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May 7th | UK General Election 2015 OT - Please go vote!
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we have had 5 years of 'look at those lazy fucks taking all your tax money. things would be so much better if you let us fuck them over' being drummed into us
are you surprised?
To be honest, I expect anyone making less than six figures to be thrown into an incinerator by the end of next week.
To be fair to him, Scottish Labour has been in terminal decline for years now; a couple of months as leader was never going to prevent the total wipeout of yesterday.
Spuck-uk
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The conservatives are funded by and answerable to business concerns.
Businesses aren't stupid enough to want out of Europe.
Yep. His heart was definitely in this. It really is a shame so many pissed all over Labour's manifesto. What really got me, though, and you'll have to excuse the derogatory language here, but I overheard a group of lads yesterday saying they'd 'never vote for a retard who is unable to get his words out' - they were pretty much saying they chose not to vote for Ed based purely on his speech impediment. Utter cunts. I really hope Ed doesn't lose too much heart over this.
Diablohead
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Driving to the palace always reminds me of playing MSR on my dreamcast, lol.
Audioboxer
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Disgusting people.
SymbiantXenos
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Plot twist. Queen calls for best two out of three elections.
People that vote for them, yet feel shame at knowing it's the wrong thing to do. And then don't have the guts to even admit to it. I can't grasp it.
JonathanEx
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The challenge is that with such a tiny majority, Cameron has to pay a bit more attention to the crazier wings of the party who'll want to leave.
CyclopsRock
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Hehehe. I like how the only two options you can consider viable are either SELFISH or FEAR. Is the idea that people may think the prospectus of a conservative government may make the country a better place really that hard to believe? I think that's a little bit caricature and naive. I support conservative policies because I think that, on the whole, they'll make the country a better place. We exist. Perhaps 11m of us, actually.
Psychotext
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Nah, we need them for the twitter mines.
NHS spending has barely increased in real terms (less so even than under Thatcher's government), and combined with 'efficiency savings' has led to massive falloffs in quality of service across the board.
Legalisation of gay marriage, sure, it was inevitable anyway though. Defense spending cuts is again fairly minor as far as I'm concerned.
This is coupled with vicious and deliberate attacks on the people in society least able to defend themselves. At least I could honestly say that I think Thatcher believed she was doing good, even if she was actually callously ruining the livelihoods of thousands of people. Cameron's Tories laughed while they announced that they were slashing benefits. They were barely able to contain their glee as they started the project of dismantling all of Labour's 20th century victories for the common man.
And now with a majority government it'll continue apace. Part of the reason I can't imagine the future of the British left is because I can no longer imagine the future of the British left's institutions.
Cameron's Tories are the most radically right wing party Britain has ever elected. To suggest that they're liberal is a cruel joke.
Audioboxer
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Its cool, I'm pretty poor and I'll open up my Scottish home for English immigration via some sleeping bags and my open food bank, erm, kitchen fridge I mean.
Kotetsu534
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I think when you sit down and look at the vote share in England calmly, you get back to the importance of the UKIP vote. The Tories marginally increased their vote share and so did Labour. But UKIP, as mentioned above, came 2nd in 118 seats, a good number of them in the north and middle of England, successfully convincing disaffected voters to come with them instead of Labour, while the Tories did a much better job of limiting bleeding to them (learning from the European Elections last year). The Greens also didn't die off despite a bad campaign, increasing their vote share by 2.8%.
The Lib Dem collapse is more eye catching, but both Labour and the Tories did a good job of feasting on their carcass, even if the Tories naturally benefitted more. As for Scotland, well, it may be gone for good after tonight - I expect a big offer of fiscal power in exchange for less presence at Westminster.
I think this election will go down as "the one Ed lost" but history will also show he was dealt a hard hand - attacked ruthlessly and relentlessly by the right, undercut by a clearer, cynical call to the disaffected by Farage's UKIP, and overran in Scotland by a force that no possible Labour leader could have stopped. Labour will presumably tack to the right from here.
