frankie_baby
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To be fair if the soaps had pushed the food bank thing a few years ago we might not be in quite the mess we are now
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UK General Election - 8th June 2017 |OT| - The Red Wedding
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To be fair if the soaps had pushed the food bank thing a few years ago we might not be in quite the mess we are now
Ravensmash
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Oh it's working for a select few.
By austerity they mean the most vulnerable become the hardest hit.
Annoying that it's 2017 and people can't see this.
The Tories have too much sway in the media sadly.
I see nothing wrong with it.
I think you are giving people too much credit, they see it and don't give a single shit
Well, there's nothing wrong with it if you're a decent human being.
Guerrillas in the Mist
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Literally a few minutes from where I work - kinda glad I wasn't heading that way for lunch today.
Also, Perthshire has traditionally been a Tory stronghold in Scotland (lots of tweed, farming, and reasonably wealthy people) - this has been an absolute target for the Conservatives at this election.
Theonik
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That's because you're (probably) not a racist white person.
Coriolanus
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Would be a bit better phrased with "trusts the" instead of "can be trusted to unlock", which implies, along with the pic, that they need a White Savior to reach their potential.
But then, quite unlikely that most persons willing to read that far into the picture would vote tory, so whatever.
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https://twitter.com/SamCoatesTimes/status/869662208892030976
The Times' lead story.
TO THE HAPPENING BUNKER
The Times' lead story.
TO THE HAPPENING BUNKER
True
I'm not even white let a lone racist 😛
I'm black and get what he is saying, that's all that matters to me. But yeah it will probably be twisted.
The guy apparently makes not far off £1,000,000 a year. He is apparently annoyed that the amount of money he spends to send his children to elite schools is going to increase somewhat. He is evidently out of touch enough that he doesn't even realise how ridiculous it was to include that complaint at the end of his question. It is hard to view him as anything other than... well... clueless, and perhaps even callous.
A small business owner trying to ask a prospective Prime Minister about his policies is fine, but all the flavour text he added in around the sides made him sound like a fool.
Guerrillas in the Mist
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I'm not getting my hopes up... but my god...
Something about this has to be wrong surely.
Sounds like Corbyn's been watching Dragonball.
Chocolate & Vanilla
Fuck Strawberry
Huw_Dawson
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This song is how I feel right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KThlYHfIVa8Bear in mind that is Yougov polling, so that's with higher than usual youth/non-voter vote.
Iain Dale is having a meltdown on Twitter though.
FlammableD
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pleasepleaseplease
NI? Thats DUP right?
Huw_Dawson
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DUP, Sinn Fein (who do not take their seats), SDLP, UUP and possibly Alliance.
SDLP = Labour allies
DUP = Tory allies
UUP = Less Tory allies but still Tory allies, IIRC
SF = Screw over the maths of the Commons as they don't take their seats
Alliance = Lib Dem allies
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No, that's all the Northern Ireland MPs put together. There's 18 seats for NI. The DuP would be about 9 of those, give or take.
To be a fly on the wall at CCHQ right now.
yeah, trying make something meaningful out of something everyone expected
Theonik
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That chimes with my projections last night. I have them pegged at 300-325 seats unless something major happens.
That would require a pretty wide conspiracy that would damage the reputation of pollsters. I doubt that is happening
Guerrillas in the Mist
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All the NI parties lumped together. I think it'd only make a real difference nationally if the Tories are just a couple short of a majority, in which case they could hope to formulate an agreement with a few DUP MPs, but NI-GAF can straighten me out if I'm off the mark there.
Royal_Phalanx
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PROGRESSIVE COALITION PLZ
Huw_Dawson
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The Tories can be short something like 13 and still form an entirely functional government - the DUP are a closely allied party and they're getting either 7 or 8 seats this time depending on if Alliance steal Belfast East.
After that it gets tough. I think the UUP are Tory-allied. That would get the number to maybe 19 short. There's an independent and possibly Alliance, neither of them would want to be in a Unionist-backed coalition.
VendettaRed07
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I have no idea how this works but, if Conservative falls short of a majority can SNP/Lib throw their seats to labour ?
Guerrillas in the Mist
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Lab + SNP + LD + PC + Caroline Lucas + whoever we can scrape up from NI
A true Voltron government, but one I'd happily take at this point.
Huw_Dawson
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Before anyone gets excited:
Tim Farron has vowed absolutely no coalitions with Corbyn or May. Not even if we get a second referendum, PR, special backrubs or Corbyn's home made jam.
However, if you want to block Brexit... you might want to vote LD now.
Tim Farron has vowed absolutely no coalitions with Corbyn or May. Not even if we get a second referendum, PR, special backrubs or Corbyn's home made jam.
However, if you want to block Brexit... you might want to vote LD now.
Wow.
Theonik
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That's how coalition governments work. Well. No seats are given up but the parties involve agree to form a government together.
Wrestlemania
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Before anyone gets excited:
Tim Farron has vowed absolutely no coalitions with Corbyn or May. Not even if we get a second referendum, PR, special backrubs or Corbyn's home made jam.
However, if you want to block Brexit... you might want to vote LD now.
That must have seemed like a very smart thing for him to say when it appeared there was no chance of anything other than a massive Tory majority.
Where is the proof? I read the tweet and followed the link in the tweet (https://companycheck.co.uk/director/908467388/MANEET--KAPOOR/financials) and I couldn't see anything indicating he's making that. I feel like I'm missing something here.
Edit - I think I worked it out. The guy who made the tweet added up the Net Worth of the companies to get the £915.5k figure (even though it's actually £913.5k). This is not indicative of his income at all.
Before anyone gets excited:
Tim Farron has vowed absolutely no coalitions with Corbyn or May. Not even if we get a second referendum, PR, special backrubs or Corbyn's home made jam.
However, if you want to block Brexit... you might want to vote LD now.
I don't think the Liberal Democrats are likely to be large enough to realistically form part of a coalition, but to be honest, as a pragmatist, I find the idea of voting for a third party who isn't willing to govern ... challenging.
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310 CON + 9 DUP + 1 UUP is 320, against 257 LAB + 50 SNP + 3 PC + 3 SDLP +1 Green + 1 Sylvia Hermon is 315. Take out SF and the Speaker and the Lib Dems hold the balance of power; which means minority Conservative government. So I'm not too excited.
EDIT: Also for the love of god can Scottish Labour recover please!
EDIT: Also for the love of god can Scottish Labour recover please!
Ravensmash
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Yeah, I'm kind of annoyed at the parties refusing to work together tbh.
Now, how to back away from that...
Lab/Con Coalition Government of National Unity incoming.
killer_clank
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Something about this seems super off to me - I vaguely remember YouGov had a "seat sentiment" thing in 2015 and it was totally naff, had labour saving double digits in Scotland
Ravensmash
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I chundered everywhere.
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I don't think you'll hear about coalition stuff until the last minute. I just feel like it's risking votes to whatever party when you start talking about coalitions.
Despite the good news I just don't believe polling has any value as of late.
Despite the good news I just don't believe polling has any value as of late.
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