The Labour fan (that's the best way of describing him, he's one of these people who treats the party they vote for like the football team they support) just said he's "quietly confident" of a Labour win.
He's kidding himself.
Theresa May's Conservatives
Jeremy Corbyn's Labour
Tim Farron's Liberal Democrats
Paul Nuttall's UKIP
2 people's Greens
Nicholas Durgeon's Scottish Nationalists
Satan's Sinn Fein
Dr Ian Paisley's DUP
Some other bunch of nonces
I'm foreign, but I wish I were an Englishman
The Labour fan (that's the best way of describing him, he's one of these people who treats the party they vote for like the football team they support) just said he's "quietly confident" of a Labour win.
He's kidding himself.
A Labour win is impossible. A hung parliament and Jeremy somehow cobbling together every non-Tory behind him (though good luck to him getting the 10 DUP onside) is possible, maybe the fanbase are classing this as a win.
Would last about ten minutes and then we could have another election in February.
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Now they're telling reporters to fuck off. The mask slipped quite significantly over the past couple of days.
Is the pressure getting to the scum?
Weren't the Conservatives meant to get a majority in the last election then ended up weaker?
I think huge swathes of people underestimate what goes on further than their area which is why Brexit seemed to be a surprise to many yet even before the referendum I barely heard anyone talking about remaining and that's when I was between Flintshire, Wales and Richmond, London. It's the same now, I don't hear many saying they will vote for conservatives having just moved back from Abingdon which is a Lib Dem seat (I think).
It all confuses me but I still see Corbyn being the PM in the next few days but if not this election then the next and I think that'll be all she wrote for the conservatives as a party, I reckon.
Assuming they don't win this one then Labour really should be breezing the next election on simple length of being in opposition basis alone, assuming they don't replace their incumbent idiot in chief with an equally feckless one. Also assuming the next election isn't in a few months.
Jeremy clinging on is going to be funny though.
I think a Hung Parliament with numbers that would only 'work' if Labour and the Conservatives work together would give me the most lol for my buck.
Brexit aside, the current Conservative Party is basically what Michael Heseltine wanted for it, so ignore that sad bastard.
Labours odds for a minority keep shortening. Imagine. Just imagine.
Laura K casually admitting electoral fraud is quite funny. Get her in the sea.
Trying to work out how many seats Labour would need to have a decent shot at governing. 326 is a majority, 325 without the speaker, and if Sinn Fein get the expected six that goes down to 322. The SNP should win around 40 seats and they will definitely prop up Labour (although I'm not really sure why, strategy-wise). That would take Jezza's target down to around 282.
The Lib Dems are more complicated as they have gone in hard on the leftists, but given a People's Vote (groan) they would probably fall into line. I have them at around 16-18 seats. Plaid and the Greens should be steady at four between them, and the various Northern Irish patsies contribute a couple more. I'll give out one bonus seat in case something random happens like Gauke or Grieve, or that indie in Cornwall winning.
As such I think the minimum he will need to govern will be around 260 Labour seats. To have any degree of comfort he will need 270+, really. Keeping all that lot above in line will be a bloody nightmare. Given his IRA history I cannot see any scenario where the expected 9-10 DUP would back him, so he would be up against both numbers and an opposition Tory party that is larger than his own. I'd kind of quite like to see it happen just for the lols.
Probably just has to hang together for a few weeks to cobble something together and have another referendum to stay in the EU, though. I can't see the LibDems allowing Corbyn to govern beyond that. Although seeing that their arrangement would be time-limited and the SNP require him to stick around for a bit longer, there's a problem with that too.
Not looking that good, then. I might have to content myself with seeing Dominic Raab or IDS reduced to tears.
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Who will win Sylvia's seat?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/storie...-happened-next
Lads, we found Harold.
Why are peerages some form of weird bribe used on people?
Do you get cash from it in some way?
Cash for peerage was going on under Blair, wasn't it?
You get attendance allowances, but the relevance plus access probably pays more.
Good decision there. That entire episode was disgraceful from Watson. You can't go round claiming paedophiles are wide-rife, while simultaneously withholding the evidence.
Erm ... what?
Also, this.
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Also. This?
As far as Cumming goes I am not that bothered that he may or may not have broken the rules but I am bothered about the fallout and how it's led to rushing things. Sacked, resigned, I'd have taken a suspension just so the focus could have gone back what actually mattered but since then it just seems to have highlighted how suspect the cabinet inparticular is, how useless BJ is and how powerful someone who's unelected by anyone of us actually is.
Boris with his big balls.
Boris Johnson says 3m people in Hong Kong will get path to British citizenshiphttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...-path-british/PM offered to make what he says would be one of the "biggest changes" in the history of the British visa system
How do we stand to gain from that?
I'm not having that Boris is worried about it on the basis of democracy or human suffering.
They're generally highly educated, 'high value' folk, I believe. Points system ding ding ding etc.
Isn't this a policy/reaction Lewis specifically advocated back when they were camping in the airport?
If we have existing obligations then we should uphold them, but I don't see how permanently taking three million people in is any sort of good idea. We would need to be spreading that around a bit and freezing all other immigration with it. These wheezes about shoving them all in one place and telling them to make a new Hong Kong are interesting though. They could have Sunk Island, or fence off some of the Northern Ireland borderlands for them with Union Jack bunting.
We will for sure take a good chunk.
Isn’t most of Scotland empty?
They can have the Northern Territory.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...speech-commons
Absolute fucking morons. Dragged them all in just so Boris would have some cheerleaders and one of them shows up with Coronavirus. Which is...exactly the point of not going into work when you're ill.
You can almost see the COVID in his veins
Iran heath minister did it better still, literally toweling himself off whilst playing down the virus.
These lads don't do days off.
Atleast if Boris gets it again it'll answer the Immunity question.
Luis at the ready.
tAkInG bAcK cOnTrOl
I feel like I could have written this 'Russia Report'. Other than recognising the inherent dodginess of wealthy Russians it's just a load of open-source wank and wondering what to do about things we've been wondering to do about for a hundred years. THEY HAVE A SPHERE OF INFLUENCE. Oh really?
There is an interesting bit in Appendix 7b (Section 4, page 219) where it says they have bears there and it's cold in winter.
I liked the response from Christopher 'Fred Holroyd' Steele speculating why actual intelligence services never bothered pursuing his work.
Russia is a land of contrasts.
The Tories are proper cunts with these 'payrises'. A reward for front line doctors for covid which only actually applies to consultants and for teachers but it has to come out of the existing ravaged school budgets.
Could've stopped typing after five words.
My cousin's fiance is a nurse and has gone from a bit of a shy Tory to wanting Boris hanged from Tower Bridge while Corbyn storms parliament over the last couple of days.
Teach throughout the pandemic?