Land of Hope & Glory? - UK Politics and other stuff

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He looks like a midwestern grandpa off to enjoy a football game in the first week of fall. That doesn’t look like cold winter attire at all.

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I’ve mentally resigned myself to a tory majority. I’m hoping it’s <=20 seats. I reckon a 10 seat majority will tear boris (and the tories generally) to pieces when the rubber hits the road on brexit and without the specter of spooky corbyn to hold the rebels in line. A 50 seat majority and we’re all fucked (like no NHS fucked) hung parliament would be nice but I worry that would give boris an out when he inevitably crashes and burns. Any corbyn government would obviously be incredible but I’m not seeing it.

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I just don’t think it’s possible to have a left wing government and a billionaire owned media system at the same time.

Polling significantly underestimated the Labour vote last time and I don’t see any reason to suspect that’s changed, but I agree a Corbyn government isn’t happening. It’s fucked.

The heavy rain predicted tomorrow for large parts of the country probably won’t help the turnout of young people reach the kind of numbers that Labour need.

The YouGov poll, which last time out actually gave Labour more seats than they in fact got, is predicting 339 for the Tories. Hung parliament in the margin of error, though. Slim pickings to be optimistic about.

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I feel that people should just cancel their TV licence after this stunt…

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Good luck!

Hoping we keep him to 20 or less. If his majority is small he’ll crash on the rocks of Brexit and we’ll have a shot at a leftist landslide before long.

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gl, y’all. Watch out for the rain and whatnot.

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Any turnout insights anyone? Is it persisting down as was forecast?

Reading guardian live feed, several mentions of decent queues at various Uni polls gives me hope

If the kids come out in big numbers that’ll be huge.

The energy from 40 years ago fizzled out - time for a re-up

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