reason to revoke British passports

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

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Maw posted:

1 bacon what the heck is this breakfast for a baby?

More than 1 bacon = too much salt. No one wants to be downing Irn Bru all morning.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

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Pocky In My Pocket posted:

Im getting a train to london today and this is already hell

You will be remembered, friend

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

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Skinty McEdger posted:

...excuse me?

I too hope that one day you will recover from your disease :(

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

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We truly are a divided nation :smith:

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

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Borrovan posted:

Unlike UKMT, David Davies has managed to achieve a clear and unambiguous result from his Breakfast negotiations, by giving the EU everything they want in exchange for nothing whatsoever. Also, making these kinds of decisions before establishing whether the Government is democratically legitimate is literally fascism.

Quite impressive that it only took Theresa May 3 weeks of quiet meditation to come up with that negotiating tactic.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

Zephro posted:

Uncle Zephro's Suspiciously Continental Evening Meal for Britain's Occasional Warm Days

Tonight I will be having Crispy Prawns with Avocado in a Marie-Rose sauce, it's going to be delicious.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

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Godammit, shouldn't have watched that Panorama. Now I'm even more miserable and furious than I was before :smith:

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

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But Peter, what about your little brother?

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

lol

Also not true because there's the "magic [blank] tree" analogy that always does the job

Would that were the case but there's no magic magic [blank] tree tree

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

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Marmite is disgusting.


Relax, it's not like she ran through a wheat field or anything.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
Looks like Brenda cleaned up on Knightmare. Top girl.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

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Kokoro Wish posted:

Fab, or GTFO.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

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Having worked in this industry and done similar campaigns in other elections I've got some context for this article:

- The use of "Axe Research" as a fake market research company looks like it was the call centre's idea and the Tories wouldn't know anything about it. When you do outsourcing like this it opens up the opportunity for a lot of shady poo poo that the client companies are never aware about.

- Saying that they call "on behalf" of the Tories is the legal requirement.

- Any TPS records that was called would definitely have given consent to be called at some point time either directly to the Tories or through a marketing call. Call centres have been really focused on data consent for the last couple of years. Sometimes consent is gained through underhanded means and sometimes people are too polite to say no to being contacted when asked. When it's the latter there's not much you can do apart from get out of the call.

- The use of leading survey questions is totally bullshit, definitely canvassing and the Tories aren't the only party who do it.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

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Pistol_Pete posted:

Oh god, May's making a 'fair and serious' offer to allow EU citizens in the UK the chance to build up the same rights as existing citizens. So generous!


She'll be laughed into a u-turn by the EU27 within 24 hours.

It's ok, here's a clip of her being booed after meeting Grenfall Tower residents yesterday

e: Wow, the offer only applies to EU citizens who've been living here for 5 years. gently caress off.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

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In the latest "I'm an idiot that doesn't understand the ramifications of my decisions" news:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...d=facebook-post

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

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Festival chat: Glasto can get merked, Boomtown is the better choice

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Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

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Tesseraction posted:

Didn't the Sun drop page 3 again after finding it had no positive impact on sales to return it?

They got back the topless lasses but now they all hold their arms over their nips cause they're all shy like

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