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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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WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
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R. Guyovich posted:

it kind of owns that the greens' housing policy is East Germany Lite

Yeah, I got Greens on housing. Feels good.

Is there anything particularly anti-science about the Greens bar them not liking nuclear? Are they anti-vaccers or something? That'd be disappointing, but I really do think everyone in the thread is going overboard in their support for nuclear energy.

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WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
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Regarde Aduck posted:

End all animal testing and replace with clones of Brexit voters.

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)

Rakosi posted:

There are a lot of people with rather extreme views ITT that they wouldn't actual share or say irl.

Really? People actually pretend not to lust for the overthrow of the state and/or capital?

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)

El Grillo posted:

Dunno whether this was posted yesterday but the Lib Dems latest election broadcast is pretty weird: https://www.facebook.com/libdems/videos/vb.5883973269/10155403423853270/
I think their video guy is on speed

Man, that's loving weird. That's legitimately one of the first times I've seen someone call for 'Tolerance' in like a decade. Definitely a homophobe.

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)
Wouldn't any Russian intervention more likely attack the Tories anyway? Wouldn't Corbyn's foreign policy of stopping arms deals with brutal dictatorships and plotting a more non-interventionist course be more amenable to Russia?

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)
"If I keep doing it, eventually the papers will get sick of running the same story and I won't look weak anymore!"

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)

Oberleutnant posted:

Gove is a wet tory. He always looks so moist like he's made of a disgusting meat jelly. Wetlips Gove. Same as Davey Cameron; moist.

Mostly because he gets water all over himself when he drinks it like a fuckwit.

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
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You know I wouldn't be surprised if that was due to medication. Not taking SSRIs for a few days makes your body do poo poo like that when you get excited and want to coordinate your body at the same time.

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)
Sorry to hear about all the terrorism guys.

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)

You reckon they're trying to figure out how to tell him not to show up in the politest possible way right now?

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)

https://twitter.com/NadineDorries/status/871297086670741504

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
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Well yeah, wouldn't want them coming here killing people. Better to literally drown them. They hate us, because they hate us. They're basically animals who only understand violence.

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)
I heard Sweden had been turning into a neoliberal shithole and referring to all Scandinavian countries as equally good examples of social democracy was becoming far less close to reality. As a Norwegian, can you explain exactly how perfidious the Swede really is?

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)
Yeah anyone who thought, 'Boy Corbyn's being a bit a fascist isn't he with wanting to increase police numbers? Can't he just come together in peace and harmony?' Was going to be voting Green or Labour anyway and it's really too minor to sway anyone I reckon.

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
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Do detectives and forensics teams really need to be part of a police force anyway? Surely the investigation arm of crime fighting and the enforcement arm can easily be separated into two distinct and differently structured bodies.

hakimashou posted:

Yeah didn't communists invent the police state since its instrumental for the kind of massive huge scale murder and crushing of dissent necessary to rob everyone of everything they own?

No, it was the Prussians.

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)

jBrereton posted:

Don't worry mate we privatised forensics during the last parliament, incredibly.

Well I feel safer already. One fewer set of bastards. :shepicide:

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
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Corbyn being a weird jam man is an attack?

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
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Namtab posted:

Corbyn’s signature jam is understood to be apple and blackcurrant, a classic mix of sweetness and acid tartness, made from fruit grown at his north London plot. Apple and blackcurrant jam needs little help to achieve a perfect, gloopy set, as both fruits are high in pectin. I imagine this allows Corbyn to dial down the sugar, associated with profit and corporatist lobbying, for a more socialist spread.

This is supported by his answer on his favourite biscuit, so I'd say you're spot on.

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
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orange sky posted:

OK why is the Middle East making GBS threads on Qatar right now?

Middle East thread essentially doing a :shrug: at the moment. Possibly didn't tell Iran to gently caress off hard enough? But nothing's really been announced.

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)

MiddleOne posted:

What does shoot to kill even imply considering that the last three were shot tod death by the police. Do they currently not aim for the torso or something?

If a policeman saw known jihadists who weren't in the process of committing a crime they could execute them on the spot. Obviously shoot to kill is not current policy.

