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Ocarina_117

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Oct 26, 2017
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I'm seeing 'fuck England' posts and you want me to be understanding? It was a general election but believing the top two parties would be complete polar opposites in there governing is a little naive.

I've lived through labour rule, and house price inflation is on them, they made no effort to stifle the housing market and let it spiral out of control all through the early 2000's. For that I can't forgive them, but sadly the leadership then was a better standard than now.

Thank you for insisting that I'm sneering, I'm not. The venting here however is silly.
Fuck. England.

Little englanders and their fucking colonialism mentality are a cancer.
 

Stuart444

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Oct 25, 2017
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Hope you guys have a good one mate and congratulations!

Thanks, Got married (to empressdonna ) back in July but only just now getting around to our Honeymoon, wanted to do it before Brexit officially started. Looks like we were right to (middle of Jan we're going)

The venting here however is silly.

Try being disabled and dealing with the Tory run DWP, the Health Assessment system, PIP, ESA, etc and then t ry saying that again.

I'm justified in my venting. If you don't understand why then don't post this upsetting drivel that people like me who are upset about this are being immature and should grow up when we're the ones who will be hurt by the party ENGLAND mostly voted for.
 

T002 Tyrant

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Nov 8, 2018
9,098
Come to Scotland and help us build an escape route and a future we can look forward to instead of fear.

I'll start looking for jobs. Although moving is more difficult, I'm the 1% of Gen Y that rents off the bank ("owns" a home).

Yep - they need to do what Blair did in the 90s.

It's the only way Labour will ever see power, they also need to cut their Union Policy I believe that's how Ed Miliband was voted in Dave lost the Union vote.

They also need a leader with the charisma of Tony Stark. Instead of New Labour, or Labour they need something like Neo Labour or something that says "we're not Blair" (even though they are) and we're not Corbyn either.
 

Sir Hound

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Oct 28, 2017
2,219
WTF? Labour would've won that seat if it wasn't for Lib Dem stealing liberal votes away from them. Lib Dems divided the liberal vote, ruining any chances Labour had of succeeding in this election.
Obviously given the way that constituency was divided people should have voted Labour. But Labour doesn't have a divine right to the liberal vote and they sure as shit don't have one to the remain vote. With at best fuck all to say on civil liberties, the geniuses behind the Iraq War, ID cards and mass surveillance they are not a liberal party and diverge from the Lib Dems dramatically on economic policy. No one has stolen shit. This will continue until Labour changes.
 
Mar 18, 2019
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I hope NI and Scotland can leave the union and hope that comes with peace (mainly the NI people - although obviously hurdles there)
Fuck the English and Welsh. You're horrible bastards who think you're upper class, when in a period of time you'll be declaring yourself bankrupt as your medical bills are through the roof from too many weatherspoon cooked breakfasts and the food banks have reached maximum capacity. The upper class will be laughing down on you. Tory assholes.
Scotland and Northern Ireland deserve to be free from British rule. They don't deserve to go along with whatever misery Little England is trying to bring upon them.
 

Pixieking

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Oct 25, 2017
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The multi-party system screws UK politics up so hard with FPTP. The opposition parties need to coalesce into one, at least in England. Be like the Dems in the US - Big Tent politics that skews towards liberal, non-white and skilled job white. This is essentially what the Right did (Brexit Party non-competing with the Conservatives).
 

Dougald

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Oct 27, 2017
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Well, so much for help with starting a family next year I guess. I'm fairly well placed to ride out the coming shitstorm compared to many but I fear for those who need and deserve help the most. Glad I took that new job in August.

At least Swinson lost her seat

I wonder if Keir Starmer will come out of hiding and try for leader next time around?
 
Oct 25, 2017
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Goddamn it's a shit show in here. Some of you manbabies need to grow up a little.

I could not vote labour with Corbyn at the helm, the guy does not inspire confidence and was no Tony Blair. I think a lot of people felt that.

governments come and go but some of the comments in here are damn right hilarious. step away from the keyboards people.
I'd list the many horrors of a decade of Tory rule, but I doubt you're actually arsed are you? I could tell you how one of my cousins who's a physician associate is having to fucking prescribe FOOD to people in England in 2019 to allow them access to food banks because of how much the Tories have decimated the welfare system, but what do you care about that? People will die as a result of this ya cunt.
 

weekev

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Oct 25, 2017
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The multi-party system screws UK politics up so hard with FPTP. The opposition parties need to coalesce into one, at least in England. Be like the Dems in the US - Big Tent politics that skews towards liberal, non-white and college educated white. This is essentially what the Right did (Brexit Party non-competing with the Conservatives).
That's working out really well in America right now.....
 

