UK General Election 2017 - 8 June

[Lewis]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Downsizing-...3084645&sr=8-3

That shadow on the cover is all the nonce stuff.

[-james-]

Tribalism in politics is weird. I live in Scotland, so it's always "well obviously you can't vote for the fucking Tories". I come on here and it's all "lol labour how could you vote for that lot hahah", and there's generally not much substance to either.

[Jimmy Floyd]

There have been a couple of leafy Home Counties constituency polls, including in my home seat, and they're showing a complete collapse in the Tory vote with all of it going to the Lib Dems. If that pattern holds across all Remain seats then Labour are fucked.

[Spikey M]

There's substance to both. They're all lying cunts.

[Ian]

Tribalism in politics is weird. I live in Scotland, so it's always "well obviously you can't vote for the fucking Tories". I come on here and it's all "lol labour how could you vote for that lot hahah", and there's generally not much substance to either.

I honestly don't know how you could vote for fucking any of them and feel positive about it.

[Byron]

And this is the crux of the matter. My vote is reduced to, which one makes me vomit the least?

[Ian]

I think I'm finding it worse this year than ever. The Brexit stuff really has brought into focus what a lot of incompetent, self-serving bastards most of them are.

[Spikey M]

Spoilt ballots lads.

[Ian]

To be fair where I live my vote will likely make zero difference anyway so I may as well draw a cock and balls wearing a Jimmy hat on it.

[Lewis]

This REMAIN ALLIANCE between the Liberal Democrats and the Welsh separatists presumably makes voting in Scotland even easier for any unionist.

[Boydy]

Not sure what you lot want, there's probably a wider choice now than at any election during our voting lifetimes.

[Ian]

Not sure what you lot want, there's probably a wider choice now than at any election during our voting lifetimes.

I'd like one party to vote for (that there's any point in voting for) who aren't going to break everything as hard as they can. Or build the idea that they're not going to do that on wishing and lies.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If any of them weren't pathological liars it would be a start. The competition is for whose despicable lie will play best with voters.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

Spoilt ballots lads.

This is how I want to feel but as long as Sturgeon exists as Grievance Minister of Scotland I'll have to vote for anyone against her.

[Waffdon]

I’ll be waiting on you outside Burnside Primary with my Nicola Sturgeon memorabilia.

[Boydy]

I'd like one party to vote for (that there's any point in voting for) who aren't going to break everything as hard as they can. Or build the idea that they're not going to do that on wishing and lies.

How are you defining 'break everything'?

[Ian]

Happily allowing the country to be demonstrably worse because it suits them.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

I’ll be waiting on you outside Burnside Primary with my Nicola Sturgeon memorabilia.

That's ok, I'm always waiting outside there.

[Waffdon]

Touché x

[Spikey M]

To be fair where I live my vote will likely make zero difference anyway so I may as well draw a cock and balls wearing a Jimmy hat on it.

Same. It's been Tory here since day dot.

[Spikey M]

Not sure what you lot want, there's probably a wider choice now than at any election during our voting lifetimes.

There's left wingnuts and right wingnuts, sure, but I'd never vote for the Communists of the Fascists, so they're out. That leaves the cesspool in the centre, and Guy Fawkes had the right idea about them.

[Shindig]

With all due respect to the dead catholic, his idea was to hide a massive pile of gunpowder and hope nobody would notice.

[phonics]

Happily allowing the country to be demonstrably worse because it suits them.

I know this is a largely flippant comment but it makes no sense.

[Lewis]

Where did I read that having the Nigel Party polling at less than ten per cent helps the Conservative Party more? I think the theory is that the first eight per cent of their vote is all the 'YOU TELL 'EM NIGE' thickos who would otherwise vote Labour (or not at all), where as the next eight per cent is the more sophisticated people like me who will just vote for Boris to tell 'em instead. Either way, I'm not sure what he hoped to achieve with an endorsement from the Donald other than proving he has celebrity friends.

YouGov has a big regional poll out that appears to show this.

[-james-]

I was going to vote Green but I think I might chuck Jeremy a sympathy vote instead.

