It was pretty much spot on last time but few believed it leading to the famous "I'll eat my hat" moment from Paddy Ashdown.
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UK General Election - 8th June 2017 |OT| - The Red Wedding
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I've officially lost all hope honestly.
Just got into the discussion with my dad who were voting for.
He's never voted Conservatives in his life and has always been a Labor voter, well he's voting Conservatives cause he can't trust Jeremy Corbyn.
This mentality is in so many older people, fuck.
Just got into the discussion with my dad who were voting for.
He's never voted Conservatives in his life and has always been a Labor voter, well he's voting Conservatives cause he can't trust Jeremy Corbyn.
This mentality is in so many older people, fuck.
Oblong Schlong
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Okay so Im ready to vote.
I have my poll card but mine arrived days ago? Not today like everyone elses?
I guess have until 10pm to post it but is that just any post box?
also where do I write the party? the space on the right?
I have my poll card but mine arrived days ago? Not today like everyone elses?
I guess have until 10pm to post it but is that just any post box?
also where do I write the party? the space on the right?
Sky News is on YouTube, BBC News is on iPlayer
I really think this is important enough to post again for the new page, with only half an hour left:
DodgyGeezerFella
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Wait a second .....
On a serious note, I wonder how many people have tried posting their polling card.
I'm lagging behind that because I have to be up early in the morning, but expecting this bottle of Disaronno to be somewhere near the halfway mark by the time Dimbles breaks the news to us.
You need to get to your polling station stat
31GhostsIV
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You've gained my disappointment by not purchasing Dinky Double Deckers.
thank you
Patrick Bateman
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Germany has this system. You can visit us to see how brilliantly it works.
SictorVullivan
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Why not both?
If this is a serious post, go to you local polling station right now.
Jezbollah
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They exist?? Daaaaaaamn. They didnt have any or I would have bought five packs.
I like your style sir
EDIT: 30 MINUTES TO GOOOOO
itsbenoclock
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Buttons, the wispa bites have that extra texture for the anxious chomping later in the night
Please don't tell me you're being serious.
(Prays this is a joke)
There is a map showing a place near you on that card. Go there. Like right now. You've got 30 minutes until it shuts.
I really hope you were joking though
It is when it doesn't provide the result you want.
Please, tell me you're not serious...
If you're serious, you need to run to your polling station right now.
JonathanEx
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Dinky Deckers are a revelation. But I've gone Crispy M&M.
Little Old Man
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Final bets: conservatives increase their majority by around 40 seats.
Corbyn stays, at the very least until he finds a successor in him image with less baggage to be dug up.
Criticism and evidence that he didn't do enough with marginal constituencies. Issues with communication and coordination for candidates not aligned with Momentum/seen as Blairites.
Despite having a manifesto preferred by many, including regarding the NHS and public services, most non labour voters didn't consider him a leader by comparison with May, with most of these making a decision due more to press attacks rather than legitimate concerns. Labour suffers most of all in areas it once held but which last year voted for Brexit. Including many working class towns.
May loses more political capital due to result, but kept on as a human shield for Brevit negotiations and resulting effects.
Lib Dems have a poor night. Basically tread water. Not sure if Tim goes or not. I think that an interviewer got it right the other night: they're making the right argument about Brexit but five years too early.
UKIP dead in the water
SNP lose about 8 seats, largely to Tories.
Corbyn stays, at the very least until he finds a successor in him image with less baggage to be dug up.
Criticism and evidence that he didn't do enough with marginal constituencies. Issues with communication and coordination for candidates not aligned with Momentum/seen as Blairites.
Despite having a manifesto preferred by many, including regarding the NHS and public services, most non labour voters didn't consider him a leader by comparison with May, with most of these making a decision due more to press attacks rather than legitimate concerns. Labour suffers most of all in areas it once held but which last year voted for Brexit. Including many working class towns.
May loses more political capital due to result, but kept on as a human shield for Brevit negotiations and resulting effects.
Lib Dems have a poor night. Basically tread water. Not sure if Tim goes or not. I think that an interviewer got it right the other night: they're making the right argument about Brexit but five years too early.
UKIP dead in the water
SNP lose about 8 seats, largely to Tories.
I hope I can laugh at this post for how wrong it is...sigh
Wispa bites are nothing but air.
I'd say go wild with the Buttons first, and then pad out your cravings for more with the Wispa bites as the evening wears on.
Jezbollah
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QuicheFontaine
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Whew, just arrived in west Wales, I've got my bottle of Penderyn, I'm pumped.
Deploy Dimbleby. Let's have a goddamn election.
Deploy Dimbleby. Let's have a goddamn election.
Many people seem to vote not on policies and manifestos, but which leader they trust and like the look of. And which way their parents voted. My mum and dad were working class, yet they always voted Tory despite the Tories never having done a single fucking thing for them.
SlipperyFishes
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No, you go to a polling station and speak to someone - they give you a slip of paper and you post that in their box.
Leave now. Please.
31GhostsIV
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They exist?? Daaaaaaamn. They didnt have any or I would have bought five packs.
I like your style sir
EDIT: 30 MINUTES TO GOOOOO
Oh yes, they helped me through a viewing of Alien: Covenant..
Royal_Phalanx
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I know this is an obvious troll attempt because you seem to like doing it to wind people up, because why else would someone try to defend an objectively bad voting system but yes, most of the world recognizes that FPTP is terrible. Don't even try to defend it. Even if UKIP got 20% of the seats under some form of PR I would still ask for it.
Also I should note that I did see a few young people in there when I cast my vote even though it was quite late.
DodgyGeezerFella
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Oh yes, they helped me through a viewing of Alien: Covenant..
My goodness .....
Soon, like 25 minutes.
Jezbollah
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Oh yes, they helped me through a viewing of Alien: Covenant..
Good lord. I'm all over that.
Exit polls will be revealed bang on 2200.
That reminds me, thank fuck E3 starts this weekend. Will be a good way to forget the results for a while that doesn't involve ruining your liver.
itsbenoclock
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Already overdone it on the Wispas and Haribos. I'm tapped out.
Eh, even when I agree with the result FPTP is still a fucking broken mess of a system.
Oh yes, they helped me through a viewing of Alien: Covenant..
I love Double Deckers but these were incredibly disappointing to me. Is there something wrong with my tastebuds?
Camp Freddie
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Various reasons. Individual seats may be lib/con marginals so voting lab makes no sense. 10% nationally is often 30-40% locally.
Many seats are safe Tory wins, so Liberals like me might as well make our protest vote for the party we like best. The tory arsehole will win it anyway. Roughly equivalent to a Californian voting for a third candidate despite preferring Clinton to Trump.
Lastly, a lot of libdem voters are closer to Tories than Labour, believing in personal freedoms, (regulated) free markets amd devolving power to local level instead of national level. Labour's nationalisation policies and the fact that the leadership are communists might be more scary to them than the tories (I am not one of those Libdem, but they do exist).
Oh, and my two cents on the LibDem 'betrayal' of 2010. I think the big mistake was in making the tuition fee promise without stopping to think whether they could implement it. It came across as a cynical lie to steal the student vote from labour, since the yoof will always hate the establishment and labour had been in power for 13 years. I believe it was incompetence rather than malice, but the end result was that they u-turned on their most publicised policy.
Also, LeedsGAF represent. ThereAreDozensOfUs.gif
UnblessedSoul
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Voted Labour in Tory safe spot, Seems to me all the ukip voters have switched to the tories. Hold onto your butts.
Waldo Lydecker
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I know, happily we Dutch people have the same system. And yeah, Germany is also awesome!
Rhineland >>>> Anglo-saxon
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