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The 2017 General Election campaign

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Rimbaud said:
...resulting in a failure of anyone to form a government as Lib Dems are too afraid to work with the Tories again, making a second election necessary and deepening the ongoing political farce. Would be glorious to watch.
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It's about sanity prevailing really. Real world least worst option. If we get a hung parliament then put the cunts in a locked room & don't let them out until they come up with some workable solution. I agree that would be glorious to watch. The Dutch seem to manage it. You can't keep having elections if you don't like the result of the last one. Really we should not be having this one. The Tories broke brexit so they should have owned it until 2020.
 
first time in about 30 years that I can't stay up all night to watch the coverage - maybe that's a blessing. I do have the next day off, as I'm driving down to Devon, so might even go to bed before the polls close and get up early doors to see the potentially grim result :hmm:
 
Can't see any prospect of Labour recovering. Their supporters seem to have disappeared. What happened to the mass of young enthused Corbynistas? They're okay on social media prattling on to people who already agree with them, but too cowardly to go out onto the streets and knock on doors and face rejection. Nauseously, I've only seen Tories door knocking and campaigning around here in this marginal constituency. Twelve years ago, Tories were so demoralized around here they dared not use their logo or party leader on their election literature (their local campaign manager even defected to the Lib Dems). Ugh.... I am not looking forward June 9th....
 
William of Walworth said:
Not very realistic surely .... :hmm:
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It depends on voters in Labour held constituencies. If they cannot bring themselves to vote Tory in the end then Labour might keep most of their seats. It sounds reasonable that some of the Lib Dem seats that went to Tories at the last GE might well go back to the Lib Dems so it would not take that much of an earthquake for things to end up pretty much as they are but with the Tories small majority wiped out. After that it would be deckchairs & popcorn time. :D
 
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marty21 said:
first time in about 30 years that I can't stay up all night to watch the coverage - maybe that's a blessing. I do have the next day off, as I'm driving down to Devon, so might even go to bed before the polls close and get up early doors to see the potentially grim result :hmm:
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I'm working with primary school kids at 9am on the 9th so a late night and the traditional bottle of election night scotch are out :(
 
There's a decent manchester socialist group called Spring already, I expect they're instructing m'learned friends as we speak.
 
Actually, re-reading it, it looks like he's just announcing he was thinking of standing, but has decided not to. But here's what he would have done. :confused:
 
I didn't used to mind Maugham - he's done some useful and perceptive writing over the years. He's become pretty unhinged in the last year or so though. I think Brexit has caused some kind of collective breakdown among the liberal left commentariat.
 
Prime Minister Theresa May is thankful to everyone for focussing on Tim Farron’s attitude to homosexuals, and not her voting record on gay rights.

After Lib Dem leader Farron confirmed that he doesn’t think gay sex is a sin, and pointed to a voting record in support of gay rights going back to his earliest time in parliament, the prime minister urged everyone not to look at her record.

“As the daughter of a vicar, my attitude to the gays is perfectly normal for someone of my age and background thank you very much,” she confirmed.

“Nobody needs to go looking into my voting record on issues around gay rights to determine whether I am a friend of the gays – that would be a waste of everyone’s time.

“Much better that everyone continues pretending that Tim Farron thinks all gays will burn in hell, than discuss the fact that I continued to vote against much of the gay rights legislation of the last twenty years.”

Voter Simon Williams said, “Yes, I know Tim Farron has consistently voted in support of gay rights his entire political career, but he follows a strange old book that says gays are sinful, so that’s the really important thing to focus on.

“And no, I don’t see it as a problem that the prime minister follows the same book and is refusing to be drawn on the subject, despite being a vicar’s daughter.

“I’m sure that in private she’s very supportive of gay rights, she probably just repeatedly voted against improving them because she didn’t understand the question.”
 
Fuck this fucking election. I'm fucking fucked off with the whole fucking thing.

Fuck Theresa May the fucking shitbag. She should be thrown down an abandoned well not the fucking prime minister. Look at her fucking record - she's fucking useless, yet she says "strong" every other fucking word and suddenly she's a fucking cross between fucking Churchill and fucking Thatcher not the fucking national laughing stock she fucking should be.

And fuck the fucking Labour party for being infested with fucking right wing cuntbubbles and fuck Corbyn and his fucking useless bunch of fucking mediocre fucking gimps. His health spokesman was being interviewed on the news and he nasally mumbled that there's a perception that the government isn't managing the health service very well. What the fucking fuck? It's his big fucking chance to make his fucking mark and that's the best the worthless fucking tosspot can come up with? The fucking government are destroying the fucking health service. Everyfuckingbody is fucking furious. Labour should be tearing apart the fucking fucked up record of this fucking government - they can't keep a single fucking promise, social care is a national fucking disaster, education is fucked, housing is fucked, homeless people are strewn across every fucking town centre in the fucking country but oh fucking no. "There's a perception mumble mumble". Fucking dickhead.

And fuck the fucking media. Fuck the fucking Guardian for giving the fucking libfuckingshitcuntdems the time of fucking day. Fuck the right wing fucking press for pretending fucking May isn't a fucking waste of fucking space. And fuck, the fucking BBC are the fucking worst with their so called fucking balance. Cunts. They're all but fucking campaigning for the fucking tories. When Osbourne said he's standing down they ran a fucking hagiography of the snivelling fucking shit. The fucking excuse for a man should be tied between two planks and sawed in half for the fucking misery he wreaked on the country.

Six more fucking weeks of this fucking shit and at the end of it we're going to be stuck with a fucking huge fucking tory fucking majority and the fucking fucks will be able to do what the fuck they want. Fuck I'm fucking pissed off about the whole fucking thing.
 
Spandex said:
Fuck this fucking election. I'm fucking fucked off with the whole fucking thing.

Fuck Theresa May the fucking shitbag. She should be thrown down an abandoned well not the fucking prime minister. Look at her fucking record - she's fucking useless, yet she says "strong" every other fucking word and suddenly she's a fucking cross between fucking Churchill and fucking Thatcher not the fucking national laughing stock she fucking should be.

And fuck the fucking Labour party for being infested with fucking right wing cuntbubbles and fuck Corbyn and his fucking useless bunch of fucking mediocre fucking gimps. His health spokesman was being interviewed on the news and he nasally mumbled that there's a perception that the government isn't managing the health service very well. What the fucking fuck? It's his big fucking chance to make his fucking mark and that's the best the worthless fucking tosspot can come up with? The fucking government are destroying the fucking health service. Everyfuckingbody is fucking furious. Labour should be tearing apart the fucking fucked up record of this fucking government - they can't keep a single fucking promise, social care is a national fucking disaster, education is fucked, housing is fucked, homeless people are strewn across every fucking town centre in the fucking country but oh fucking no. "There's a perception mumble mumble". Fucking dickhead.

And fuck the fucking media. Fuck the fucking Guardian for giving the fucking libfuckingshitcuntdems the time of fucking day. Fuck the right wing fucking press for pretending fucking May isn't a fucking waste of fucking space. And fuck, the fucking BBC are the fucking worst with their so called fucking balance. Cunts. They're all but fucking campaigning for the fucking tories. When Osbourne said he's standing down they ran a fucking hagiography of the snivelling fucking shit. The fucking excuse for a man should be tied between two planks and sawed in half for the fucking misery he wreaked on the country.

Six more fucking weeks of this fucking shit and at the end of it we're going to be stuck with a fucking huge fucking tory fucking majority and the fucking fucks will be able to do what the fuck they want. Fuck I'm fucking pissed off about the whole fucking thing.
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