[Offshore Toon]

I live in the Tottenham constituency so I have the luxury of being able to spoil my ballot, but I'm not sure in what fashion yet.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Perhaps by writing 'David Lammy is a sanctimonius cunt' all over it.

[Lewis]

I would racially abuse him on it. He'd definitely get wind of it, but he couldn't post about it on Twitter, and that would absolutely ruin his Christmas.

[Offshore Toon]

I might just write out a couple of stories that took place in the local Aldi.

[Kikó]

I live in the Tottenham constituency so I have the luxury of being able to spoil my ballot, but I'm not sure in what fashion yet.

You live dangerously close to me.

And you missed the meet. 🥺

[Offshore Toon]

I'm still waiting for Teh Refuge Rovers v WhatsApp Wanderers football/wrestling match.

[Lewis]

'GS couldn't be here tonight, but...'

[Giggles]

It’d be a mixture of an EDL rumble, a traveller bareknuckle, and the transporter.

[Spikey M]

More like Rain Man vs Forest Gump.

[Lewis]

This post-Corbyn Labour plan to have two leaders - one each from the 'heartland'/ponce wing - would be hilarious.

[Byron]

Because two leaders works out well for the Greens.

All Labour need to do is ensure they don't have a terrorist supporting cunt in charge.

[Jimmy Floyd]

This post-Corbyn Labour plan to have two leaders - one each from the 'heartland'/ponce wing - would be hilarious.

Keir Starmer: co-leader (the educated)
Angela Rayner: co-leader (scum)

What would happen if they then won an election using this genius plan? Would they have to marry and share number ten?

[Lewis]

It will still be two absolute idiots from their wing of the party (if you can still call it a 'wing' when they control it all), but one of them will have a 'regional' accent. My guess would be Dawn Butler and one of the stunningly thick Northern women.

[Lewis]

Boris Johnson vs the combined forces of progressive fishwifery should make for a decent few years though.

[phonics]

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What idiot in the spin room thought trying to hide this was a better tactic than letting it happen and calling Corbyn a russian spy. Idiots.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If that's the worst thing in it then I don't know why they bothered sitting on it.

[phonics]

If that's the worst thing in it then I don't know why they bothered sitting on it.

One of them is Lebedev who was thought of as such a threat that they allowed him to buy the 4th biggest newspaper in the country.

[Lewis]

Without specifics people being 'named in' and 'included in' a report is meaningless.

[phonics]

Without specifics people being 'named in' and 'included in' a report is meaningless.

I enjoy how you went into a defensive positioning even though the only people discussing it were lolling at how pointless it was.

[Lewis]

I was reading the mental comments underneath it. Between that sort of thing and the 'Trump trade deal' piss it's all weirdly xenophobic from the Citizens of the World.

[phonics]

I was reading the mental comments underneath it. Between that sort of thing and the 'Trump trade deal' piss it's all weirdly xenophobic from the Citizens of the World.

The Trump trade deal stuff is extremely dumb considering even if we had NO DEALED our way to victory there's no chance we'd get a trade deal done before he loses in 2020. Smart politics though.

The Russia stuff all seems a desperate attempt to reclaim patriotism from the right.

[Lewis]

I don't think it's as well thought out as that. It's just bed-wetting disbelief if them losing a few things.

[phonics]

I don't think it's as well thought out as that. It's just bed-wetting disbelief if them losing a few things.

I'm largely imprinting my thoughts from the US rather than the UK but all those bed-wetters you mention basically see ourselves as a vassal of the US anyway. Going mental over a Supreme Court nomination because it'll undo abortion in a country they'll never visit outside a potential Thomas Cook all-included trip to Vegas.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If they didn't blame Trump/Putin/Bannon/Cummings/racism/white people/old people/the fact that we had a referendum called in the first place/David Cameron/the biased BBC/Rupert Murdoch/the uneducated/those from an inferior gene pool/Cambridge Analytica/Jacob Rees-Mogg's stock options/George Soros/Thatcher, then they might just have to blame themselves, and that just wouldn't do.

I always like to go back to this clip of Keith Vaz launching Remainia at 4.53am: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAjlNjdjN-U

[Lewis]

That seems a lot more understandable in light of the washing machine revelations.