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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jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Zalakwe posted:

Five points is a very interesting number, if you go by national swing along anything less than 6 points hangs parliament.

Does that calculation include SF not turning up?

# ¿ Jun 2, 2017 12:16

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 11:07

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

SteelMentor posted:

Good, gently caress them. They're neoliberal snakes and the party will be stronger without them.

The party was out of power for 15 years the last time they did something similar, and if the Lib Dems had worked with Labour in 2010 we wouldn't be in this mess, would we?

So explain how the party benefits.

# ¿ Jun 2, 2017 12:19

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Gonzo McFee posted:

Coalition with the SNP and SF.

You Nazi gently caress

SF will never coalition with a British party.

# ¿ Jun 2, 2017 13:06

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

GaussianCopula posted:

Any news organisation is probably spoiling for the election fallout - if it were a stable conservative majority it's not half as all other options.

No, she's just not turning up in this campaign. It is fascinating. If she's still in charge when the Scots have Indyref2, the union will break up, because she is an absent fuckwit.

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

# ¿ Jun 2, 2017 13:40

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

kustomkarkommando posted:

Lest we forget

Let he who is without Sinn cast the first stone

# ¿ Jun 2, 2017 15:44

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Irony Be My Shield posted:

Grim4Corbyn got shared around a fair amount and may have got some young people to register.

This is Grim 4 Corbyn

# ¿ Jun 2, 2017 16:31

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Pochoclo posted:

What the hell is this "allotment" thing I keep reading in this thread? I mean, from what I can google, it's some kind of piece of land you get where you grow stuff, but does the government lease it for free or what? The Wikipedia article is not very clear on this.

Your local council will usually charge you a more or less nominal fee for an allotment but supply is usually much lower than demand. They're good if you don't have a garden.

# ¿ Jun 2, 2017 17:01

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Pochoclo posted:

Sounds like a neat idea if it's like a couple quid a month, something neat to do in the weekends

Plus a handy food source if you can keep the post-brexit marauding looters off it.

# ¿ Jun 2, 2017 17:06

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Pochoclo posted:

Nah I'm joining the roving EU gangs, wearing all leather and raiding old pensioner tory scum, what's not to love

They'll check your castellano and catapult you directly back to South America, take care!

# ¿ Jun 2, 2017 17:14

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Are we ignoring Northern Ireland on this?

# ¿ Jun 2, 2017 17:42

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Guy Goodbody posted:

How does emigration from the UK to other EU countries work right now?

It's how it was, still. We're still in the EU.

quote:

Could a bunch of British doctors and nurses and scientists just move to Europe before Brexit and stay there?

Probably.

# ¿ Jun 3, 2017 01:02

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

ronya posted:

it turns out that the guy who sank the North East Assembly is also a big Brexit supporter, what a shock

Maybe the problem with the North East assembly is that it was a waste of time nobody wanted, and distraction from low government spending in the English regions, potentially channelling millions away to fund another layer of bureaucracy that we don't need.

# ¿ Jun 3, 2017 17:45

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

ronya posted:

well, nobody needs that layer of bureaucracy, really, but the Scottish and the Welsh and I guess the Cornish want it so

They can't even use it to get an independence referendum, gently caress's the point? Waste Of Money + Time.

# ¿ Jun 3, 2017 17:49

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

forkboy84 posted:

Do you live in Bristol North West, Bristol West, North Somerset, Thornbury, or Kingswood and Filton constituencies? Would you like a nice complimentary gift to celebrate the election that you absolutely cannot sell on? Then Banksy is your man, just take a photo of your ballot showing you didn't vote Tory.

Why doesn't he just stick to making patronising art instead of disenfranchising people lol

# ¿ Jun 3, 2017 17:52

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Pochoclo posted:

A random hash, man, come on, this is not that hard. Instead of

1
2
3

you get
f98jda89fha798989
f98uufjds98fjsd98
g9f8dh89878

Presuming those are stored somewhere you have the same problem as sequential ballots connected to voter ID, but with more potential for people to get the wrong one as polling staff mishandle generic alphanumeric codes, no?

# ¿ Jun 3, 2017 18:00

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

I thought the hat man was Ashdown, or is Mandelson in need of a milliner's morsel too?

# ¿ Jun 3, 2017 18:23

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

TheRat posted:

This is a really weird combination:
https://twitter.com/MattTurner4L/status/871059260490362884

Im that photo getting cropped in half and them being tagged as ISIS within 10 minutes by tory HQ

# ¿ Jun 3, 2017 18:52

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

But Is YouGov's Poll Accurate? :thunk:

# ¿ Jun 3, 2017 20:32

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

ISeeCuckedPeople posted:

The reality is extreme leftist revolutionary policies involving taking on the established vested elite has never ever loving worked and always made things worse for everyone involved; from China to the USSR to Brazil to Bolivia, Venezuela, Cuba and beyond.

