Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

glad to know so much of the british electorate is that well off

Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

lol i'm going to add up the net worth of all the companies this dude owns and then magically assume that's his personal net income because i really want to solidify the "labour is bad at the economy" myth

Baloogan posted:

may has really lost her luster imo with this whole hiding act. if labor was competently run they would be running the country this time next week haha

Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

nah he's just going to get conquered by russia after he exits nato because it's evil and scraps the nukes lol

Fallen Hamprince posted:

WikiLeaks lmao. Oh wow Petro Poroshenko met with the American ambassador in 2006, loving mind-blowing revelation there Julian

next up from Top City Homo: a shocking revelation about the murder of Seth Rich that George Soros doesn't want you to know

Jose posted:

Fallen Hamprince posted:

Russia: NATO is western imperialism theres no other reason our neighbours would want to be in a defensive alliance

also Russia: if u sign any treaties we don't like we'll invade u

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://twitter.com/estwebber/status/871813522128338954

it's like Bizarro Trump

Gary Younge posted:

At a drinks party in central London, not long after Jeremy Corbyn had been elected leader of the Labour party first time round, a young journalist talked me through the facts as she saw them.

“He’s already lost the election,” she said.

“I think you’ll find he just won an election,” I told her.

“I mean 2020,” she said, referring to what we all assumed would be the next general election. “Are we talking about 2020 in the past tense now?” I asked.

The trouble with received wisdom is that it rarely comes with a receipt. With the provenance of the “wisdom” unacknowledged, the recipient passed it on as though it were the self-evident expression of their own genius: an inarguable fact plucked from a clear blue sky.

For the past two years, it has been received wisdom that, when put before the national electorate, the Labour party under Corbyn was unelectable. Not simply that it would lose, but that there was no plausible way it could compete. These were not presented as opinions but as facts. Those who questioned them were treated like climate change deniers. Those who held the wisdom were the scientists. To take Labour’s prospects seriously under Corbyn was to abandon being taken seriously yourself.

The political class imparted as much to the media class, and the media class duly printed and broadcast it. The political class, drawn for the most part from the same social class as their media counterparts, then took those articles and bulletins and presented them as evidence. The wisdom was distributed to all who mattered. Those who did not receive it did not, by definition, matter. Within this fetid ecosystem the air was too stale for new ideas to grow.

More: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/06/jeremy-corbyn-unelectable-political-climate

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Nor is it a neutral category. The people who “decide” whether someone is electable or not are not the electorate – that comes much later – but opinion-forming elites and those who fund and promote them. They apply themselves to the task with great prejudice and select both people and programmes in their own image and interests.

Nonsense posted:

300-something is the majority number, and Labour don't meet that with just the SNP as was hoped before the election. The hope is that Labour take more seats off the Tories and LibDems throughout the night. Otherwise yeah, the Queen will give the Tories a chance at coalition, and the LibDems will be traitors.

loquacius posted:

Didn't work for Bernie

dont be mean to me posted:

Bernie got ratfucked and because of that the Democrats are now a fringe party.

bawfuls posted:

So the right wing party in Northern Ireland is happy to caucus with the Tories, but the left wing party in Northern Ireland has a hard policy of protesting the UK and thus doesn't take their seats. This has the effect of making it easier for Conservatives to form a government.

Is that about right? Leftists ratfucking themselves out of power as usual?

Bryter posted:

So do the SDLP, but they take their seats. The SNP want an independent Scotland, but they take their seats. It's not quite that simple.

Nonsense posted:

Queen will give Tories first try at forming a government, they're incumbent. It would be hilarious if they bungled that.

Condiv posted:

didn't someone link a graph in here showing the number of negative articles for labour being exponentially greater than any other party? is that not "out for pinkos"?

etalian posted:

Pretty hilarious how the current Labour fight reminds me much a bad dems in the US, especially how Blairite faction was so desperate to sabotage their own party.

Bryter posted:

They already tried that in 1984.

Vox Nihili posted:

speaking of which~

euphronius posted:

I’ve seen maybe half of power rangers now

It’s good.

edit

not the power rangers thread. sorry.