General Election 2019

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Re: General Election 2019

Post by jimbob » Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:20 pm

Blackcountryboy wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 9:42 pm
Unlike most of you on here, I am not staying up for the results, me losing a nights sleep is not going to effect the result. Boris is going to have a majority and democracy will not be the same again- in my lifetime, which lets face it can't be that long. The only question in my mind is will there be a creditable opposition in 5 years time, for that to happen there either has to be massive changes to the Labour or they are repalced by a new left of centre Party. I have never been so depressed about the state of politics in UK, during the last 9 years we have had a dreadful government, and he last 4 years easily the worst ever and they are going to be reelected.
I'm not, either.

Doesn't look good thought
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Re: General Election 2019

Post by Bird on a Fire » Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:22 pm

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Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:20 pm
Well, he won't be able to blame anyone else for his incompetence in negotiations. So there's that.
Nor will the entire country.
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Re: General Election 2019

Post by JQH » Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:32 pm

Right wing aquaintance has posted "I can forget my plans to move our money out of the country now." When the economy tanks post Brexit I'll take a little pleasure in quoting that back at him.
And remember that if you botch the exit, the carnival of reaction may be coming to a town near you.

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Re: General Election 2019

Post by dyqik » Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:33 pm

JQH wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:32 pm
Right wing aquaintance has posted "I can forget my plans to move our money out of the country now." When the economy tanks post Brexit I'll take a little pleasure in quoting that back at him.
He'd get a sh.t exchange rate now, anyway.

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Re: General Election 2019

Post by Brightonian » Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:36 pm

dyqik wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:33 pm
JQH wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:32 pm
Right wing aquaintance has posted "I can forget my plans to move our money out of the country now." When the economy tanks post Brexit I'll take a little pleasure in quoting that back at him.
He'd get a sh.t exchange rate now, anyway.
Pound actually jumped at 10pm.

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Re: General Election 2019

Post by Bird on a Fire » Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:37 pm

Pound has just shot up against the euro.
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Re: General Election 2019

Post by dyqik » Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:47 pm

The exit polls say that 65 seats are too close to call.

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Re: General Election 2019

Post by P.J. Denyer » Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:56 pm

Bird on a Fire wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:19 pm
plebian wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:10 pm
Well the exit poll says 86 majority. Let's see what he does with it.
Do we have to?

Can't we see him torn apart by dogs instead?
I wouldn't want to risk poisoning the dogs.

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Re: General Election 2019

Post by Bird on a Fire » Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:56 pm

dyqik wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:47 pm
The exit polls say that 65 seats are too close to call.
Wow, that's interesting.

Have you got a link?
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Re: General Election 2019

Post by Bird on a Fire » Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:57 pm

P.J. Denyer wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:56 pm
Bird on a Fire wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:19 pm
plebian wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:10 pm
Well the exit poll says 86 majority. Let's see what he does with it.
Do we have to?

Can't we see him torn apart by dogs instead?
I wouldn't want to risk poisoning the dogs.
We'll use Tory dogs, like Corgis.
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Re: General Election 2019

Post by JQH » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:01 pm

Doesn't the Queen have some corgis? Perhaps she'll loan us them.
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Re: General Election 2019

Post by Brightonian » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:03 pm

Bird on a Fire wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:56 pm
dyqik wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:47 pm
The exit polls say that 65 seats are too close to call.
Wow, that's interesting.

Have you got a link?
Presumably this: https://twitter.com/britainelects/statu ... 44032?s=20

However, would it make any difference as they'd presumably split roughly 50-50?

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Re: General Election 2019

Post by monkey » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:07 pm

Brightonian wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:03 pm
Bird on a Fire wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:56 pm
dyqik wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:47 pm
The exit polls say that 65 seats are too close to call.
Wow, that's interesting.

Have you got a link?
Presumably this: https://twitter.com/britainelects/statu ... 44032?s=20

However, would it make any difference as they'd presumably split roughly 50-50?
you can look at the seat by seat here:

https://www.bbc.com/news/election-2019-50424263

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Re: General Election 2019

Post by GeenDienst » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:12 pm

All of Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-u-Lyme going Tory. f.ck, it wasn't long ago that every single council seat in S-o-T was Labour. Still, the newly unemployed G Snell In N-u-L can f.ck off.
Just tell 'em I'm broke and don't come round here no more.

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Re: General Election 2019

Post by basementer » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:22 pm

JQH wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:01 pm
Doesn't the Queen have some corgis? Perhaps she'll loan us them.
Not any more.
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Re: General Election 2019

Post by JQH » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:26 pm

Bugger
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Re: General Election 2019

Post by Brightonian » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:31 pm

The Newcastle Central and Houghton & Sunderland South results now in. Labour vote down in each case.

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Re: General Election 2019

Post by GeenDienst » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:35 pm

Brightonian wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:31 pm
The Newcastle Central and Houghton & Sunderland South results now in. Labour vote down in each case.
And there, they sign their ballots.
Just tell 'em I'm broke and don't come round here no more.

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Re: General Election 2019

Post by Gfamily » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:35 pm

Bird on a Fire wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:37 pm
Pound has just shot up against the euro.
Lots of users will have shot up against the result.
My avatar was a scientific result that was later found to be 'mistaken' - I rarely claim to be 100% correct
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Re: General Election 2019

Post by lpm » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:36 pm

Brightonian wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:03 pm
Bird on a Fire wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:56 pm
dyqik wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:47 pm
The exit polls say that 65 seats are too close to call.
Wow, that's interesting.

Have you got a link?
Presumably this: https://twitter.com/britainelects/statu ... 44032?s=20

However, would it make any difference as they'd presumably split roughly 50-50?
Of course. The usual thing of error bars going both ways.
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Re: General Election 2019

Post by lpm » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:36 pm

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Re: General Election 2019

Post by GeenDienst » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:37 pm

All 4 ways?
Just tell 'em I'm broke and don't come round here no more.

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Re: General Election 2019

Post by Little waster » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:55 pm

JQH wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:20 pm
Well, he won't be able to blame anyone else for his incompetence in negotiations. So there's that.
I try to console myself with the idea that whatever comes next the Tories and Johnson have to own...


... Except they won't, as about the only thing the electoral campaign (and Trump's election and the Brexit referendum before it) has proven is that shamelessness has no electoral downside.

Brexit could turn even more into a dumpster fire, Ireland could reunify and the NHS handed to Trump wrapped in a bow and all Boris would need to do is take a steaming dump on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, lock the Queen in a fridge and fellate Putin on live television for him to win Workington by a landslide again.
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Re: General Election 2019

Post by Bird on a Fire » Fri Dec 13, 2019 2:35 am

Still, looks like indyref2 is on the cards. That'll be fun.
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Re: General Election 2019

Post by discovolante » Fri Dec 13, 2019 2:39 am

Bird on a Fire wrote:
Fri Dec 13, 2019 2:35 am
Still, looks like indyref2 is on the cards. That'll be fun.
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/secti ... ant-528032
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