Fwiw I wish I was Scottish. I fucking hate this racist country. I get why you say your types since it clearly makes up the majority, but trust me I share nothing on common with this country's views.
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UK General Election 12th December 2019 |OT1| Hindsight is 20/19 (Tory majority confirmed)
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Fwiw I wish I was Scottish. I fucking hate this racist country. I get why you say your types since it clearly makes up the majority, but trust me I share nothing on common with this country's views.
Is Henry just an idiot or what?
Centrists are oppressed!
Oh, then yes, I'd probably recommend buying in the next week or so. I imagine things will be stable over Christmas since everyone will be on holiday and then after the Queen's Speech we'll probably start seeing what sort of trajectory the pound will be on. I think a Brexit deal will see another spike upward followed by a decline once businesses start leaving and the asset stripping is done.
Jesus, I still have no fucking idea what that was all about, no fucking clue.
What a waste of fucking time.
What the hell was all that noise about massive queues and crazy turnout at various stations
Henry better enjoy his time in that library as much asd he can, because it won't be open for much longer.
Day 1
oh no wait that was under the Tories
oh no wait that was under the Tories
Going looking for something that's always existed (queues/crowds) but this time the image of it was turned into confirmation bias.
The turnout was down on 2017.
Andrew Neil should've asked Johnson about this before the election.
Have to admit I never realised just how much people wanted to leave Europe. Spoke to a few people earlier on and for them Brexit offers them hope when for me it's just giving more power to the people who have divided and conquered. Guess we all get to see what exactly Brexit means over the next few years, I just really hope the people that wanted it so bad and yet don't really know why aren't going to regret this for the rest of their lives because it's all of us who have to live with it.
A few university polling stations having queues for a period of time means fuck all. There are thousands of them. But it was the same handful being posted again and again.
He wants to be fucked harder, no library would be a good start.
I had some fears when this election was first confirmed, it was not much longer than after Boris had wanted to be so he could push Brexit through, knowing that he could get their votes. Our smartest political operators walked right into it and said "Yeah sure! Let's hold an election in a fucking December Thursday!"
They should have held it after January, or waited until the Summer. Let Johnson flounder on his lack of mandate and then he would have kept failing. We didn't even get to do this on a weekend, where more people could have turned up.
They gave into his terms, and then the media did exactly the same. Accountability is only for those who actually want it to be a thing in the first place.
They should have held it after January, or waited until the Summer. Let Johnson flounder on his lack of mandate and then he would have kept failing. We didn't even get to do this on a weekend, where more people could have turned up.
They gave into his terms, and then the media did exactly the same. Accountability is only for those who actually want it to be a thing in the first place.
Holding it after January risked a no deal Brexit. The Tories set up a trap and there were only two bad options.
Yeah, I did feel this was the case yesterday but didn't want to be the person to piss on people's parade.
My polling station was kinda small and although I didn't see a crowd/queue because I voted early in the morning, it probably did generate a small queue/crowd during peak time simply because it is a fucking small area. Coupled with the fact that it was open from 7am to 10pm, the reason for there being a massive queue couldn't be because of enthusiasm. This isn't the first election of a post-soviet country.
When I lean for 'centrism', its very much a heavily left leaning centrism. A bit lefter of the one that actually held power for 13 years. Essentially just not insane make believe utopian socialism manifesto nonsense land left. And yes of course some shitty independent party was going to get crushed at any election, they were all fools to engage with such an activity, but I guess they wanted to spend their time doing so rather than just sit on the good ship Corbyn as the icy water froze around their ankles.
All the "massive turnout" shit was the usual social media bubble of newbies that have probably never been to the polls before thinking that even the slightest amount of people in a queue meant shit was "totes mental m8".
Been seeing some amazingly vapid quotes about optimism and "next time!". Pity theres absolutely no-one in Labour to Kinnock all the cunts within an inch of their lives. Oh well eh. Maybe by 2035.
All the "massive turnout" shit was the usual social media bubble of newbies that have probably never been to the polls before thinking that even the slightest amount of people in a queue meant shit was "totes mental m8".
Been seeing some amazingly vapid quotes about optimism and "next time!". Pity theres absolutely no-one in Labour to Kinnock all the cunts within an inch of their lives. Oh well eh. Maybe by 2035.
My one consolation is that all of my immediate family voted Labour, even my Brexity brother-in-law. So I can spend Christmas with them safe in the knowledge that they didn't vote to fuck me, themselves, and everyone else.
I'd wager that for most of them, it was about (and only about) Brexit. Because everyone is sick to death of it and spiritually NEEDS it to be over. Because it's inevitable.
Not saying they aren't bigoted and idiotic, or that they were right to do so. Just saying it was probably Brexit that flipped so many people. Bojo's strategy of going insanely hard on that worked. And Corb et al fucked up by having waffly stances.