Deleted member 835

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Obviously given the way that constituency was divided people should have voted Labour. But Labour doesn't have a divine right to the liberal vote and they sure as shit don't have one to the remain vote. With at best fuck all to say on civil liberties, the geniuses behind the Iraq War, ID cards and mass surveillance they are not a liberal party and diverge from the Lib Dems dramatically on economic policy. No one has stolen shit. This will continue until Labour changes.
Lol. Libs now ex leader was basically a Tory. You also have ex Tories in Libs.
 
Mar 18, 2019
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Obviously given the way that constituency was divided people should have voted Labour. But Labour doesn't have a divine right to the liberal vote and they sure as shit don't have one to the remain vote. With at best fuck all to say on civil liberties, the geniuses behind the Iraq War, ID cards and mass surveillance they are not a liberal party and diverge from the Lib Dems dramatically on economic policy. No one has stolen shit. This will continue until Labour changes.
What year are you living in? This is 2019, not 2005. Corbyn's Labour Party is a completely different party from Blair's Labour Party. Blair was a centrist. Corbyn is the most left-wing leader that Labour has had in decades. You're confusing two completely different Labour Parties.
 

Pixieking

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Oct 25, 2017
5,987
That's working out really well in America right now.....

I mean, the Republicans lost the midterms quite decisively, and have a base of rural poor and people who are racists, which is shrinking relative to ethnic minorities and African Americans (the former can vote Dem sometimes, the latter vote Dem en masse consistently).

And it's not like England would be worse in a two-party system.
 

Stuart444

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Oct 25, 2017
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I may not be going to sleep. I'm just feeling too upset now and I have the doctors at 2:50pm.

At least I woke up at like 2:30ish or just before it yesterday so I should be able to survive probably lol.

urgh.
 

Deleted member 862

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Obviously given the way that constituency was divided people should have voted Labour. But Labour doesn't have a divine right to the liberal vote and they sure as shit don't have one to the remain vote. With at best fuck all to say on civil liberties, the geniuses behind the Iraq War, ID cards and mass surveillance they are not a liberal party and diverge from the Lib Dems dramatically on economic policy. No one has stolen shit. This will continue until Labour changes.
You just listed three policies that have nothing to do with the current Labour leadership BECAUSE it changed so much.

The only thing left is to become the Tories with red rosettes it seems because that's what wins elections.
 

Sir Hound

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Oct 28, 2017
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What year are you living in? This is 2019, not 2005. Corbyn's Labour Party is a completely different party from Blair's Labour Party. Blair is a centrist. Corbyn is the most left-wing leader that Labour has had in decades. You're confusing two completely different Labour Parties.
And you're confusing left wing with liberal, which have often been at complete odds through history.
 

Audioboxer

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Nov 14, 2019
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Scotland might have an unofficial one, but Boris has to agree to any official one. So effectively none.

My mum is coming down today - she's a Tory whose constituency stayed blue in Berwickshire. Feel like just not opening the door.

Open the door, we did well, all the more reason to point out to Scottish Tories they will never have a majority here.

This is the worst Conservative party I've seen in my lifetime coming off of 10 years of horrendous leadership and an inhumane transformation of the UK. More the reason to rub every Scottish Tories face in their loss here. Even family members.

Nicola is a competent leader, her and the SNP MPs will make Boris' life hell internally and on an international stage if he truly tries to be a dictator over Scotland.

English people telling us we will never escape them haven't seen Scottish people angry/determined.
 
Mar 18, 2019
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The illusion of choice. Most marginal seats in England were Tory or Labour and the Lib Dem vote removed votes that would have secured Labour seats.
Divide and rule. That's what happened. The Tories won by dividing the liberal votes between Labour and Lib Dems, instead of uniting the liberal votes behind Labour. That's what gave the Tories a dominant victory.
 

Eoin

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Oct 27, 2017
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Boris will never give Scotland a referendum
I'm not so sure about this. Once he's out of campaign mode (where he needs to pretend he cares about all the nations of the UK), he might very well come to see Scotland as a place he can afford to lose. Conservatives there are outnumbered and can no longer claim to be a growing party. Johnson might figure that a referendum that removes Scotland from the UK would be a good way of severely reducing the size of his political opposition.

He's probably also sufficiently badly informed that he feels Scotland is a net drain on the UK economy. If not, he will at least be aware that this is a common illusory belief among his party, and that many would secretly welcome Scottish independence on the false basis that it would save the UK money.
 

