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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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themrguy posted:

Does whoever wins HAVE to to do brexit? The ref. was nonbinding, couldn't lib dems hypothetically win and then be all "lol nope" to exiting? Has anything legally binding been signed?
Here's the thing: the whole idea of 'legality' and 'having to do things' gets v murky when you reach the level of nation states. So:

Within the framework of the European Union, now A50 is triggered the UK has to leave unless everyone else says 'no we know you didn't mean it'.

Withing the framework of the United Kingdom, Parliament is sovereign. It can do whatever the gently caress a majority of MPs want to do.

'What a majority of MPs want to do' practically means that Parliament can do anything that won't get a substantial number of MPs turfed out of office. Which in the current atmosphere, going back on Brexit would.

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because the immediate followup question is 'then why did you vote against the equality act'

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Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:

mansplaining a thing

mansplaining is definitely a thing. i am a man and i do it all the time (though less often than i used to. i think)

ask your girlfriend/wife/sister/female friend whether you do it. expect them to say 'god yes' and then probably 'but everyone else does it too so don't worry!!!!'

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more generally: yes, there exist people in the ~social justice sphere~ who persecute people who voice opinions they don't like. the reason that this thread is laughing at you is because that's exactly what happens to women and minorities whenever they voice their own opinion, but on a much more damaging scale. you've just never noticed it because your (my) group weren't subject to anything like it until very, very recently.

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Raeg posted:

ALL POLLS SHOCK POLLS: TORIES WITH A 40 POINT LEAD DUE TO NUKES.
fieldwork would've finished a few days ago

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Feb 5, 2006

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Flayer posted:

We often shop in Borough Market, we've eaten in Brindisa, we've been to Katzenjammer. There is a very real possibility that people I know and love could be the victims of Islamic terror.

And for 20-34 yo men (which I assume most of this thread fits into), that possibility is somewhere on par with 'victim of falling off things'



http://visual.ons.gov.uk/what-are-the-top-causes-of-death-by-age-and-gender/

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It is really important to take the incredible emotional response that terrorism prompts, and compare it against your response to fears of many other things that you don't really think about day-to-day. If you find yourself worrying far more about your loved ones dying from terrorism than dying from a car accident, then you should consider worrying more about car accidents or less about terrorism.

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Angepain posted:

I didn't think accidental poisoning would be such an issue. What's the cause of that, substance abuse? Not cooking your meat properly?
guessing it's mostly alcohol poisoning

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Gort posted:

Fake edit: gently caress, that's not even the worst of it. UKIP gets the same vote share as the SNP, but gets no MPs at all,
in 2015 UKIP got 13% and one MP; SNP got 5% and 56 MPs

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Barry Foster posted:

I woke up with a lump of ice in my belly, and I feel sick.

God, I hate elections.
get on betfair and put a substantial chunk of money on a tory victory

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Mr. Flunchy posted:

Haha, I remember loads of people itt betting on Hillary "its free money!".

if you're emotionally invested in a tory win, you should put money on labour

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Feb 5, 2006

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Grapplejack posted:

May has done nothing but trip over herself in public, so this wouldn't be a shocking outcome at this point!

yes it would

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:siren: corbyn's going to lose and may will be returned with an increased majority :siren:

stock up on nytol and make sure you're well asleep before 10pm

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you are all loving poo poo at managing your expectations

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Libluini posted:

Is your mom a ghost? Does she hate eating? This is the most nonsensical thing I've heard about this month. She does know where food comes from, yes?

Abroad?

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Feb 5, 2006

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:siren: I was totally wrong about the electability of Jeremy Corbyn and you were all right :siren:

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e: nm

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some joker on twitter is claiming DUP will hold out for reunification

lol

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https://twitter.com/George_Osborne/status/873145672672968704

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Dan Didio posted:

lmao reports that the Conservatives had no idea this was coming, saw the exit poll, freaked the gently caress out, saw the first results dribble in, calmed down, saw the rest, freaked the gently caress out.

link

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WeAreTheRomans posted:

So, May could go to Buckingham Palace without any kind of DUP deal in place? Wild
Cabinet manual says the incumbent government gets first dibs if it wants it.

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https://twitter.com/KayBurley/status/873163775519731713

q: what're the biggest asks the DUP could make

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Feb 5, 2006

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because jfc they've got her over a barrel

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tekz posted:

So why's everyone so happy?

until last night we were all expecting a +100 seat tory majority

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Feb 5, 2006

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as it is, everything but the very centre their policy program is going to grind to a halt

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Feb 5, 2006

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are there any hot takes on whether the Lords are bound by the Salisbury convention when no manifesto got a majority

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https://twitter.com/bbcquestiontime/status/873180421802086400

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did anyone figure out where Phil Hammond's​ been for the last two months

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TheRat posted:

It could have been better, but it's still loving amazing. This was the election where Labour were supposed to die. Instead we got a hung parliament and this:

https://twitter.com/FraserNelson/status/873081902558699520

everyone should click through this for the chain below it

https://twitter.com/dcbalkwill/status/873083788229660675

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communism bitch posted:

Just for a second imagine if Corbyn hadn't been given the bare minimum of nominations for the leadership election and we'd ended up instead with a choice of Cooper, Kendall, the other one, and a randomly selected 4th Blairite.
Just imagine how last night would have turned out. Labour could actually be dead this morning if everything else had played out the same but with a Blairite in charge.

this is as bad an argument as the people saying 'if a milquetoast lib had been chosen, we'd be in majority now!'

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SpaceDrake posted:

... how the piss is May not directly out on her rear end right now? How the hell are the Tories not revolting?

they almost certainly are

but the first part of staging a successful coup is not letting the leader find out there's a coup

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/09/ruth-davidson-planning-scottish-tory-breakaway-challenges-theresa/

quote:

Ruth Davidson is to defy Theresa May’s plans for a hard Brexit and tear her Scottish party away from English control after the UK Tories’ disastrous General Election result.

Amid a growing clamour among senior Tories in London for Ms Davidson to be given a top position in the UK party, her aides are working on a deal that would see the Scottish party break away to form a separate organisation.

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have any of the senior cabinet members come out in support of may yet

i see lots of quotes from backbench nobodies, but nothing from bozza/hammond/davis/etc

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itshappeningbutwithcorbyn.gif

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needs party breakdown

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ukle posted:

He is getting better and better. He is really looking and acting like the PM now, the Tories must be making GBS threads themselves given its going to take a miracle for there not to be a new election in the next window i.e. August.

why the hell is two thirds of parliament going to vote for a new election when jcorbs has a polling advantage

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(really they only need 51% to overturn the fixed term parliaments act, but 67% would be better)

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Feb 5, 2006

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https://twitter.com/AllThatIsSolid/status/831799908772564992

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https://twitter.com/SiobhanFenton/status/873913742949584896

incidental, Fenton's a great one to follow for NI politics stuff

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freebooter posted:

You can opt out of driving and voting. You can't opt out of living.
can you opt out of council tax too?

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