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I hope you posted a picture of your shitey arsehole as a response.
You've had conservatives making racist comments against Sikhs this election campaign, and I still have family members supporting them.
The worlds gone mad.
Definitely, one thing I've learnt (well, had reinforced really) from this election is that there's a hierarchy of importance when it comes to discrimination. They should all be treated as equally abhorrent, but they clearly aren't, even ignoring the clear and hypocritical abuse of people's genuine fears of anti-semitism by the Tories and Lib Dems.
During one week of campaigning where the issue of racism in politic was central Laura Kuenssberg made 37 tweets about antisemitism in the Labour party and 1 tweet about islamophobia in the Tory party. Should tell you enough how much the BBC cares about racism against non-white people.
I'm not completely up to date on Indian politics but why would they support a party supportive of Modi's regime? Or is their vote unrelated to that?
They work in the finance sector is the only reason I can think of.
They've really shown their arses sticking up for the Tories lately.
Brown Uncle Toms.
Some of these points are a bit eh/meh, but the last 3 🤣
It's almost go time!
Hope everyone in this thread manages to cast a vote tomorrow and hope the country has a positive vibe come 10pm tomorrow.
Differences aside - and fuck me are there a fair few in this thread - it's been broadly on the same boat.
Whatever happens, let's hope the next 5 years (although let's be honest, at our rate we'll be back at the polls before then) are more progressive than whatever the fuck the last 9 have been.
Hope everyone in this thread manages to cast a vote tomorrow and hope the country has a positive vibe come 10pm tomorrow.
Differences aside - and fuck me are there a fair few in this thread - it's been broadly on the same boat.
Whatever happens, let's hope the next 5 years (although let's be honest, at our rate we'll be back at the polls before then) are more progressive than whatever the fuck the last 9 have been.
Because it's a completely subjective assessment. There is AS around the Labour party. How much is subjective, how dangerous it is, is subjective. By all means attack the people who have whipped things up and I'm not saying you shouldn't defend Corbyn from the accusations some make against him. But I think that challenging someone on whether they feel safe when you are outside that community, and considering the historical context, is unjust. You can't say someone is wrong to be afraid. Because they will still be afraid no matter how many different arguments you use. So where does that leave them?
That's Dr Fuckin Protome mate
AP, as in the Alliance Party in NI? Only AP I can think of. Strange if so they list them and not DUP or SF.
Well this would be a disaster. Lets hope Survation aren't accurate this time, this is about the average of all the polls though... (except for that yikes LD number).
The odds of #WengerIn are probably higher than 15%, but I'll take it. I've had loot drops in MMOs at 1%.
Corbyn can do it.
I think we might be at cross purposes here. I'm not and never would argue about whether someone feels safe or not, only about whether they have any need to. If I can convince someone that there is no reason to be afraid (assuming there genuinely isn't) then surely that's a good thing?
Looking at the polls tonight, it's just a question of how large a majority. Time to get the whisky out, not drank anything in a year but it's time, going to be a terrible 5 years and god help the poor and sick and disabled.
if labour loses then prepare for a tsunami of "Corbyn sucks labor should run to the center" posts
Seeing as you spelt whisky correctly, we'll save the UK by offering sane English people asylum in Scotland.
my personal poll
Tories 42
Labour 38
Lib Dems who cares lol
you can quote me on this
bonus: Swinson loses her seat
Tories 42
Labour 38
Lib Dems who cares lol
you can quote me on this
bonus: Swinson loses her seat
At least the Jews will be OK.
For the avoidance of doubt, this is entirely tongue in cheek given the recent discussion!
If we get a Labour minority government, you can buy me a Nintendo Switch.
You aren't even British, but I'll take your shitty EU plug.
Next election I'm defo setting up a twitter account that posts nuts predictions in a semi believable way.
Only one poll showing hung parliament territory and its still in a CON government favouring area. We gotta hope the polls are wrong on a historic level.
This is very close to what I'm thinking (more like hoping at this point), wondering what their method is to come to this.
I'd say we're at about a 5% chance of a labour government at this point, if that. But 5% isn't 0, we all gotta do our part today.
This is very close to what I'm thinking (more like hoping at this point), wondering what their method is to come to this.
I'd say we're at about a 5% chance of a labour government at this point, if that. But 5% isn't 0, we all gotta do our part today.
I'll buy you ELEX or Disco Elysium. Provided you write me a 2 page review afterwards as proof that you've actually played it.
Some absolutely do deserve to be called out for it.
For instance.
I think the biggest issue with the entire antisemitism row, is that comes across as an exercise in revealing whether some people talking about it actually care about racism or whether they specifically just care about anti semitism.
The chief Rabbi who obviously doesnt like anti semitism, waded into the election cycle by releasing an anti corbyn/labour statement that started with explaining his delight about his friend Boris Johnson who has a history of saying actually straight up racist things direct from his own mouth becoming leader of the conservative party.
He said that a labour government risks changing the soul of the country for the worst. The tory party and its ukippy side projects have done 100× more to alter the soul of the country, including an increase in hate crimes of every kind since brexit, than Jeremy Corbyn ever could.
Does the Cheif Rabbi actually care about racism and the actual soul of the nation?
Or is it specifically just anti semitism that he cares about and that's why he supports a demonstrable racist in BoJo for PM?
I not know exactly what the word is for the feeling I get in my stomach, but when you have an entire media narrative that X person/party is unfit to lead because Y community would consider leaving the country, but give a pass to or sweep under the rug the fact that person/party A actually rounded up people of B community and illegally deported them to countries where they have nothing (some of whom have ended up dying soon after) like it's all good, nothing to see here it makes you wonder.
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A deep dive showed that their final 2017 poll wasn't quite what legend has it as being. There's more to polling than the topline figures.
Number 1 fear that if Corbyn looses, Labour will go too centrist or move too much to the right.
We need someone who can unite the left and centre of the party, the vision of Corbyn with the political effectiveness of Blair, someone who sees the value of and supports Momentum/the membership but also challenges them.
Indeed, I don't believe they'll be as close this time and their performance last election has 0 impact on this one. We gotta hope its Comres this time who've managed to be the most accurate against the trend.
So if the NI math is:
DUP = 8
SF = 7
SDLP = 2
Alliance = 1
Plus the Speaker, how many seats can the Tories win and still not be able to form a majority with the DUP?
Seems that a 321 would be a majority, so Tories would need to get 312 or below if that math checks out? Is that right?
DUP = 8
SF = 7
SDLP = 2
Alliance = 1
Plus the Speaker, how many seats can the Tories win and still not be able to form a majority with the DUP?
Seems that a 321 would be a majority, so Tories would need to get 312 or below if that math checks out? Is that right?
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