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PostPosted: 04-18-2017 08:08 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Perfect timing really, prolly increase the seats =/

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losCHUNK wrote:
Perfect timing really, prolly increase the seats =/

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PostPosted: 04-18-2017 09:33 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Given the whole brexit debacle and the fact she is Thatcher reincarnate why is she so popular still? :/
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Basically the 'opposition' is such a joke atm.

One half wants to self destruct whilst the other half want to chase minority votes with Corbyn being the ring leader and refusing to yield to anyone who disagrees, no one trusts him to be leader of a country when he can't even appease his own party. 70% who voted labour voted remain n all, so that's not gonna go down well considering Corbyns stance on Brexit. Lib Dems fucked over their electorate, royally and no one trusts them and with Scotland voting remain with Labours Brexit stance the SNP have free reign for the foreseeable future, I actually expect the Torys will make some massive gains North of the wall with Labour putting another nail in their coffin as far as the Scots are concerned.

The elections gonna be

Torys - Brexit, brexit, brexit
Lib Dems - Soft brexit / no brexit
SNP - Independence
Labour - NHS

The silver lining is that this should be the end of Corbyn.



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From what I've seen I don't actually mind Corbyn. He seems reasonably honest, which is totally different to almost every other politician out there. He really should have pounced on the fact the Conservatives were wide open with no guard though all those months back. He's probably a bit soft to run the country with an iron first though I agree.

I am a lefty so this may taint my opinions :p.
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I wouldn't even call him honest anymore tbh, I remember I lost faith in his honesty when he said a train was so crowded that he had to sit on the floor and make a play in the media about it with nationalising things, complete with photos. As it turns out he wanted to sit close to the people he was with and there wasn't any seats available around them. My opinion went from muppet to gobshite pretty much overnight.

I'm a lefty too, a lot harder than most and actually voted for him the 1st time but I don't pretend that the rest of the country is. If Labour wants to be a minority party of socialist values then fair enough but we won't see any further opposition to the Torys from Labour. This is without mentioning Corbyns faults even as the leader of a hard left party, or the problems that come from a hard left party, of which I believe there is many.

It's not about an iron fisted, hard leader either which is what Corbyn is attempting in his own party to bring them into line with 3 line whips, forced resignations and sackings - he can't even fill his own cabinet. He's refusing to budge on issues, it's about his negotiating and leadership with those factions within his own party and completely divided it in the process.

And with his colours nailed to the mast in reguard to Brexit he still can't hold the Torys to account over it, just like he couldn't back then.



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PostPosted: 04-18-2017 10:49 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


What Chunk said - Corbyn is so out of touch its untrue
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Not saying Labours problems end with Corbyn but he's been just as bad or even worse than anyone who's shit the bed. Alot of the PLP are stuck between what their constituency want / has been promised and what Corbyns demanding n all.

Fish rots from the head.



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PostPosted: 04-18-2017 11:38 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


time to dust off my tactical vote and give it to a party i dislike in an attempt to throw a spanner into the entire machinery of government i guess

am curious to know what the turnout will be, given there's no real battle of ideas or principle here
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seremtan wrote:
time to dust off my tactical vote and give it to a party i dislike in an attempt to throw a spanner into the entire machinery of government i guess

am curious to know what the turnout will be, given there's no real battle of ideas or principle here


Think I might actually go with Plaid this time, can't vote Green, our candidate is a 2 dollar whore.

The only thing that might throw a spanner in the works is a low turnout, especially if the Torys think they have it sealed. Labour may sound a bit more appealing to me then.



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PostPosted: 04-18-2017 07:36 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Heh

Just realised Newport West would be a Tory target, back to tactical voting for me :up:



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That last bus picture weirded me out. I thought it was near somewhere I used to live. Checked Google Maps, and sure enough, it's Vicar's Hill in Lewisham, right next to Hilly Fields and just up the road from a flat I used to rent.
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Mat Linnett wrote:
That last bus picture weirded me out. I thought it was near somewhere I used to live. Checked Google Maps, and sure enough, it's Vicar's Hill in Lewisham, right next to Hilly Fields and just up the road from a flat I used to rent.

yeah it's down the road from where Doombrain lives
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PostPosted: 04-19-2017 02:59 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


https://uk.isidewith.com/political-quiz





interesting. No idea why I got so high on SNP. Should I be worried?
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PostPosted: 04-19-2017 06:40 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


well shit

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https://uk.isidewith.com/results/3074156056

also, i don't like in Oxford East you stupid poll cunt :|
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:olo:

Well shit: http://uk.isidewith.com/results/3074218735

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PostPosted: 04-19-2017 08:41 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Yvette Cooper made the bitch seethe today



On a rewatch I actually clocked the Tory behind May mouth 'Shut up bitch' :olo:



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I'll probably be voting Lib Dem



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Not entirely sure how or why it changed the numbers, but I was 79% Labour and 70% Lib Dem :/



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Memphis wrote:
23% as your highest agreement with anyone? how even..?

pho's 92% SNP is dodgy an' all. you wearing a skirt there? ('_')

(am sick to fuck of re-logging in too. wasn't q3forum the unfuckerered one? unfuck it plix)


I might have to do it again when I've a bit more time to read all the other responses. I've never even been to Scotland!

The constant logging in is extremely annoying I agree >:(
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phantasmagoria wrote:
Not entirely sure how or why it changed the numbers, but I was 79% Labour and 70% Lib Dem :/


If you post the link like I did you get the full results
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Memphis wrote:
How to stop the Tories:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... true#gid=0


So basically...vote for other parties :dork: :dork: :dork:
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yep pretty much, and pretty much how i actually will be voting this election, much like last election and the one before
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Someone needs to shut Diane Abbott the fuck up, Jeysus.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39775693



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Also famous for

"White people love playing 'divide and rule'. We should not play their game."

Talking about sending children to private schools as "indefensible" and "intellectually incoherent" despite sending her son to one and trying to keep it quiet.

Being pissed off that her local hospital employed "blonde, blue-eyed girls from Finland, instead of nurses from the Caribbean who know the language and understand British culture and institutions'', and are "Finnish girls, who may never have met a black person before, let alone touched one, best suited to nurse in multicultural Hackney?''

Can't believe Corbyn banged her



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Yeah she is an absolute mongo
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Leave she be. She'll keep that socialist mong out of power.
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in 2002, 1 in 6 French people voted Le Pen; in 2017, it was 1 in 3...
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Once shit settles down it'll be back to normal service. Shits still so fucked from the financial crysis + the aftermath of 9/11 there's just a lot of pissed off people around trying to point the blame, not the 1st time an entire generation has been fucked off and turned to right wing values.



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once the French get over the euphoria (*tips fedora*) of voting for not-Le Pen they'll be disappointed by Macron le president plastique
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Probaly, but hopefully someone by that time would be an agreeable alternative. When you have people like Hillary and Corbyn as the alternative (or even Ed / Brown to some degree) it's not much of an opposition.

I don't know much about Macron, the Dutch or Italian politicians but when shit hits the fan and people notice then it's easy for politicians to find blame and make it real in most peoples minds. In the US and UK atleast, the lack of an opposition to dispel the bullshit has helped Trump, May / Pigfucker become the dominant parties.



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