These xenophobic assholes that voted for the Conservatives are going to be in for a rude awakening when they're asked to pay for their dialysis. And I'll love watching them struggle to pay for their healthcare because they got Brexit done.
They were forced into it first by the SNP and then by the Lib Dems. Also didn't help that Corbyn had been calling for an election nearly every bloody week. The rest of his party clearly didn't want one because they knew it was going to be a massacre and said as much.
Soooo anyone know the prices for BUPA? Will it be competitive next to the NHS?
Will Churchill provide health insurance? Will we see meerkat ads plugging health insurance comparisons?
or better yet, when do the shares/stocks of the NHS go on sale just like Royal Mail couple of years back?
Will Churchill provide health insurance? Will we see meerkat ads plugging health insurance comparisons?
or better yet, when do the shares/stocks of the NHS go on sale just like Royal Mail couple of years back?
It's never about a single issue. You cannot separate the bigotry of the Conservatives by stating they only voted because of Brexit. They voted for a party who'll be governing. Meaning, they'll be implementing policy that will directly affect, negatively, those most vulnerable. Consequently, they are responsible for this and are implicated in the bigotry and misery wrought upon those most vulnerable.
Blaming the Labour Party for offering a moderate manifesto in social democratic terms is completely idiotic and misses the point of the election. They capitulated to centrist demands to include a second referendum that weakened them but as a broad church party, Corbyn et al had no choice. There was only ever going to be one choice, which is why it's even more important that they delivered a genuinely transformative manifesto, because arguably, they'd have had nothing else to offer and could have lost even more seats.
It was telegraphed this result, facebook is the news source of the people and on any news article people love Boris and think Corbyn is a terrorist sympathiser, i don't like Corbyn and as much as i don't want brexit this was more than this, we need to look beyond what was/is going to happen with brexit, to public services the NHS etc and it seems the vast majority only cared about 'getting it done' and 'thats just leftie lies, Boris is a top bloke'
honestly i don't know where to go now, so many failures that i honestly question democracy as a whole has failured, poorly educated masses are taken in by propoganda, utterly and unwilling to fact check
I don't know it just all seems futile
honestly i don't know where to go now, so many failures that i honestly question democracy as a whole has failured, poorly educated masses are taken in by propoganda, utterly and unwilling to fact check
I don't know it just all seems futile
THE WEE GINGER DUG SPEAKS
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It's on sky news, check the sky YouTube channel and rewind a bit
^^^ or the above lol
But there is hope for them after all!
There's denial and coping mechanisms, and then there's this. Crikey.
There is hope for the left in this country. The left leaning Labour, Lib Dems and SNP account for over 15 million people in this country. The labour gamble of taking a neutral position failed. I love Corbyn but I understand why he has to stand down but I believe in Momentum and the socilst ideals of the party has to remain. They just need to be repacked, as some how the majority of the working class thought that these policies wouldn't help them. Labour has to do a better job of connecting the dots for people.
I honestly believe they will have an easier time of that at the next election as the arguments over Brexit will be over, the economy will be worse, there will be less jobs, hate crime will have unfortunately increased to a level that some of those Tory voters will take notice, the lefts in the lib Dems will know they have to vote labour for an end to Tory rule and Johnson will continue to show his true colours and more and more shit will come out about him.
We are down today but tomorrow we have to look up and forward. We have to believe in hope.
I honestly believe they will have an easier time of that at the next election as the arguments over Brexit will be over, the economy will be worse, there will be less jobs, hate crime will have unfortunately increased to a level that some of those Tory voters will take notice, the lefts in the lib Dems will know they have to vote labour for an end to Tory rule and Johnson will continue to show his true colours and more and more shit will come out about him.
We are down today but tomorrow we have to look up and forward. We have to believe in hope.
It's impossible to fix this country while rags like the Sun and Daily Mail continue to spew their bile and lies. So much of what you read there is what you see on people's Facebook and what they talk about down at the Pub. They are brainwashed by it on a daily basis.
"'Best of a bad bunch': Why Labour voters in Bassetlaw backed the Tories"
Tories...best of a bad bunch....apparently.
English folk sure are hilarious.
Tories...best of a bad bunch....apparently.
English folk sure are hilarious.
Yeah, sorry, don't know how to get my thoughts across at the moment 'cause I'm so angry at yet another Tory majority and I can't see anything changing in the foreseeable future either. Next election we'll still have people blaming the Lib Dems and Labour for austerity, and saying centrist policies are unpopular and the tories will still be laughing their asses off.
Asked what it was in particular that she disliked about Corbyn, she replied: "there's something about his mannerisms."
Lol, I'm going to lie down
The English are in for a rude awakening when the next financial downturn happens. Get fucked, Tory scum.
The absolute state of these people.
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