Oh LAWD, is that Corbyn's music? (UK Elections 2017)

[Fiye]

Why do you need a independance party when brexit won and the tories support a hard brexit?

[Andalusian girls]

It sure looks like they are "recognized as a political party in NI" as they are listed in all these vote tallies and shit - is there an "official recognition process" or something?

ah yeah my b, doing too many things at once FOREX is going nuts right now with the election results and the probability of a soft Brexit / the possibility of no Brexit at all.

So they are the UK's Puerto Rico kinda.

except we never tried to breed out the Puerto Ricans with Protestants.

and UKIP mostly grew into a player because Cameron's batch of proish-European conservatives pushed against Brexit, with a pro-Brexit Theresa May there is no longer a reason to splinter the vote.

[Cliron]

It's just a country that's whole life-energy for so long has revolved around Nationalists vs Unionists. They've dehumanised each other.

It's actually more akin to the America with ye're democrats vs republicans. Everything becomes a partisan issue, and the country has suffered as a result.

The Unionists have consistently been more in power because of numbers and a strong UK, but Sinn Fein have expertly capitalized on this Cash-for-Ash scandal, the disarray in Westminster, and by fighting back against the obvious dehumanizing aspects of the unionist rule (No gay marriage in NI when the Republic and the UK does have, no Irish language support- with insane soundbites from the unionists like "Irish will never be spoken in Stormont" etc). Sinn Fein has also been able to distance itself from it's shady past dealings with McGuinness dead and the new younger female leader who I don't know too much about but who seems to be a puppet for Gerry Adams (oh god the Americans would love Gerry Adams).

Edit: Soundbite was: "In February, Ms Foster said more people spoke Polish than Irish in Northern Ireland and declared the party would never agree to an act protecting the language, a key Sinn Féin aim in negotiations to restore powersharing."
Since then she has backtracked fully and went to an Irish learning class in April

[Cliron]

Why do you need a independance party when brexit won and the tories support a hard brexit?

What Fiye said.

Cameron's Brexit gamble was to stop UKIP, which he succeeded in doing.....but of course not realising that Brexit would pass. UKIP's entire campaign was getting a Brexit vote which Cameron did. They've been nonplayers since then except for their glorious leader Farage (Trump-lite) getting a chance to say something awful here and there.

[Fiye]

lol...

[archibaldcrane]

Gotcha.

So it's especially surprising that the Conservatives may lose seats (or the majority entirely) given that UKIP is dissolving their seats into dust and they are up for grabs.

[archibaldcrane]

So these HoC districts are fucking tiny land-wise eh? More like city council size...or smaller even? I mean Minnesota has 134 seats in their House of Representatives. The UK is splitting the same land mass into 650 seats?

Hmm, 65 million people, 650 seats. 100k people per. I should probably go to England sometime, it's hard for me to picture that many people on that little island, especially when I don't think of London as a skyscraper-dominated metropolis and picture the rest of the country as pretty rural. Where do you fit all the people?

[Cliron]

Last post before bed because I cant with Gerry Adams, hes just too extra.

Either was part of, or ordered "terrorist"/"freedom" attacks on the UK in his earlier years, but now here he is reading his tweets.

[Andalusian girls]

So these HoC districts are fucking tiny land-wise eh? More like city council size...or smaller even? I mean Minnesota has 134 seats in their House of Representatives. The UK is splitting the same land mass into 650 seats?

Hmm, 65 million people, 650 seats. 100k people per. I should probably go to England sometime, it's hard for me to picture that many people on that little island, especially when I don't think of London as a skyscraper-dominated metropolis and picture the rest of the country as pretty rural. Where do you fit all the people?

oh Archi

[Niiro]

We have enormous states with like 7 people in them, the US is not exactly the norm when it comes to population distribution.

[Gryffes]

This thread is fake news.

[archibaldcrane]

oh Archi

what i'm saying is that I imagine Britian to be like the scenes of Game of Thrones with the Hound

[archibaldcrane]

I mean they only have two whole cities in the whole goddamn country with over 600k people

where are they all

do they live underground

are there hobbits

there are aren't there

it's almost two californias crammed into minnesota but the 3rd biggest city is the size of Louisville

[Andalusian girls]

no one tell him that Bangladesh exists

also like the entire damn state lives on the coast and no one lives above Sac, we could fit 100 million hobbits in easy as long as they're good with the interior.

[Vaspinne]

I mean they only have two whole cities in the whole goddamn country with over 600k people

where are they all

do they live underground

are there hobbits

there are aren't there

it's almost two californias crammed into minnesota but the 3rd biggest city is the size of Louisville

Hobbits live in New Zealand, obviously

[archibaldcrane]

So, I still don't totally understand why both parties are supportive of Brexit. The populace is essentially 50/50 split on it, but both major parties are like "no it's good"?

[Niiro]

The referendum may not be binding but no one is going to come out and tell the public their vote on such a huge issue simply didn't matter, it would be suicide.

Also remain/leave support was not so solid along party lines that either major party could afford to alienate a significant chunk of their base.

[Talint]

lol...

Nick Clegg lost.

lol.

[Talint]

Also the bookies have Corbyn being favorites be Prime Minister now.

The Tories are really bad at calling for elections aren't they.

[FallingHigher]

The best the tories can hope to do is keep taking seats in Scotland if they want to even attempt to try and get close to their majority but there have been one or two surprise results such as Ipswich.