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  • Theresa May's Conservatives

    10 22.73%
  • Jeremy Corbyn's Labour

    23 52.27%
  • Tim Farron's Liberal Democrats

    3 6.82%
  • Paul Nuttall's UKIP

    0 0%
  • 2 people's Greens

    1 2.27%
  • Nicholas Durgeon's Scottish Nationalists

    1 2.27%
  • Satan's Sinn Fein

    0 0%
  • Dr Ian Paisley's DUP

    0 0%
  • Some other bunch of nonces

    2 4.55%
  • I'm foreign, but I wish I were an Englishman

    4 9.09%
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Thread: UK General Election 2017 - 8 June

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    How does he get Theresa May's Brexit through an election without losing [at least] half of the 2017 Conservative vote to Nigel Farage?
    They wouldn't go in those numbers. A general election is not like the silly mid term elections when Nigel gets the nutters off the sofa.

    It would be like whichever time it was UKIP did well (2015?) and they would win about five seats, if that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    If Farage ends up as PM I will lol myself to death.

    Make it happen.
    Some excellent poverty figures for you here. That's put me right off.

    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    They wouldn't go in those numbers. A general election is not like the silly mid term elections when Nigel gets the nutters off the sofa.

    It would be like whichever time it was UKIP did well (2015?) and they would win about five seats, if that.
    That seems like a bold assumption to make when the last election completely threw all sorts of established tribal voting patterns into the bin.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    If Farage ends up as PM I will lol myself to death.

    Make it happen.
    How can he? Serious question.

    I'm not too up on it but I thought this was a conservative leadership thing and he's bnp or something isn't he?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    How can he? Serious question.

    I'm not too up on it but I thought this was a conservative leadership thing and he's bnp or something isn't he?
    When/if they call an election.

    They're all too scared to call one early though because they'd get smashed.

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    This Rory Stewart character looks like Alex Honnold if he had directed his asperger’s into politics

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    Do you think Michael Gove knew he was quoting Trotsky?

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    Javid is out, now for Hunt. The entire thing has been a shit show. It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't real.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Henry View Post
    Do you think Michael Gove knew he was quoting Trotsky?
    Probably, yes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Smjffy View Post
    Javid is out, now for Hunt. The entire thing has been a shit show. It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't real.
    There's speculation that Camp Boris will lend votes to Hunt to make sure that he goes through rather than Gove.

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    It’d be beautiful if they miscalculated that.

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    Henn0rz spot on as usual.

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    I've been on the Prime Minister Hunt bandwagon before it was a even twinkle in the woodsmith's eye (although no money on sadly) so here's to hoping Boris can get a few more Brits detained abroad or accidentally have himself recorded laughing off the idea of Brexit as he drives away from a rancorous mob he's just done a meet-and-greet with.

    Did you see how hairy her palms were?

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    The only bet I would be putting on is shortest ever term as PM.

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    Sounds like you have a plan of some sort.

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    Great to see arms sales to Saudi Arabia being stopped by the courts. Predictably, Tory scum want to be able to continue killing kids and are appealing the decision.

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    Mark Field must he tired of working.

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    Chris Williamson looks like he's going to be walking back into a fucking big stack of papers in his deselection to-do pile.

    It's a bit of a catch-22 really. How do you plead a media conspiracy to portray you as anti-Semitic, without, by such a claim itself, become open to the critique?

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    He's not an anti-semite, he just hates Jews.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Henry View Post
    Great to see arms sales to Saudi Arabia being stopped by the courts. Predictably, Tory scum want to be able to continue killing kids and are appealing the decision.
    Tory scum?

    Labour were at it for years as well. Or does it not count when they do it?

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    John McDonnell was talking about giving Cuba financial support the other week.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    Tory scum?

    Labour were at it for years as well. Or does it not count when they do it?
    Who said it didn't? Where have I ever expressed anything but derision for New Labour?

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    "Tory scum" implied it was a Tory centric horror.