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
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CyberPingu posted:

Doesnt it really all hinge around the severity of the situation. If a guy is running around with a knife then you should try to subdue him, at worst a pop shot in the leg to take him down. But if someone is in a bomb jacket then I dont know if they have much choice.

The point is, that's not 'shoot to kill'. It's about extra-judicial killing, launching missions to murder criminals rather than arrest them.

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
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Halisnacks posted:

How would this untenable position be acted on though? I will give the Tories that they seem committed to power above all (see: the swift falling behind May with minimal bickering in the last Tory leadership election). How could they pretend to be the "strong and stable" party with their 3rd leader in less than two years?

Looking hypocritical hasn't stopped them doing stupid poo poo before?

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
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Spuckuk posted:

Brexit will probably be regarded in the long one as a bigger self-own.

Scrappy underdog JC coming from behind to win the most unwinable election only to have to deal with Brexit, probably beating that.

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)

Pissflaps posted:

11% Tory lead sounds quite good for labour doesn't it?

Considering in Yougov's polls 65+ have a 43 point lead to Tories and 50-64 have a 13 point lead to Tories, definitely.

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
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Steve Bell has gone too far.

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
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People still don't block ads?

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
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"Rargh you should all be more like strong alpha Australians who tackle people making bomb threats on planes."

(Please discount the fact running from a plane is very difficult.)

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
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As someone training to be a teacher in his mid-twenties, I'd say he did have a duty of care. Don't know the story, but I'd expect to be able to get as many kids as you could find and hiding with them.

e:I don't think he should be charged or held accountable or anything, but just the expectation I'd set for myself and anyone else put in the situation.

WhiskeyWhiskers fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Jun 5, 2017

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
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Serotonin posted:

How can you not know this story?

I meant the camp leader's specific circumstances, what he did or didn't do. Not Breivik's attack.

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
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I think people are putting the cart before the horse on the Australian compulsory voting = racism thing.

It's exactly the same thing as wanting PR in the UK. Ukip would have had more seats last election, but it would have been more democratic.

Australians are bigotted fuckwits. Compulsory voting allows a better democracy. Our democracy allows bigotted fuckwits to have power. If anything I'd imagine populist racism during campaigns would actually be a bit reduced from a hypothetical Australia that didn't have compulsory voting. The racists are going to show up anyway, you only need to make sure they vote for you, not stroke their cocks enough to get them enthused.

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)

Baron Corbyn posted:

gently caress Sturgeon, she knows this plays into the Tories hands.

Who gives a gently caress though? Like does the ⛧Coalition of Chaos⛧ line actually work? The tories were literally in a coalition only a couple of years ago.

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)

dispatch_async posted:

Latest Labour video (or at least I'd not seen it before):

https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/872437880622391296

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bomygz1Ygkk&t=15s

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
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forkboy84 posted:

No, they would rather a disastrous Brexit because that increases the chance of independence.

Couldn't they face a pretty terrible blowback if they're kingmakers and it leads to an even shittier Brexit?

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
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jBrereton posted:

I don't think it would lead to an even shittier brexit for Europe to see two parties that don't really want it and have materialistic aims at the negotiating table.

Sorry, I meant if they chose not to guarantee Corbyn supply and let in the Tories. Wouldn't most Scots see right through that as a really loving poo poo thing to do?

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
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I've got home-distilled Rakia. It's not the worst.

Election will also be on my birthday. I'll get smashed in solidarity.

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
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Spuckuk posted:

Cooler looking uniforms and tanks tbh

Who doesn't want a bunch of STUGs

People who want cooler armoured trams. :colbert:

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
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You know what's hosed? I can't read the number 88 without thinking about fascists.

Jose posted:

going for the racist vote after all eh?

e:Guess I'm not the only one.

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
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I still don't see how a bad poll makes you not vote. That's some pretty incredible levels of conformity.

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
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Why would you distribute don't knows in a non-compulsory election anyway? Surely they're even less likely to vote than yoof who say they are strongly committed to voting?

e:I mean other than herding. Do any of the other polls distribute dks?

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WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
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Pissflaps posted:

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/872591111746990080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

As I said earlier this range isn't much different to a few days ago: so why believe in a labour victory any less now than then?

They don't, they're just preparing themselves. :ssh:

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