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I've got a local council by-election happening at the same time. I won't go into details, but I got into a spot of medical bother last week. Who was on hand to save me, but the wife of the Green candidate. She even popped round today to check that I was alright and bought me some flowers. Absolute hero!

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2 minutes ago, Gracii Guns said:

I've got a local council by-election happening at the same time. I won't go into details, but I got into a spot of medical bother last week. Who was on hand to save me, but the wife of the Green candidate. She even popped round today to check that I was alright and bought me some flowers. Absolute hero!

Cannabis plant?

If she was a Tory that plant would be nettles.

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2 hours ago, DieselDaisy said:

Cannabis plant?

If she was a Tory that plant would be nettles.

Nah, something with flowers on. Her husband really practises what he preaches - they burn wood for their fuel and don't drive a car. 

My husband and I received these messages today. We have never once expressed a view in assisting the campaign.

Meanwhile… guess who is spending their Saturday working on a flyer for the Green party? :P 

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9 hours ago, Len Cnut said:

:lol: 

Plus he's an Arsenal supporter, plus he says (famous last fuckin' words :lol: ) that he's gonna scrap Uni fees and seeing as how i got a fuckin' student loan out right now and plan to be goin' for an Masters in a years time It'd come in handy.  

You actually made me think you are voting for him there until I read your earlier post you lazy bastard :lol:

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4 hours ago, DieselDaisy said:

All politicians are absolute human excrement. I wouldn't piss on any of them if they were on fire in the desert. Complete wankstains.

True, being a sociopath seems to be essential to the job. But at the same time, I see what is happening and all I do is post. I'm just hoping to slip past without too much hassle. So I'm no hero. 

Maybe I want to believe it's a conspiracy but really it's just humans suck?

Is that just a cop out? 

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Wow they are pretending a heightened military presence will stop another attack. They have proven time and time again that they have no idea how to stop them. It's just more government spending on a problem they created. The media keep talking, the military keep getting paid, we the people keep dying. 

They need an investigation? Really? Really!

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On 24/05/2017 at 1:14 PM, DieselDaisy said:

All these politicians need flushed out and replaced with two parties which do represent everybody. Shame on anybody voting in this election.

Are two parties enough? 

I find it interesting that many people in Ireland try to look beyond the left/right dichotomy. 

I once had an anon Twitter account so I could get political news and views without it infringing on my personal/professional accounts. I'd estimate that my views average out to be centre left, but I'm interested in informing myself of more than just my own view. This meant that I'd end up reading retweets from the Socialist Workers all the way to Tommy Robinson. 

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Most recent yougov/times poll (I'm not sure I'm a firm believer in them though) puts the lead down to 5%. Labor have surged, the problem is the Tories aren't really dropping that many points and I cannot see Labour increasing their vote share above 40%.

Conservative win still seems inevitable, but it's not going to be the landslide people were begging for.

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2 hours ago, AtariLegend said:

Most recent yougov/times poll (I'm not sure I'm a firm believer in them though) puts the lead down to 5%. Labor have surged, the problem is the Tories aren't really dropping that many points and I cannot see Labour increasing their vote share above 40%.

Conservative win still seems inevitable, but it's not going to be the landslide people were begging for.

This was true before Manchester. Everything has changed now.

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4 hours ago, AtariLegend said:

Most recent yougov/times poll (I'm not sure I'm a firm believer in them though) puts the lead down to 5%. Labor have surged, the problem is the Tories aren't really dropping that many points and I cannot see Labour increasing their vote share above 40%.

Conservative win still seems inevitable, but it's not going to be the landslide people were begging for.

Here, the margin of error in polls is about 2 or 3 points. Whatever happens there is no Tories landslide

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/tory-lead-cut-to-five-points-as-corbyn-closes-in-on-may-rgmckfnpp

 

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1 hour ago, Padme said:

Here, the margin of error in polls is about 2 or 3 points. Whatever happens there is no Tories landslide

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/tory-lead-cut-to-five-points-as-corbyn-closes-in-on-may-rgmckfnpp

 

I genuinely would love it if this resulted in a hung parliament which isn't an impossible-lty anymore. It would raise all sorts of questions and it'd almost certainly mean they ended up scraping the silly fixed 5 year election term. 

Anything that results in a smaller majority is almost certainly going to change some of these ideas her cabinet have about the country. Wouldn't be shocked to see Boris see it as yet another opportunity to sneak to the top and fail.

I don't have that much hope though.

 

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33 minutes ago, AtariLegend said:

I genuinely would love it if this resulted in a hung parliament which isn't an impossible-lty anymore. It would raise all sorts of questions and it'd almost certainly mean they ended up reaping the silly fixed 5 year election term. 

Anything that results in a smaller majority is almost certainly going to change some of these ideas her cabinet have about the country. Wouldn't be shocked to see Boris see it as yet another opportunity to sneak to the top and fail.

I don't have that much hope though.

 

But a hung parliament could lead into a political mess on top of the Brexit mess. And that would be a huge mess for the average citizens. Chances are May would quit if she doesn't get her landslide. And then what?

Don't get me I don't want a Tories landslide. But a big political crisis won't be good either

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1 hour ago, Padme said:

And then what?

Don't get me I don't want a Tories landslide. But a big political crisis won't be good either

Well some foxes and patients in hospital would live a little longer.

It'd force another election anyway soon afterward, I think that would be Labor's best route. 

 

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