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put all your money on Corbyn, it's all over. the media have given him the mandate of heaven
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Our epoch, the epoch of the late bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinct feature: it has idiot politicians constantly setting up and getting owned by their own sure-thing schemes.
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Is he gonna do it? Place your bets
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Cynical bet: neck and neck tory/labour minorities, tories get propped up against labour by the few stray libdem and ukip seats to form the government and "have to" make fasc concessions to ukip to stabilize.

Desperate hope of my wishing heart for a tony blair war crimes tribunal bet: Corbyn
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ukip will win 0-1 seat, they aint shit
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is it true that may isnt even showing up to debates lol
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tears posted:

ukip will win 0-1 seat, they aint shit


sometimes 1 seat is all you need to be kingmaker.

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le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

is it true that may isnt even showing up to debates lol



Trying not to do any interviews at all...


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shriekingviolet posted:

sometimes 1 seat is all you need to be kingmaker.



here in beautiful (((british))) columbia the 3-seat green party just played kingmaker in a hung parliament. the westminister system is fucked

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xipe posted:

le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

is it true that may isnt even showing up to debates lol

Trying not to do any interviews at all...



owen jones is a fucking quisling socialist shit who turned on corbyn because too many blairites said corbyn was a bad leader

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hes also a close personal friend of sam kriss
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i meant it when i said the media had bestowed the mandate of heaven on corbyn. i don't know what changed for them, but even the financial times:

The Financial Times has an interview with Theresa May tonight. There does not seem to be a news line in it, and the article, by George Parker and Roula Khalaf, conveys a sense of how May’s campaign has been faltering. It is headlined: Theresa May limps towards the election finishing line. Here’s an excerpt.

Speaking to the FT at Derby County’s Pride Park football ground, she gives not an inkling that anything has gone wrong in the campaign or that any mistakes have been made, let alone any misgivings about her gamble in holding an election. Her critics argue that she is in denial. But Conservative strategists hope that, ultimately, her sense of calm will allow her to appear as the no-nonsense figure who emerged from the chaotic aftermath of last summer’s Brexit vote to stabilise the nation.

Mrs May, who had spent the day touring target Labour seats in the north and Midlands, is immaculately dressed in a grey pant suit, and is wearing a large “power necklace”. When she speaks, her voice betrays a slight nervousness that her rhetoric tries very hard to hide.

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theresa may wields forbidden "power amulet" in desperate bid to win election - Financial Times
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corbyn has learned all the lessons he needed to learn from the sanders campaign while being propped up by the most efficient party apparatus capitalism has seen and weaponized it for full left-reformism
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May got raked over the coals by a bbc audience just now, that was pretty impressive

i am concerned that the recent accepting of Corbyn as a valid contender means that he's sold out on some critical issue but i guess i'll take it anyway
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yeah seems like it was a lawn order play that did it for him
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im not going to vo te and am full y prepared toaccept the consequences
#139
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You're not impressed by the cop fanatic who wants to extend the lives of Britons?!
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so uhh the exit polls show corbyn going to pick up like 35 seats but the conservatives are still much larger. can someone explain why people are posting soccer goal gifs, the more foreign and boring equivalent of the dunk gif
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1) exit polls could be even underestimating the labour gain (i think this is pretty likely but that's mostly a gut thing, but the short version is that modern poll math is bad when you have an unexpected major shift a la trump)
2) in the parliamentary system, a minority largest party means that labour can possibly work with the other parties and form some kind of coalition thing and end up with a socialist pm if theresa may can't hold the confidence of parliament (i.e. loses any kind of major vote) which seems very possible
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lol the pound is already down 2%
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eat dicks capital
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drwhat posted:

rties and form some kind of coalition thing and end up with a socialist pm if theresa may can't hold the confidence of parliament (i.e. loses any kind of major vote) which seems very possible



i knew that, but is this likely

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le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

i knew that, but is this likely



i think there's a chance. it's the next goal anyway. and if a ton of people in the uk thought this wasn't likely, they wouldn't be responding like this

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266 seats... so labour lost
#147
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minority parliaments make all sorts of weird things possible
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hmm, so maybe a hung parliament, more interested in a hanged parliament tbh
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the conservatives are batting 0 for 2 on calling votes to cement their positions. is theresa may going to tap back out for cameron now?
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I'm gonna come out and say it: Corbyn seems Good
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it's nice having all these media people having to discuss Corbyn like he could be the prime minister tomorrow or in a week or three when two or three months ago he was barely mentioned except as a demented bicycle-riding communist insurgent
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drwhat posted:

it's nice having all these media people having to discuss Corbyn like he could be the prime minister tomorrow or in a week or three when two or three months ago today he was barely mentioned except as a demented bicycle-riding communist insurgent



ftfy

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this is cool imo
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hopefully the conservatives piece together some extremely laughable majority with whatever the irish dup party is and cant accomplish anything at all as their financial market burn around them and then a resurgent left labour takes power just as italy defaults on their loans and the eu consensus falls into ruin
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im not really sure if corbyn is good but everyone who really hates him is terrible so im calling this a win
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