The Lib Dem collapse is more eye catching, but both Labour and the Tories did a good job of feasting on their carcass, even if the Tories naturally benefitted more. As for Scotland, well, it may be gone for good after tonight - I expect a big offer of fiscal power in exchange for less presence at Westminster.
I think this election will go down as "the one Ed lost" but history will also show he was dealt a hard hand - attacked ruthlessly and relentlessly by the right, undercut by a clearer, cynical call to the disaffected by Farage's UKIP, and overran in Scotland by a force that no possible Labour leader could have stopped. Labour will presumably tack to the right from here.
Charles Brandon
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Absolutely I accept that. But that doesn't account for the polling discrepancies. The numbers seem to suggest that the SNP issue tipped the balance.
Mr. Luchador
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They'll become poopsmiths?!
Finally the North-East has something to do again! Rejoice Ashington the pits are opening back up... kinda.
From my Facebook feed I believe this to be the case, then all their council housing will be demolished and replaced with expensive upmarket flats for wealthy foreigners to buyup as investments while the few remaining working class are forced to polish shoes on the street and treat themselves with old remedies and tonics stirred up in old Aldi baked beans cans.
I mean fucking hell I'm a Labour voter but some folk need a quick step back and give it a second before jumping to the end of the world and applying for German citizenships.
More Fun To Compute
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Thatcher realised how awful a lot of her policies were early on and quietly went on in a much less radical way. Maybe a similar thing happened with Cameron or maybe the opposite will happen and he will feel that it's time to open the radical Thatcherite flood gates now he has a majority?
The Tories won't dismantle the NHS, it is far to popular with the grey vote. The Kings Fund report earlier this year showed that the reforms didn't bring any increase in privatisation.
Nah the poor people will be roundly mocked in the media, like they've been for the past 5 years.
This. I pass a hospital on my way home from work, so I'm expecting the Tory stormtroopers to already be there selling everything off and shooting the sick.
Make no mistake, it's on the table. They'll continue to mothball it until the service is catastrophically terrible, and then they'll announce more 'efficiency improvements' in the form of another round of privatisations.
Yeah, it's a bit nuts. I think the Tories are the worst of the 2 viable options we had for the country, but compared to somewhere like the US Republicans, they're not that awful.
EU membership going away might make me brush up on my German, but not even the Tories themselves want that.
How depressing. They criticised Labour for their stupid big brother activities (which is why I voted Lib Dem in 2010) and now they're doing the same things they criticised Labour for.
The United Kingdom doesn't stand a chance, it's fucked. Left wing politics is dead, Scotland is going to go independent and we're most likely going to leave the EU.
What a fucking embarrassment.
Perhaps I should move to the soon to be independent Scotland...
Now that the Lib Dems are gone there is no one else to take the blame. How the Tories act this parliament depends on whether or not they want to try and win in 2020 or just say "fuck it we are getting voted out anyway". I wouldn't want to be the ones that replaces Cameron either way.
AHA-Lambda
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Tory majority!! 
I'm going to be in Germany in two weeks, better let people know I'm not going to look for a new home.
aygomyownroad
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Love Al's face!
Poor people are roundly mocked. Rich people are roundly despised. The fuckers in the middle (most of us) are beaten from pillar to post. Everyone's got someone out for 'em.
MudoSkills
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Just saw that the Conservatives got seat 326. Was sick in my mouth a little bit.
yeah this is how im seeing things. I dont believe that this result is the end game that many here are making it out to be.
Infinite_Daremo
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The seat system is such a pile of shit!
Nah, they can get fucked over still. I think some of the policies they've already brought up last term that didn't get implemented could cause a major swing back. Just depends if people actually have some long memories for once or how early the Tories put those wheels into motion.
anonymous_abc
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ComRes poll regarding in out referendum from two days ago.
roundly despised so much that millions of people will vote for them to run the country in a way that makes life worse for the poor.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/how-to-leave-the-united-kingdom-10234980.html
Independent not wasting any time.
Independent not wasting any time.
ComRes poll regarding in out referendum from two days ago.
Can we just ignore all polls from now on?
anonymous_abc
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This is significantly easier to poll than FPTP is.
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