    To be fair and for what it's worth I agree you have been scathing about New Labour.

    It's a source of shame for Britain that we're involved in selling arms to anyone.

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    Apparently not as shameful as having invented industrialised society/the modern world if you believe the way Sky News have been harping on lately.

    200 years ago Stephenson invented the Rocket . . . and now this shitheap in Camarthenshire is falling into the sea.

    Carbon emissions since 1850 etc.

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    What are British politicians wading in at all on Hong Kong for? Was it not handed back in 1997? Do they still have any say there or do they just think they do?

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    We are party to an agreement on it that the Chinese are sort of violating, but in reality we can't do anything about it.

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    Declare war on China.

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    Our posturing over Russia and China really does make me lol.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    What are British politicians wading in at all on Hong Kong for? Was it not handed back in 1997? Do they still have any say there or do they just think they do?
    I think we gave it up on the understanding that it would be independent (atleast to some extent) but the Chinese have gone into full annexation mode.

    No idea why we care, but that's the problem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    I think we gave it up on the understanding that it would be independent (atleast to some extent) but the Chinese have gone into full annexation mode.

    No idea why we care, but that's the problem.
    That makes sense Messing with China would be a big be a fairly big booboo though I'd imagine.

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    In more important news, Boris Johnson wanting roll back sugar taxes and associated wank is the best domestic thing any Conservative Party leader has said in about twenty years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    In more important news, Boris Johnson wanting roll back sugar taxes and associated wank is the best domestic thing any Conservative Party leader has said in about twenty years.
    Won't do it to cigarettes though the coward.

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    They need the money, but they could unwind all the censorship shit around them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    They need the money, but they could unwind all the censorship shit around them.
    The latter shouldn't be done because it's an anti-nanny state policy. It should be done because it makes forgery way too easy, and when you're charging someone one - two hours of earnings for an addictive product that'll last maybe 24 hours they'll do it.

    They should do the former because it's a tax on the poor which is why they won't.

    11 quid for a 20 pack of Marlboro is an absolute joke, I thought they were pushing it over here raising it to 7-8 quid in a country that earns 20 quid an hour on minimum wage.

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    There's an ad in a bus shelter near me that has 'Obesity' in a mock cig packet. It's trying to warn me being fat can cause cancer but all I want to do is smoke.

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    The tax works. Kids just don't smoke anymore.

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    Which was half the reason for the tax, in fairness.

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    What will they do when 'vaping' gets taxed to fuck?

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    How does cost prevent kids from smoking when they're not allowed to buy them anyway? It was the same non-logic that got plain packaging brought in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    How does cost prevent kids from smoking when they're not allowed to buy them anyway? It was the same non-logic that got plain packaging brought in.
    How did they smoke when the cost was lower but still weren't allowed to buy them?

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    By pestering their parents for the shiny-packaged goodness.

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    Nope. Tuck money and 16 year age limit, with far less strenuous ID laws.

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    The shops near my school would sell to anyone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    By pestering their parents for the shiny-packaged goodness.
    Parents are less likely to give them to their kids if they're more expensive.

    Also kids could give people of age the money to buy them for them, which they can't do if they can't afford it.

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    Most kids who get cigarettes get them the same way they'd get booze, by nicking bits and bobs off their parents or standing near an off sales and asking someone to go in for them.

    Neither way really involves the packaging influencing them.

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    I thought we were talking about cost?

    How does cost prevent kids from smoking when they're not allowed to buy them anyway?

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    Asian corner shops sell anything to anyone. The cost is what stops kids.

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    Why not get rid of the age restrictions but make them forty quid a packet? No parents are going to spend that.

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    I'm still getting ID'd for fags over in the UK to this day so I don't know how the age rule works. Kids stopped smoking because vaping became cool, cheap and healthier.

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    I think it's more to do with phones. They don't smoke, they don't drink, they don't shag.

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    How are they ever going to get cancer? The boring cunts.

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