General Election 2015 - chat, predictions, results and post election discussion

[Thunderfist]

Might have missed this but how did Class War do?

 

[Lurdan]

yes and rape apologist galloway off to spend more time working for russian and iranian news outlets.

every cloud

I thought he said he'd try his luck at the election for Tower Hamlets Mayor although when he said that there was some questioning of his current eligibility.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Might have missed this but how did Class War do?

A total of 526 votes according the BBC.

 

[jusali]

class war 526 votes

 

[treelover]

Good timing... the Radical Book Fair is on in London tomorrow: https://londonradicalbookfair.wordpress.com/

Intersectionalism dominating?

 

[editor]

Remember resident urban fuckwit Bonathon Jishop?
He polled a MASSIVE 23 votes!

Walton also saw the candidate who polled the smallest number of votes in Liverpool on May 7. Jonathan Dzon, of the Pluralist Party, won the backing of 23 people while Independent Alexander Karran received 56 votes.
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-general-election-2015-results-9211152

 

[DotCommunist]

Clegg just resigned.

this post....it needs more likes

 

[redsquirrel]

Not at all, just pre-empting the inevitable quartz comment on what an honourable man this is.

Did you see the vomit inducing Ashdown tribute to Clegg early this morning? Christ I say vomit inducing but that barely scratches the surface, oh god.

 

[JimW]

Fell asleep before the Stroud declaration, grim. If Carmichael can get in any twat can

 

[butchersapron]

Did you see the vomit inducing Ashdown tribute to Clegg early this morning? Christ I say vomit inducing but that early scratches the surface, oh god.

Glad, for once, to say i was working then.

 

[Spymaster]

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He's gone but more people have voted for them than ever before. Hardly amusing.

 

[DotCommunist]

Clegg just resigned.

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[SpookyFrank]

class war 526 votes

So pretty much just class war members and their mums then.

 

[redsquirrel]

Glad, for once, to say i was working then.

Thankfully the BBC doesn't seem to have kept it. Maybe even they couldn't stomach it.

 

[JHE]

class war 526 votes

They stood seven candidates, so that's an average of 75 votes per constituency.

Maybe the problem is that anarchists just don't vote.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Might have missed this but how did Class War do?

It was never about numbers, but here are the numbers, for posterity:

Adam Clifford (Cities of London and Westminster) 59
Lisa McKenzie (Chingford and Woodford Green) 53
Joe Wilcox (Maidenhead) 55
Andy Bennetts (Lichfield) 120
Dave Perkins (Sherwood) 78
David Peel (Norwich South) 96*
Jon Bigger (Croydon South) 65

*the only candidate not to come last.

 

[Spymaster]

So pretty much just class war members and their mums then.

More like the candidates' friends and family.

 

[LDC]

It was never about numbers, but here are the numbers, for posterity:

Adam Clifford (Cities of London and Westminster) 59
Lisa McKenzie (Chingford and Woodford Green) 53
Joe Wilcox (Maidenhead) 55
Andy Bennetts (Lichfield) 120
Dave Perkins (Sherwood) 78
David Peel (Norwich South) 96*
Jon Bigger (Croydon South) 65

*the only candidate not to come last.

What happened to the nightmare of Marina Pepper? Did she end up not standing in the end?

 

[editor]

He's gone but more people have voted for them than ever before. Hardly amusing.

I think it's up to me what I find amusing thanks. If he got in it would have been a fucking disaster, but now he has to stand down as leader. And without him, they are nothing.

 

[butchersapron]

Thankfully the BBC doesn't seem to have kept it. Maybe even they couldn't stomach it.

The rat hasn't ruled himself out of running for the leadership btw

 

[DotCommunist]

Jesus fucking christ, look how much my town LOVES Philip Hollobone:

Results

• VOTES
• SHARE %
• + / - %

Conservative
, with candidatePhilip Hollobone
, have the following results:

• 24,467total votes taken.
• 51.8% share of the total vote
• +2.7% change in share of the votes

Labour
, with candidateRhea Keehn
, have the following results:

• 11,877total votes taken.
• 25.2% share of the total vote
• -4.8% change in share of the votes

UKIP
, with candidateJonathan Bullock
, have the following results:

• 7,600total votes taken.
• 16.1% share of the total vote
• +16.1% change in share of the votes

Green Party
, with candidateRob Reeves
, have the following results:

• 1,633total votes taken.
• 3.5% share of the total vote
• +3.5% change in share of the votes

Liberal Democrat
, with candidateChris McGlynn
, have the following results:

• 1,490total votes taken.
• 3.2% share of the total vote
• -12.7% change in share of the votes

English Democrats
, with candidateDerek Hilling
, have the following results:

• 151total votes taken.
• 0.3% share of the total vote
• -1.7% change in share of the votes

still at least the eng dems didn't get many


but hollobone on double the labour womans vote? the man is an unshakable titan of tory racist bellend

 

[Fozzie Bear]

What happened to the nightmare of Marina Pepper? Did she end up not standing in the end?

I don't know (I'm not involved - just got those numbers off the BBC site) but there were a lot of announcements of people who were going to stand who didn't in the end.

 

[teqniq]

There is a collection of tweets from musicians on the NME's site

a sample:

Tim Burgess

✔@Tim_Burgess
The Tories are like one of those shit bands that nobody actually admits to liking, but they always seem to be in the charts : /

9:41 AM - 8 May 2015

 

[Sparkle Motion]

They stood seven candidates, so that's an average of 75 votes per constituency.

Maybe the problem is that anarchists just don't vote.

The problem is people don't vote for anarchists or anarchism. Not because they are stupid or brainwashed, but because they don't want to. What should anarchists do to overcome their total irrelevance to the overwhelming majority of people?

 

[JHE]

What should anarchists do to overcome their total irrelevance to the overwhelming majority of people?

What would you recommend?

 

[redsquirrel]

And without him, they are nothing.

I'm sorry but that simply flies in the face of all the evidence, they've achieved in gaining nearly 13% of the popular vote. It's true that's not been translated into seats and that it's possible that for a variety of reasons they might struggle in the aftermath of this election, but to write off the third party of Britain like that is just ignorant.

Moreover it shows a total lack of understanding of the motivations of people voting for UKIP. Whatever else they might be the fact is that they strike a chord with plenty of people who for whatever reason feel left behind/out of place in the Britain of 2015.

 

[brogdale]

and........he's gone.

 

[LDC]

Take itself seriously... give up on the ridiculous fetish of jumping from single issue reformist campaign to campaign and the obsession with activism like a less effective NGO. Turn it's back on the lifestyle choices and moralism that predominates. Start building social power and the ability to provide resources and the needs of people and the power to protect them from reactionary forces.

 

[Quartz]

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

Toodle pip Willybandage.