#2171

I mean it’s actually mint I guess: businesses like printers and campaign coordinators get paid either way and the racists lose out.

Kind of funny that guy reckoning Farage owes him when none of them were going to win anyway, so really this guy’s only lost the minimum amount, he’s not paying for all the takeaway food and drink he’d be consuming on the campaign trail, etc

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#2172

This is my constituency.

In 2005, the first time Emily Thornberry stood as a candidate (following on from Chris Smith), she won her seat by a very slim margin of 484 votes. Since then she has been increasing her share of the vote at every election.

In the 2016 EU referendum, 71.72% of voters voted to remain.

In the 2019 European Parliament elections, the LibDems beat Labour by 873 votes (totals for the whole of the Borough of Islington).

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#2173

I’m talking out my actual arsehole in that case

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#2174

Stolen from a friend, but still…

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#2175

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Suspects?

#2176

Probably Corbyn innit? done it to himself. Everything is his fault anyway.

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#2177

In an ironic twist, I reckon it’s Carole Cadwalladr.

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#2178

She’d only do it for a good reason

#2179

Cummings, taking his 19D chess game into the matrix

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#2180

Well, yes, but Labour have won the seat at every election since it was created, and the 2005 result is an outlier and probably a result of her being a new candidate and disquiet at New Labour (I’m betting because of the Iraq war).

I can see the Lib Dems claiming back second place if there’s a strong vote focused on remain alone, but there were nearly 10k Tory votes in 2017 and they’ll come as much from there as Labour.

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#2181

Beginning to think the Jewish Chronicle might not be acting in the best faith

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#2182

Extrapolating European Parliament election results to the general election is a very very bad idea.

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#2183

I thought that was hoogys point although not explicitly made - 72% reamian constituency but still only a tiny eu election majority for the single issue remain party.

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#2184

…neighbouring Labour MP Paul Sweeney who is a certified comrade :fist:

Or, he’s simply clocked which side his bread his buttered after calling for Corbyn to resign in 2016 but then taking in the Shadow Scotland Minister role in 2017. And he’s a Fabian. I thought they were dismissed by certified comrades as being the melty Blairy lot.

Also, he’s also said that no UK government could refuse another Scottish independence referendum if there is a pro-independence majority in the Scottish parliament. And that it’s therefore an issue for the Scottish parliament election in 2021. Like a Tory.

What does he mean “if”? There already is a confirmed Holyrood MSP majority in the Scottish Parliament.

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#2185

Cyber, eh?

The 90s?

#2186

I can never keep up with this thread so dunno if this has already been posted but wtf, WEP?

Good one 🤦

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#2187

“Cyber” is still very much a word still in use when in the context of internet-related mischief.

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#2188

Farage is 100% one of those pricks who makes cast iron guarantees about work they’ll give you next month and then when you call them about it ghosts you.

Like the worst of clients

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#2189

It was largely down to local issues. In the late 1990s there was significant dissatisfaction with the way Labour was running the council. The LibDems took control of the council in 1998. For a while the left vote was split between the Independent Working Class Association and Labour. In 2002 the LibDems took charge of Islington council again, with every ward in the Thornberry’s constituency now taken by them. However, their popularity was short-lived and by 2006 they lost their majority, even though they continued to run the council. From 2010 onwards the council has turned back to Labour.

^this

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#2190

Man of the people tho m7, best politician this country has got, says it like it is…

(Sorry, this is fucking rubbish chat. Feel the need to be sarcastic in times of despair)

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