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Constitutional crisis at [EuroPAX]

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  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    Vice recently put up a video on Youtube on gentrification in London and there was so much right-wing vitriol in the comment section

    I wondered at the time whether these comments came from American or British viewers, but there were a fair number of people identifying as Brits

    Like, everyone living in public housing should feel ashamed of being a social parasite and should lose their right to live there so they would rethink their dependency on the state

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    yeah that's a very british attitude. Thatcher stirred it up a lot.

  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    It kinda shocked me to be honest because no one here, not even the right-wing nuts, really questions public housing as an institution

    Massive societal poverty is kinda associated with the interwar years and that turned out in the worst possible way

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Solar or someone is better equipped to weigh in than me, but my feeling is that kind of deprivation in the UK is more associated with the post-war shortages and pre-Thatcher years, which are still very much in living memory, and turned a lot of people off socialism by association.

  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Why does Britain vote on a Thursday?

    Don't people have jobs to go to?

    Who mans the sausage sizzle?

  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Do you at least get the day off?

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    a) who the fuck knows
    b) well not really, thanks to austerity
    c) no sausage sizzle because apparently people here are crazy
    d) heh yeah right

  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    God, no wonder the turn out is so low.

    Get your shit together Britain.

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    I know! how can you have non-compulsory voting and no sausage sizzle???

  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    I once voted and there was no sausage sizzle.

    I drove to the next polling place just to get a sausage sizzle.

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    When I went for a run after voting I found there was a polling place in the local rugby club. So at least you could get a beer.

  • FyndirFyndir Registered User regular
    I mean, it was only a few years ago we decided to always hold the general election in May. Before the 80's roughly as many were held during Wintery months as Summery months.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Day_(United_Kingdom)

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    If it was a Friday, the turnout would be even worse. Most people hit the pub at lunchtime and stay there till Saturday. Try and coax them away from their Stellas to go and vote.

  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Yeah, considering it is not compulsory, it makes it a legitimate drag for people who work.

    We always have to have ours on a Saturday.

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Bad-Beat wrote: »
    If it was a Friday, the turnout would be even worse. Most people hit the pub at lunchtime and stay there till Saturday. Try and coax them away from their Stellas to go and vote.

    ... Friday was not the alternative I was suggesting.

  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    Oh, you meant Saturday?

    Haha, getting public sector workers to work on weekends voluntarily. Haha, Tynic you and your jokes.

  • FyndirFyndir Registered User regular
    They talk about that a little on the wiki, apparently a mix of Thursday being a common market day, people getting wrecked Friday and Saturday, and concerns over religious influence on voters if it was held too soon after Sunday.

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    :/

    coming from a country where elections are always held on a Saturday, it really doesn't seem to be an issue. I'm fine with Thursday because hey I can pop in after work, but it does seem pointlessly obstructive.

  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    After listening to a lot of chatter now about a Conservative majority.

    Yeah.... we're all fucked. That move to Edinburgh is looking mighty tempting now.

  • BerkBerk THE BUDGIE SMUGGLER Registered User regular
    Mentally Preparing masel to slap every cunty scots no voter that whines a belter about next Tory gov

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  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited May 2015
    30 point swing from Labour to SNP in Kilmarnock??? Holy fucking hell. Say goodbye to Scotland, Labour.

    Bad-Beat on
  • FyndirFyndir Registered User regular
    Every single seat in Scotland that has declared so far has gone SNP.


    18/18

    14 of those were Labour, 1 was Lib Dem.

    My only regret (for now) is that I have rum instead of whisky.

  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    tynic wrote: »
    :/

    coming from a country where elections are always held on a Saturday, it really doesn't seem to be an issue. I'm fine with Thursday because hey I can pop in after work, but it does seem pointlessly obstructive.
    Why do you think the US has it on a damn Tuesday?

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  • FyndirFyndir Registered User regular
    Now up to 42 declared, with 41 SNP and 1 Lib Dem, which was Orkney and Shetland.

    Orkney and Shetland have been Liberal Democrat since 1992, the first General Election after the Liberal Democrats became a party, before that the constituency had been Liberal since 1950, however the SNP still gained 27 points and the Lib Dems lost 20, so a strong showing.

    In my area we have voted out Labour with a 35 point swing in favour of the SNP, 19 of which came from Labour.

  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    tynic wrote: »
    :/

    coming from a country where elections are always held on a Saturday, it really doesn't seem to be an issue. I'm fine with Thursday because hey I can pop in after work, but it does seem pointlessly obstructive.
    Why do you think the US has it on a damn Tuesday?
    I was going to say I thought you had the day off.

    Then I realised it was America and you probably don't.

  • FlarneFlarne Registered User regular
    We vote on Sundays. Get on our secular level.

    This is the cover of my weekly newsmag today:
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  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    Good morning, what a disaster.

    There goes the chance of my eventual masters costing less. There goes saying goodbye to zero hours and hello to the rich getting richer.

  • Dis'Dis' Registered User regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    Why does Britain vote on a Thursday?

    Don't people have jobs to go to?

    Who mans the sausage sizzle?

    Because everyone would be drunk on Friday .... that's the actual reason. Thursday is the furthest day from payday so peeps will be most sober.

  • FyndirFyndir Registered User regular
    Well, there we are, barring any unforeseen issues like recounts actually changing a result we have a new Scotland.

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    59 seats, 56 for the SNP, 1 for Labour, 1 for the Conservatives, and 1 for the Lib Dems.
    I roughly cropped around the border with England and removed Ireland to try and keep it clear.

    Time to look at how the rest of the country it doing...

    http://i.imgur.com/J5bNhg1.gif

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    That Unionist pact worked exactly as planned. Nutbunnies. :(

  • Dis'Dis' Registered User regular
    Berk wrote: »
    Mentally Preparing masel to slap every cunty scots no voter that whines a belter about next Tory gov

    Shrug, 'fuck the Tories' and 'stay Britain' are not exclusive ideas.

    Now the SNP are the only game in town get prepared for mad entryism - every power hungry prick who would have joined a Westminster party is going grease their way in. Happened with Labour post 1997 to give us this current crop of pillocks.

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    edited May 2015
    Fuck the Tories, for real

    bunch of total bastards

    Solar on
  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    Ed Balls gone!!

  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    Christ the NHS.

  • HermanoHermano Registered User regular
    Uuuggggggggghhhhhh


    PSN- AHermano
  • honoverehonovere Registered User regular
    Flarne wrote: »
    We vote on Sundays. Get on our secular level.

    We also vote on sundays. Thanks to the november revolution of 1918 apparently?

  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    aaaaaand they most likely have a majority. It gets worse.

    At least I can cling onto "I didn't vote for this!"

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    The terrible pneumatic wheeze of a new dawn in Britain.

    The other day I watched a bunch of shoppers stood stranded on an automatic escalator ramp that had stopped, while a recorded message reminded them "please hold onto the hand rail, and do not walk." Decided the Shaun of the dead apocalypse had been and gone and no one had noticed. Maybe that explains the results.

    Though tbh I always figured zombies would vote labour.

  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    holy moly Farage actually made a good point about how FPTP is rubbish.

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