Audioboxer

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Nov 14, 2019
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I'm not so sure about this. Once he's out of campaign mode (where he needs to pretend he cares about all the nations of the UK), he might very well come to see Scotland as a place he can afford to lose. Conservatives there are outnumbered and can no longer claim to be a growing party. Johnson might figure that a referendum that removes Scotland from the UK would be a good way of severely reducing the size of his political opposition.

He's probably also sufficiently badly informed that he feels Scotland is a net drain on the UK economy. If not, he will at least be aware that this is a common illusory belief among his party, and that many would secretly welcome Scottish independence on the false basis that it would save the UK money.

Westminster will never give up oil and gas money.

America goes to war with brown people over oil.

It's still the blood money of the world. The Tories don't care about the Scottish people, they care about the Scottish resources.
 

HotHamWater

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Oct 25, 2017
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Dorset, UK
Hard to see a recovery for Labour even in 5 years. The Tories are gonna ram through "voting reform" aka suppression on top of requiring I.D. to vote. We'll never see the Russian interference report. And they'll blame everything for the next 5 years on an EU conspiracy to fuck us over for leaving, pushed by the tabloids. Bet it won't be long before some cunt starts talking about fox hunting as well. Say goodbye to all but the bare minimum for climate change. With all the EU rules and regs will die, RIP food standards.

Aside from a personal scandal to Boris, which apart from murdering someone live on TV is not likely to stick, or some kind of scandal on the scale of expenses, we're just straight up fucked. Literally just proved that Tories can say whatever the fuck they want and nothing will happen, and there'll be no more "honourable resignations" anymore i.e. Patel under May.

Fucked for the foreseeable.
 

gosublime

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Oct 25, 2017
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I'm not so sure about this. Once he's out of campaign mode (where he needs to pretend he cares about all the nations of the UK), he might very well come to see Scotland as a place he can afford to lose. Conservatives there are outnumbered and can no longer claim to be a growing party. Johnson might figure that a referendum that removes Scotland from the UK would be a good way of severely reducing the size of his political opposition.

He's probably also sufficiently badly informed that he feels Scotland is a net drain on the UK economy. If not, he will at least be aware that this is a common illusory belief among his party, and that many would secretly welcome Scottish independence on the false basis that it would save the UK money.

He might well think all that but it would require him to go against the entire history of the Conservative and Unionist party. It would require a massive change that would - probably - go down very badly with lots of his MPs and the public.
 

Zaph

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Oct 25, 2017
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What baffles me, and this is purely based on anecdotal evidence from my own area, was the amount of wealthier/middle class friends and neighbors who were more vocally Labour.

Not to add to the class warfare, but years from now there is a fascinating book I hope to read exploring the phenomena of the poorer and working class who went Tory
 

Persephone

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Oct 25, 2017
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Just woke up after like 5 hours' sleep. Dread to ask but how's it looking? I haven't looked at my phone because the Apple News alert might kill me.
 

Sir Hound

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Oct 28, 2017
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What are you on about? Corbyn is the most liberal leader that Labour has had in decades. Stop confusing Corbyn's Labour Party with Blair's Labour Party. Two very different parties.
Labour have nothing or very little to say about civil liberties and are radically socialist. If you think Lib Dem's have stolen votes that are somehow rightfully yours because we all agree in equal rights then you don't understand the Lib Dem's or the voters you think should vote Labour.

edit I say this as someone who would happily vote Labour if I was required to do so tactically.
 

Audioboxer

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Nov 14, 2019
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He might well think all that but it would require him to go against the entire history of the Conservative and Unionist party. It would require a massive change that would - probably - go down very badly with lots of his MPs and the public.

It will also require him to be a little Englander dictator that the whole world sees basically holding a country hostage to plunder it at his will.

Don't underestimate just how much damage the UK might do to itself on the international stage if enough of Scotland gets its act together and displays it wants out.

Plus I know non fucked up English people will lend Scotland a hand in the years to come when it gets worse. The Union is going to become a humanitarian crisis. A democratic outrage for the world to see if all the takes of "Scotland can never escape us" are to be believed.
 

Pixieking

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Oct 25, 2017
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Fucked for the foreseeable.

I think the only way things change in the foreseeable future is civil unrest in a way that the UK has never seen... Something that makes the Poll Tax riots of Thatcher's reign look like a peaceful protest. And the only way I can see that happening is economic crash and large-scale food and medicine shortages, due to Brexit.
 

Mugsy

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Oct 27, 2017
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Just woke up after like 5 hours' sleep. Dread to ask but how's it looking? I haven't looked at my phone because the Apple News alert might kill me.
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