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
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.
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.
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.
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Yeah, considering it is not compulsory, it makes it a legitimate drag for people who work.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
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.
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.
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.
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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
Massive societal poverty is kinda associated with the interwar years and that turned out in the worst possible way
Don't people have jobs to go to?
Who mans the sausage sizzle?
Satans..... hints.....
Satans..... hints.....
b) well not really, thanks to austerity
c) no sausage sizzle because apparently people here are crazy
d) heh yeah right
Get your shit together Britain.
Satans..... hints.....
I drove to the next polling place just to get a sausage sizzle.
Satans..... hints.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Day_(United_Kingdom)
We always have to have ours on a Saturday.
Satans..... hints.....
... Friday was not the alternative I was suggesting.
Haha, getting public sector workers to work on weekends voluntarily. Haha, Tynic you and your jokes.
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.
Yeah.... we're all fucked. That move to Edinburgh is looking mighty tempting now.
18/18
14 of those were Labour, 1 was Lib Dem.
My only regret (for now) is that I have rum instead of whisky.
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.
Then I realised it was America and you probably don't.
Satans..... hints.....
This is the cover of my weekly newsmag today:
There goes the chance of my eventual masters costing less. There goes saying goodbye to zero hours and hello to the rich getting richer.
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.
59 seats, 56 for the SNP, 1 for Labour, 1 for the Conservatives, and 1 for the Lib Dems.
Time to look at how the rest of the country it doing...
http://i.imgur.com/J5bNhg1.gif
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.
bunch of total bastards
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We also vote on sundays. Thanks to the november revolution of 1918 apparently?
At least I can cling onto "I didn't vote for this!"
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.