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Corbyn The Absolute Boy [chat]

BogartBogart Streetwise HerculesRegistered User, Moderator mod
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Britain has spoken! And said we don't really like anything on the menu, can I have fish and chips instead? Yes, it's election time. Again. The exit poll last night surprised many.



David Cameron's reign as most hubristic Prime Minister in history was a short one, as Theresa May's decision to call an early election backfired in spectacular fashion. Jezza had a decent night.

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Not Prime Minister, but he's won himself a supersize jar of jam and all the well-deserved gloating he can manage.

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The leftwing press is chortling away quite merrily. The rightwing press is angry and confused.



In a late development Theresa May's constituency was invaded by X_TBaGZZ_UR_MoM_X just before she reached Ornstein and Smough. She fought him off, but had to go back to the bonfire to regain her spent estus flasks.

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    BurnageBurnage Registered User regular
    10/10, a strong and stable chat OP

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    BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator mod
    [chat] knows I have always been behind Corbyn 100%.

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    RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVbC0jASJYA

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    Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    is lord buckethead's legal name "lord buckethead"

    play my twine game about dracula IF YOU DARE
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    RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Crimson King wrote: »
    is lord buckethead's legal name "lord buckethead"

    *Introduces Bill of Attainder*

    Give me a minute

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    HaphazardHaphazard Registered User regular
    Sometimes good things happen to people who wait... seems to be Labour's motto.

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    BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator mod
    Those two statements by Angela Eagle in the video preview are both entirely true. Corbyn ran a pretty good election campaign and a terrible Remain campaign.

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    knitdanknitdan In ur base Killin ur guysRegistered User regular
    RMS Oceanic wrote: »
    Crimson King wrote: »
    is lord buckethead's legal name "lord buckethead"

    *Introduces Bill of Attainder*

    Give me a minute

    I think you mean Lord William of Attainder

    The upper classes don't like it when you're informal

    “I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
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    RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    knitdan wrote: »
    RMS Oceanic wrote: »
    Crimson King wrote: »
    is lord buckethead's legal name "lord buckethead"

    *Introduces Bill of Attainder*

    Give me a minute

    I think you mean Lord William of Attainder

    The upper classes don't like it when you're informal

    Here our Billy could you legislatively declare thon boy guilty a f

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    EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    This man/woman/person/sentient entity has my vote.

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    Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    Echo wrote: »
    This man/woman/person/sentient entity has my vote.


    Actually more sensible policies than either Labour of the Tories!

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    RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-ujxnKjxGs

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pDKgxHGdUc

    Which is better

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    Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    The roads were empty this morning. The office is bleary eyed and outright hungover in some cases. Lots of working from home placeholders have popped up in calendars.

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    EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    Swedish politics has been going down the drain since Tengil stopped running for elections.

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    Hi I'm Vee!Hi I'm Vee! Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C E Registered User regular
    I admittedly haven't followed much of UK politics since Brexit passed, but I could have sworn that everybody (like, around here) hated Corbyn for his botching of Remain and refusal to resign.

    Are people celebrating him just because he's the face of knocking the Conservatives out of power, or are they celebrating the man himself?

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    EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    visiblehowl wrote: »
    I admittedly haven't followed much of UK politics since Brexit passed, but I could have sworn that everybody (like, around here) hated Corbyn for his botching of Remain and refusal to resign.

    Are people celebrating him just because he's the face of knocking the Conservatives out of power, or are they celebrating the man himself?

    Honestly, that's kind of how I read the reactions to the Comey hearing yesterday.

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    Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    visiblehowl wrote: »
    I admittedly haven't followed much of UK politics since Brexit passed, but I could have sworn that everybody (like, around here) hated Corbyn for his botching of Remain and refusal to resign.

    Are people celebrating him just because he's the face of knocking the Conservatives out of power, or are they celebrating the man himself?

    He was utterly useless during the referendum and equally bad throughout his opposition. He stepped up his game quite a bit during the election run up, but it's still for the best that there's no Labour majority.

