They're counting in the Unite leadership election today. Early returns indicate that Gerard Coyne is ahead of Red Len McCluskey.
Unite have suspended Coyne as of about fifteen minutes ago.
Outstanding.
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
They're counting in the Unite leadership election today. Early returns indicate that Gerard Coyne is ahead of Red Len McCluskey.
Unite have suspended Coyne as of about fifteen minutes ago.
Outstanding.
Pikey and Tragic banter > BS and Lenny Henry.
I dunno, your dick seems pretty hard for it.Originally Posted by GS
Not quite, but the impending destruction of the socialists will be most enjoyable.
When do you concede that the electorate want nothing to do with it and move on?
'The electorate'
Lads, you're both wrong. The EU referendum was about a member of the public having a gut response to having, "Do you want Britain to remain in the EU?" bluntly put in front of them. There was fuck all nuance about it. A person sits there and says, "My perception of the EU is thus ... hence YES/NO."
So Dimbleby and the swingometer is back then?
The swingometer belongs to Peter Snow.
Just seen some shit about virgin care. Anyone know anything about this? Tempted to vote labour now
I knew she wasn't yours.
I'm...I'm sorry was that an attempt at a joke?
If they lose Barnsley you might as well shut the party down anyway.
Polly will be more at home in the Lib Dems tbh.
Farage saying he won't stand 'even though it would be really easy' despite having lost seven times is top, top stuff.
She QUIT Labour and stood for the SDP in their first election after Limehouse. It takes a nerve to be that hypocritical, really.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39657843
I would normally be in favour of the dribbling old cunt fucking off, but Huw Edwards is far too nice a man to front political coverage.
Clive Lewis there, attempting to charm Tory voters into voting for Labour instead.
Clive Lewis voted against the election because it's messed up his wedding plans. Not even making that up.
That flow chart has really helped me. Thanks for sharing.
What if you're poor, but care more about rich people's welfare than your own?
Probably a surprisingly large chunk of the pie chart, that one.
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Well it's better than making up a reason to vote against the election when the reality is that your majority is tiny.
I have no qualms with it, weddings cost a lot of time and money and this close to it hell stand to lose between 50-75% of what he's put in.
That vote is mad, why have the majority so far voted for Labour?
I'm sure it's a pain in the arse, but I wouldn't make decisions at work based on the fact that my oven had blown up.
Dennis Skinner voted against it because of TORY ELECTION FRAUD. I reckon people who reckon that's the reason behind the election should be put in a home.
And we're off.
'I'm Enver Hoxha, and I approve this message.'
I just played that in the living room and started lolling at it, but my mum heard it and shouted THAT'S FUCKING IMMORAL!
Top spot as well that they papered over an expensive interactive whiteboard.
I hadn't seen that 'Corbyn's Ten Pledges' from the related videos. Good heavens.
North that shit up, Jeremy.
"Kids, we've ran out of money. Here's a letter to show your parents."
Labour's election broadcasts are fantastic entertainment.
The right-wing press are SEETHING over foreign aid being protected, the impending refusal to announce locks on pensions, and no manifesto commitment on tax rises.
It's fortunate that Labour are so utterly dreadful, really.
One cause for optimism is that she seemed to suggest that it wouldn't all just continue to get sent (with no oversight) to Ugandan lesbian outreach programmes like it does now, but that it might overlap more with foreign and defence policies (although that will just mean showering Islamists with money on current form). As for pensions, if ever there was an election in which you could take the biddy vote for granted, so using the next four/five years to reform pensions is potentially the most useful thing any government will do in our lifetimes (which inevitably means they will somehow make it all worse).
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That isn't bad actually.
I really want to take over from Seumas Milne and run his campaign. Stops will include:
- Stopping off in care homes and homeless soup kitchens ALL THE TIME
- Playing chess in the street with a homeless man
- Visit the troops in Cyprus and hand out some jams and chutneys he has made
- Go for a swim in the sea
- Maybe a guest spot on Saturday Kitchen
- Refuse to turn up for the TV debates (nobody's a winner there) and go and volunteer at a bingo hall somewhere while it's on
No set pieces, crowds or stupid slogans allowed. Keep it real.
When's Nick Clegg making his WWE inspired return then?
He'll be in the gimmick battle royal with David Mellor and Derek Hatton, who can't bump in case his facelift comes undone.
Is a SNAP election an actual thing or just some bullshit word someone used and everyone clung on to? The media don't fucking half love saying it and really emphasising it.
What's snap about it, or is it S.N.A.P?
It's an actual thing. Snap as in sudden, unexpected.
So it's not an actual election or political term, but a word the media are beating to death. Was it ever used before?
I could understand the likes of the Sun using snap instead of unexpected to dumb it down for their readers, but the proper media are using it too.
It's an actual political term, and has been for years.
Grand job, makes more sense then.
Listening to my auntie and girlfriend (both teachers) it really is tragic what's happening in the education system.
Lewis and Jimmy just come in and pass it off as "teachers moaning" so I don't bother posting about it any more.
This whole thread is just detached twenty something males not caring about anything because they don't need any public services at this stage of their life.
Its pretty much just Jimmy, Lewis and GS that are the Tories, isn't it? Admittedly they make up most of the posting in here.
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The way funding is allocated to schools has always seemed like lunacy to me. I see already wealthy schools getting government-funded sports venues while I know of teachers who have to purchase books out of their own pockets. At the current rate in Australia, private schools will get more government money per student than public schools by 2020. I assume there must be a logic to it, but it just seems like madness to have so many schools that are so poorly funded, and so much money going to schools with independent revenue streams.
Is it crazy that I think any school that charges admission fees should be locked out of government funding? They already have a way of making money, after all. I feel like I'm missing something, to be honest, because it just seems so obvious that it could only be missed for very good reasons.
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