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PostPosted: 05-29-2017 10:53 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Read through the thread from the beginning. I find this election fascinating.

I think Corbyn is the one true chance at derailing the established system of capitalism, which has tipped so far in favour of the top that the bottom is now beginning to crumble away. You only need to walk around the streets of Manchester to see the sharp rise in homelessness in the last 5 years. Murdock and Co, with their hate campaign on Jezzer have further added fuel to the fire of the Tin Foil Hat brigade and the paranoia has now entered the mainstream. Anti-establishment round 3 as been ignited!

I think he's got a good shot. I hope he's half decent as a PM as he has been as the Challenger (it's a lot harder at the top), and I'm glad he's wearing a decent suit now. Do I think he's "The New Hope", the saviour to fix our nation... not completely. But I think he can be the catalyst of some much needed change which will result in an improved system for everyone.

I picture this whole thing as a really slow moving pendulum. We want the pendulum to rest in the middle, but it's been swinging towards the right for a long long time. It needs someone with some serious left thrust to bring it towards the centre again, and Corbyn and his rapid renationalisation plans is just that. He'll over shoot the mark and we'll end up overly left, and will need someone a little more right to correct that later, but he's what we need today. May will destroy everything if she's elected in.
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PostPosted: 05-31-2017 11:51 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I've not seen the last half hour, but the first hour involved a huge amount of Conservatives ownage :o.
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PostPosted: 05-31-2017 11:51 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


but where's Theresa? LOL what a coward
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PostPosted: 05-31-2017 11:58 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Really is unbelievable, I don't get her logic.
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PostPosted: 05-31-2017 11:59 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I like Farron's comment at the start

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But Lib Dem leader Tim Farron did take a swipe at the Tory leader, saying: "Where do you think Theresa May is tonight?

"Take a look out your window. She might be out there sizing up your house to pay for your social care."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-40105324
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PostPosted: 05-31-2017 12:00 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Lol Tim. That was OK for lib dem.
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PostPosted: 05-31-2017 12:03 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Farron's savage, what a great closing statement. "May didn't bother to show up, so why bother to listen to the Tories closing statement - get a cuppa ready, Bake Off's on next "
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PostPosted: 06-07-2017 02:51 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


The headlines this morning :tard:



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PostPosted: 06-07-2017 03:29 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-40184826

about fucking time :olo:
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PostPosted: 06-07-2017 08:32 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Proper house of cards shit :olo:
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PostPosted: 06-07-2017 10:24 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


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PostPosted: 06-07-2017 10:38 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


oh wow :olo:
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PostPosted: 06-07-2017 09:11 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


:olo:
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lol
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PostPosted: 06-08-2017 09:02 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Hung parliament here we come, hopefully May won't survive this :)

My constituency remained Conservative though :(
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PostPosted: 06-08-2017 09:36 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Hah, the thoughts of "how do I style this out" that must have been running through his head that second
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PostPosted: 06-08-2017 10:53 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote



https://twitter.com/benexplore/status/8 ... 76/photo/1

Elmo and Lord Buckethead were standing against May's seat, lol.
(she's the one on the left looking like she's just lost her job)
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It's not just me, is it?
Her arms are freakishly long, like Freddy's in the original Nightmare on Elm Street.
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PostPosted: 06-09-2017 01:01 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Hadn't noticed but now I can't unsee :dts:
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Lol same :olo:
Anyways, does this mean there's no mandate for a hard brexit anymore and a good deal will have to be struck?



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Brexit is moving forward and there's no way to stop it, but the real trouble will be that any deals that can be made in Bruxelles will also have to be negotiated in the British parliament.
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The extra funny thing is she's gonna need to rely on the Irish DUP who will want open borders with the EU :D

She's completely fucked herself, and I fucking love it :olo:



Scotland fucked us a bit though, wtf bros ?. I found myself rooting for the SNP up there.

UKIP absolute collapse n all, Wales did strong :up: :up:



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PostPosted: 06-09-2017 03:58 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


What a joke. We've got a Conservative / DUP coalition.

The DUP have terrorist roots, hate Catholics, hate LGBT people, believe in making abortion illegal and deny climate change. :/ :/ :/
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PostPosted: 06-09-2017 05:21 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


done kuput finished stick a fork ...



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losCHUNK wrote:
The extra funny thing is she's gonna need to rely on the Irish DUP who will want open borders with the EU :D


no they don't. in fact they specifically want a guarantee of the opposite of that
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PostPosted: 06-09-2017 08:25 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


also, my tactical voting strat worked a treat: no more Nicola Blackwood (Con) :D
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PostPosted: 06-09-2017 10:01 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


DURP



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PostPosted: 06-09-2017 10:51 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Heh
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Also Sturgeon and the SNP :olo:
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PostPosted: 06-09-2017 01:27 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Apart from the obvious there's also CONU.. very apt!
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seremtan wrote:
losCHUNK wrote:
The extra funny thing is she's gonna need to rely on the Irish DUP who will want open borders with the EU :D


no they don't. in fact they specifically want a guarantee of the opposite of that


Erm, yes they do, it was in their manifesto. Well specifically open borders with S.Ireland, which would mean open border with the EU. They also campaigned for a soft Brexit with free trade.

They also deny climate change, oppose same sex marriage, along with abortion and are still made up of former terrorists, which ironically was something the Torys were bashing Corbyn about prior to the election :olo:

There's some talk of this coalition being in breach of the Good Friday Agreement n all, with Sinn Fein making some noises. Perfectly reasonable to say n all imo, how can the British government arbitrate NI talks when one side is forming part of the parliamentary majority ?.



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To be fair Theresa May warned of coalition of chaos propped up by extremist terrorist sympathisers. She just didn't say she'd be leading it.



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losCHUNK wrote:
Erm, yes they do, it was in their manifesto. Well specifically open borders with S.Ireland, which would mean open border with the EU. They also campaigned for a soft Brexit with free trade


oh yeah, you're right :tard:

who the fuck was i thinking of? :|
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