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Lord of the Llamas posted:I misread this post the first time. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/12/16/sarah-vine-daily-mail-michael-gove-sex-life_n_8815952.html
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Grouchio posted:Can someone tell me why Theresa May is doing this? What do these snap elections hope to achieve? If Sinn Fein and the SNP gain more ground as a result of these snap elections, can we start to expect a referendum on both Scotland and Northern Ireland leaving the UK? Tories are way ahead in polls atm, so she is doing it to increase her mps, reducing opposition to the Tory Hellscape 2020 plan
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Grouchio posted:Can someone tell me why Theresa May is doing this? What do these snap elections hope to achieve? If Sinn Fein and the SNP gain more ground as a result of these snap elections, can we start to expect a referendum on both Scotland and Northern Ireland leaving the UK? Pretty hard for the SNP to gain any more ground and the Tories clearly don't give a poo poo about NI. I don't think that May will win anywhere near as large a majority as lots of people are predicting but the big win for her is having a load of terrible manifesto pledges to beat her backbenchers and the lords around with.
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Lord of the Llamas posted:Pretty hard for the SNP to gain any more ground and the Tories clearly don't give a poo poo about NI.
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Grouchio posted:Can someone tell me why Theresa May is doing this? What do these snap elections hope to achieve? If Sinn Fein and the SNP gain more ground as a result of these snap elections, can we start to expect a referendum on both Scotland and Northern Ireland leaving the UK? The SNP are unlikely to gain ground and far more likely to lose seats.
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Grouchio posted:Can someone tell me why Theresa May is doing this? What do these snap elections hope to achieve? If Sinn Fein and the SNP gain more ground as a result of these snap elections, can we start to expect a referendum on both Scotland and Northern Ireland leaving the UK? The SNP won all but 3 of the seats in Scotland. Got 49.97% of the vote. Only way from there is downhill. They won't do better. And what she wants to achieve is going from a PM with no electoral mandate and a very slim working majority of 17 to one with a mandate, an increased majority, and an ability to push Brexit through the Lords without them putting the brakes on. For example, this early averaging of opinion polls from Sky News https://twitter.com/GerryHassan/status/854331498849349634 Incidentally, this would be the worst Labour result since 1935. And that year Labour increased their number of MPs by 102!
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Grouchio posted:Can someone tell me why Theresa May is doing this? What do these snap elections hope to achieve? If Sinn Fein and the SNP gain more ground as a result of these snap elections, can we start to expect a referendum on both Scotland and Northern Ireland leaving the UK? Because they were about to face down 20-30 by-elections due to the election expense scandal that would likely be won by the Lib Dems
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Grouchio posted:Can someone tell me why Theresa May is doing this? What do these snap elections hope to achieve? If Sinn Fein and the SNP gain more ground as a result of these snap elections, can we start to expect a referendum on both Scotland and Northern Ireland leaving the UK? The tories would otherwise possibly be about to lose their majority altogether due to election scandals from the last GE and this sidesteps that
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June 8th is the middle of exam season too, so expect the young person vote to be even lower than usual.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:June 8th is the middle of exam season too, so expect the young person vote to be even lower than usual. 70% Tory majority, calling it now Prepare for victorian hellscape v2.0, this time with kids tweeting selfies in the iphone assembly lines as UK labor becomes cheaper than chinese
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Pochoclo posted:70% Tory majority, calling it now CIA backed assassination of Corbyn and the drone bombing of the Ecuadorian embassy 2018.
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Kokoro Wish posted:CIA backed assassination of Corbyn and the drone bombing of the Ecuadorian embassy 2018. They'd only kill Corbyn if he actually got in power though, so this sounds fairly optimistic all in all.
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Kokoro Wish posted:CIA backed assassination of Corbyn and the drone bombing of the Ecuadorian embassy 2018. Why would anyone on the right want to assassinate Corbyn, who is doing everything he can to keep them in power?
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TomViolence posted:They'd only kill Corbyn if he actually got in power though, so this sounds fairly optimistic all in all. Maybe they'd just arm and train nigel farage GaussianCopula posted:Why would anyone on the right want to assassinate Corbyn, who is doing everything he can to keep them in power?
