Guavanaut posted:

It Is Still Continuing to Happen

Angepain posted:

I hope we have a good election that goes well, and not a bad one that goes bad.


Every detail of this is glorious.

baka kaba posted:

That's a hell of an act. What do you call it?

unwantedplatypus posted:

Would somebody mind giving an semi-detailed explanation of how the left retook the labour party in Britain; and also what Momentum is and what it does? Understandable if y'all would rather point me to a link.

I know google is handy but I find a human touch helps me take in information better.

WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:

The group profile pic is a blurry cock.

Pochoclo posted:

You fools, the forbidden rituals performed by Her Majesty were the only things keeping the Great Old Ones from invading our reality

happyhippy posted:

Look, matey, I know a dead queen when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.

RockyB posted:

Sweeeet, I don't have to spend £5,000 on getting a years train pass anymore. Only £3,500!

The queen thing is obviously going to turn out to be false, again, but lmao at what it says about the state of this country that a couple of squaddies loving around generates a 150,000 tweet shitstorm.

Lib Dems won't support Labour nationalisation plans posted:

The Lib Dems would not support Labour's plans to renationalise key industries in the event of a hung Parliament, the party's leader Jo Swinson has said.

She told the BBC Radio 5's Pienaar's Politics the policy was a "distraction" and not "the way forward".

The Lib Dems and Labour have both ruled out a coalition deal if there is no clear general election winner.

Asked if she would try to block Labour from forming a minority government, she said it was a "fantasy situation".

"Nobody is expecting, on the current scenario, that Jeremy Corbyn is getting anywhere near Downing Street and the Liberal Democrats are going to put him there.

"So the Labour manifesto, it's a wish list, they cannot deliver it."
[...]
Asked whether she would support Labour's plans, Ms Swinson told Pienaar's Politics: "No, I think renationalisation is a distraction.

"I don't think it's a way to deliver better public services and I think it's taking us away from, actually, how do you make things better for people?"
[...]
Pushed for further clarity on whether the Lib Dems would block the renationalisation of water, Ms Swinson said: "We don't think that renationalisation is the way forward."

XMNN posted:

according to the trash future manifesto episode their solution to trains is to increase competition by allowing local authorities and nonprofits to bid for franchises

they're loving mental

Xaintrailles posted:

Hi UKMT, I made a "game" - Election Night Bingo 2019

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/743265

Featuring thread-favourite jokes and a load of tossers to celebrate getting voted out. Hope you have fun playing along on Jezza's Big Day!

I lurk but this thread moves too fast for me so if something's broken or whatever sa.xaintrailles@gmail.com

Gorn Myson posted:

I wouldn't worry about it. Just look at this effort, and then look at the responses.

https://twitter.com/OldRoberts953/status/1201602924922753024?s=20

The right doesn't have a sense of humour. They don't even know how to shitpost.

Azza Bamboo posted:

I wouldn't say I work hard at art, my linework is incredibly sloppy, but it's good to know that it's left an impression on someone. I don't make a lot of political comics at the moment because I can't predict when inspiration will strike and sometimes I just have nothing.

For some reason inspiration has struck on one of the Fallout 3 LPs so I draw a lot there now.

Dozens planned new centrist party after Brexit, says ex-Tory minister posted:

Nick Boles says ‘final resolve’ of supporters was lacking

Advanced plans for another centrist political party to be launched after Brexit were developed by MPs earlier this year, it has emerged.

Dozens of figures from inside and outside Westminster were involved in the project, designed to go public once a second Brexit referendum was no longer possible.

Nick Boles, the former Conservative minister who quit the party over Brexit in April, said he had been “constantly” in talks about a possible new party and had at one point been confident it would happen. An earlier failed attempt to launch a new party, Brexit delays and the tantalising prospect of a second referendum had stopped it.

“It’s almost all I’ve been doing,” Boles said. “I can’t mention names, but it involved some very seriously good people, both MPs and not MPs, but people of great ability, experience and commitment. We had everything in a sense, except for the final resolve of a sufficient number of the individuals we needed in the Labour party. Without that, we were never going to get anywhere.

“If you’d asked me a few months ago, I would’ve been very optimistic that by now, something would’ve been up and running. Probably I deluded myself. Because I had made the break, and because I hadn’t thought about it for a very long time and did it in stages, I somehow assumed that it was easier for others to take the same journey than it is. What I’ve realised is that it’s a very difficult journey.”

Boles, who is standing down as an MP at this election, said the project could only have succeeded if Brexit had been secured, allowing those wanting a soft Brexit and those wanting a second referendum to unite.
[...]
He said the failure of the party of 11 MPs launched in February, initially under the banner of The Independent Group (TIG), damaged public appetite for a new party. Initial success evaporated after the group changed its name and struggled with a lack of organisational strength.

