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Really can't believe the Tories dusted off old John Majors to do a bit of fear mongering for them today. Johd Maydjuhs posted:"Labour would be in hock to a party that - slowly but surely - will push them ever further to the left. And who would pay the price for this?" The rich?  You've certainly convinced me that it might be worth voting Labour! Thanks, Old John Majors!  
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Ballot Monkeys has started out well, really liking the first few minutes.
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Apr 21, 2015 22:10
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I remember when I was 18 a friend couldnt decide whether to vote BNP or Communist in the welsh assembly election.
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Apr 21, 2015 22:14
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Yeah, they definitely played the populist Socialism angle hard. Lots of talk of "A job for every British person" and "A fairer country." Turns out "fairer" has a dual meaning.
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Apr 21, 2015 22:20
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I remember when I was 18 a friend couldnt decide whether to vote BNP or Communist in the welsh assembly election. A friend of mine's dad is either voting labour because the conservatives made his life as a disabled person horrific, or UKIP because he's a massive racist/homophobe
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Apr 21, 2015 22:21
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I made the mistake of voting lib dem last election. At least it was in a labour stronghold
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Apr 21, 2015 22:22
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Imo if you live in England in a swing constituency you should vote labour, otherwise write in"SNP" and tick a cross next to that.
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Apr 21, 2015 22:24
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Stewart Hosie is my MP in a seat so SNP-safe that voting is practically a formality. Maybe I should go a bit mental and vote for Cannabis is Safer than Alcohol
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Apr 21, 2015 22:30
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Coohoolin posted:Imo if you live in England in a swing constituency you should vote labour, otherwise write in"SNP" and tick a cross next to that. Your canvassing hasn't gone well if that's the best you can come up with I'm not sure ticking a cross is even possible
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Apr 21, 2015 22:31
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In the last polls Lord Ashcroft did in my constituency a couple of weeks back he had the Tories and Labour dead even on 40% each. My vote is the most important vote.
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Apr 21, 2015 22:32
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Jose posted:I made the mistake of voting lib dem last election. At least it was in a labour stronghold So did I, in a Tory Stronghold - because I read there manifesto, and believed them on Student Fees, NHS, Trident and a half dozen other things
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Apr 21, 2015 22:44
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Prince John posted:Not at all serious, but I did find this youtube video vaguely amusing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdHreNvohMo This guy is a loving hero.
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Apr 21, 2015 23:28
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Ugh, I don't know how I'm going to last till the 7th. Every poll fills me with dread or offers brief relief. That the SNP stuff seems to be striking a cord, and therefore the Tories will keep hammering it for the next two weeks, just makes my heart sink.
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Apr 21, 2015 23:29
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Scottish underdogs V entitled Englishmen is a time honoured tradition that might just have the right result this time.
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KKKlean Energy posted:I'm not sure ticking a cross is even possible Racist. Its how they routinely do it in Switzerland, Lithuania, and Scotland.
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Apr 22, 2015 00:05
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Renfield posted:You quite often see Big Trucks straddling lanes to stop this happening as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV-rhiGRFTE
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Apr 22, 2015 00:07
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Vitamin P posted:They're coming to a marginal near my ends and I cannot see a load of glass-eyed besuited yanks reading from a script and saying 'NHS' in a wrong accent helping the Tories in the slightest. I hope they come to somewhere like Gloucestershire or Worcester, because listening to Americans trying to pronounce those is a sport fit for kings 
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Apr 22, 2015 00:22
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Coohoolin posted:Scottish underdogs V entitled Englishmen is a time honoured tradition that might just have the right result this time. That's quite a statement. You don't actually know much about the history of Scotland, do you? I'd hope that someone with your expensive education would at least have a more nuanced analysis than the utter loving shite you type, but it seems not. Let us look at it again : quote:Scottish underdogs V entitled Englishmen is a time honoured tradition that might just have the right result this time What THE gently caress is this? You live in a bubble, a privileged one, student politics loving bollocks. Off to St Petersburg in the run up to the referendum, eh? Big campaigner, oh yes. Grinding it out with whatever party you believe in at any given moment, except that's a flexible thing, too. You believe in gently caress all, and you should be ashamed.
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Apr 22, 2015 00:23
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TheHoodedClaw posted:That's quite a statement. You don't actually know much about the history of Scotland, do you? I'd hope that someone with your expensive education would at least have a more nuanced analysis than the utter loving shite you type, but it seems not. Let us look at it again : nice meltdown
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mediadave posted:That the SNP stuff seems to be striking a cord, and therefore the Tories will keep hammering it for the next two weeks, just makes my heart sink. Does it? I thought all the polls had been static for months? And all my anecdotal evidence suggests that people in England (London, mind) don't seem to have an issue with Nicola Sturgeon, so I don't see how successfull this "Sturgeon AND Milliband" thing could be. Imagine being Scottish Labour right now, and losing all your left-wing voters to the SNP, while the Tories hark on about what they see as the spectre of a Labour-SNP coalition. Tory-hating Scottish voters who have switched to the SNP probably think that sounds pretty good.
