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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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happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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TinTower posted:

The quote I posted, from current DUP MP Sammy Wilson, wasn't from June 1920. It was from January 1994.

Aha, I misread that, apologies. I thought it was referring to the possible Ulster withdrawals planned back in the 20s, where they were considering kicking out all catholics of NI.

Still, shits hosed up for over a century, repeating the same mistakes.

Regarde Aduck posted:

Qualify this or gently caress off.

Be cool. I confirm that I once openly supported the Babylon 5 terrorist Sheridan when he declared indepence from Earth.

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happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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"So Thersea, is May a catholic or protestant name?'

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Al-Saqr posted:

The DUP is lead by a woman?!

Guys, I like you and all but please someone explain why the UK keeps bringing forth the WORST examples for women in leadership positions holy poo poo.

She, like May, was the LEAST WORST of the selection at the time.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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TinTower posted:

You are Lembit Opik and I claim my five pounds.

If you are Lembit Opik, here's five pounds, cheer up you poor bastard.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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jBrereton posted:

He was elected mayor of London and keeps being an MP!

That was before Brexit, and the 350 million for the NHS bus he drove around in.
Which he admitted was a lie the next day, and stood back to prevent getting full flack for the Brexit result.

He won't last a week as PM.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Cameron hosed a dead pig.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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kustomkarkommando posted:

The DUP/Tory deal will survive until July 13th when everyone remembers every DUP MP is an orangeman

There is usually one incident per year, some band plays the wrong tune, or some counter protest by the nationalists.
Its going to be interesting to see if the farmers on both sides can restrain themselves this year.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Sarah Bellum posted:

Edna's resignation letter is being delivered by An Post.

I loving HATE An Post.
loving scumbags, I get birthday cards from family and EVERY time they are opened along the way by An Post.
Some scumfuck opens them thinking there's money inside.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Angepain posted:

I found a very useful documentary on the Troubles in northern ireland this should answer everyone's questions

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

We need a Sean O'Rielly statue built.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Technically its not a coalition.
A coalitiion is BOTH sides wanting to work with the other.
The Tories definitely dont want to work with the DUP.

This is a Shotgun Marriage situation.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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quote:

One of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing all the time. I think that what we should have is computer science in the future - and how it fits in to the curriculum is something we need to be talking to scientists, to experts in coding and to young people about.
- Michael Gove

This is the level of idiocy we are working with.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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forkboy84 posted:

Apologies for linking to The Sun but an interesting article on the Tories cutting one of their major manifesto pledges at the urging of the cabinet because the manifesto was too unpopular. The policy? No, not fox hunting, capping energy prices, one of the few decent proposals they had!

The best bit is this


The fetishisation of the free market is so loving dumb. Look, I'm sorry, I don't want to spend an hour every month on price comparison websites. I have better things I'd rather do after work. Also the idea that the energy market is a free market in any way just beggars belief, it's much like the railways.

I thought the UK couldn't do poo poo to its power companies as they mostly sold them all off to non-UK companies.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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On Sky News there now, a guy and his family from the 7th floor escaped from the building.
There IS a fire alarm system apparently.

But he said he never heard it being tested, as is away at work all day when its meant to be tested.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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To be clear here. The owners are the local council.

The council is Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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http://www.rydon.co.uk/who-we-are/leadership

Rydon corp.

One or more of these will be in jail soon.

http://www.rydon.co.uk/news/rydon-lands-grenfell-tower-refurbishment-

Their page on Grenfell

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Spuckuk posted:

listening to RTE Radio all day

You poor poor bastard.

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Feb 21, 2005

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Pochoclo posted:

Don't really see what's so crazy about Sinn Fein being in front of Parliament. I mean, in Argentina you have the Montoneros which were rebel terrorists during the 70s/80s and then became the actual government during the Kirchner mandates.

You had a pig fucker in front of No.10.
You had a woman that stopped free milk for school children.
You had a guy lie into a war that is still ongoing
You had a guy who hosed Edwina Curry.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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ukle posted:

Supposedly Lily Allen told the real estimated death toll on the TV when being interviewed by Jon Snow, she got it from the police as she has been one of many helping out there.

Police have a total of over 150 people missing they presume dead - the majority of them are children

This will bring down the government.

Reports are saying there's 600+ people living in the flats. I wouldn't be surprised if there were 3 or 4 kids per bedroom, increasing the amount of dead.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Guavanaut posted:

Electrons will be banned by T. May after she finds out they can carry information useful to terrorists. Enjoy your new job as a floating cloud of ions.

Right now some lowly intern is explaining to May that they can't simply deport the residents of Grenfell now that they don't have any IDs or proof of residence.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Spangly A posted:

anyone seriously making anti-regulation arguments about fire safety rn should have the poo poo kicked out of them

Anyone making anti-regulation about ANYTHING involving business or living conditions should be fired off to Somalia.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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CUDDLING SOMEONE! PSWAH NO ONE NEEDS THAT!