    We're happy because May was certain she could grow her majority and then drive the country off a social and economic cliff and she failed catastrophically.

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    Hi I'm Vee!Hi I'm Vee! Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C E Registered User regular
    edited June 2017
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    visiblehowl wrote: »
    I admittedly haven't followed much of UK politics since Brexit passed, but I could have sworn that everybody (like, around here) hated Corbyn for his botching of Remain and refusal to resign.

    Are people celebrating him just because he's the face of knocking the Conservatives out of power, or are they celebrating the man himself?

    He was utterly useless during the referendum and equally bad throughout his opposition. He stepped up his game quite a bit during the election run up, but it's still for the best that there's no Labour majority.

    We're happy because May was certain she could grow her majority and then drive the country off a social and economic cliff and she failed catastrophically.

    I definitely get that second part. It's just funny to me that Corbyn is the one in all the memes and whatnot.

    Then again, Echo makes a good point about Comey.

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    BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator mod
    visiblehowl wrote: »
    I admittedly haven't followed much of UK politics since Brexit passed, but I could have sworn that everybody (like, around here) hated Corbyn for his botching of Remain and refusal to resign.

    Are people celebrating him just because he's the face of knocking the Conservatives out of power, or are they celebrating the man himself?

    I have no memory of anyone knocking Corbyn, least of all myself.
    I think the glee is delight at the bloody nose the Tories have managed to give themselves, and being pleasantly surprised that Corbyn's comparatively well-run campaign seems to have engaged new voters and moved Labour forward, at least a little.

    I haven't come around on him as a potential PM particularly, but his manifesto had a lot of very good stuff in it, as opposed to the Tory manifesto, which was entirely blank. He's proved a lot of sceptics wrong and shown that you can do well (but not quite win) even with his baggage.

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    RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    visiblehowl wrote: »
    I admittedly haven't followed much of UK politics since Brexit passed, but I could have sworn that everybody (like, around here) hated Corbyn for his botching of Remain and refusal to resign.

    Are people celebrating him just because he's the face of knocking the Conservatives out of power, or are they celebrating the man himself?

    He was utterly useless during the referendum and equally bad throughout his opposition. He stepped up his game quite a bit during the election run up, but it's still for the best that there's no Labour majority.

    We're happy because May was certain she could grow her majority and then drive the country off a social and economic cliff and she failed catastrophically.

    Can we stop them if they continue the David Davis angle of threatening to pull out if the EU don't show proper deference?

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    ElkiElki get busy Moderator, ClubPA mod


    Rest in peace.

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    BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited June 2017
    The Shadow Cabinet line that Labour is ready to govern is a bit optimistic. You confounded the critics, guys. But you're still fifty seats short of the party that didn't even win.

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    bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    edited June 2017
    Ice-T and the occasional gaming tweet

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    TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    I lost a load of money backing Jezza but it feels like a moral victory

    Like when your accumulator fails because you backed Liverpool

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    ElkiElki get busy Moderator, ClubPA mod
    Tav wrote: »
    I lost a load of money backing Jezza but it feels like a moral victory

    Like when your accumulator fails because you backed Liverpool

    The sweeter victory.

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    TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    Twitter is immense today.

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    ElkiElki get busy Moderator, ClubPA mod
    I'm watching an Egyptian drama with the ol' dude marries a second wife without telling his first wife about it and hijinks ensue plot.

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    BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator mod


    Fewer high profile Tory scalps than I'd like, but the ones we did get are pleasingly ironic.

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    ElkiElki get busy Moderator, ClubPA mod
    President Barack Obama has suggested that Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party is "disintegrating" because it has lost touch with "fact and reality".

    Mr Obama said that the Democrats are not at risk of "Corbynisation" and that even the party's more left-wing figures like Bernie Sanders are more moderate than Jeremy Corbyn.

    In an interview with David Axelrod, who advised the former Labour leader Ed Miliband, Mr Obama was asked if he feared that the democrats could fall apart like Labour.

    He replied: “I don’t worry about that, partly because I think the Democratic Party has stayed pretty grounded in fact and reality."