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Acaila posted:I got a lot out of Modern Studies in school. Doing (ok, winning) a mock election was one of my fondest memories of that era, and the Higher Modern Studies work on things like voting systems, the media, how laws are made, lobbying, etc. was all really interesting. Was a hugely popular course at my school. I really enjoyed Modern Studies too, we covered the modern history of South Africa as well which was completely new information for me at the time. I think we were blessed with very good teachers, too, although the experience of finding out that I had received 100% on the second part of the actual exam was what made me truly realise that, at least in the humanities, exams were a little pointless. The question was on the one part of the course I hadn't really revised - privatization - and I essentially penned a rambling, vaguely socialist screed with a few buzzwords that I remembered from class thrown in. Evidently the marker was some tired old lefty who it resonated with, but still, it didn't really feel like an achievement. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be as politically aware as I am now if I hadn't had that foundation to build on, though. hooray for school
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Apr 22, 2015 00:35
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Coohoolin posted:nice meltdown I'm still laughing at your idea that the SNP should stand in an area that was a bulwark against Scottish invasions for close to 500 years. Not that it's a part of history I think anyone should (or would) particularly get hung up on... just that you said it without even a playful nod and wink, like you had no clue. You're like a Swiss Mel Gibson, reducing thousands of years of nuanced history to a set of ridiculous caricatures. tooterfish fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Apr 22, 2015 |
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Apr 22, 2015 00:44
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OwlFancier posted:I hope they come to somewhere like Gloucestershire or Worcester, because listening to Americans trying to pronounce those is a sport fit for kings Young Republicans campaigning for the Tories in the Central Belt, going door to door in Culzean and Milngavie.
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Apr 22, 2015 00:46
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tooterfish posted:Big trucks do it because they have huge blind spots, especially while turning, and if they don't straddle the lanes some joker is going to pull into them and get themselves loving killed. Just wanted to say thanks for posting this. I had no idea the blind spots were so incredibly bad and I will be much, much more careful around them in future.
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Apr 22, 2015 00:49
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Everything a foreigner needs to know about modern Scotland can be learned from watching Braveheart a few times.
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Apr 22, 2015 01:15
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Disney's Brave is shorter and more historically accurate.
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Aromatic Stretch posted:Everything a foreigner needs to know about modern Scotland can be learned from watching Braveheart a few times. Also true of a somewhat depressing number of Scots, apparently.
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Apr 22, 2015 01:18
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tooterfish posted:You do come across as a right condescending bastard, so you should be used to things like that by now. I'm very sorry my lack of smilies confused you.
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Apr 22, 2015 01:22
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E: phoneposting is hard
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Apr 22, 2015 01:23
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OwlFancier posted:Also true of a somewhat depressing number of Scots, apparently. Supplemented with that bit from Trainspotting where they go hillwalking
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Apr 22, 2015 01:24
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Coohoolin posted:I'm very sorry my lack of smilies confused you.
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Apr 22, 2015 01:25
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tooterfish posted:Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Yeah how dare an obviously sarcastic post on SA not be explicitly sarcastic.
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Apr 22, 2015 02:24
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Coohoolin posted:Yeah how dare an obviously sarcastic post on SA not be explicitly sarcastic.
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Apr 22, 2015 02:25
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Oh boy it's time for Coohoolin vs. Random Person Who Dislikes Coohoolin Round MCMXI! 
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tooterfish posted:You're doing it again! I'm very sorry my sense of irony was inadmissible through the arbiters of Internet seriosity. maybe you should haud yer weescht.
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BottledBacon posted:I made an animation all about the elections and the 5 Westminster parties, it will either be incredibly adored since it insults everyone, or utterly abhorred... Since it insults everyone. Not sure which. what alternate universe are you from where any mainstream election manifesto is close enough to what people want that those people could meaningfully convey their approval or disapproval through voting?
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Mister Adequate posted:Oh boy it's time for Coohoolin vs. Random Person Who Dislikes Coohoolin Round MCMXI! I think his reaction to being told he comes across as a condescending bastard is quite funny... since it y'know, it resulted in him immediately doubling down on it. tooterfish fucked around with this message at 03:37 on Apr 22, 2015 |
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Apr 22, 2015 03:35
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Oberleutnant posted:I'm struggling and wavering between happy that they're engaged and frustrated at how clueless and uninformed most of them are. One of them didn't know that you vote for your local candidate, she thought you just vote for the party. I can't blame her really. I don't think these things are ever explained to people in school. Is Civics a thing in schools? We definitely learned about the voting system in school (I finished secondary in 2002 and am now depressed that it was 13 years ago) and it sounds like even if they HAD covered it in your school it wouldn't have made much of a difference. The thing is our political system is so focused nowadays on the leaders and the parties that it's pretty much a given that most people are just voting for the party. Even if they do know how the system actually works. Because it's dumb. Get rid of constituencies and bring in a list system thanks.
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tooterfish posted:I don't dislike him. I think he's a one track poster, and the same record played over and over will grate on anyone's nerves after a while, but I don't dislike him. I don't really do passive aggressive very well, if I really didn't like him I'd just call him a loving prick and be done with it. oh no someone has an opinion, to arms, to arms!
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Coohoolin posted:oh no someone has an opinion, to arms, to arms!
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