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Question: Which Party Will You Be Voting For?
Conservative - 54 (30.5%)
Labour - 63 (35.6%)
Liberal Democrat - 29 (16.4%)
UKIP - 6 (3.4%)
Green - 5 (2.8%)
SNP - 0 (0%)
Plaid Cymru - 0 (0%)
Other - 2 (1.1%)
Not Voting - 9 (5.1%)
Spoiled Ballot - 9 (5.1%)
Total Voters: 153

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« Reply #870 on: Thursday, June 8, 2017, 23:09:42 »

That's what I thought.

I'm ignorant to politics. Why do they consider the Swindon North vote so significant?
Because it's one of the first Southern seats to declare. Despite all the fuss made about Sunderland declaring first, you can tell fuck all from NE Labour seats where they just weigh the votes. But the Minister for Victimising the Disabled's majority has gone down, doesn't bode well for May's landslide. Or possibly even Robert "Empty Suit" Buckland's chances of holding Swindon South
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« Reply #871 on: Thursday, June 8, 2017, 23:13:24 »

Cheers.
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« Reply #872 on: Friday, June 9, 2017, 00:07:48 »

Buckland holds with a majority of 2000
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« Reply #873 on: Friday, June 9, 2017, 00:11:24 »

Sad

that's down from 5700 last time but not enough.
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« Reply #874 on: Friday, June 9, 2017, 00:13:59 »

oooh labour win seat in Scotland.. 8.9% swing from SNP
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« Reply #875 on: Friday, June 9, 2017, 04:03:15 »

If the forecast is right that the Tories will fall short then this is good news. May will have to go and she can take her Brexit "no deal" bullshit with her. A more sensible Brexit with single market membership will be back on the table particularly if the Tories have to reply on the DUP to form a government.
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« Reply #876 on: Friday, June 9, 2017, 04:26:21 »

Well, well, well. This is all going to get very interesting messy. Just what the country needed. Cheers Theresa.
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« Reply #877 on: Friday, June 9, 2017, 04:31:26 »

Teresa May: No it wasn't a gamble that backfired; it was a perfectly sensible, albeit cynical, piece of opportunism.  The problem was that it was made by the most incompetent campaigner in Tory leadership history.  Who could honestly name a Tory PM since the war who couldn't have got a majority against Corbyn?

Jeremy Corbyn; I was totally wrong (not alone in that), he ran a really effective campaign.  He is still totally unfit to run the country.  Who could honestly name a Labour leader since the war who couldn't have got a majority against May?  Everyone who is eulogising about Corbyn seems to forget that he still lost the election, just not by the landslide most of us predicted.

Social media:  The impact of tactical voting and university student voting has been massive.  A stream of two horse races.  When was the last time that both Labour and Tories exceeded 40%? (Appreciate I may be premature on this but point remains).

Nick Clegg: Anyone who whinges about how cynical and self serving our politicians are should ask themselves whether we really encourage anything better.  History will surely recognise that at the very least he did what he genuinely believed was right for his country and got annihilated for it.

Stayed up all night, really enjoyed it.  Increased turnouts, clearly major participation from my kid's generation (a year earlier for Brexit would have been nice), genuine enthusiasm, fucking chaos to come. 
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« Reply #878 on: Friday, June 9, 2017, 04:50:48 »

Jeremy Corbyn; I was totally wrong (not alone in that), he ran a really effective campaign.  He is still totally unfit to run the country.  Who could honestly name a Labour leader since the war who couldn't have got a majority against May? Michael Foot? Neil Kinnock? Margaret Beckett? Gordon Brown? Ed Milliband?   Everyone who is eulogising about Corbyn seems to forget that he still lost the election, just not by the landslide most of us predicted.

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« Reply #879 on: Friday, June 9, 2017, 06:55:48 »

 It feels a decent day today.  Like picking up a point, with a last minute equaliser at some norvern hellhole on a wet Tuesday night.... not quite winning a PO final at a sunlit Old Wembley.

Very happy for JC, a man who's taken as much abuse from inside his own party, as outside, yet maintained his dignity and let the ideas speak.  Pint
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« Reply #880 on: Friday, June 9, 2017, 07:33:34 »

Good luck repealing the hunting act now May 🖕
Talking to the same few people out the back of denelm mill every day, avoiding the public and debate of any sort has backfired big time.
Just think what could have happened without the press vendetta against Corbyn.
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« Reply #881 on: Friday, June 9, 2017, 07:39:16 »

The only winners are potentially the DUP, well done FPTP
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« Reply #882 on: Friday, June 9, 2017, 07:41:52 »

It feels a decent day today.  Like picking up a point, with a last minute equaliser at some norvern hellhole on a wet Tuesday night.... not quite winning a PO final at a sunlit Old Wembley.

Very happy for JC, a man who's taken as much abuse from inside his own party, as outside, yet maintained his dignity and let the ideas speak.  Pint
Spot on Reg. And also agree with your earlier comment about this being a good election not to win. This could be the best possible outcome - let the Tories carry the can for the shitfest Brexit they've created, and render themselves unelectable for the next decade in doing so, but without a thumping majority that would allow them to ram through (further) dismantling the NHS etc etc. Still don't think Corbyn is the right man to be PM, but you're right he's won the Labour Party, if not the election, by letting the ideas speak. Time now to continue that, let those ideas speak further, because they clearly have appeal, and take the time before the next election to build a proper front bench.

Tories should now be legally required to have the hashtags #recklessGamblers and #CasinoPolitics on every one of their posters and adverts - that's twice in as many years they've gambled the future of the country to serve their own selfish political ends and twice they've fucked it up.
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« Reply #883 on: Friday, June 9, 2017, 07:43:12 »

It's a poor result for the country
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« Reply #884 on: Friday, June 9, 2017, 07:48:13 »

The only winners are potentially the DUP, well done FPTP

The foxes, hares, deer and mink have done alright out of it too.
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