It's a touch counterfactual to say that when the only reason those movements gained any traction whatsoever despite their bourgeois leadership was down to the low quality of life in those places already prior to their ascent.

# ¿ Jun 3, 2017 20:36

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

what do we reckon, then, 370 tory seats?

# ¿ Jun 3, 2017 20:43

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Pissflaps posted:

80 seat Tory majority.

does this include SF's non-participation

# ¿ Jun 3, 2017 20:51

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

ronya posted:

hot take: Venezuela's problem is not leftist ideology, or even rightist ideology

it's the left realising that the right were having a lot of fun, as it turns out, and slowly becoming them, hth.

# ¿ Jun 3, 2017 21:12

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

blunt posted:

Sorry to cut into pollchat but it's kicking off in London.

http://news.sky.com/story/knife-attack-after-car-mounts-pavement-in-london-reports-10903580

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y60wDzZt8yg

loving for gently caress's sakes

# ¿ Jun 3, 2017 22:42

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

If the Sun asks Corbyn what he feels when he sees a white van and he says anything other than "seething rage about terrorism" he's done for.

# ¿ Jun 3, 2017 23:03

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

ThomasPaine posted:

I swear to god if we get the whole 'postponing campaigning out of respect' thing this close to an election I will poo poo a brick

We did for brexit.

# ¿ Jun 3, 2017 23:41

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

jabby posted:

It's also vague as gently caress. Where counts as a place of safety?

As far away as you can get to the attack site, preferably behind a locked door somewhere you know well.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2017 00:22

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Trickjaw posted:

So, as Corbs is a privvy councillor, does get to go to the Cobra meeting?

No, he goes to the Meeting Of Non-Governmental OperatOrs Special Executive, or MONGOOSE.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2017 01:57

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

ISeeCuckedPeople posted:

What I've gathered from these attacks is that the European Intelligence community is lightyears behind the NSA, CIA, and FBI when it comes to stopping these things.

S'right, it's why nobody is stabbed for political reasons in the 'States.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2017 02:03

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Fans posted:

I mean this is true, it's real easy to get a gun.

(it happened like 3 days ago)

# ¿ Jun 4, 2017 02:06

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

freebooter posted:

You don't even need to look at Scandinavia or whatever always gets cited. Just look at the UK in the 70s.

Women formally got paid less, there was a 3 day week even without strikes, and racism was really out there, but what halcyon days.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2017 12:38

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Guavanaut posted:

What even are British values?

We'll have the most overrated, coke-sniffing, glib terrorists in the world by jingo.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2017 13:04

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

How is democracy a British value when we have centuries of that not being the case. I think it's more like:

- ripping the piss out of the religious
- drunkenness at work
- fake insincerity

# ¿ Jun 4, 2017 13:10

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Good point, queuing.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2017 13:12

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Gobbeldygook posted:

SA has spent the past two years bombing Yemen into rubble, they need all the arms they can get. They also need weapons in case their own population gets uppity.

Please use "KSA" to avoid implicating lowtax in war crimes tia

# ¿ Jun 4, 2017 13:17

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

what's wrong with barry gardiner

# ¿ Jun 4, 2017 13:45

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Darth Walrus posted:

Been a bit greedy with his expenses, and had some shady financial connections with China that may have affected his stance towards the country.

I don't think the opposition's front bench is going to have very much to say about shady financial connections or expenses, to be honest.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2017 13:52

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Thanks Ants posted:

Isn't international law regarding rescuing people at sea really loving clear?

crystal clear

# ¿ Jun 4, 2017 16:41

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdyerV8bfeA

Were the Fishermen guilty of manslaughter

yes if they didn't help get as many people as possible out and radio for help, hth.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2017 16:53

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

nopantsjack posted:

In the quote it seems like they're just harassing the NGOs until the coastguard grabs them and presumably deports them or whatever. Doing more than that would just mean killing people by sinking their boats surely? I'm not sure you can set up a gofundme for seaborne ethnic cleansing.

It turns out you can, and they won't give a gently caress if they're getting their fee.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2017 16:55

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 11:07

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

TheRat posted:

The gloves appear to be off
https://twitter.com/alantravis40/status/871428476477243398

RED JEREMY WITH THE TOMBSTONE PILEDRIVER

# ¿ Jun 4, 2017 19:31

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