    Mr Axelrod asked if Mr Obama was concerned about the "Corbynisation" of the Democratic party, after Labour "disintegrated in the face of their defeat".

    Mr Obama said that even Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator who finished runner-up to Hillary Clinton in the primaries, was “pretty centrist” compared to Mr Corbyn.

    I say we're counting Thursday and Friday as one unending great day.

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    Harry DresdenHarry Dresden Registered User regular
    edited June 2017
    Elki wrote: »
    President Barack Obama has suggested that Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party is "disintegrating" because it has lost touch with "fact and reality".

    Mr Obama said that the Democrats are not at risk of "Corbynisation" and that even the party's more left-wing figures like Bernie Sanders are more moderate than Jeremy Corbyn.

    In an interview with David Axelrod, who advised the former Labour leader Ed Miliband, Mr Obama was asked if he feared that the democrats could fall apart like Labour.

    He replied: “I don’t worry about that, partly because I think the Democratic Party has stayed pretty grounded in fact and reality."

    Mr Axelrod asked if Mr Obama was concerned about the "Corbynisation" of the Democratic party, after Labour "disintegrated in the face of their defeat".

    Mr Obama said that even Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator who finished runner-up to Hillary Clinton in the primaries, was “pretty centrist” compared to Mr Corbyn.

    I say we're counting Thursday and Friday as one unending great day.

    1) Jezza did better then expected, sure. 2) This only holds if Cobyn has the required discipline to run a country long term properly, when his misadventures running the Labour party have been a disaster. 3) Cobyn wasn't elected PM as far as I know.

    This is a small victory, the war for Labour's soul is not over.

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    ElkiElki get busy Moderator, ClubPA mod
    https://youtu.be/ELOZOcSsNCs

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    BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator mod
    I think the battle for Labour's soul has been won, for now, by Corbyn. He is unassailable as leader now, and has piled up more votes and seats than the last two Labour leaders. He hasn't won anything, but he's bought in new blood that actually votes and run a good campaign.

    Honestly, though, I have no idea how things will pan out now. The Tories will govern with a wafer thin majority given to them by a bunch of swivel-eyed nutters from Norn Iron. A few by-elections here and there and we'll have another election. We might anyway, and the Tories might even turn up for this one.

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    evilbobevilbob RADELAIDERegistered User regular
    Got my project submitted ok and DiRT 4 is out. Good day.

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    ElkiElki get busy Moderator, ClubPA mod
    https://youtu.be/3-kjLzAIYAY

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    ElkiElki get busy Moderator, ClubPA mod
    Harry Dresden wrote: »
    Elki wrote: »
    President Barack Obama has suggested that Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party is "disintegrating" because it has lost touch with "fact and reality".

    Mr Obama said that the Democrats are not at risk of "Corbynisation" and that even the party's more left-wing figures like Bernie Sanders are more moderate than Jeremy Corbyn.

    In an interview with David Axelrod, who advised the former Labour leader Ed Miliband, Mr Obama was asked if he feared that the democrats could fall apart like Labour.

    He replied: “I don’t worry about that, partly because I think the Democratic Party has stayed pretty grounded in fact and reality."

    Mr Axelrod asked if Mr Obama was concerned about the "Corbynisation" of the Democratic party, after Labour "disintegrated in the face of their defeat".

    Mr Obama said that even Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator who finished runner-up to Hillary Clinton in the primaries, was “pretty centrist” compared to Mr Corbyn.

    I say we're counting Thursday and Friday as one unending great day.

    1) Jezza did better then expected, sure. 2) This only holds if Cobyn has the required discipline to run a country long term properly, when his misadventures running the Labour party have been a disaster. 3) Cobyn wasn't elected PM as far as I know.

    This is a small victory, the war for Labour's soul is not over.

    Take the L.

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    Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    evilbob wrote: »
    Got my project submitted ok and DiRT 4 is out. Good day.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4UqMyldS7Q

    Happy January 20th!

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    BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator mod


    Brutal.

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