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 doesnā€™t look like cold winter attire at all.

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Iā€™ve mentally resigned myself to a tory majority. Iā€™m hoping itā€™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 weā€™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 Iā€™m not seeing it.

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I just donā€™t think itā€™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 donā€™t see any reason to suspect thatā€™s changed, but I agree a Corbyn government isnā€™t happening. Itā€™s fucked.

The heavy rain predicted tomorrow for large parts of the country probably wonā€™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 stuntā€¦

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Good luck!

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

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gl, yā€™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 thatā€™ll be huge.

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

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