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UK General Election - 8th June 2017 |OT| - The Red Wedding
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I think it's possibly real, because if it was fake it would probably have Abbott saying something incriminating, which it doesn't. All the incriminating sounding stuff comes from his end.
The post about the Evening Standard thing is weird though, because that was public knowledge hours before he posted it, so it's odd he's trying to sell it as news.
She's gone after the election either way.
QuicheFontaine
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lol you absolute madman
He has similar stuff against Mark Carney as well
https://www.ft.com/content/d932b4e4-e378-38d4-bb38-527d3b783e73
I think there's a good chance this is real having done some digging.
Just watched the Sky interview with Diane Abbot from yesterday. Ouch. Interviewer was clearly dragging it out more than it needed to be, but she really should have been able to respond to the questions he was asking. Particularly as she could be Home Secretary in a few days.
Audioboxer
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Time to bring anime back into the thread again. Speaking of Tory voters I actually have some young ones in work. That is worthy of despair.
Limit it to seats they win in Scotland. Have yourself a good time.
When the exit polls come in, we can all consider chasing down a bunch of happy pills with as much alcohol as possible.
Just spoke to my high falutin mates in Scottish Labour (hey I went to school with one of them), they're a bit removed from the UK party business but that pretty much ties in with what they've heard. They're both pretty New Labour though so I imagine if that faction is spreading it, that's who they'll be getting from.
Their words "there's no breakthrough, a Tory majority of 50 would be a 'good night'"
Fernando Fernandez
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I don't think those emails reflect badly on Diane, she seems like she wants to be honest etc.
The ghouls in the comments tagging everyone is cringe. All the Yer Da's tagging Katie Hopkins in anything they don't like these days is twitters worst part.
The ghouls in the comments tagging everyone is cringe. All the Yer Da's tagging Katie Hopkins in anything they don't like these days is twitters worst part.
I'm deciding which one of them to eat when the revolution comes.
Genuine question - how would people INSIDE a political party have more of an insight than pollsters and the like?
It'll never come. We will continue to hate the EU. We will continue to accept immigrants because we don't put the investment in to train our children, so we will continue to have immigrants.
Everything will get worse but nothing will change.
AHA-Lambda
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Fuck me this thread is depressing
They don't.
The lesson from the last few big elections (here and abroad) is that there's very little reason to give much weight to anything anybody says when it comes to predictions.
It'll be what it'll be and we'll all know on Friday.
Free pint of Punk IPA for voting! Lovely stuff
Sweet, I was heading there that night anyway!
Audioboxer
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I've been saying for a while now, the revolution for Scotland is to vote YES >_>
Pls rUK, allow your hate to eat the Union alive and encourage us to bugger off. Then, move on up here once we leave! I do not think we'll be able to fit the whole of rUK Labour voters up here, but we can try!
Goldfishking
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If the tories win then I give up caring about our country. When the NHS and our other public services fall into disrepute, I just won't care. I'll continue to help volunteering at after school clubs, I'll continue to volunteer helping the homeless and spend my money and time helping Andy Burnham to eradicate homelessness in Manchester by 2020. But apart from that, this country is not something I am passionate or care about changing anymore.
Thornton Reed
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Free pint of Punk IPA for voting! Lovely stuff
I read that as IRA haha I wonder why
Most accurate online poll
Sorry, the Guardian live blog described them as the most accurate
I've felt this way since 2015.
Last year truly cemented my thoughts though.
I'm out of here as soon as I can be.
Theonik
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Alcoholition of Chaos.
All labour has to do is do well! I believe!
LET'S DO THIS.
Nah gotta go all in.
Kotetsu534
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(From the Bloomberg link.)
That's exactly what I would expect following the council election and mayoral results last month - Labour consolidating its support in the cities, while the Tories advance across England outside them. I wonder if there's not a real chance that Corbyn will beat Miliband's share of the vote but win fewer seats due to its increased concentration in London, Manchester, Birmingham etc.
Well, you know what the Grauniad are like.
Also nice of them to throw their pollsters ICM under the bus like that, it was all margin of error stuff among most of the (wildly inaccurate) pollsters.
Audioboxer
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It's very difficult to keep caring about people. I live in a working class town with relatively low pay that votes tory consistently. It's maddening. On the plus side, I'm doing alright, but it's just so hard to give a shit about others when they're literally doing it to themselves.
QuicheFontaine
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Ok I'm watching the Conservative Party Political Broadcast and Theresa May just said "exachtly"
Seriously they couldn't be bothered to go back and do another take?
Seriously they couldn't be bothered to go back and do another take?
Jeff agreesyes it is Buckfast
I was about to say it looks like buckfast but can't possibly be, just a wine. Shame on you Jeff. Vile stuff.
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Tfw you understand now how Tories feel.
Tfw you are Tory now.
BossDarkseid
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They couldn't be bothered to cost their manifesto, what makes you think they are about quality control?
Edit: If Labour get in, can we have a Seal of Quality from Nintendo on the Union Jack?
Jezbollah
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Fernando Fernandez
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The amount of people turning up to see Jezza over the past 24 hours in the rain is giving me some hope.
He's currently hosting six simultaneous rallies over satellite from Birmingham. Interested in how many people will be attending the remote ones.
Pretty much. Except we have an even higher percentage of angry white people so we're stuck.
Always happens with lefty politicians I'm afraid. Tories will be quiet as no one wants to sound like a cunt in front of their mates.
Fernando Fernandez
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It was more, if it rains and they're out tonight there won't be many missed votes due to the rain on Thursday.
Oh fuck, where's he doing the speech from?
I just got into Birmingham by train and saw a gathering of people down near Millennium Point/proposed HS2 site.
If that's where he is... he drew a decent crowd.
itsbenoclock
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Had my final driving lesson today. Instructor is having an operation in a week on private because he would have to wait an entire year for an NHS operation. Voting Tory.
Labour Uncut are not the actual source for that article though?
May prepared to change human rights laws to tackle terrorism
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2017/jun/06/general-election-2017-security-farron-knee-jerk-response-politics-live
Theresa May going after human rights laws again, this time using the London Bridge/Manchester tragedies to justify it....
I think he's speaking from Birmingham
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2017/jun/06/general-election-2017-security-farron-knee-jerk-response-politics-live
Theresa May going after human rights laws again, this time using the London Bridge/Manchester tragedies to justify it....
I think he's speaking from Birmingham
firehawk12
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To be fair, this is how Americans feel whenever there's a story about a Trump voter who gets deported or whatever. They brought this on themselves.
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