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I feel watching V for Vendetta last night for the first time was actually quite timely. Also, election is smack in the middle of Ramadan and exam season.
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UKMT Theresa May 2017: aw fuk, i cant believe you've done this e: is there some sort of proscription against voting during Ramadan? Honestly curious if there's an actual impediment there.
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Miftan posted:Maybe they'd just arm and train Britain First.
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Ewan posted:I feel watching V for Vendetta last night for the first time was actually quite timely. Follow it up with Children of Men, the most eerily prophetic movie of the past 20 years.
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Guavanaut posted:You can however bind the master's tools and wait for the house to collapse itself. If you can figure a way to bind up the tabloids and bot/troll farms without resorting to the useful, direct kind of methods that would have gchq very interested in my posting, please share 
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Mike Swanton and the Leaflet of Doom https://twitter.com/schafersam/status/854273096806739968
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:June 8th is the middle of exam season too, so expect the young person vote to be even lower than usual. Also during Ramadan.
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GaussianCopula posted:Why would anyone on the right want to assassinate Corbyn, who is doing everything he can to keep them in power? Get the gently caress out, nazi.
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Didn't some Conservatives float the idea of privatizing your police a while back? All aboard the dystopian testing ground thats the formerly United Kingdom.
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ewe2 posted:Mike Swanton and the Leaflet of Doom I agree with the leaflet, young people who vote Tory should be fired into the sun
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Ora Tzo posted:Didn't some Conservatives float the idea of privatizing your police a while back? If I recall correctly there's already private security companies filling in community polcing duties in some well-to-do places in the country and Serco pretty much runs our
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Skinty McEdger posted:So is Corbyn a traitor then? No, he's just poo poo.
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Sigh. I'm going to have to vote Lib Dem because at this point I am a single-issue Buck Frexit voter.
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Election is in exam season to stress out liberal students so they fail their exams and die of lack of university education or something.
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But Theresa May is such a competent and charismatic powerhouse in PMQs! I'm surprised at this turn of events!
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Zephro posted:Sigh. I'm going to have to vote Lib Dem don't be a twat
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Great, debates are the one forum where Corbyn actually gets to talk about policy uninterrupted and unmediated and generally acquits himself well so of course there won't loving be one. Could they stack the loving deck anymore in their favour the cunts.
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TheRat posted:Why the gently caress would that make both sides look shambolic? Because the mechanism for "forcing it through" is a motion of no confidence in government. A press that did it's job would be going "So, let's be honest, here, you're doing that to circumvent legally binding powers on the control of general elections your own party agreed to. Why do you think the erosion of due electoral process is good?". This should be getting portrayed about the same as Turkey's recent referendum, which has been noted in the press as being a shambles that proves Turkey's not a proper democracy, but will be here presented as good, because "perhaps the truth is in the middle". Playstation 4 posted:As a Canuck, you could always hope for a surreal repeat of Alberta 2015. This is probably the best possible outcome but it'd need to be relying on young people turning out, and even if Corbyn was likely to motivate them that was before he went around pissing them all off post-brexit.
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TomViolence posted:If I recall correctly there's already private security companies filling in community polcing duties in some well-to-do places in the country and Serco pretty much runs our https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/mar/02/police-privatisation-security-firms-crime https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jun/20/g4s-chief-mass-police-privatisation http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34864781 G4S shall become the dispensers of the law.
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Zephro posted:Sigh. I'm going to have to vote Lib Dem because at this point I am a single-issue Buck Frexit voter. https://twitter.com/pixelatedboat/status/854285149063716864
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sout posted:Election is in exam season to stress out liberal students so they fail their exams and die of lack of university education or something. Ahhh, so there's a positive to all of this then Probably smart. But the broadcasters should just hold them anyway and the old Tube of Lard from HIGNFY as a stand in for May if she's too chicken. Zephro posted:Sigh. I'm going to have to vote Lib Dem because at this point I am a single-issue Buck Frexit voter. Don't blame us when you end up feeling betrayed, let down, disappointed and ultimately ashamed of yourself for voting for a party lead by someone anti-abortion & anti-gay equality.
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Jose posted:the rest of the leaders should have one and just say May is too scared to get on stage with them This was their threat in 2015.
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