“It was a jumping of the gun on a process that had begun but hadn’t matured,” he said. “Because TIG happened too soon and screwed it up, that gave those who were more nervous about the idea an excuse not to [split].

“It’s not impossible that Theresa May’s Brexit deal could have got through parliament, maybe at the second time of asking. Then I think, a potential second attempt at creating something new might easily had happened, and might even have been more likely than not.”

While it was not impossible such a force could happen from within parliament, Boles said it could actually emerge as a campaign outside Westminster. “The question for people like me is, I guess, is that it?” he said. “Throughout the process where I was having these conversations and planning meetings with various others mainly in the Labour party since I left, a number of people said to me, ‘Nick, I admire what you’re trying to do, I wish you all the success, but this is not how it is going to work’. It will work if it’s a genuine, grassroots political movement that gathers force and takes parliament by storm - and erupts into an election cycle.

“It won’t be something that is made up of a bunch of MPs elected for some other party and [who] for various reasons became disenchanted and created a liferaft to clamber aboard. I must say, while it’s very hard for a movement of that kind to succeed, I sort of buy the argument that that is how it’s got to happen.”

Coohoolin posted:

I have a favour to ask of T H E H I V E M I N D, I've been googling but I can't seem to find a copy of the cartoon reposted by Neale Hanvey that got him suspended by the SNP for antisemitism, it's supposed to be a George Soros Puppetmaster cartoon, if anyone kens how to find it I'd be grateful, would come in handy having the original.

Flipswitch posted:

This is the bit i'm wary about, how much the right wing press would interfere with a Labour government.

Azza Bamboo posted:

Lib Dems push them over the line and it's 2010 all over again baby, watch the nation sink into the deepest of dark pockets and find nought but the fluff at the bottom. Not even a skills wallet in there.

pippy posted:

How do you make the canvasser waste as much time on you as possible? Every minute you make them waste is one less with someone who might change their mind.

OwlFancier posted:

I still can't get over boris sending his mate and his dad to tell the journalists to stop being mean to him.

Like wouldn't you just be mortified to have your loving dad turn up at your job???

serious gaylord posted:

Is there a word for the amount of glee i would feel for Swinson losing her seat?

OwlFancier posted:

Isn't that what eudaimonia is?

TACD posted:

Definitely add all the CUKTIGs to this list, each one of those will be a treat. Unless they’re on there already, I honestly have no clue who’s left in that lot now.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Who gives a poo poo about any of them apart from Chuka and our big milky boy?

oxford_town posted:

I know this was a few pages back, but Heidi Allen isn't standing, Luciana Berger is standing but in Finchley & Golders Green, and Angela Smith is standing for Altrincham and Sale West.

ThomasPaine posted:

That survation poll has really thrown me lads and I'm dangerously close to despair. Someone please provide a reassuring counterpoint...

ThomasPaine posted:

Oh yeah usually I'd agree, it's just that survation were very very accurate last time. I'm wondering whether it may have gone to their heads...

Guavanaut posted:

You forgot alectryomancy and also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-dButYcv14

Camrath posted:

Loving the 10:1 ratio.

Azza Bamboo posted:

Jeremy destroys the Anglican church, leaving moderate Brits spiritually homeless.

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/1204157017545424901?s=19

The Interview: the BBC’s new Rottweiler, Emma Barnett, on why politicians fear her posted:

“Weirdly, sometimes normal questions are difficult for politicians to answer.” Interview by Decca Aitkenhead

Azza Bamboo posted:

Doccykins posted:

Massively looking forward to the gammon rage on polling day from low info voters when they can't find the brexit party on their ballots

XMNN posted:

it's Emma Barnett

you may remember her from this exchange where she sounds like she genuinely thinks it's unreasonable to be opposed to the existence of billionaires

jabby posted:

https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1204168230346067968
Holy poo poo he actually called them out.

ThomasPaine posted:

exit poll is released when polls close at 10pm, it's usually relatively accurate. After that the results come in through the night with the majority coming in a flurry between 1am and 3am. By 3/4 you basically know which way it's gone but the final couple of seats don't usually declare till late friday morning.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

LBC are doing it live until 6am.
Have you got radio on your phone or elsewhere?

Bundy posted:

It's been a loving good day comrades.

Julio Cruz posted:

radio earpiece? although I wouldn't know where to get one except at a cricket ground

WhatEvil posted:

Am I having a stroke?

baka kaba posted:

I'm also friends with that one nurse

the nurse is namtab

Bundy posted:

Morning comrades, anyone else still enjoying a poo poo eating grin from yesterday?

https://twitter.com/BBCr4today/status/1204314711589822466?s=09

quote:

It’s like watching a wasp land on a stinging nettle: someone’s going to get stung and you don’t care.