Jezbollah
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Very much so.
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UK General Election 2017 |OT2| No Government is better than a bad Government
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Very much so.
Expected Tory majority now looks to be Tory minority because they won't have more than 50% of the MPs. They called it early thinking it would be a cake walk.
Slim but growing chance of Prime Minister Jezza if he can get backing from the smaller parties
I keep asking (mentioning!) the high leave vote there. Might skew data in all sorts of ways that I can't fathom. But let's see...
it looks like a hung parliament or very slim tory majority
no-one knows what it means as it's genuinely on a knife-edge. small changes in the seat numbers for tories vs labour+snp could be massively important
ElectronicOldMen
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He lives 364 days a year presenting Eggheads and wanting to die so he can do 1 day a year dancing around a map.
And, as Monty Mole says, chatting to Radio 2's most boring and/or racist listeners.
Monty Mole
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You should hear him on Radio 2 when talking to Terry about his allotment.
Do you mean Prescott? He was deputy leader of Labour in the Blair years.
Stead Fast
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Still very early, but signs are showing a hung parliament, in which no political party actually holds the majority of the seats, and therefore cannot govern without aide from political opposition. Basically, nothing can get done - and given how, before May declared a GE, the tories had enough seats to get ANYTHING THEY WANT done, it's already looking better than any of us could hope for.
Him and David Dimbleby at the best part of any election
IdreamofHIME
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Should see his brother
I'm also a non-Brit, but as a Canadian come from a country with a parliamentary system. I imagine Theresa May will step down as Prime Minister over this.
SictorVullivan
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Oh my god please let this be true.
here we. here we. here we fucking go.
Lord Frieza
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No, Murdoch
Frozenprince
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Man I come home to my buddies from the UK cackling at how May managed to fuck up a 26 point lead.
This is amazing.
This is amazing.
Thornton Reed
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What about that horrible cunt hunt
Art Teitlebaum
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Tories had hopes to extend their majority but now face the danger of losing seats, maybe their majority at all. Bloody nose for May at least.
Air Zombie Meat
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Would make my night.
BossDarkseid
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Her credibility would be shot.
In the old OT someone said there were reports of EU leaders laughing at the exit polls + her.
ReplacementPelican
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Very basically: vilified by left and right wing press so everyone had strong opinions with no exposure to him. May (Con leader) saw this as opportunity to steal seats from labour. People had to listen to Corbyn because it's an election, realised he wasn't a cunt. May and conservatives acted like cunts. Shot selves in foot.
It's way more complex than that. The first half of your assumption isn't far from the truth, but this election has been as much (if not more) about May's incompetency vs. Corbyn's.
I don't know what "quiz show you can't win because you're going up against people paid to win quiz shows," is worse: The Chase or Eggheads. Probably the latter becaus Vine does look like he wants to die.
Pointless is best.
Napoleonthechimp
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I thought people were joking about the sound in these BBC interviews.
Sumio Mondo
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Pyroclastic
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so many of these sources saying that x have lost
get the counts done i can only edge so much
get the counts done i can only edge so much
Stead Fast
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Yes and no. Yes in a sense that I'll hold my hands up and say I've been a critic of his since the second leadership battle, so if even members of his own party decry him, less informed US pundits, who I'd imagine would only have been given smaller notes on his record, they would see him as some make-shift 'Bernie'. No in that he's proven them, myself, and everyone else wholly wrong.
Edit: On another note, I need a drink!
Murdoch owns the conservatives.
Fuck him. He screwed over me and millions of ill/disabled.
PJV3
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This really is a strange evening.
WOW. That's bad news for the Tories that quite a few notables are getting defeated or are at severe risk.
In retrospect, May's dinner with the EU is even more hilarious.
She basically pulled the most idiotic move you can in politic, reminds me of France 97.
We had the best 5 years after that with plenty of progress socially and economically, here's to hoping you get that too at least.
She basically pulled the most idiotic move you can in politic, reminds me of France 97.
We had the best 5 years after that with plenty of progress socially and economically, here's to hoping you get that too at least.
JonnyDBrit
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Not likely to win, but to perform much better than expected, and deny our main right wing party from achieving a majority.
Huw_Dawson
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Hoey might have lost Vauxhall. 
Hot Coldman
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what's the under/over on how comparatively mental May's replacement will be
if it's Bojo we're all fucked, of course
if it's Bojo we're all fucked, of course
War Peaceman
You're a big guy.
Ending IDS would be the best. I swear most of my poligaf posts through the years have been about that cunt.
It's less that he 'needs to be in power' (although he'd be better than the Tories), more that there's going to need to be a lot of crow getting eaten if he's proven to not be the total electoral anthrax that the media and even members of his own fucking party have been telling people he was for the last 18 months.
CarlisleDavid1979
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Oooh if IDS goes. That'd be capital.
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Not a formal coalition, but Major relied on their votes briefly.
Stead Fast
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I mean, what has it had to take to get rid of that stain?
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