Sargon is turning into a bitter extremist, the more the Tories and Brexit looks poo poo, the more he will turn into this generations Alf Garnett.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Angepain posted:

I'm so glad we have a strong and stable brexit team that strongly cares about these issuesoh god we're hosed

Don't worry man.
I'm sure the rest of us in the EU will fire in supply relief packages once in a while and watch you all fight for them in 4K TV.
Just start teaching your kids bite points on a body that will get arteries.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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"Im going to give you a payrise, you X need more!"
- Says oval office in front of a crowd of X

Of course he will say this kind of poo poo.
Do you think though its due to this:

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-40248366

quote:

There has been a sharp drop in nurses registering to work in the UK since the EU referendum, figures suggest.
Last July, 1,304 nurses from the EU joined the Nursing and Midwifery Council register, compared to 46 in April this year, a fall of 96%.
The Health Foundation said the findings could not be more stark and said they should act as a "wake-up call".

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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learnincurve posted:

I would say May is at a huge risk of being murdered to death. It's not the Muslims or people posting on the internet that the G men need to be scared of. It's the homeless man with nothing to lose or the sweet old man who just got diagnosed with cancer and has simply had enough. Or you know, the fire survivors who just lost their families. These quiet people can't be traced or tracked, they are simply going to walk up to her and stab her. She's made herself the figurehead with all of this "my party" guff, it will make her the target.

Don't do this btw, watching her as her cronies get wiped out in the next election will be sweet enough and tbh we don't really need to watch the Tory papers pretend they care while covering a televised state funeral.

Was thinking of this last night actually, its probably a more risk that potential terrorists will now just burn down other tower blocks.
Instead of ramming a car into a crowd and waving knives about, you find a tower block, take over the first floor of it, fill it with flammable stuff, and then burn it down at 3am.

Do tower blocks in London have much security?

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Halisnacks posted:

Has there been much politicking around the inadequacy of the emergency service response?

To me, most of the narrative seems to be the profit > people one and Tory complicity in that.

They have been saying that the fire crew arrived within 6 minutes.
And to be fair, there is no fire equipment on earth that they use that could have stopped a fire past a certain floor from the outside..

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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I wouldn't be surprised there will be redrafted rent agreements with 'you can not sue us no matter what' soon.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Junior G-man posted:

Most of charing cross hospital services to be disbanded and sprinkled all over london. Charing Cross grounds to be sold for development. Only 13% of the original services to remain.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jun/16/most-of-central-london-hospital-to-be-sold-off-secret-plans-reveal

hahahahahahahahhhahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaahhahahahahahha

Cant have a hospital take up valuable space we can flog off for short term gains!
Now away with you, go hire some prefabs and fill beds with them.
Let the oiks be sick somewhere poorer.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Nuclearmonkee posted:

"Stormed" "Charged"

*large group of people walk in an orderly fashion*

Upto a locked door. That sure is Storming!
gently caress Sky.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Nuclearmonkee posted:

If everyone's going to say their storming the place anyways they should show them what storming actually looks like imo

Im Storming off to the toilet here.
Then Im going to Storm over to the kettle and make myself some coffee.
I may or may not Storm back though, don't want to spill it.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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CptAwesome posted:

What the gently caress

Now you know why Irish is a dead language.
Spent 4 years forced to learn it, loving learning to read RSA encryption protocols in real time is easier.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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PST posted:

May's visit to the church shows she, nope, wait, she really doesn't give a gently caress

https://twitter.com/DavidhBrown/status/875741823435776000

Better meet with the afluent white people of the area, that will do the trick Thersea!
They need reassuring the plebs won't ruin their house prices.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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EvilHawk posted:

I'm getting a bit concerned that May has forgotten that the public exist. When was the last time she actually met someone on the street? She gets shuttled from pre-planned election campaign stop to pre-planned media event at a hospital.

Someone said earlier in the thread May is just not good at contacts or conversations that isn't planned ahead in detail.
Everytime she gets a question that isn't pre-known she starts acting like one of the lizard people.
So meeting anyone on the street must be as alien to her as the warmth of compassion.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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May is a lizard person, not one care or emotion other than slight annoyance.

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Feb 21, 2005

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Pencils R Cool posted:

As with every tragic event, keep away from Facebook if you value your browsing devices' health.



Absolute loving arseholes.

NON-WHITES DID THIS TO THEMSELVES!
HOW DARE THEY INHALE BRITISH SMOKE AND DIE IN BRITISH FIRES!

loving small penised fuckwits.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Looking forward to Sargon of Akkad's excuse for this.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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OwlFancier posted:

I would feel more inclined to wash my dick after touching it with my hands, personally. I spend most of my day crawling around filthy warehouses while my dick gets to spend all day in clean underwear.

I read that 'whorehouses'.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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JFairfax posted:

also I've a friend who commutes into Kensington and told me that the apartment building is clearly visible from the train line. It's about 60 meters from the train line and 110 from the station.

Hundreds of thousands of people are going to see this building every day.

It's a monument to Tory incompetence and greed

Theres no loving way its going to be up for long.
Torn down and sold off for yuppie flats within a year.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Has the Daily Mail started blaming the EU for the fire yet?

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Feb 21, 2005

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DancingShade posted:

Teenagers are going to tag her tombstone with it in 20 years time.

WIth piss.

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Feb 21, 2005

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Ewan posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/16/sun-journalist-grenfell-tower-victim-hospital

What cunts.

King’s College hospital is to lodge a complaint with the press watchdog over a journalist who allegedly impersonated a friend of a victim of the Grenfell Tower fire in order to get an interview with him. The hospital is to file a complaint with the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) about the behaviour of the Sun reporter.

Milly Dowler? Nah, never heard of her.

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